Recap: Monsters on Maple Street

The mood at the end of Act 1 is

• joyful

• suspicious

• peaceful

• exhausted

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CCSS.RL.7.10

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How is the audience first made aware that things are NOT functioning normally on Maple Street?

• Les Goodman complains that his car won’t start.

• There is an explosion on the power lines.

• People are shown having power problems.

• Tommy warns the people that their power is about to go off.

People suspect Les Goodman for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• His car starts by itself.

• He didn’t come out to look at “meteor."

• He has been seen out at the night, looking up at the sky.

• He speaks a foreign language.

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CCSS.RI.7.8

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Steve won’t let the neighbors in his house to look at his radio because

• he doesn’t want a lot of people in his house

• he shouldn’t have to prove that he is innocent

• he has in fact been talking to creatures from outer space

• he doesn’t really have a radio

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

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The main conflict in this play is

• between Charlie and Tommy

• between the creatures and the people

• among the people themselves

• between Charlie and Steve

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CCSS.RL.7.10

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Pete Van Horn volunteers to

• walk to the nearby street to see if the power is off there too

• . walk to the police station

• see if his ham radio works

• fix Les Goodman’s car

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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The theme of the play might best be expressed as

• when faced with strange and unexplainable events, the people in an average small town bring about their own destruction

• there are no real monsters

• alien creatures may well live among us

• we humans are our own worst enemies

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