"The Hitchhiker" by Lucille Fletcher for co-taught

Radio Play

In this way, those who lived during the Golden Age of Radio received a dash of excitement that they have remembered ALL THEIR LIVES.

Main Character

He is on a road trip from Brooklyn, New York to California.

Be prepared to provide evidence for your conclusions.

Who is the narrator of this play? How do you know?

6. How does dialogue help to create the mood of the play? Give a specific example.

7. What does the narrator say to capture the attention of the audience and keep them tuned in and create mood? Give an example.

8. What are some of the sound effects used in this play? How do they create mood?

9. Why are sound effects especially important in a radio play versus any other type of media?

10. How does the conversation between Adams and his mother at the beginning of the play foreshadow later events?

11. What aspects of the hitchhiker raise questions in the minds of Adams and the audience (listeners)?

12. The hitchhiker represents whom or what? Cite evidence to support your conclusion.

13. What does the reader find out about what really happened to Adams? What do you think will happen next with Adams? His mom? Explain.

14. What genre is this play? Thinking through elements of fiction, what is the inciting incident? Climax? Expain.

Evidence should be based on the text & your knowledge.

The Hitchhiker

by Lucille Fletcher

Graphic Organizer

You can visually use the graphic organizer to

summarize the roles and relationships

of the characters introduced.

Name

Role they play

in comparison to

Ronald Adams

Ronald Adams

Question 4:

In paragraph form, write a summary of "The Hitchhiker". Remember to use proper grammar and mechanics.

1942

Question 3:

List 2 other characters' names

and the role they play in comparison to Ronald Adams

Name

Role they play in comparison to Ronald Adams

Question 1:

Radio plays/dramas were performed during a time before space shuttles, cell phones and cyberspace. What was the purpose of a radio play and why were they so popular?

Television was still an unrealized dream.

What stirred the imagination was a piece of furniture, about the size of a picnic basket, called the radio.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation

Challenge Activities:

Character Analysis

Listen & Read

Quick Write

Question & Answer

Infer & Conclude

Write A Poem

Question 15-Poetic Challenge:

Imagine that the hitchhiker appeared again at the end of the play and delivered his lines in the form of a poem.

Write the poem he would recite to Adams, explaining to his listener what has happened to him and who he is...

Question 5:

Lesson Objective

Question #2

You will make inferences, draw

conclusions about elements of

drama, and provide evidence from

text to support your understanding.

Character Analysis - Who is the protagonist and antagonist? How do you know?

Every day, shortly after sunset, Americas would pull their chairs up to this little box and spend a delightful evening together.

Voice

Magically fiction was made to

come alive on programs such as The Shadow and Suspense. For example, when Orson Welles broadcast "The War of the Worlds" in 1938, it caused much panic as listeners really believed the earth was being invaded by aliens!