The Hitchhiker Compare and Contrast

Adams is 26 years old, unmarried, tall, dark, with a black mustache, driving from Brooklyn, NY to Hollywood, CA to be gone for 3 months.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Adams initially believes the car trip will be an exciting adventure...a lark...a vacation.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

Route 66 highway

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.5

Adams wakes up a store owner in the middle of the night; the owner thinks Adams has been drinking and threatens to call the sheriff.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

Adams is driving cross country from New York to California.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.5

Adams swerves to hit the hitchhiker.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

Adams offers to take a Navy man to San Diego.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.1

Adams swerves to hit the hitchhiker, scares cows, crashes into barbed wire fence.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.3

Adams picks up a girl to ride to Amarillo, TX.

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• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Adams wakes up the gas station owner in the middle of the night; the owner said he will call the sheriff only if she gets robbed.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.6