"My question is which episodes have short story companion pieces? I think this is a great way to get young readers hooked into thinking more deeply but have only found one episode for which there is an accompanying textual component--"The Most Dangerous Game." Would love to know what you have in your treasure chest."
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" is a staple that is often in middle school textbooks. I also have found many of the stories under the original authors (Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont). There are even collections of stories from the series aptly titled, "Stories from The Twilight Zone". I used the episode "The Fugitive" with the 6th graders to bring in connections to fairy tales and, of course, "Time Enough at Last" with Burgess Meredith as the book reader who breaks his glasses. No text, but it teaches irony and applies to book reading. "...my hope for them to take from the text is that we explored it so completely that it leaves them still thinking after putting it away because they are applying it to themselves and the world around them." In other words, it becomes a part of them. That is what reading (and learning) is all about. Applying what you learn to your life! Bill _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
