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Avalon Play!
Let’s Warm Up!
Try out this tongue twister!
(Say this 10 times fast!)
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear! Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair!
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy he, was he?
Let’s try another one!
(5 times fast!)
She sells seashells on the seashore.
Last one!
(5 times fast!)
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Vocabulary Match the words to the pictures and definitions. Spotlight Stage Props
A raised floor in a theater where
actors perform.
A moveable object other than furniture or costumes used on the
set of a play or movie.
A light on a performer on a
stage.
What is a play?
A play is a story about different characters. Characters can be people, animals, or objects. It just depends on what the story is about. Plays usually take place on a stage in front of an audience. Let’s read an example of a play!
“Little Orphan Annie”
This is a play about the children living in an orphanage. Annie always has to do the work for the other children, but she likes to scare them to get revenge. When we read a play, we only read the lines. The parts in blue are actions, something we do, but do not say out loud.
“Little Orphan Annie”
CAST: Child 1, 2, 3 & 4, Annie, Mother, Father, Old Folks, Black Thing. STAGE: High stool at rear of stage for Annie. Black Thing actor hides downstage side, maybe an audience member who pulls on costume. START: Children enter in order, dropping hats, scarves, baseball mitts, dolls, jackets, etc. on floor, as kids do.. CHILD 1: Little Orphan Annie (Children form line downstage across stage.) CHILD 2: by James Whitcomb Riley CHILD 1: Little Orphan Annie's come to our house to stay, (ANNIE ENTERS, picks up stuff, hangs it up) And wash the cups and saucers up, and brush the crumbs away, CHILD 2: And shoo the chickens off the porch, and dust the hearth, and sweep, And make the fire, and bake the bread, and earn her board and keep; CHILD 3: And all us other children, when the supper
things are done, We sit around the kitchen fire and have the mostest fun, (Child 1, 2, 3 go pull Annie to upstage high stool.) CHILD 4: A-‐listenin’ to the witch tales that Annie tells about, And the Gobble-‐ins that get you (Children form half circle downstage of Annie, facing her.) CHILDREN: (turn to yell at audience) If You Don’t Watch Out! (face Annie, then watch actors.) (Mother, Father enter holding Boy’s hand, start to pray.) ANNIE: Once there was a little boy who wouldn’t say his prayers, (Boy acts up. Mother sends him off.) And when he went to bed at night, away upstairs, (Parents mime serious talk, start to exit other side.) His mommy heard him holler (Yell, mother turns), and his daddy heard him bawl, (Cry, Parents run towards) And when they turned the covers down, he wasn’t there at all! (Parents exit, return with ripped blanket) And they sought him in the rafter room, and cubbyhole, and press, (parents search stage) And sought him up the chimney flue, and everywhere, I guess; But all they ever found was just his pants and roundabout! (find his chewed clothes or pajamas.) Because the Gobble-‐ins will get you (Mother sobs in Father’s arms, Exit.)
CHILDREN (facing audience): If You Don’t Watch Out! (face Annie, then watch actors) (Parents Enter with Bad Girl, mime telling her to behave) ANNIE: Another time a little girl would always laugh and grin, (Parents scold, girl sassy faces) And make fun of everyone, and all her blood and kin, (Girl points at parents, imitates) And once when there was company, and old folks was there, (Old Folks Enter, knock, Parents greet) She mocked them and she shocked them and she said she didn’t care (Girl flips up skirt wiggles butt.) But as she kicked her heels, and turned to run and hide, (Old Folks shocked, Girl spins and runs) A Great Big Scary Black Thing was a-‐standing by her side, (Girl runs past and Black Thing rises) And it snatched her through the ceiling ‘fore she could turn about! (Thing lifts her to shoulder, spins) Yes, the Gobble-‐ins will get you (Girl screams & kicks as Black Thing exits w/her. Adults aghast, exit.) CHILDREN (face audience): If You Don’t Watch Out! (Children walk downstage again.) (Children are fearful. Annie watches mysteriously, pleased.) CHILD 1: And little Orphan Annie says, when the blaze is blue, And the lamp wick sputters, and the wind goes woo-‐oo!
CHILD 2: And you hear the crickets quit, and the moon is gray, And the lightning bugs in dew are all squenched away. CHILD 3: You better mind your parents, and your teachers fond and dear, And cherish those who love you, and dry the orphan’s tear, CHILD 4: And help the poor and needy ones who cluster all about, Or the Gobble-‐ins will get you CHILDREN: If You Don’t Watch Out! The End
What did you think?
Who were the characters? _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ What happened? __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ What was your favorite part? ___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What was your least favorite part? _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Draw a picture of Annie and the other orphans.
Get Ready to Sing!
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky, Where the bull frogs jump from bank to banky,
With a hip, hop, hippity, hop, Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky,
Where the bull frogs jump from bank to banky, With a flip, flop, flippity, flop,
Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Down by the banks of the hanky panky Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With an eep, ipe, ope, op, Ee-‐sock-‐a-‐diddly and go KERPLOP!
Let’s Warm Up!
Try out this tongue twister!
(Say this 10 times fast!)
I thought a thought But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought
I thought I thought
Let’s try another one!
(5 times fast!)
Red leather, yellow leather . Last one!
(5 times fast!)
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-‐Butter, 'tis the peanut-‐butter picky people pick.
Vocabulary
L D S K R X X W H J N Y T T E
K E I P C R B V J C H C H F N
P V S R O B Z C D V O G E V E
J Z R V E R T D H S I C A K C
Z V E O Y C P W T L Z F T C S
E T T V L Y T U T M T S E H E
Y W C B M I M O P L A Y R W V
Z K A B E E P K R A R Z I O O
G B R B F S A U D I E N C E A
U A A B O R A B A V E G A T S
D C H C O B G H R O N P L E Y
O C C T A T V P L T C A P M N
B S C I P S N V D E B S D D I
N A Y J C C T R W O Z R J Y J
C V P L A Q W D S M R S D E E
ACTOR AUDIENCE CAST
CHARACTERS COSTUME DIRECTOR
PLAY PROPS SCENE
SPOTLIGHT STAGE THEATER
Your Turn! Let’s write a play. First, draw and name your characters. ___________________ ____________________ __________________ Tell their story! How does it start? ________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Where are they? __________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ What do they do? _________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ How does it end? _________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________
Now, give your characters lines! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Get Ready to Sing!
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold.
A fire burns bright, it warms the heart. We've been friends, from the very start.
You have one hand, I have the other. Put them together, We have each other.
You help me,
and I'll help you and together
we will see it through.
Across the land Across the sea Friends forever We will always be
Make new friends, But keep the old. One is silver, The other gold.
Let’s Warm Up!
Try out this tongue twister!
(Say this 10 times fast!)
Let’s try another one!
(5 times fast!)
Unique New York. Last one!
(5 times fast!)
Can you can a can As a canner Can can a can?