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ALICE IN WONDERLAND STUDY GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Alice in Wonderland Photo Gallery Page 14

Answer Key to Puzzles Page 52 - 55

Ballet Version of Alice in Wonderland Page 12

Biography of Author Carroll Lewis Page 11

California Common Core Standards Page 4

Coloring Pages Pages 15 - 20

Crossword Puzzles Pages 48 - 51

Cryptograms Pages 45 - 47

Discussion Questions and Essays Page 38 - 40

English Language Wonderland Worksheets Page 28 - 37 Trace, Matching, Missing Letters, Spelling, Alphabetical, Capital Letters, Vocabulary, Cursive, Sentences

History of the Antelope Valley Ballet Page 13

Introduction and How to Use this Study Guide Page 2

Math in Wonderland Page 21 - 27 Counting, Telling Time, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Word problems

Performance Times and Dates Page 2

Recommended Websites and Versions of the Book Page 3

Story of Alice in Wonderland Page 5 - 10 Summary, Character Profiles, Themes, Motifs, And Symbols, Top Five Quotes

Table of Contents Page 1

Why the Boys Will Enjoy The Ballet Page 2

Word Searches Pages 41 - 44

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INTRODUCTION AND HOW TO USE THIS STUDY GUIDE

Welcome! We are so excited to have you consider joining us for Alice in Wonderland on May 10 - 13, 2019 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. This study guide has been created to assist you in classroom activities that relate to Alice in Wonderland. It is designed for preschool through middle school age children, so please pick out the items that seem to best fit your students! Hopefully, this study guide will give you ideas and resources to create other activities as well. The story of Alice in Wonderland gives an endless supply of possibilities and is a great literary experience for preschoolers through adults. This story can be enjoyed on a number of different levels and I have tried to include these many different levels within the study guide. I have enjoyed putting it together for you!

Kathleen Burnett, Artistic Director Antelope Valley Ballet (661) 579-4842 [email protected]

For questions or comments regarding this study guide or the performances, please send an email to [email protected]. We would love to get feedback on how we can assist you and support you in the education of the students in the Antelope Valley.

PERFORMANCE TIMES AND DATES FOR ALICE IN WONDERLAND all performances will be held at Lancaster Performing Arts Center 750 West Lancaster Blvd. Lancaster, CA 93534 (661) 723 - 5950 box office

Friday May 10, 2019 at 11 am 1 hour Arts for Youth performance geared toward students Saturday May 11, 2019 at 7 pm Public Performance Sunday May 12, 2019 at 2 pm Public Performance Monday, May 13, 2019 at 11 am 1 hour Arts for Youth performance geared toward students

WHY THE BOYS WILL ENJOY THE PERFORMANCE EVEN IF THEY WON'T ADMIT IT!

I am often asked why would the boys enjoy ballet? Teachers often believe that the boys won't enjoy it. While a certain number of students - male and female - may not enjoy the ballet, most students do. There are many reasons to enjoy it! Live performance is always exciting because you don't know what will happen. There are male dancers as well as female. There are all kinds of dance in Alice in Wonderland - including hip hop, tap, and jazz! There are crazy, funny characters like the caterpillar. There is a lot of color on the stage and fun music. We strive to provide fun, inspiring, thought-provoking entertainment for the entire family. There are many wonderful activities that can be done in the classroom to coordinate with a live performance. It can be a wonderful way to end the school year!! Remember that on the way out, after the performance, the dancers will be in the lobby in costume and you will be able to see them up close! AV BALLET’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND STUDY GUIDE page 3

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES for further ideas, resources, and information

AV Ballet's website www.antelopevalleyballet.org Lancaster Performing Arts Website www.lpac.org (See the Arts for Youth Page) Spark Notes www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/summary.html Novel Guide www.novelguide.com/aliceinwonderland/characterprofiles.html Alice in Wonderland site with www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/ creative activities

RECOMMENDED VERSIONS OF THE BOOK - according to age

Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland (Little Golden Book Series) (for preschool - kindergarten) ● by Walt Disney Studio (Illustrator), Al Dempster (Adapted by), ● (Hardcover) Pub. Date: January 2010 ● Publisher: Random House Children's Books ● Format: Hardcover, 24pp ● Series: Little Golden Book Series ● ISBN-13: 9780736426701 ● ISBN: 0736426701 available at Barnes and Noble online for $3.59 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?EAN=9780736426701&x=

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (for ages 4 - 8) by Deborah Hautzig, Kathryn Rathke (Illustrator) ● (Paperback) Pub. Date: February 2010 ● Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) ● Format: Paperback, 48pp ● Series: All Aboard Reading Series ● ISBN-13: 9780448452692 ● ISBN: 0448452693 ● available at Barnes and Noble online for $3.59 ● http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?EAN=9780448452692&x=

Alice in Wonderland - The Stepping Stone Series (for ages 8 - 12) Lewis Carroll, Adapted by Mallory Loehr Paperback Pub. Date: December 2009 ● Publisher: Random House Children's Books ● Format: Paperback, 112pp ● ISBN-13: 9780375866418 ● ISBN: 0375866418 ● available at Barnes and Noble online for $4.49 ● http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?EAN=9780375866418&x=

Alice in Wonderland - Scholastic Junior Classics (for ages 9 and up) by Lewis Carroll, (Illustrator) ● (Mass Market Paperback - Abridged) Pub. Date: February 2002 ● Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. ● Format: Mass Market Paperback, 160pp ● ISBN-13: 9780439291491 ● ISBN: 0439291496 ● available at Barnes and Noble online for $3.59 ● http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?EAN=9780439291491&x=

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California Common Core Standard Objectives in Reading, Writing, Language Arts, Mathematics, & Dance Grades K-5

Grade Kindergarten: Grade Three: RL-2,3,5,6,9 RL-2,3 RF-1,3 W-1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10 W-2,3,5,8 SL-1,2,3,4,5,6 SL-1,2,3,4,5,6 L-1,2,3,4,5,6 L-1,2,4,5,6 M.D-1 M.CC-3,4,5,6,7 D.Explore-b M.OA-1,2,5 D.Analyze-a,b M.NBT-1 D.Interpret-a M.MD-3 D.Critique-a D.Explore-b D.Synthesize-a,b,c D.Analyze-a,b D.Interpret-a D.Critique-a D.Synthesize-a,b,c

Grade One: Grade Four: RL-2,3,7,9 RL-7,9 RF-1,3 W-1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10 W-3,5,8 SL-1,2,4,5,6 SL-1,2,3,5,6 L-1,2,3,4,5,6 L-1,2,4,5,6 D.Explore-b M.OA-1,2,4,7,8 D.Analyze-a,b M.D-3 D.Interpret-a D.Explore-b D.Critique-a b,c D.Express-c D.Synthesize-a, D.Analyze-a,b D.Interpret-a D.Critique-a D.Synthesize-a,b,c

Grade Two: Grade Five: RL-2,3,6,9 RL-9 RF-1,3 W-1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10 W-3,4,5,8,10 SL-1,2,4,5,6 SL-1,2,3,4,5,6 L-1,2,3,4,5,6 L-1,2,3,4,5,6 D.Explore-b M.OA-2,3 D.Analyze-a,b M.D-7 D.Interpret-a D.Explore-b D.Critique-a D.Express-c D.Synthesize-a,b,c D.Analyze-a,b D.Interpret-a D.Critique-a D.Synthesize-a,b,c

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THE STORY OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND - SUMMARY

Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day, drowsily reading over her sister’s shoulder, when she catches sight of a in a waistcoat running by her. The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch, exclaims that he is late, and pops down a rabbit hole. Alice follows the White Rabbit down the hole and comes upon a great hallway lined with doors. She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table. Through the door, she sees a beautiful garden, and Alice begins to cry when she realizes she cannot fit through the door. She finds a bottle marked “DRINK ME” and downs the contents. She shrinks down to the right size to enter the door but cannot enter since she has left the key on the tabletop above her head. Alice discovers a cake marked “EAT ME” which causes her to grow to an inordinately large height. Still unable to enter the garden, Alice begins to cry again, and her giant tears form a pool at her feet. As she cries, Alice shrinks and falls into the pool of tears. The pool of tears becomes a sea, and as she treads water she meets a Mouse. The Mouse accompanies Alice to shore, where a number of animals stand gathered on a bank. After a “Caucus Race,” Alice scares the animals away with tales of her cat, Dinah, and finds herself alone again. Alice meets the White Rabbit again, who mistakes her for a servant and sends her off to fetch his things. While in the White Rabbit’s house, Alice drinks an unmarked bottle of liquid and grows to the size of the room. The White Rabbit returns to his house, fuming at the now-giant Alice, but she swats him and his servants away with her giant hand. The animals outside try to get her out of the house by throwing rocks at her, which inexplicably transform into cakes when they land in the house. Alice eats one of the cakes, which causes her to shrink to a small size. She wanders off into the forest, where she meets a Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah (i.e., a water pipe). The Caterpillar and Alice get into an argument, but before the Caterpillar crawls away in disgust, he tells Alice that different parts of the mushroom will make her grow or shrink. Alice tastes a part of the mushroom, and her neck stretches above the trees. A pigeon sees her and attacks, deeming her a serpent hungry for pigeon eggs. Alice eats another part of the mushroom and shrinks down to a normal height. She wanders until she comes across the house of the Duchess. She enters and finds the Duchess, who is nursing a squealing baby, as well as a grinning , and a Cook who tosses massive amounts of pepper into a cauldron of soup. The Duchess behaves rudely to Alice and then departs to prepare for a croquet game with the Queen. As she leaves, the Duchess hands Alice the baby, which Alice discovers is a pig. Alice lets the pig go and reenters the forest, where she meets the Cheshire Cat again. The Cheshire Cat explains to Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad, including Alice herself. The Cheshire Cat gives directions to the ’s house and fades away to nothing but a floating grin. Alice travels to the March Hare’s house to find the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and having tea together. Treated rudely by all three, Alice stands by the tea party, uninvited. She learns that they have wronged Time and are trapped in perpetual tea-time. After a final discourtesy, Alice leaves and journeys through the forest. She finds a tree with a door in its side, and travels through it to find herself back in the great hall. She takes the key and uses the mushroom to shrink down and enter the garden. After saving several gardeners from the temper of the Queen of Hearts, Alice joins the Queen in a strange game of croquet. The croquet ground is hilly, the mallets and balls are live flamingos and hedgehogs, and the Queen tears about, frantically calling for the other player’s executions. Amidst this madness, Alice bumps into the Cheshire Cat again, who asks her how she is doing. The King of Hearts interrupts their conversation and attempts to bully the Cheshire Cat, who impudently dismisses the King. The King takes offense and arranges for the Cheshire Cat’s execution, but since the Cheshire Cat is now only a head floating in midair, no one can agree on how to behead it. The Duchess approaches Alice and attempts to befriend her, but the Duchess makes Alice feel uneasy. The Queen of Hearts chases the Duchess off and tells Alice that she must visit the to hear his story. The Queen of Hearts sends Alice with the Gryphon as her escort to meet the Mock Turtle. Alice shares her strange experiences with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, who listen sympathetically and comment on the

AV BALLET’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND STUDY GUIDE page 6 strangeness of her adventures. After listening to the Mock Turtle’s story, they hear an announcement that a trial is about to begin, and the Gryphon brings Alice back to the croquet ground. The Knave of Hearts stands trial for stealing the Queen’s tarts. The King of Hearts leads the proceedings, and various witnesses approach the stand to give evidence. The Mad Hatter and the Cook both give their testimony, but none of it makes any sense. The White Rabbit, acting as a herald, calls Alice to the witness stand. The King goes nowhere with his line of questioning, but takes encouragement when the White Rabbit provides new evidence in the form of a letter written by the Knave. The letter turns out to be a poem, which the King interprets as an admission of guilt on the part of the Knave. Alice believes the note to be nonsense and protests the King’s interpretation. The Queen becomes furious with Alice and orders her beheading, but Alice grows to a huge size and knocks over the Queen’s army of playing cards. All of a sudden, Alice finds herself awake on her sister’s lap, back at the riverbank. She tells her sister about her dream and goes inside for tea as her sister ponders Alice’s adventures.

*Summary from Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/summary.html

CHARACTER PROFILES AND ANALYSIS

Alice: The young protagonist of the novel, Alice is based on Lewis Carroll's real-life friend, , daughter of Carroll's boss. Alice, in the novel, is a girl struggling with adolescence and her transformation from an idle child to a conscientious adult. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice feels comfortable with her identity and has a strong sense that her environment is comprised of clear, logical, and consistent rules and features. Alice’s familiarity with the world has led one critic to describe her as a “disembodied intellect.” Alice displays great curiosity and attempts to fit her diverse experiences into a clear understanding of the world. Alice approaches Wonderland as an anthropologist, but maintains a strong sense of noblesse oblige that comes with her class status. She has confidence in her social position, education, and the Victorian virtue of good manners. Alice has a feeling of entitlement, particularly when comparing herself to Mabel, whom she declares has a “poky little house,” and no toys. Additionally, she flaunts her limited information base with anyone who will listen and becomes increasingly obsessed with the importance of good manners as she deals with the rude creatures of Wonderland. Alice maintains a superior attitude and behaves with solicitous indulgence toward those she believes are less privileged. The tension of Alice’s emerges when Alice’s fixed perspective of the world comes into contact with the mad, illogical world of Wonderland. Alice’s fixed sense of order clashes with the madness she finds in Wonderland. The White Rabbit challenges her perceptions of class when he mistakes her for a servant, while the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Pigeon challenge Alice’s notions of urbane intelligence with an unfamiliar logic that only makes sense within the context of Wonderland. Most significantly, Wonderland challenges her perceptions of good manners by constantly assaulting her with dismissive rudeness. Alice’s fundamental beliefs face challenges at every turn, and as a result Alice suffers an identity crisis. She persists in her way of life as she perceives her sense of order collapsing all around her. Alice must choose between retaining her notions of order and assimilating into Wonderland’s nonsensical rules.

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White Rabbit: The Rabbit is the through line of the novel. That is, he is the character that Alice follows, and he reappears to get things moving again. In a way, he is a sort of guide, though he is too worried about himself to really be guiding anyone.

Cheshire Cat: A smiling cat who can disappears and reappears at will. The Cheshire Cat is the ironic middle between adulthood and childhood. He reveals to Alice how, after you have mastered the rules (a skill which the Caterpillar basically teaches Alice) then rules can start to master you. He sends her forward to the Mad Hatter and then to the Queen as a lesson in what happens when the rules get out of hand: madness, a sort of childhood for adults. The Cheshire Cat is unique among Wonderland creatures. Threatened by no one, it maintains a cool, grinning outsider status. The Cheshire Cat has insight into the workings of Wonderland as a whole. Its calm explanation to Alice that to be in Wonderland is to be “mad” reveals a number of points that do not occur to Alice on her own. First, the Cheshire Cat points out that Wonderland as a place has a stronger cumulative effect than any of its citizens. Wonderland is ruled by nonsense, and as a result, Alice’s normal behavior becomes inconsistent with its operating principles, so Alice herself becomes mad in the context of Wonderland. Certainly, Alice’s burning curiosity to absorb everything she sees in Wonderland sets her apart from the other Wonderland creatures, making her seem mad in comparison.

March Hare: A mad creature who takes tea all of the time because he lives in a state of frozen time.

Mad Hatter: The leader of a perpetual tea time. Hatters were mad because they used mercury in the production of hats from fur, which will cause madness after long exposure.

Dormouse: A mad creature who takes tea all of the time because he lives in a state of frozen time. She also sleeps a lot.

Queen of Hearts: The mad tyrant who rules Wonderland. The Queen is best seen as an old person (an adult) who has lost sight of civility and so has become quite mad. In a sense, she is really an overgrown child who just happens to be old. The novel explains this by positioning her in opposition to Alice's youthful growth. As Alice is growing stronger and more reasonable, the Queen is degenerating into frailty and madness. As Alice becomes a fertile, red woman, the Queen wanes to become a pale, old matron. As the ruler of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must inevitably face to figure out the puzzle of Wonderland. In a sense, the Queen of Hearts is literally the heart of Alice’s conflict. Unlike many of the other characters in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is not as concerned with nonsense and perversions of logic as she is with absolute rule and execution. In Wonderland, she is a singular force of fear who even dominates the King of Hearts. In the Queen’s presence, Alice finally gets a taste of true fear, even though she understands that the Queen of Hearts is merely a playing card. The Gryphon later informs Alice that the Queen never actually executes anyone she sentences to death, which reinforces the fact that the Queen of Heart’s power lies in her rhetoric. The Queen becomes representative of the idea that Wonderland is devoid of substance.

King of Hearts: The Queen's simpering husband.

Edith, Alice's Sister: A reasonable adult, Alice's older sister is the one who, in the end, recognizes Alice's own adult-like qualities. Carroll closes with her adult interpretation of Wonderland so as to reinforce the sense that Alice has truly grown emotionally.

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THEMES - Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Tragic and Inevitable Loss of Childhood Innocence Throughout the course of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice goes through a variety of absurd physical changes. The discomfort she feels at never being the right size acts as a symbol for the changes that occur during puberty. Alice finds these changes to be traumatic, and feels discomfort, frustration, and sadness when she goes through them. She struggles to maintain a comfortable physical size. In Chapter I, she becomes upset when she keeps finding herself too big or too small to enter the garden. In Chapter V, she loses control over specific body parts when her neck grows to an absurd length. These constant fluctuations represent the way a child may feel as her body grows and changes during puberty. Life as a Meaningless Puzzle In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice encounters a series of puzzles that seem to have no clear solutions, which imitates the ways that life frustrates expectations. Alice expects that the situations she encounters will make a certain kind of sense, but they repeatedly frustrate her ability to figure out Wonderland. Alice tries to understand the Caucus race, solve the Mad Hatter’s riddle, and understand the Queen’s ridiculous croquet game, but to no avail. In every instance, the riddles and challenges presented to Alice have no purpose or answer. Even though Lewis Carroll was a logician, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland he makes a farce out of jokes, riddles, and games of logic. Alice learns that she cannot expect to find logic or meaning in the situations that she encounters, even when they appear to be problems, riddles, or games that would normally have solutions that Alice would be able to figure out. Carroll makes a broader point about the ways that life frustrates expectations and resists interpretation, even when problems seem familiar or solvable. Death as a Constant and Underlying Menace Alice continually finds herself in situations in which she risks death, and while these threats never materialize, they suggest that death lurks just behind the ridiculous events of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a present and possible outcome. Death appears in Chapter I, when the narrator mentions that Alice would say nothing of falling off of her own house, since it would likely kill her. Alice takes risks that could possibly kill her, but she never considers death as a possible outcome. Over time, she starts to realize that her experiences in Wonderland are far more threatening than they appear to be. As the Queen screams “Off with its head!” she understands that Wonderland may not merely be a ridiculous realm where expectations are repeatedly frustrated. Death may be a real threat, and Alice starts to understand that the risks she faces may not be ridiculous and absurd after all.

THEME ANALYSIS

Alice in Wonderland is a coming of age story. It is the growth of Alice from an undisciplined child to a wise young woman. The principle arrangement of this growth is two parted. First Alice must learn that rules are essential to civil, adult life. Then she must learn that if rules are adhered to blindly, and without a merciful sense of justice, then society becomes worse than childish anarchy, it becomes a tyranny. These truths are played out in the metaphors of children's games and rhymes. In the end, Alice must overcome the nonsense of the young and the old before she truly understands what adulthood is all about.

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MOTIFS - Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Dream Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland takes place in Alice’s dream, so that the characters and phenomena of the real-world mix with elements of Alice’s unconscious state. The dream motif explains the abundance of nonsensical and disparate events in the story. As in a dream, the narrative follows the dreamer as she encounters various episodes in which she attempts to interpret her experiences in relationship to herself and her world. Though Alice’s experiences lend themselves to meaningful observations, they resist a singular and coherent interpretation. Subversion Wonderland will frustrate Alice’s expectations and challenge her understanding of the natural order of the world. In Wonderland, Alice quickly discovers during her travels that the only reliable aspect of Wonderland that she can count is that her lessons no longer mean what she thought, as she botches her multiplication tables and incorrectly recites poems she had memorized while in Wonderland. Even Alice’s physical dimensions become warped as she grows and shrinks erratically throughout the story. Wonderland frustrates Alice’s desires to fit her experiences in a logical framework where she can make sense of the relationship between cause and effect. Language Carroll plays with linguistic conventions in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, making use of puns and playing on multiple meanings of words throughout the text. Carroll invents words and expressions and develops new meanings for words. Alice’s exclamation “Curious and curiouser!” suggests that both her surroundings and the language she uses to describe them expand beyond expectation and convention. Anything is possible in Wonderland, and Carroll’s manipulation of language reflects this sense of unlimited possibility. Curious, Nonsense, and Confusing Alice uses these words throughout her journey to describe phenomena she has trouble explaining. Though the words are generally interchangeable, she usually assigns curious and confusing to experiences or encounters that she tolerates. She endures is the experiences that are curious or confusing, hoping to gain a clearer picture of how that individual or experience functions in the world. When Alice declares something to be nonsense, as she does with the trial in Chapter XII, she rejects or criticizes the experience or encounter.

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SYMBOLS - Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. The Garden Nearly every object in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland functions as a symbol, but nothing clearly represents one particular thing. The symbolic resonances of Wonderland objects are generally contained to the individual episode in which they appear. Often the symbols work together to convey a particular meaning. The garden may symbolize the Garden of Eden, an idyllic space of beauty and innocence that Alice is not permitted to access. On a more abstract level, the garden may simply represent the experience of desire, in that Alice focuses her energy and emotion on trying to attain it. The two symbolic meanings work together to underscore Alice’s desire to hold onto her feelings of childlike innocence that she must relinquish as she matures.

The Caterpillar’s Mushroom Like the garden, the Caterpillar’s mushroom also has multiple symbolic meanings. Some readers and critics view the Caterpillar as a sexual threat, its phallic shape a symbol of sexual virility. The Caterpillar’s mushroom connects to this symbolic meaning. Alice must master the properties of the mushroom to gain control over her fluctuating size, which represents the bodily frustrations that accompany puberty. Others view the mushroom as a psychedelic hallucinogen that compounds Alice’s surreal and distorted perception of Wonderland.

Food Food is used in this novel as a metaphor for growth. Carroll is literalizing the old notion that food helps you grow big and strong, that food is the path to adulthood. Ironically, Carroll is also pointing out that growing up is only half the way to adulthood. Alice can control her size and therefore her position as an adult with the food provided by the Caterpillar, but it isn't until the Cheshire Cat shows her the dangers of adulthood that she is able to be truly adult. Food can make you big in Wonderland (as in life) but only mercy and experience can make you wise.

Red Red is the symbol of adulthood (literally it can be taken to refer to menstrual blood, and thus fertility and vigor). The Queen and Alice are on opposite sides of this color, Alice just growing into her adulthood, the Queen just growing past it. It is over this place, this wise middle ground, that the novel fights. Red is, hopefully, a place (or an age) of balance between rules and mercy, between young and old, between wisdom and nonsense.

TOP 5 QUOTES FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND

5) `Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 4) `Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar. 3) `Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar. 2) `Off with her head!' the Queen screamed 1) 'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.

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BIOGRAPHY OF LEWIS CARROLL

Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Daresbury, England on January 27th, 1832. A precocious boy, he wrote often at an early age. By the age of thirteen he was composing trifling bits of poetry for his family and friends. In 1850 he attended his first year at Oxford. He studied mathematics (a field which would for years capture his imagination) and won several scholarships and awards. A requirement of his studentship was that he not marry or having any relationships (Oxford, at the time, was still a very strict religious institution and an education there was a closely related to the priesthood). Carroll also took up the hobby of photography and started down the road to becoming a portraitist of some note. It should be made clear that a Victorian art form was the photography of young children, commissioned by the parents. Carroll did in fact do such photography, as it would have been common practice for any portraitist of the time. The photographs were intended to simulate angels and cherubs of classical art. A modern version of this form would be the work of Anne Geddes. In 1854 Carroll graduated with his Bachelor of Arts Degree and published his first bits of both poetry and prose in the Whitby Gazette. In 1855, selections from what would become the Alice books were published. In the same year Carroll became a lecturer of mathematics at Oxford. In 1856 he first used the pen name of Lewis Carroll. By 1857 Carroll took a Masters degree in Mathematics and went on to publish several mathematical textbooks. In 1861 the Bishop of Oxford ordained him a deacon. On July 4th, 1862, Carroll picnicked with the family of Henry George Liddell, the dean of Christ Church College at Oxford (his boss). They had a young daughter named Alice, with whom Carroll developed a gentle friendship. At that picnic near Godstow, England, Carroll first told Alice of Wonderland. In November, Carroll began writing down the manuscript of the stories he had told Alice Liddell. By February 10th, 1863 Carroll had completed the text version of his story, which he called Alice's Adventures Underground. By 1865 the manuscript had grown and become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On December 14th, the book was finally published. Carroll sent a copy of the first edition to Alice Liddell for Christmas. After the first publication of Wonderland, Carroll went on to pen a sequel (Through the Looking Glass) a variety of books of poetry, several more prose stories, and some mathematical texts. He died at Guilford, Surrey, on January 14, 1898 at exactly 2:30pm, of influenza, 2 weeks before his 66th birthday, never having been married. Childless, it was his nephew who wrote the first inspection of his life.

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ADAPTING A STORY INTO A BALLET - A NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER

Ballet companies these days dance in all dance forms. For instance, in Alice in Wonderland you will see all kinds of dance - including jazz, tap, hip hop, ballroom, dancing in Heelys, and of course ballet. It is Wonderland after all! All forms of dance, when used to tell a story, are called a ballet. The word is used in a similar fashion to the word play. A play uses words however and a ballet does not. There are many things that must be considered when creating a ballet. The actual movements are usually the very last thing that is created. First, I study the story and decide how I can make it happen onstage. This can be challenging for several reasons. In this case, there are some parts of the story which simply cannot happen such as Alice growing really big and shrinking really small. So how do we get that feeling from Alice without the growing and shrinking? This is especially difficult since ballet does not use any words. How do we tell a story without words? This is the great challenge! Of all the ballets I have created I think Alice in Wonderland demonstrates this the best. Each character in Wonderland must have its own identifying movement that belongs to only them. At the very end of the ballet Alice must tell Edith about all the characters she met in Wonderland. She does this by dancing (re-creating) the identifying movement associated with each of the characters, but she does it in a very quick succession. This makes the movements look silly because each character's movement is brief and put next to another character's movement as though Alice is saying "I met the White Rabbit and the Dodo and then the Tweedles and then... etc" It's so wonderful to hear the audience laugh because they understand what Alice is saying even though Edith doesn't have any idea! Another challenge in creating a full-length ballet like Alice in Wonderland is the music. I have to find music that expresses the right emotion, the right big dramatic moments, the right length of time, and so on. In this case, because Wonderland is so unusual, I wanted to find unusual music. Each encounter with a character or set of characters has its own style, its own orchestration. For instance, the tea party is hip hop music, the caterpillar is piano, the pool of tears with birds has sound effects. This is why the audience will be exposed to all kinds of music, all kinds of movement and all kinds of dance.

THE STORY OF THE BALLET VERSION OF Alice in Wonderland

Alice sits by the riverbank with her sister Edith, who is reading a book. Alice is bored. She picks some daisys and makes a daisy chain, when suddenly she sees a white rabbit. She follows the rabbit down a rabbit hole. When she lands, she is suddenly scared. She doesn't know where she is. She begins to cry and her tears become a pool. The pool of tears sweeps her away. She encounters various birds - a dodo, an owl, an eaglet, a flamingo, a duck, a swan, an ostrich, a peacock, and a hawk. She sees the White Rabbit again and follows him. She loses track of the white rabbit but encounters Bill the Lizard. She has a marvelous time dancing with him! Bill sends her off to meet the Caterpillar who sits on top of his mushroom smoking a hookah. He seems lazy, until he slides down from his mushroom and dances with Alice. Next Alice meets the Cheshire Cat who points her in the direction of a tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse. Alice joins the tea party when quite suddenly there are a lot of characters at the tea party! Alice feels a little lonely and unsure of herself when she suddenly encounters Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. Finally, Alice follows the White Rabbit to the Queen of Heart's garden where the cards are painting the white roses red. The Queen and her royal court of cards enter and prepare for the croquet game when the Queen of Hearts notices that all isn't properly prepared. The cards blame Alice. The Queen challenges Alice to a game of croquet using flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls. A fight ensues with the wonderland characters chasing Alice. Alice suddenly finds herself next to her sister by the river bank. She tells her sister all about wonderland and all the quirky characters she met there. Edith doesn't believe her until……. she too sees the white rabbit!

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY BALLET

The Antelope Valley Ballet was founded in the fall of 1998 by Kathleen Burnett and Lara Arnaiz. The mission statement for AV Ballet is to provide dancers from across the Antelope Valley region with professional quality performance opportunities in a company setting; to provide high quality performances locally and regionally, stimulating interest in and appreciation for dance as a performing art; to be a positive force in the cultural climate of the Antelope Valley and the state of California, interacting with and supporting all the arts. Since its founding, the Antelope Valley Ballet has produced two to three productions each year at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center in Lancaster, CA. We have always had morning performances for school children, home schoolers and disabled people. In addition to our productions at LPAC, we also present lecture demonstrations and smaller performances for classrooms and organizations across the Antelope Valley. Our productions have included The Nutcracker, Giselle, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Pan, and Romeo & Juliet. We are proud to have had our dancers accepted to the finest professional ballet summer programs in the United States including Houston Ballet Academy, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Texas Ballet Theatre, The Rock, Atlanta Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Anaheim Ballet, Inland Pacific Ballet, and Arizona Ballet. Former dancers have danced professionally with Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street II, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Memphis Ballet, and Complexions Contemporary Dance. The Antelope Valley Ballet has received grants from Ralph M. Parson’s Foundation, Boeing, Deluxe Checks, the LPAC Foundation, and the LA County Arts Commission. We also receive very generous support from individual donors who live here in the Antelope Valley. Although we do not have a ballet school, the AV Ballet supports the local dance studios. We are fortunate to have had strong support from several of the local dance schools as well. In addition to our regular performances at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, AV Ballet presents a performance series at the Lancaster Library called Stories in Motion. Our Stories in Motion performance series are free and open to the public.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND PHOTO GALLERY

Alice and her sister Edith in the garden. Tracie Marks Alice in the Pool of Tears. as the White Rabbit.

The Birds in the Pool of Tears. Desiree Dozier as the Caterpillar. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee

The cards paint the flowers red. The King and Queen of Hearts Croquet Anyone?

KD Reilly as Alice

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Math IN WONDERLAND - Counting Name ______

Count the number of images and write it down in the space.

1.______White Rabbits

2.______Tweedles

3.______Queens

4. ______Cats

5. ______Lobster

6.______Caterpillars

7.______Mushrooms

8.______Alices

9.______Red Roses

10. ______Cards

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Math IN WONDERLAND Name ______Telling Time – Half Hour Help the White Rabbit tell time!

*Taken from www. edhelper.com

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Math IN WONDERLAND Name ______Telling Time – Five Minute Help the White Rabbit tell time!

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Math IN WONDERLAND Name ______Telling Time – Advanced Help the White Rabbit tell time!

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Math IN WONDERLAND - Simple Addition NAME ______Help Alice add the things in Wonderland!

1. 4 Daisys + 3 Petunias = ______Flowers in the garden

2. 5 tears + 10 tears = ______Tears in the Pool of Tears

3. 1 dodo + 1 flamingo ______birds

4. 6 tulips + 7 mushrooms ______plants in the caterpillars garden

5. 1 Mad Hatter 8. 3 cards that are hearts 1 Dormouse 3 cards that are diamonds +1 March Hare + 2 cards that are spades friends at a tea party cards

6. 1 lump of sugar 9. 2 Red Queens + 1 lump of sugar + 2 Black Queens lumps of sugar in my tea Queens

7. 1 cheshire cat 10. 8 red roses 1 caterpillar + 2 white roses + 1 white rabbit roses friends of Alice

Word Problems

11. At the tea party, the Mad Hatter pours himself 1 cup of tea. Then he pours 2 cups of tea for the March Hare. Next, he pours 1 cup of tea for Alice. How many cups of tea has he poured all together?

12.The Mad Hatter wears a hat to the tea party. The March Hare also wears a hat to the tea party. Alice and the Dormouse do not have a hat. How many hats are at the tea party?

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Math IN WONDERLAND - Simple Subtraction NAME ______

Alice loses things in Wonderland! Help her figure out what’s missing!

1. 8 cups of tea 2. 11 mushrooms 3. 15 Daisys – 3 cups of tea - 4 mushrooms - 6 Daisys Cups of tea mushrooms Daisys

4. 5 sips of “Drink Me” potion 5. 4 Hedgehogs 6. 12 Flamingo Croquet Mallets - 2 burps of “Drink Me” potion - 2 Hedgehogs - 8 Flamingo Croquet Mallets sips of “Drink Me” potion Hedgehogs Flamingo Croquet Mallets

7. 1 Cheshire Cat 8. 8 of Hearts Card 9. 10 pieces of cake - 1 Cheshire Cat - 3 of Hearts Card - 4 pieces of cake Cheshire Cats of Hearts Card Pieces of cake

10. 15 Lobsters - 7 lobsters lobsters

Word Problems

11. There are 24 white flowers in the Queen’s garden. The cards are supposed to paint all the flowers red, but they miss 6. How many flowers did they paint?

12. Alice picks 14 daisys. She gives 7 to her sister Edith. How many daisys does Alice have left?

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MATH - Wonderland WORD PROBLEMS NAME ______

Word Problems: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Advanced Telling Time

1. If the caterpillar has 8 legs, the white rabbit has 4, Alice has 2, the Mad Hatter has 2, the Cheshire Cat has 4, how many legs are there total?

2. Alice's sister Edith was reading a book by the riverbank. She was on page 43 when Alice ran after the White Rabbit. She was on page 212 when Alice returned from wonderland. How many pages did she read?

3. It was such pandemonium at the croquet game. The total number of attendees was 23. There were 4 Kings, 4 Queens, 6 animals, the Duchess and Alice. The rest of the attendees were all cards. How many cards were there?

4. There are 8 rows and 10 columns of rose bushes in the Queen's garden. What is the total number of rose bushes in the Queen's garden?

5. If the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse and Alice all attended the tea party and each of them ate 3 muffins, how many muffins were eaten in all?

6. The Mad Hatter made 105 cups of tea. If each person drank 5 cups and all the tea was gone, how many people attended the tea party?

7. A deck of cards contains 52 cards in 4 suits. How many cards are in each suit?

8. If Alice's sister Edith read 300 pages while Alice was in wonderland and Alice was gone for 4 hours, how many pages per hour did Edith read?

9. Alice chased the White Rabbit into the rabbit hole at 9:35am. She followed him to Wonderland. Her sister Edith didn't see her again until 5:25pm. How long was Alice gone?

10. Alice travelled through Wonderland trying to find her way back to the riverbank. It took her 30 seconds to fall down the rabbit hole, 7 minutes to get through the pool of tears, 4 minutes with the Cheshire Cat, 6 and a half minutes with the Caterpillar, 18 minutes with the Mad Hatter at the tea party and 23 minutes playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts. How many minutes did it take her to get back to the riverbank?

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ENGLISH in Wonderland NAME ______

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ENGLISH in Wonderland NAME ______Draw a line from the word to the matching picture.

Alice

Cheshire Cat

Mad Hatter

Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee

Caterpillar

Card

White Rabbit

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ENGLISH in Wonderland NAME ______Simple Spelling.

Circle the word that is spelled correctly.

Cord Card Cird Cerd Rabbit Rabit Robbit Rabbit

Cat Cet Cot Loobster Lobstir Lobster Labstir

Mishroom Mushroom Mushrom Meshroum Roose Ruse Rouse Rose

Qeen Quen Queen Quien Flaminog Flamingo Flimango Flomingo

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ENGLISH in Wonderland - Alphabetical #1

Name ______Date ______(Answer ID # 0596976)

Put each group of words in alphabetical order by writing 1, 2, 3, or 4 on the line before each word.

1. 1. Cake 4. Red 2. Dodo 3. Pool

2. Tear Queen Cat Bird

3. Dodo Cake Card Rose

4. Pool Alice Queen Tea

5. Bird Card Cat Alice

6. Cake Queen Pool Dodo

7. Time Tear Card Cat

8. Rose Queen Red Dodo

9. Queen Cat Cake Bird

10. Alice Pool Card Tear

11. Card Bird Tear Pool

12. Queen Cat Tea Red

13. Pool Bird Red Card

14. Rose Tear Cake Time

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ENGLISH in Wonderland - Alphabetical #2

Name ______Date ______

Word List Bird Cat Cake Alice Tear Time Pool Card Queen Tea Red Rose Dodo

Write the word list in alphabetical order.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

7. Pool 8. Queen 9.

10. 11. 12.

13. Time

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ENGLISH in Wonderland NAME ______

Capital Letters: In the following sentences underline the letters that should be capitalized but are not.

1. "curiouser and curiouser!" cried alice.

2. the cheshire cat gives directions to the march hare’s house and fades away to nothing but a floating grin.

3. alice travels to the march hare’s house to find the march hare, the mad hatter, and the dormouse having tea together.

4. after saving several gardeners from the temper of the queen of hearts, alice joins the queen in a strange game of croquet.

5. the queen of hearts chases the duchess off and tells alice that she must visit the mock turtle to hear his story.

6. alice shares her strange experiences with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon

7. the caterpillar and alice get into an argument.

8. the cheshire cat explains to alice that everyone in wonderland is mad, including alice herself.

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ENGLISH in Wonderland Sentences.

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Discussion Questions for Post Theatre Experience

Sample Discussion Questions for K - 3rd grade

1. What was your favorite part of the ballet? (for example: the music, the costumes, the scenery, the movement)

2. Was it hard to follow the story without using words?

3. Do you think it is hard to dance up the tips of your toes?

4. Do you think the dancers who were animals danced like animals? (for example: did the birds move like birds?)

5. Did you like the ballet?

6. Would like to see another ballet in the future?

Sample Discussion Questions for 3rd - 5th grade

1. What was your favorite part of the ballet? (for example: the music, the costumes, the scenery, the movement)

2. Was it hard to follow the story without using words? Why or Why Not?

3. Pick a character. What emotion did you see in that character? (for example: The Queen of Hearts was mad)

4. Do you think that ballet is an athletic activity similar to football or gymnastics? Why or why not?

5. What did you feel when you were watching the ballet?

Sample Discussion Questions for Middle School Students - Adults

1. What was your favorite part of the ballet? (for example: the music, the costumes, the scenery, the movement)

2. Do you think that the scenery and costumes helped you to figure out where the story was taking place and who the characters were? Why or Why Not?

3. Was it hard to follow the story without using words? Why or Why Not?

4. Do you think that ballet is a highly physical activity similar to a sport? Why or Why Not?

5. What is the difference between sport and art?

6. What is art?

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SUGGESTED ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1. Suppose that you had been chosen to write a new chapter for Alice in Wonderland. Decide on a few new characters and give them each a name.

2. Write a short a paragraph about the event that you would have the characters from question number 1 participating in.

3. Why do you think some writers prefer to write about made-up, fantastical characters and others prefer to write about realistic characters?

SUGGESTED ESSAY TOPICS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL - ADULT (from Spark Notes)

1. Contrast the role of dreams in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

2. Discuss Alice’s treatment by the different characters she encounters in the books. Why do you think they act the way they do, and what does their behavior say about Alice?

3. Discuss the role of poetry in both books. What are the differences between the poems in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass?

4. What is the significance of Alice’s fluctuations in size and shape in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

5. Throughout both stories, there are occasional oblique references to death. What purpose do these references serve in the stories, and why might Carroll include them?

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STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL - ADULT (from Spark Notes)

1. Discuss the significance of the Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Answer for Study Question 1 >>

As the ruler of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts functions as Alice’s primary antagonist, controlling the realm that thwarts Alice at every turn. As the suit of hearts suggests, she is the heart of Alice’s conflict with Wonderland. When Alice exposes the Queen as a fraud who is nothing more than a playing card, the dream of Wonderland ends abruptly and Alice regains the world of sense and order she has known since birth. Though Alice guesses the Queen of Heart’s secret midway through the book, she hesitates to call her out, demonstrating the power that the Queen of Heats has over the characters in Wonderland. Though the Queen’s threats are, like Wonderland itself, devoid of substance, she still instills fear in her subjects and Alice alike. The Queen of Hearts poses an additional threat to Alice in her journey toward womanhood. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland recounts Alice’s metaphorical journey to adulthood. Over the course of her adventures, she faces several threatening situations with sexual overtones, but the Queen of Heart’s threat is both the most direct and the most subtle. In screaming “Off with her head!” to Alice, the Queen of Hearts threatens her life but also her sexuality, since the word refers both to Alice’s literal head and her maidenhead, or maidenhood (virginity). The Queen of Hearts violently attempts to force Alice’s sexual awakening against her will, and only with Alice’s growing power and sense of self can she stand up to the Queen and “call her hand” by revealing her to be a mere playing card.

2. What role does the garden play in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Answer for Study Question 2 >>

The garden in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exists as an Edenic object of desire for Alice. The sight of the garden draws Alice in with its “beds of bright flowers” and “cool fountains,” and her inability to enter sets the tone for the exasperating detours that follow one after the other. When viewed in terms of the metaphorical onset of Alice’s puberty, the garden initially symbolizes the Biblical Garden of Eden, a place of childlike grace and innocence that precedes the knowledge of good and evil. Alice’s desire to enter the garden corresponds to her desire to remain a child indefinitely. When she finally enters the garden, Alice discovers that it is not a picturesque childhood paradise, but a flimsy sham where the roses are painted and the inhabitants are dangerous and ill tempered. The garden falls short of Alice’s expectations largely because of the experiences that have preceded her arrival there. By the time she reaches the garden, she has grown up metaphorically and gained control over her fluctuating size. Her growing wariness of Wonderland allows her to perceive the garden with a critical, observant eye. The garden initially exists as a manifestation of Alice’s desire to remain a child, but she realizes it is a poor mimicry of adulthood, in which two-dimensional adults follow arbitrary manners and conventions that parody the conventions of the aboveground world.

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NAME ______

ADVANCED WONDERLAND WORDSEARCH

Find all of the words from the word list in the grid below. Words are horizontal, vertical, diagonal, backward, and forward. When you have found all the words, the remaining letters will spell out a secret word!

*NOTE: This word search puzzle comes from the website http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/

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EASY WONDERLAND CRYPTOGRAM

Name ______

Unscramble the words by placing one letter on each line. Then use the numbered lines to complete the answer to the riddle at the end of the sheet.

TCA ______1

AET ______5

DCRA ______4

KGIN ______3

ETAL ______2

SECRET WORD:

______1 2 3 4 5

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INTERMEDIATE WONDERLAND CRYPTOGRAM

Name ______

Unscramble the words by placing one letter on each line. Then use the numbered lines to complete the answer to the riddle at the end of the sheet.

RSEA ______5 7

AHWTC ______1 11 2

EATL ______4

TIHEW ______3

RYURF ______6

RBLOSET ______9

NYNBU ______8

CELIA ______10

RIDDLE:

What story do these words describe?

______1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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ADVANCED WONDERLAND CRYPTOGRAM

Name ______

Unscramble the words by placing one letter on each line. Then use the numbered lines to complete the answer to the riddle at the end of the sheet.

RTHAES ______11 10

LWSOFRE ______2 12

UENEQ ______9

GGHHEEDO ______8 7

FOGNMIAL ______3 13 5

QTRCOEU ______1 6

REDNOWNLAD ______4 14

SECRET PHRASE:

______! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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WORD LIST Across Down

ALICE 1. A large, rabbit like animal called 2. The name of the young girl who TEA the March ______. Falls down a rabbit hole into ROSE 3. A small animal with fur that meows. Wonderland. RED 6. A butterfly starts as one of these. 4. A drink served by the Mad MOUSE 9. A slow-moving animal that has a Hatter at his party. WHITE hard outer shell. 5. A primary color. The color the TIME 11. A small animal with a pointed cards painted the roses. HARE snout and a long tail that attends 7. A red ocean animal with 2 big BIRDS the tea party. Claws. CAT 12. The color of the rabbit that Alice 8. Class of animals that have LOBSTER follows. feathers, wings and lay eggs. CATERPILLAR 13. A beautiful flower that grows on 10. What the clock tells you. thorny bushes.

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Word List Across Down ALICE 1. He smokes a hookah and asks Alice, 1. The game played by Alice and the CARDS "Who are you?" Queen with flamingos & hedgehogs. CATERPILLAR 4.A young girl who falls down a rabbit hole 2. The small rat like creature that CHESHIRE CAT into Wonderland. attends the tea party. CROQUET 6. The host of the tea party (2 words). 3. Strange place that Alice is in. DORMOUSE 10.These animals are used as balls in the croquet 5. A furry animal who keeps HEDGEHOG game. disappearing (2 words). LOBSTER 11.The White Rabbit keeps looking at this and 7. Animal with a home on its back. MAD HATTER it tells him he is late! 8. A twins who is not very smart. QUEEN 13.They dance a quadrille even though they are (2 words). ROSE red ocean animals with hard shells. 9. The animal that is always late. TURTLE 14.Character who says, "Off with her head!" Alice follows him. (2 words) TWEEDLE DUM 15.They paint the roses red. 12. They are painted red by the WATCH cards. WHITE RABBIT WONDERLAND AV BALLET’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND STUDY GUIDE page 51

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Clues to the ADVANCED WONDERLAND CROSSWORD

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MATH Counting MATH Addition MATH Subtraction 1. 5 1. 7 1. 5 2. 10 2. 15 2. 7 3. 7 3. 2 3. 9 4. 4 4. 13 4. 3 5. 1 5. 3 5. 2 6. 9 6. 2 6. 4 7. 2 7. 3 7. 0 8. 8 8. 8 8. 5 9. 6 9. 4 9. 6 10. 3 10. 10 10. 8 11. 4 11. 18 12. 2 12. 7

MATH WORD PROBLEMS 1. 20 2. 169 3. 7 4. 80 5. 12 6. 21 7. 13 8. 75 9. 8 Hours 10. 59 minutes

Alphabetical #1 Order Key (ID# 0596976)

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Alphabetical Order Key #2 VOCABULARY: 1. Bird 1. Hedgehogs 11. Rose 2. Cake 2. Cheshire Cat 12. Queen 3. Card 3. White Rabbit 13. March Hare 4. Cat 4. Croquet 14. Wonderland 5. Dodo 5. Mushroom 15. Pool of Tears 6. Pool 6. Flamingo 16. Turtle 7. Queen 7. Lobster 17. Cards 8. Red 8. Caterpillar 18. Dormouse 9. Rose 9. Alice 19. Tweedle Dee or Dum 10. Tea 10. Mad Hatter 20. Watch 11. Tear 12. Time

Easy Wonderland Cryptogram: Intermediate Cryptogram: Advanced Wonderland Cryptogram: CAT EARS HEARTS TEA WATCH FLOWERS CARD LATE QUEEN KING FURRY HEDGEHOG LATE LOBSTER FLAMINGO BUNNY CROQUET SECRET WORD: ALICE WONDERLAND ALICE RIDDLE: SECRET PHRASE: WHITE RABBIT OFF WITH HER HEAD!

WORD SEARCH KEYS:

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Super Easy Wonderland Crossword: Easy Wonderland Crossword:

Intermediate Wonderland Crossword: Advanced Wonderland Crossword: