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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 442 161 CS 510 350 AUTHOR Flynn, Rosalind TITLE "Anne of Green Gables": A One-Adt Musical Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's Novel. Cue Sheet for Teachers. INSTITUTION John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC SPONS AGENCY Department of Education, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1994-00-00 NOTE 10p.; Additional funding provided by The Kennedy Center Corporate Fund and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. AVAILABLE FROM http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cuesheet/theater.html. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Audiences; Class Activities; Cultural Activities; Novels; Playwriting; Secondary Education; *Theater Arts IDENTIFIERS *Anne of Green Gables; Drama in Education; Montgomery (Lucy Maud); *Musicals ABSTRACT This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of the one-act musical based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, "Anne of Green Gables," with music by Richard DeRosa and book and lyrics by Greg Gunning. The guide is designed to help teachers foster students' appreciation of theatre, dance, and music. The activities involve students in high-level thinking skills, accommodate differing learning styles, and draw connections to various parts of the curriculum. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," offers five activity pages for students. Materials for teachers address using the reproducible student activity pages and offers background information on author Lucy Maud Montgomery, Prince Edward Island (where the story takes place), on theatre conventions, adapting the novel into a musical play, and on audience collaboration. They also list resources about Lucy Maud Montgomery. Students' reproducible activity pages include a story synopsis, a look at the characters in the play and how actors double roles, lines from the play and character insights, items from the Victorian era, and the role of imagination in the theatre and in the character Anne. (SR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. "Anne of Green Gables": A One-Act Musical Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's Novel. Cue Sheet for Teachers. by Rosalind Flynn U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization kr) Originating it. BEST COPY AVAILABLE Minor changes have been made to improve M reproduction Quality. v-4 Points of view or opinions stated in this docu- ment do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. _J 2 A one-act musical based on ontgomery s Novel Mus!c by Richard DeROW POO* & 'Lyrics by Greg GunningPresented.. by AratsPouver, Inc. Welcome to Cuesheet, one of a Information for Teachers themes, objects, and how theatrical series of performing arts Using the student activity pages: problems are solved. resource guides published by Synopsis, Characters, Listen for These Each activity section has two com- the Education Department of the John Lines, Look for These Things, Use ponents: something to do before the F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Your Imagination. performance and suggestions for follow- Arts, Washington, D.C. Cuesheet is The reproducible student activity up after the performance. designed to help teachers foster stu- pages are designed as The activities involve students in r. dents' understanding and appreciation a series of commu- reading, recalling, predicting, of theater, dance, and music. The nications (letter, categorizing, imagining, dis- activities involve students in high-level FAX, postcard, cussing, using background thinking skills, accommodate differing etc) written knowledge, thinking yir learning styles, and draw connections by an Anne of visually and creative- to various parts of the curriculum. Green Gables ly, and building enthusiast to a vocabulary. This Cuesheet contains: friend who has The activi- ties can be done For Teachers, pages 1-3 moved away. The individually or Information for Teachers on the text and activities alert cooperatively. use of student activity pages students to events and Each can serve as an Background Information on peo- songs in the play, char- impetus for classroom dis- ple, places, and ideas, and Resources acters, dia- cussion or as a theme about Lucy Maud Montgomery. logue, lyrics, to explore For Students, pages 4-8 through Five reproducible activity pages writing, drama, or Cuesheet contains many questions visual and activities. Pick and choose those art. that best suit your purposes and time constraints. This Cuesheet is designed for stu- dents to use independently, in pairs, small groups, or as a whole class. Background Information Gulf of St. Lawrence 0 Lucy Maud Montgomery Cavendish Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of th `-ho oti novel Anne of Green Gables, was born S? Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in Prince Edward Island 1874. Her mother died when Maud Lucy Maud Montgomery based the fictitious Green Gables town of Avonlea on (she was called by her middle name) her hometown of Cavendish. She used other actual Canadian locales in her was on 1y21 montmonths s oold. Herer fatherherle f t 4.books such as Charlottetown, PEI and Halifax, Nova Scotia. her to be raised by her maternal Prince Edward Island, the setting of Anne of Green Gables,is grandparents when he moved Canada's smallest and least populated province. It lies in the Gulf of off the island in search of St. Lawrence on the east coast of Canada. It is separated from the work. He never returned. provinces of New Brunswick to its west and Nova Scotia to its Her grandparents were in south by the Northumberland Strait. their 50s when she went Prince Edward Island, because it is so far north, is ice-bound to live with them. They from January to April each year. Most of the island is rural farm- were strict and required land. Its biggest tourist attraction is the Green Gables House their high-spirited young in Cavendish. Visitors can tour the house and grounds of the granddaughter to be home that Montgomery used as inspiration for Anne's home. quiet and well-behaved. Therefore, like her character Anne Shirley, Maud often became internationally bered. No one was more surprised than used her vivid imagination famous. The first Anne she at its popularity. She thought that to create companions and book and its nine young girls might like her story, but to entertain herself. sequels have been trans- received letters from school boys and She loved to read and lated into many lan- college students, grandparents, monks, began writing when she guages; they remain missionaries, and red-headed people all was quite young. At age popular today. over the world telling how much they 15 she had a poem pub- Montgomery mar- loved Anne. lished in a local newspa- ried a minister named Theater Conventions per. Ewan MacDonald in An implicit understanding between She became a 1911, but continued audience and performer is the agree- teacher and continued to write under her ment to "suspend disbelief," to pretend writing poems and maiden name. Before together that the action is real and is short stories. Anne of her death in 1942, happening for the first time. This Green Gables, her first she had published agreement is often maintained through book, was published more than 20 books the use of theatrical conventions (prac- in 1908. It was an and hundreds of tices accepted as a part of playmaking). immediate success, short stories and These theatrical conventions are and Montgomery poems. It is for Anne evident in Anne of Green Gables: of Green Gables, Performers who play more than however, that the one role in the play: Called "doubling," author is primar- in theater terminology ily remem- Actors who "freeze" in position on stage in full view of the audience, indicating that the audience should not focus on them until they begin to move and speak again Split stage effect: The technique 47 4 BEST COPY AVAILABLE of using two sides of the stage for Arts Power, the producer of this show, Resources scenes that occur simultaneously in dif- Anne's red hair will only be mentioned Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote a series ferent locations if an actress who has red hair or is will- of Anne books. Look for: Anne of Actors who speak to imaginary ing to dye her hair red is cast as Anne. Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of characters in order to provide the audi- If your students have read Mont- the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne ence with necessary information gomery's novel, you may want to dis- of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Actors who play the spirits of cuss other variations in the book and Chronicles of Avonlea. dead characters the play. Focus on trying to imagine Because this is a musical play, why the playwrights made certain artis- Video recordings:Anne of Green Gables, performers sing individually and togeth- tic choices when adapting this story for Anne of Avonlea. Sullivan Films, Inc. in er. The audience accepts the notion the stage. association with Canadian Broadcasting Corp., PBS/Wonderworks. Written, pro- that these people "spontaneously" Audience Collaboration break into song. The songs provide duced, and directed by Kevin Sullivan. information, reveal inner thoughts of Theater is a collaborative art which Walt Disney Home Video, 1993. requires the work of many people the characters, and move the action Sound recording:Anne of Green playwright, director, designers, actors, forward. They also create mood. Gables. 8 sound cassettes. Washington, and the final collaborators the audi- D.C.: Audio Book Contractors, 1980. Adapting the novel into a ence. Therefore, students should know musical play that the audience is an important part About Lucy Maud Montgomery: Readers familiar with the novel Anne of of every theatrical performance.
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