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The Ugly Duckling April 30, 2018 10 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. Classroom Connections The Ugly Duckling For teachers and students grades K - 5 By Richard Giersch Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen Teacher Resources In the Classroom Fairy tales... The Ugly Duckling is a musical written by Richard Giersch, based on the clas- sic story by Hans Christian Andersen. This program is presented in support of Virginia English Standards of Learning: are types of folk tales. They usually begin K.1, 1.1, 2.3, 2.8, 3.1, 3.6, 4.4, 4.5, 5.5, 5.6. with “Once upon a time...” and end with Activities provided support curriculum in grades K-5 “...happily ever after.” Also, fairy tales usually have events happening in threes, At the Library Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - and involve magic. 1875) was a Danish author best known for writing over 150 children’s stories. Check out the following fairy tales, also by Hans Christian Andersen: Folk tales... The Emperor's New Clothes Thumbelina The Princess and the Pea are short, with a simple plot. They have The Steadfast Tin Soldier The Fir Tree The Little Mermaid characters representing a characteristic like The Nightingale The Little Match Girl good or bad and feature events that are Look in the J398 section of your local repeated, especially in threes. They are library for more fairy tales. based in fantasy. On the Web www.TheatreIV.org/sidekicks.html Activities provided are aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning. Information for teachers and parents, including links to other great web sites. Fun Facts Songs from The Ugly Duckling Plays that include songs are called musicals. In a musical, both the dialogue, or words It Doesn’t Matter spoken by the characters, and It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside, the songs are used to tell the It only matters what you look like on the inside. story. Read the song lyrics to If you’re kind to your friends, the right. Then complete the And you love everybody. activities on the facing page. That’s better than havin’ a beautiful body, A pretty face comes second place... Definitions To a smile that’s big and wide. Fill in the word that goes with It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside, the definition... It only matters what you look like on the inside. dialogue lyrics musicals For You Plays that include songs: ___________________________ For you, I would do anything for you. It’s true. I would do anything for you. Words spoken by characters in a story: I’d climb the highest mountain, ___________________________ Swim the deepest sea. If I thought that’s what it would take t Words of a song: o make you happy. ___________________________ For me? You’d risk your life for me? Challenge Activity It’s hard to believe you’re being so nice to me. I’ve never in my life met a braver one than you. In the play, there is a familiar I guess this is what they mean when song that the playwright has miracles come true. changed to fit The Ugly I’ve never in my life met a nicer one than you. Duckling (a play about a I guess this is what they mean when duck). What is the song? miracles come true. For you..... Can you change another familiar song to make it “ducky?” A Theatre IV activity in support of the following Virginia Standards of Learning in English: K.1, K.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2. Songs Add Meaning: The Ugly Duckling What message is the play- Why would Honker “climb What two characters sing wright trying to get across the highest mountain, “For You?” Why did the in “It Doesn’t Matter?” swim the deepest sea?” playwright choose these two characters for this ______________________ ______________________ song? ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Which characters would What’s better than “havin’ How do you think these agree with the lyrics of “It a beautiful body?” songs affect the mood of Doesn’t Matter?” and the play? which would disagree? ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Agree Disagree ______________________ ______________________ Do you agree? ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ In “It Doesn’t Matter,” what In what ways does “It Think about it Doesn’t Matter” tell the comes in first place? story of the Ugly Duckling? What comes in second place? Songs are very similar to ______________________ ______________________ poems. Some songs even ______________________ ______________________ begin as poems. Find a poem ______________________ ______________________ and use musical instruments to ______________________ ______________________ make it into a song or write down the words of song and ______________________ ______________________ recite it like a poem. A Theatre IV activity in support of the following Virginia Standards of Learning in English: K.1, K.5, K.6, K.8, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 1.10, 1.11, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7. Definition Write Your Own Fairy Tale adapt: to change to fit a new Use the frame below to start writing your very own fairy tale. use or situation Many times writers adapt stories to create new stories. The following are silly adaptations of original fairy tales. Fill in the Once upon a time, name of the original fairy tale next to each adaptation. If you’re there was a ______________________ who stuck, head to the library and read the adaptation! lived in a ____________. But there was a The Horned Toad Prince mean _____________________ who always The Runaway Tortilla Kate and the Beanstalk _______________________. So one day the CinderElmo Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens ___________________________ decided to Challenge Activity ____________. There was a magic _______ If you were Hans Christian that _______________________! After that, Andersen, how would you feel about another author adapting _______________________________. Then, your stories? Explain your ideas. the______________________________ never You Can Do It _____________________________________. At your local library, check out the fairy tales in the J398 section. Read an original story and an And they lived happily ever after. adaptation! Then diagram what was the same, and what was dif- ferent. The End adaptation original A Theatre IV activity in support of the following Virginia Standards of Learning in English: K.2, K.6, K.8, K.11, 1.7, 1.11, 1.12, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8., Theatre IV Play ‘N Say: Easy Activity The Ugly Duckling One of these quotes is Listen for the following lines during the play. grammatically incorrect. Can you find it? Correct the quote. “You see, she has now discovered the true meaning of hap- piness, and that is, that you cannot be truly happy until you make other people happy too.” Challenge - Snaggle-Claw Activity “I hate dirt....Moles are supposed to dig holes and live For each of the following underground, but I can’t stand dirt. It’s so...so...unclean. Anyway the other moles laughed at me and I ran away....” characters, list a character - Mortimer trait. Think of the things each “...a good friend once told me that people should like character said and did in the themselves just the way they are...that play. applies to ducks, too.” - Honker Snaggle-Claw “I guess the true meaning of happiness is hard to find.” - Honker Honker “Well, hurry up. Like you done said, we ain’t got too much time.” Jack Quacker - Jack Quacker “My father and I do not like mean ducks on our pond...and Harry the Eagle keeping your own brother shut up in his shell and talking bad about him is very mean.” - Melissa Melissa A Theatre IV activity in support of the following Virginia Standards of Learning in English: K.1, K.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.5, 4.2, 4.5, 5.1, 5.6. Definition The Rhyming Game: rhyme: In the beginning of the play, the Baron introduces us to the story with a song. Sometimes, songwriters use rhyming words to make a song Two or more words that share catchy and easy to remember. Using crayons, color the rhyming words in the song the same color. a common ending sound are said to rhyme. For example, man, can, Stan, and pan all Now this is a story that we all have heard, rhyme. It’s about a sad and ugly bird. He began as an egg and from the egg he came, Challenge Activity A brave little duck…Honker was his name. The Baron’s song introduced the play. Write the words to a He had two little brothers who treated him mean. song that could be sung at the They told him he was the ugliest duck play’s ending. Be sure your they’d ever seen. song uses rhyming words and They laughed and they joked…that was that it tells a little about how their little game, the play turned out! Making fun of a duck…Honker was his name. Place words from the word box into the blanks in Word Box the poem so that it rhymes and makes sense. cuddly Honker There once was a duck named ____________________________. Little brothers drove him __________________________________. ugly They said he was _______________________________________, bonkers Not cute and ___________________________________________. And that’s the story of poor _______________________________. Finding True Happiness: Definitions The Traits That Matter character trait: A describing word (adjective) In the play, Snaggle-Claw the cat says this about Melissa: that tells about a person, “You see, she has now discovered the true meaning of place, or thing.
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