Twilight Zone Vocabulary
The Twilight Zone original TV series was a great ?word? program. Rod Serling was a master of the metaphor and a surgeon of the simile. He would take words and mold and shape them into short stories ? vignettes that would bring home a point with a crash. I decided to use some of the television shows in my classroom as part of a vocabulary curriculum. I knew it would work because kids love the mysterious, they love television, and they love it when words stop and make them think. Even if it doesn?t seem so on a daily basis. If you listen to the shows as well as look at them, you will notice a very common vocabulary used in very uncommon ways. You will need to get videos of the TV shows to make full use of this plan, but they are readily available. Baggetta