![]() It shows the danger of thought and intellectualism. In some sense, this shows that mass hysteria originates from people who “think too much”. There then begins something that starts a “concern” or “worry”, often an “idea about what is going on”. This slowly turns into a fear. This growing “concern” or “worry” often is a result of reflection which create “ideas about what’s going on”. In the story, this is initiated by the kids story of aliens which directs peoples minds to that way of looking at things.It begins with “something amiss” that makes everyone wonder. In other words, mass hysteria often does not start from an “immediate threat” but, rather, a “sense of something wrong” that develops into a fear over time and which often comes in stages.The story is rather good as it shows some stages seen in the development of mass hysteria: They were using peoples tendency to mass hysteria as a “weapon” to defeat them. In the end of the story we find that it was, in fact, the aliens who did this as part of an invasion, just as the kid said. Eventually, a panic, riot, or hysteria ensues on the street. Eventually, they get so “worked up” that a neighbor gets killed. They start coming up with reasons why this or that neighbor might be the alien. What eventually happens is that everyone starts of think that everyone else are the aliens. He says that, in the stories he’s read, there are aliens that are sent down beforehand, and that they look like humans, to prepare for their landing. A kid offers this idea, based on what he read in stories, that aliens were the ones that made the power go out and that they don’t want them to leave the area. One of the characters of the story thinks its a meteor that flew overhead. Everyone on the street is wondering why this happened. After that, all the electrical power goes out on the street. Poem: "Much Madness is divinest Sense," and "This is my letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson.This story begins with people on Maple Street and a bright flying object flies overhead which makes everyone wonder about it. ![]() Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary.Ģ017-18 7th Grade Monsters Are Due Handout.docxĢ017-18 7th Grade Spelling Units 1-5.docxĬompare and Contrast Teleplay to Poem 435 by Emily Dickinson.Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.This behavior reveals that the real monsters on Maple Street are the people themselves and the fears and prejudices they harbor. As the teleplay closes, the audience learns that aliens who want to take over the world have stopped the machines and are observing the humans’ self-destructive behavior. Accusations and suspicions about one person, then another and another and another, finally lead to violence, and an innocent man is killed. Then as fear begins to invade each person’s mind, complications arise. ![]() At first they believe a meteor is causing the loss of power. (From textbook) When a sudden and inexplicable force causes everything to stop working on Maple Street, the people there begin to wonder who or what is responsible. People have a tendency to allow suspicion, prejudice, conformity and the desire to blame a scapegoat to guide their actions when inexplicable or emotional situations arise. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.
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