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Fantastic friends: they're (not) just a typical family.
OVERVIEW
Students read about Fantastic Four, a comic-book-based movie to be released this summer. They read about the origin of the main characters of the film. They learn that, like most science-fiction stories, Fantastic Four is based on a blend of science and characters with whom they can readily identify.
BEFORE READING
* Introduce Vocabulary: fantastic, cosmic rays, genius, affect, spats, encyclopedia, projects, invisible
* Tap Prior Knowledge: Who are the Fantastic Four? (astronauts turned superheroes) Where were they mostly seen before their upcoming movie this summer? (comic books) What other superheroes have been featured in movies?
* Invite and Check Predictions: In which year did the Fantastic Four comic-book …
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 8, 2005 700+ words
...Director Tim Story's "Fantastic Four" arrives in the shadows...direction. In comparison, "Fantastic Four" is shallow and stupid. Cosmic rays blast a group of astronauts...Ioan Gruffold), aka Mr. Fantastic, can stretch and contort...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 15, 2005 700+ words
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...Reed, a k a Mr. Fantastic, scolds him. The first...at a telethon where the Fantastic Four are helping to raise...and their pilot, Ben. Cosmic rays hit and transformed them. Reed becomes Mr. Fantastic, a superhero who can...
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...the first issue of "Fantastic Four" more than 40 years...his first issue of "Fantastic Four" is a reader...freak encounter with cosmic rays, the four all have super powers: Reed, as Mr. Fantastic, can stretch his malleable...
- `Fantastic Four' issue to sell for 9 cents.(The Gazette)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Radford, Bill July 25, 2002 700+ words
...the first issue of "Fantastic Four" more than 40 years...his first issue of "Fantastic Four" is a reader...freak encounter with cosmic rays, the four all have super powers: Reed, as Mr. Fantastic, can stretch his malleable...
- BURTON'S BYTES - The not so Fantastic Four.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire August 19, 2005 700+ words
...Echo) Byline: NIGEL BURTON FANTASTIC FOUR Publisher: Activision...same critical praise? The Fantastic Four have been around in comic...passed through a cloud of cosmic rays. Reed Richards, their leader...greatest scientist", became Mr Fantastic due to his ability to stretch...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 13, 2005 700+ words
...to Tom DeFalco's "Fantastic Four: The Ultimate...takes the brunt of cosmic rays as his body morphs...well known ads. The fantastic four, though, manage...from those unknown cosmic rays. If you can get through...out and buy a few "Fantastic Four" comic books...
- A portrait of the artist as a physician.
- Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News Brunk, Doug August 1, 2006 700+ words
...mutants, so they're freaks. Hulk has a temper problem; the Fantastic Four got irradiated by cosmic rays, so they're messed up; [and] poor Ben Grimm [of the Fantastic Four] is the Thing, this ugly monster." He especially identifies...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fantastic friends: they're (not) just a typical family.
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