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

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

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

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Route 66 highway

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Adams is driving cross country from New York to California.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

Adams swerves to hit the hitchhiker.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Adams offers to take a Navy man to San Diego.

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

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

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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

• Radio play

• Twilight Zone

• Both texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7