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Sleeping Beauty by Gay H. Hammond

Study Guide Table of Contents

For ALL About the Authors 1 About the Play’s Director 2 Making the Story Come to Life 3-6 Things to Discuss & Write About 7-8 There DRAGONS be 8 Theatre Etiquette 13

For K-5 Patrons Tale Math 9 Celebrating Children in Japan 10

For Middle School Patrons Abracadabra! (localizing classic tales) 11 Jack & the GIANT:Classic Tale Story Problems 12 Information to Grow Students’ Understanding & Appreciation of

(ie: Did you know Sleeping Beauty is over 700 years old and speaks several languages?!)

Fairy tales are one kind of , stories in another she is traditionally told within a people group in a , but in the best particular country -- but fairy tales always known version, she include some sort of magic and fantasy is . characters like , elves, mermaids or gnomes. The version we are most familiar Like MANY classic fairy tales, the story with is from two of Sleeping Beauty was passed down brothers from by storytellers for centuries before Germany, Jacob being written, and has different versions and Wilhelm created by different storytellers in different , who were countries, college professors and each studiers of and culture in storyteller the early 1800s. including local details They were not so much authors as -- like what collectors of folklore stories that people had characters told to each other, passing them down from ate for one generation to the next. Some stories dinner or had been written down but most were what clothes simply spoken to each other. they wore -- familiar in The Grimm brothers worked out a system the country for collecting and writing down the stories, in which they sometimes changing the lived. stories a bit. As mentioned Though there are stories similar to Sleeping before, folklore Beauty from China written all the way back changes a around the year 850, the earliest known bit when it is version of the story we know was told retold, picking in in the early 1300s. An Italian up bits and version was published in 1634, and another pieces of French version includes a Part 2 where the local “flavor,” prince and Beauty are married and have two sometimes by children who must be kept secret from the incorporating prince’s mother, who is an and would the words 1 like to eat them(!!) In some versions of the of a song story the princess is named Rosamond, or possibly by changing the details of characters to resemble the people listening to the story. About the Director Jacob and worked to return Gay H. Hammond is Director of many folktales to the German versions that WonderQuest and Resident were told by German common people. Dramatist of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Repeat Over time, they collected and published WonderQuest patrons over 200 stories. They also collected and will recognize her as published folk tales from Denmark and the playwright who Ireland and a book of Viking mythology. directed and penned the script for last year’s Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Alice in Wonderland first collection of 86 stories in 1812, called and as the lady who “Children’s and Household Tales,” even gives away a T-shirt to though many of the stories they collected some lucky student at each during their research were not originally performance. intended for children. As a result, many Ms. Hammond has written nearly 40 plays, parents complained that the original stories for both young and general audiences. were too scarey to be read to children. She loves children’s literature (she is really good at reading a story and making So the brothers began editing the stories different voices for all the characters!) and further, taking out some of the frightening she loves to write plays for children. Some parts and adding more detail and dialog of her favorite plays include Sophie and that would make the stories better suited the Pirates, Stone Soup and The Briar to a young audience. When their last Patch. She loves to play with words and just collection was published, it contained over celebrated her 20th year as Wordsmith and 200 fairytales plus 10 “Children’s Legends.” Emcee for the Hall County Literacy Spelling Bee! Ms. Hammond wrote Sleeping Beauty years ago, but has updated the script (since writers always know they can make improvements) for this year’s production. One element that remains the same is giving the story an Asian setting, with colorful characters that include three fairies who use their gifts to protect and dragons that guard the sleeping princess. Originally from Calhoun, Georgia, where she spent lots of childhood time reading books and exploring on the family farm, Ms. Hammond has an MFA in Playwriting from Spaulding University, and because of her work and artistic eye, WonderQuest was named the 2009 WINNER of the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s Sara Spencer Award for Exellence in Child Drama. Margaret Tarrant’s illustration of the christening party for princess Briar Rose depicts the fairies as Keep reading to see how WonderQuest’s 2 adoring children with wings, though sometimes Scenic and Costume Designers expanded the fairies are depicted as nanny-like grown-ups. on her idea of a sleeping princess in Asia! How to create a Chinese Palace in North Georgia...

So, once the decision is made about which The first thing a designer does is read the play to perform, what next? How does script, which helps them get a sense of the play go from storybook to a make- what is needed to tell the story visually, believe world on stage? How do scenery, whether they are working on lights, the set, costumes and character accents, posture costumes, props or sound. For the set and and body language help you understand costumes, the next step is doing research the story? to find out, in this case, how real Chinese and Japanese buildings and gardens look. One aspect of taking the story from page to stage is designing scenery that helps After reading the script and talking with the the audience to feel like they are looking director, Mr. Cook began collecting pictures into the story. WonderQuest was fortunate that GTA resident designer Larry Cook was interested in the project. Mr. Cook has worked on numerous WonderQuest shows, creating the set design for The Briar Patch, Robin Hood and Snow Dragon, to name just a few.

In his research, Mr. Cook found that Japanese design is very simple and often in muted colors, and that Chinese design has more bold color, which works best on 3 the stage. from different storybook versions of Sleeping Beauty and of real places that have the important theatre elements: different levels for characters to stand on, numerous places to enter/ exit, and any special needs of the story. In this case, we need a palace, a garden and a place for a fierce dragon to hide!

After discussing the pictures with the director to see what she liked best, Mr. Cook created several drawings of his ideas, then a final plan for building a set that is the perfect size for our stage (using lots of math he learned when he was your age!). He had to choose colors for the set as well -- colors that would create the right atmosphere for the story, but allow the costumes to stand out against it. Our set-building team began work on the set for Sleeping Beauty in June, and moved it to the theatre in early September.

Costume Designer Jeannie Crawford, who has become a REGULAR for WonderQuest audiences, began her work in the summer as well. You may have seen her work in last year’s production of

Look at the pictures Mr. Cook collected on the last page and here. Can you tell from his paper model of his design (left) what ideas from the real world were used in his design for 4 the Sleeping Beauty set? ... and a bloom of costumes with Asian flow and color?

Alice in Wonderland, or in The Briar Patch, to determine special textures and colors and James and the GIANT Peach. that help communicate a character’s body and personality. When she has an idea of Ms. Crawford began by researching the what a character should look like, she goes many characters in Sleeping Beauty, to fabric stores and often at second hand looking through pictures from throughout shops, moving quickly through the aisles China and Japan. As it turns out, she until the right color and texture sort of had costumed for a traditional Japanese play while in college many years ago, so she went back to her designs from then to see how they could be used to update the costumes that had been saved when WonderQuest performed Sleeping Beauty 10 years ago.

One of Ms. Crawford’s talents is the ability

5 Jeannie Crawford consulted her 30-year-old college research and sketches for a Japanese show to update multi-layered designs for Sleeping Beauty. Can you tell by her use of color which costume here is a“good guy” and which is a “bad guy”? “jump out” at her. But she’s also wonderful at designing costumes from different periods in history, so with her previous experience, easily created designs that show the princess and her court as part of an Asian empire from long ago.

Ms. Crawford always comes up with a new skill to teach to the college students who help her make the costumes, and this year they will be learning to stencil like Japanese print makers. Traditional Japanese art and crafts have decoration or shapes based on the natural world but much simplified. So a turtle that symboizes good health and long life may show up as a series of ovals or octagons at the hem of an older character’s costume.

Ms. Crawford is a color expert and fiber artist, so she pays close attention to how the costumes will contrast with the colors of the set (a yellow prince would not show up well in a yellow palace!). She also thinks about how the fabrics she chooses MOVE onstage -- as that movement of clothing and headpieces is an extention of an actor’s body to communicate the story.

Since this WonderQuest production is set in Asia, almost all the actors will be wearing beautiful black wigs in traditional Japanese hairstyles, some with What do you see that is similar in the wig (top) and the special ornaments that move hair in the drawings? While Ms. Crawford must focus on with their character. what can be seen from far away in the theatre, she also pays close attention to detail, adding charming little things like 6 the dragonfly fabric on the sleeve (above) and the decorative metal weight (above, left) on the edge of a sleeve. Ideas to discuss and WRITE about BEFORE the play

Teachers: You can combine language special when it came? (A birthday party? arts studies AND prepare for the play by A reward for good work?) Write down three discussing and having your students write things you had to wait and/or work for, and about some of these themes of the Brothers what made them special to you. Grimm, the story of Sleeping Beauty, and writing in general. This would 时 实 史 be especially valuable after reading (or Asian languages are often rich in symbolism listening to) some of their original stories or that focuses on nature, using animals or legends, which can be found here: http:// different types of plants to indicate the www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Grimm_ characteristics like being strong, or fast or fairy_tales_Margaret_Hunt.html smart. Just like many with native American tribes, 时 实 史 Chinese and When the Grimm brothers began collecting Japanese folklore, they found that many different names relate countries had versions of the same story, to things in since folk tales were not written down and nature. The storytellers changed the story to reflect the names of people and region they were speaking to. the fairies in In the same way that stories were changed our Sleeping to fit different cultures, our play uses the Beauty story main ideas of the original Sleeping Beauty are words story and changes the details, introducing from nature that describe their character us to a royal family somewhere in magical -- the good fairies are Cherrybough (a Asia. The characters, costumes and beautiful flowery branch), Mirrorpool (still setting will look like they are in China or water that reflects the beauty around it) and Japan rather than like books or movies Hummingbird (small and full of energy). you may have seen. The king is called the The bad fairy is called Nightshade -- which “emperor” and everyone wears kimonos is the name of a group of poisonous plants. (traditional Japanese clothing for both If you were a fairy in our story, what name men and women). If you were writing the would you have that is something from story of Sleeping Beauty and it was set nature and describes something about you? in your town, how would you change the Write down five adjectives that describe details? Where would the story take place your character. Write down an antonym and and what would the characters be named synonym for each word on that list. (king, queen, princess and fairies)? Use a storyboard to demonstrate sequence and 时 实 史 communicate your story to the class. Write a 10 line rhyming poem that begins: 时 实 史 Once in a land far to the east A princess was born and there was a feast Have you noticed that things you have to wait or work for (like a good grade, or 时 实 史 a special reward) feel very special when you get them? The princess in Sleeping If you read the Grimm brothers version Beauty is special because the emperor and of Sleeping Beauty, there is a wonderful empress waited a very long time for a baby description of how the whole kingdom fell 7 -- and everyone in the empire wanted to asleep and came to a stop: the king and celebrate her arrival when she came. What queen fell asleep in on their thrones, the have you waited a long time for that was horses slept in the stable as did the flies on Here dragons be... the wall, and even the meat in the fire stopped sizzling and turning. TIME Like most STOOD STILL Imagine that someone waved a over your classroom mythological or the dinner table at your house -- what things would stop? What sounds (or pretend) would you no longer hear if everything came to a halt? Write a paragraph creatures, with a detailed description of a place you like to go and how it would be dragons are different if time stood still and everything suddenly stopped. perceived in different ways 时 实 史 by different cultures. Most stories are created with similar story blocks: there are likeable Dragons are characters who want to do something, there is some kind of problem sometimes that prevents them from doing it, then something happens to help the said to characters overcome the problem. In modern stories, like the Toy Story breathe and spit fire and hatch movies, the characters work together to solve the problem. But in fairy from eggs with feathered or scaly tales, there is always some kind of MAGIC that helps the characters bodies. Dragons in stories today overcome the problem so they can reach their goal and be happy. For tend to be larger than their original example, in , a little wants to bring a picnic to her representations, which were often grandmother, but a wolf wants to eat her and her grandmother up -- and the smaller than humans. magic is that Little Red and her grandma stay alive inside of the wolf and get rescued! Think of what ~  ~  ~  ~ happens in In stories from European countries -- what does the frog want? like England and France, dragons Why is it hard for him to get are depicted as large lizards what he wants? How does with two or four legs and wings. magic solve the problem? They are always considered evil In Sleeping Beauty, the and dangerous creatures with Emperor wants his beloved poisonous, fiery breath. daughter to live a happy ~  ~  ~  ~ life, but the evil fairy wants In Asian stories, dragons may to hurt the imperial family. be good or bad and are depicted In the Grimm brothers’ as snakes who may have legs original story, a giant forest but never have wings. They are of prickley branches springs often associated with rivers, rain up and grows so large and or water wells (so watch to see fast that no one can help the princess. In our story a dragon stands in the what kind of water the Sleeping way of rescuers. What part of the story is magic? Beauty dragon enjoys!). Dragons 时 实 史 in Asian stories are masters of transformation, able to shrink, Our play is set in a fantasy Asian kingdom (so it could be in Japan, China stretch, or or in the islands of Indonesia, and where magic is possible!). Using even complete sentences with a subject and verb, write three sentences that disappear. help introduce a story in this kind of place. Your sentences should define ~  ~ the setting (time and place) and describe something about the culture In the days of of that place that is different from what we think and do in Gerogia. For explorers, instance, you could begin with “Long ago in an imperial palace, where it “Here be pleased the Emperor to snack on squid crackers...” dragons” was written Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade on maps to ELAKR2, ELAKR6 ELA1W1,ELA1LSV1 ELA2W1, ELA2R2 show 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade dangerous or ELA3W1,ELA3LSV1 ELA4W2, ELA4LSV1 ELA5SV1, ELA5W4 unexplored 8 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed territories. Fairy Tale Math 3 Pigs - 1 Wolf = Happily ever after!!

This section is for lower grades Draw 3 squares with a triangle Draw seven circles as the faces the Draw a small frog (a circle with roof on top. Add 2 puffs of smoke dwarves -- make 4 of their faces legs and eyes). Draw 5 black dots coming from a chimney. Now happy, 2 of them sad and 1 sleeping. to be flies for him to eat. How draw an X over the piggy houses many flies will be left if he eats 2 that got blown down by the wolf. of them? This section is for lower grades

This section is for upper grades 1. If there are 9 mice in ’s castle and 5 sneak into the carriage to go to the ball, how many mice are left at home? 2. Jack sells his cow to the village ice cream maker for $5.25, but stops on the way home to buy a cookie for 75¢. How much money does he have left? How many cookies could he have purchased? 3. Red Ridinghood knows it takes 486 skipped steps to get home before dark. If she skips 3 steps per minute, how long will it take her to get home? 4. Simple Simon the pie man hopes to have some pie left at the end of the day to take to his little sister. He has 3 pies, each divided into 8 pieces. If he gets 4 customers who buy 3 pieces of pie and 2 customers who each want 4 pieces, will he have any left? If so, how much? 5. The princess will marry the suitor who offers her the most honey (she has a sweet tooth!). A prince gives 4 21 her a goblet with 2 /9 cups, a bullfighter sends a silver bowl with /9 cups, and the frog 15 gives her an upsidedown mushroom with 1 /9 cups of honey. Who does she marry? 6. knows that if she turns around 360° she will be facing the same way. How far must she turn to face the window behind her? 7. If one of the seven dwarves is 4.36 feet tall, and half of the other dwarves are the same height, how tall would they be if the same-sized dwarves stood on each other’s heads to climb in the upstairs window?

Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade MKN2c, MKG1a, MKG2a M1N3d, M1G1c M2N2a, M2N1c 9 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade M3N2c, M3N4d M4N6b, M4M2b M5N3c, M5N4c The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed One Fish, Two Fish, Green Fish, Blue Fish Celebrating Children in Japan

Japanese culture is full of symbols that come from nature and stand for different things that are important to the Japanese people. For example, turtles are a symbol for something old and wise, frogs stand for good luck and spiders symbolize industry and hard work. You can see these symbols in paintings and as simple drawings on fabric and wrapping paper. One symbol, the carp fish, is associated with Children’s Day (called Kodomo no Hi’),a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5 -- it is a day set aside to celebrate children and to celebrate their happiness. To celebrate this day, families raise the fish-shaped flags, one for each child. These flags are called KOINOBORI and fly as flags since they look like they are swimming as they blow in the wind. In Japanese folklore, the carp is a symbol of determination and strength, overcoming all obstacles to swim upstream. So every May 5, families fly koinobori banners for each child in their house. Until 1948, May 5 was a special day celebrating boys only, and a separate holiday celebrated on March 3. Even now, on this day girls still receive dolls that are passed down from their grandmothers and mothers. For many families, May 5 still centers on boys. Some people say that the girls’ holiday should continue and just be equal to the boys holiday instead of combining them into one.

How about you? Would you want a holiday for all kids, or one for boys and another for girls? Why?

Make your own Koinobori materials: 1. In 3-4 colors, cut out several 1.5 inch circles of tissue 2-3 toilet paper tubes per child paper, then cut them in half to make fish scales. Put glue glue or double-sided tape or double sided tape all the way around the bottom of Several colors of tissue paper your toilet paper tube and begin placing the straight edge white paper of each “scale” on the glue or tape, hanging off the bottom dowel or chopstick of the tube and overlapping a bit so no cardboard shows. scissors, twine 2. Put another stripe of glue or tape around the tube about a half inch above the last stripe and repeat with the paper scales overlapping the previous row. Repeat all the way to the top, making sure the final row of scales finishes at the top edge. 3. Cut out a 1-inch circle with white paper then use a black marker to draw a large circle inside for the eye,and glue onto the side of the head. 4. Cut 5 inch strips of the tissue paper and glue or tape just inside the fish’s bottom edge. 5. Trim any ends if necessary so they’re about the same length. Repeat steps 1-6 to make two more carp. 6. Cut three pieces of twine about 7 inches long. Double knot each one onto your dowel, making sure the ends are even. 7. Place a piece of double sided tape inside the roll on the head side, opposite the eye. Starting with the top knotted twine on the dowel, secure the loose ends onto the double sided tape inside the roll. If you plan to swing this koinobori around, use hot glue instead, or place another piece of tape on top the twine. 10 8. Repeat on the opposite side, just behind the eye. Repeat for the next two carp. Jack and the [If MAN=3 then MAN x 3 feet + 2 inches)] (GIANT!) (story problems from classic Fairy Tales!)

1. The wolf heard that Red Ridinghood would be coming through the forest and wanted to be sure to be there waiting for her. He traveled 102 miles in 4.25 hours to a hiding place behind a rock. What’s the average speed that he traveled? 2. Elves have worked all night in the shoemaker’s shop to mend shoes as a surprise to him. They have 15 yards of ribbon to tie a bow around each of 20 pairs of shoes. If each pair gets the same amount of ribbon, how much ribbon it take for each pair? 3. When awoke, the town made him a great chocolate birthday cake with peppermint icing for being the oldest man in their region. You have been offered a portion that is 0.6, 60%, 3/5 or 6%. Which 3 will give you the same amount of cake? 4. Cinderella is taking her pumpkin coach to the ball. The palace parking lot can hold 1,000 coaches of various sizes. 2/5 of the parking spaces are for compact coaches. When she went to the ball there were 200 compact coaches and some stretch chariots in the lot, and the parking lot was 3/4 full. How many stretch chariots were there at that time? 5. The twelve dancing princesses would like to make peach ice cream. Their recipe calls for for 2-1/4 cups of cream for 5 people. How much cream will they need if they all want ice cream? 6. Hansel has half a giant pretzel left in the fridge. At breakfast, he ate 1/3 of it. What fraction of the original pretzel is left for Gretel to have for lunch? 7. has developed back problems from stooping down in their small house, so the dwarves made fudge to sell as a fundraiser to buy a taller house. 40 pounds of chocolate fudge sold for $2.15/lb. and vanilla fudge sold for $1.90 per pound. The dwarves made $158.20. How many pounds of fudge were sold? 8. Dragon Digest magazine reports that 4 out of 7 dragons prefer eating knights in armor to vikings. If 1,400 dragons were surveyed, how many dragons preferred to eat knights? (and why do you think that would be???)

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11 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above pounds 8. 800 dragons prefer knights because like their food crunchy on the outside and solf on the inside! the on solf and outside the on crunchy food their like because knights prefer dragons 800 8. pounds ) Answers: 1. 24mph 2. .75 yards 3. .6, 3/5 and 60% 4. 550 5. 5.4 cups 6. 1/3 of the whole pretzel 7. 78 78 7. pretzel whole the of 1/3 6. cups 5.4 5. 550 4. 60% and 3/5 .6, 3. yards .75 2. 24mph 1. Answers: Abracadabra! Retelling Classic Stories in North Georgia

As we’ve discussed elsewhere in this Study Guide, one characteristic of folklore is that it morphs and changes with each teller and each audience, picking up bits of local people, vocabulary and interests. There are several ways YOU can take a new look at classic Fairy Tales and customize them to your North Georgia neighborhood and audience. Choose one of the following writing projects to show your interests and creativity:

1. Write a news report of a classic Fairy Tale (ie: “Bears stumble upon intruder in their home; blond seen heading for the Alabama border”). Include local references (ie: while the bears were out at Waffle House...), and be sure to answer the reporter questions of who, what, where, when, why and how.

2. No matter what their country of origin, most fairy tales have similar basic elements: very clear good and evil characters > characters have a goal > there is a problem > some kind of magic is involved in the solution > happily ever after. Read the tales listed below and identify the main elements in the table:

Protagonist Bad Guy Goal Problem Magic Cinderella Jack and the Beanstalk The Frog Prince

3. Now it’s time to write your own fairy tale. Create a chart and identify the five basic elements of your story. Select 3 or more other common motifs (below) to include in your story. • Talking animals / objects • Origins ~ where do we come from? • Triumph of the poor • Human weakness explored (i.e., curiosity, gluttony, pride, laziness, etc.) • Human strengths glorified (i.e., kindness, generosity, patience, etc.) • Trickster (sometimes a hero, sometimes evil but humans benefit) • Tall story (slight exaggeration – hyperbole) • Magic words or phrases; repetition of phrases/words (abracadabra!) • Guardians (fairy godmothers, mentors, magical helpers, guides, etc.) • Monsters (dragons, , evil creatures, etc.) • Struggle between good and evil, light and dark • Youngest vs. Oldest (sons, daughters, sibling rivalry) • Sleep (extended sleep, death-like trances) • Impossible tasks (ridiculously difficult, fantastic effort needed to do, etc.) • Quests, Keys, Passes (opening new doors) • Donors, Benefactors, Helpers

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade ELA6R1A, ELA6RC3, ELA6W4 ELA7LSV2; ELA7R1, ELACC8L2, ELACC8L3 ELARC3 12 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above Dear Teachers~

We know some of your students have NEVER been to a live performance, so discovering the difference between this and a movie is part of the learning experience. Please discuss the items on this page with your students so they will know what to expect and what is expected of THEM. Thank you!

Theatre Etiquette… Theatre is a partnership between the actors on stage and the members of the audience. It is a two-sided com- munication process. An actor’s goal is to give pleasure to his or her audience. A responsive audience reciprocates the cast’s energy, which in turn encourages the actors to give even more back to that audience. The better the audience, the better that performance will be! Each performance is unique — like snowflakes, no two are ever the same. Each performance’s life lasts only in the memories of its participants. Many young people have never attended a live theatre performance and may have questions as to how they should conduct themselves. Listed below are answers to the most common questions asked by new audience members.

How is a live performance different from a movie? The work is LIVE. The action that you see is happening right now, with people just like you. You should treat the performers the way that you would want to be treated if you were on the stage with a lot of people watching you. Wouldn’t you want them to listen and to pay attention? To laugh when you were funny, and applaud when they like what you were doing? Also, in our beautiful theatre space, no gum, drinks or food are allowed!

Do I have to stay in my seat and be as quiet as possible? Not necessarily. You shouldn’t have personal conversations during the play, but you do not have to be complete- ly quiet. If something funny is happening on stage, then you should laugh. If the characters ask you a question, then you should answer!

When should I clap my hands? In a live play, you should ALWAYS applaud whenever the show is especially spectacular or entertaining, even in the middle of the play — remember that applause is the way that you show the actors you like what they are do- ing! Also, you should applaud when the play is over, and when the actors take their bow. Most of all, HAVE FUN!