The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

What is the definition of the word EXPLICIT?

• Confusing.
• Understandable.
• To express precisely or clearly. 

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is the definition of the word CONVERGE?

• When you add two or more things together to make one. 
• Things that don't combine. 
• Talking or speaking. 

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the definition of the word IDIOSYNCRASY?

• A peculiar or strange character trait.
• A weird person. 
• A mistake.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
The aliens had _____ directions for how to handle the humans.

• menace
• transfixed
• assent
• explicit

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.
As the mob began _____ on Tommy, his mother shielded him.

• variations
• defiant
• idiosyncrasy
• converging

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.  
The people feared anyone who showed a(n) _____ and thought it made him/her a possible alien.

• intelligible
• defiant
• idiosyncrasy
• converging

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following takes place at the very beginning of the exposition?

• A fight develops between Don Martin and Les Goodman.`
• The narrator describes where and when the drama takes place.
• The car belonging to Steve Brand will not start.
• A mysterious telephone call is made to Myra Brand.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Between which characters does the conflict of the drama develop?

• Tommy and his friends
• all the neighbors on Maple Street
• strangers who move to Maple Street
• Steve Brand and the narrator

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Which of the following describes the mood on Maple street at the end of the drama?

• a tense nightmare
• a calm return to normal
• a humorous sense of relief
• an excited celebration

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TEKS.ELA.6.9E

TEKS.ELA.6.9F

TEKS.ELA.7.9D

TEKS.ELA.7.9E

TEKS.ELA.8.7B

Which of the following do the people of Maple Street do at the end of the drama?

• The residents violently accuse one another of starting the power failure.
• The people all leave their homes and run away forever.
• As a group, they surrender to the mysterious strangers.
• Once the power is restored, the residents resume their normal lives.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7