The Great Compromise (The Electric Company)
From The Electric Company (2009) · 2010
Summary
After Francine tries to rename 153rd Street to Francine's Way, Mrs. Quiggly (the deputy commissioner of traffic) threatens to ban all use of powers in the neighborhood (Keith and Francine threw word balls constantly bickering because of the name of the street, which distracted Mrs. Quiggly and made her crash her car and had an accident). The only way that their powers can still be used is if the Electric Company and the Pranksters must compromise and work together to make a proposal on how they can still use their powers safely in the neighborhood without causing anymore incidents. Villains: Francine, Manny, Annie, Danny Words: Perturbed, extreme, bicker, proposal, and compromise Like every Electric Company adventure, the story hangs on reading, decoding, and vocabulary under pressure.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Every Electric Company episode builds its story around wordballs — words the team reads, decodes, and uses under pressure. Watch for the vocabulary the episode leans on and how the characters puzzle words out.
- Which words did the Electric Company have to read or decode to solve the problem?
- How did a character figure out a word they didn't know at first?
- Where could you use one of this episode's words this week?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: decode, wordball, clue, solve.
Try it: Keep a wordball list while you watch — every word the show spotlights goes on the board, and each student picks one to use in a sentence afterward.