"War of the Worlds" Broadcast

Fact Question Response Organizer

Write down four facts you learn from this story from the broadcast, listener response and connection to World War II. Then write down a question about each fact and a possible response.

Language Identification Organizer

Listen closely and check off each sentence or partial sentence as you hear it.

• we interrupt our program to bring you a special bulletin
• Using music, emotion, and silence, Welles built tension.
• we are unable to continue to broadcast from Grover's Mill.
• the reasons why so many people were convinced
• Edgar Bergen, after his initial comedy thing, put on a vocalist.
• and missed the fact that it was a play.
• And so people ran into the streets, jumped in their cars
• that Americans would soon hear on their radios during World War II.
• That famous radio play became a movie in 1953 and won an Oscar.

Fill-in-the-Blank Organizer

As you listen to the story, fill in the blank in each sentence below with the word or phrase that fits best.

• Orson Welles' radio of The War of the Worlds created a fictional news report on a Martian invasion.
• Using music, emotion, and silence, Welles built .
• Listeners , thinking the story was real.
• And a lot of people tuned into War of the Worlds eight minutes into the and missed the fact that it was a play.
• And so people ran into the streets, jumped in their cars, and started the area of the "invasion."