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Study Guide

For All Patrons About the Author & Story 1 About the Play’s Director 2 Going from Page to Stage 2-4 Themes to Discuss & Write About 5-6 Did you know??? 6 Theatre Etiquette 11 Performance Evaluation 12

Especially for K-5 Patrons 1,2,3 Iguana Math 7 Seeking Hidden Words 8

For Middle School Patrons Creating Your Own Just So Story 9 eats 4.68 Antelopes! Jungle Word Problems 10 Information to Grow Students’ Understanding & Appreciation of About and his Stories

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a newspaper. born in Bombay, (called Mumbai now) He found, to to British Colonial parents. He and his sister his surprise, Alice, who was three years younger, spent upon seeing the majority of their time being raised by once familiar Indian nannies, hearing stories in their native Indian sights language and exploring the bustling street and sounds, markets. Kipling began to speak his nanny’s that native language better than English which led to his words, whose parents deciding to send him away “home” meanings he to to be educated when he was six. could not remember, But Kipling never forgot the sights, sounds came (and smells!) of the busy city and its many tumbling out different kinds of people such as Anglos, of his mouth! He began to learn so much Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Jews that about the people, who welcomed him to inspired the tapestry of his writings. the country, that he wrote Tales from the While studying in England, young Rudyard Hills, which became a hit in Britain. had to stay with a woman named Mrs. Kipling became a celebrity with his book’s Holloway who was so mean that she success and moved to America, where he wouldn’t let him read and often bullied him. met his So Kipling had to disguise the fact that he wife was reading so much by dragging furniture Carrie. on his bedroom floor so it would sound like Not long he was playing instead. after Still, he continued to Kipling dream of the sounds, moved, textures and ideas he wrote of India. Since his The family could not Jungle afford to send Book. His him to college, father, he returned to his who was birthplace at the a museum 1 age of 17 and began curator work as a writer at and art teacher in India, did the Josephine. He especially always loved writing original illustrations for The for children, and even wrote a second Jungle Jungle Book and several Book! of his son’s other books. He continued to write and publish right Though the story of up until his death at the age of 71, but not and his animal before earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in friends is among his 1907. He traveled the world, and though his most famous works, personal life was often marked by tragedy, his Rudyard Kipling was work continued to be imbued with a sense of a prolific poet and adventure, humor and wonder. novelist; he wrote many different This play is a brand new version of Jungle books like Book is faithful to Rudyard Kipling’s original Barrack-Room depiction of the law and power of the jungle, Ballads and his filled with famous characters who believe . in the integrity of a community. While the famous Disney cartoon – with its goofy, The Just So Stories singing the Bear and lisping – is explained why funny and musical, the original story has an animals look the elegance of language and sense of mystery way they do, and that WQ has tried to recapture on the stage. Kipling loved reading Be prepared to open up your imagination for them to his daughter a new -- non-Disney -- experience in the lush jungles of India! About the Director

Gay H. Hammond is Director of WonderQuest and Resident Dramatist of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Repeat WonderQuest patrons will recognize her as the playwright who directed and penned the script for last year’s Mermaid Song and as the lady who gives away a T-shirt to some lucky student at each performance. Ms. Hammond has been working in theatre for over 35 years and, in that time, has written 35 plays, both for young and general audiences. She loves children’s literature (she is really good at reading a story and making different voices for all the characters!) and she loves to write plays for children. Some of her favorite plays include Sophie and the Pirates, Sleeping Beauty, Stone Soup and Alice in Wonderland. She loves to play with words and is also the long- time Wordsmith and Emcee for the Hall County Literacy Spelling Bee! Ms. Hammond originally adapated The Jungle Book for the stage 10 years ago, and hopes the play will encourage children and their parents to take a look at Kiplings original stories -- because he wrote LOTS of them long before the Disney company ever made a movie. Reading the original stories helps us create pictures in our minds of just how things should look, and reading aloud is a great thing for families to do together. Read below to learn how our designers consulted the 2 book and Ms. Hammond’s script to create the world of the jungle. Creating the transformation from story book to deepest, darkest India

So, once the decision is made about what One aspect of taking the story from page play to do, what next? How does the play to stage is designing scenery that helps go from storybook to a make-believe world the audience to feel like they are looking on stage? How do scenery, costumes and into a LIVE storybook. WonderQuest was character accents, posture and body language fortunate that as part of the University of help you understand the story? North Georgia and Brenau University, there are students with design skills to help create the story visually. UNG senior Emma Hoffbauer has already won numerous awards for her work regionally, and created the Jungle Book design after reading the script and talking with the director, She then began researching jungles in India and similar environments. Emma created a set that has lots of different levels, where different groups of “animals” will gather, and numerous ways for actors to enter and exit the story -- some entrances will be surprising to you!

Here are some of Emma’s research pictures for The Jungle Book -- can you see where she may have been inspired to create the design that is painted on the floor?

3 We have two professionals collaborating on costume design this year; women who have been collaborating all of their lives! Isabell and Moriah Curley-Clay are twins who do both costume and scenic design for many Atlanta theatres as well as for film and TV. Isabell and Moriah begin their design process with a thorough reading and analysis of the script to determine who all the characters and and what their relationships to one another. One question they ask ourselves is “what is really going on” for the key moments that pop out t as having a strong significance in the story, and then think about what we can do with the design to highlight thosoe moments. They also talk with with directors and choreographers about how do the costumes need to function. For something like Jungle Book requiring lots of animal movement, the costumes are designed to be either loose or snug but stretchy. The colors often relate to the designers’ emotional reaction to the characters, but are also created to contrast with the set. Isabel and Moriah NEVER look at other designers work for their productions, because they don’t want someone else’s work to be in their mind while they are creating. Even if you don’t mean for them to images get stuck in your head and you can subconsciously end up copying elements of what you’ve seen.

Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay created drawings, called renderings, of all the costumes, which are used by the costume shop to purchase fabric 4 and sew costumes that are tailored to the exact measurements of the actors. Ideas to DISCUSS & WRITE about BEFORE the play

Teachers: You can combine your language your family? How is the leader in your family like arts studies with preparation for the play by , keeping the family fed and safe? discussing and having your students write about some of these themes of The Jungle Book and a a a Rudyard Kipling. This would be especially valuable after having read (or listening to) some of the short stories that make up the Jungle Book rather than the movies! Good listening here: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lEGFZ7bCxmw a a a One theme in The Jungle Book is about the importance of family. Mowgli is adopted by a The monkey’s names in our play (Rudyard Kipling pack of and they really treat did not give the monkeys names in his original him as one of their own -- an stories), Zolu, Stargha and Guag, mean “mouth, adopted brother whom ears and nose” in , an Indian language? This they love and trust. Akela, choice of names refers to the old saying “see no the father and evil; hear no evil; speak no evil” which is often head of the pack, depicted using monkeys. Does your name have a teaches Mowgli meaning? If you were writing this story, what are and the other cubs some names you could choose for the monkey trio to work together to show they belong together and are silly? to find food and stay safe. a a a 5 What are some The Jungle Book is set in the jungles of India, but important lessons it could have been set on the African savannah, in you’ve learned in the north Georgia mountains or even at the bottom of the sea -- anywhere that animal life thrives and where magic is possible!). Using complete sentences with a subject and verb, write three sentences that help introduce a story in this kind of place. For instance, you could begin with “Long ago on the shore of Lake Lanier, something magical happened...” Did you know… that Rudyard Kipling, a Your sentences should define the setting (time and British man writing a story about steamy place) and describe the people (or animals!) in the India, actually wrote it in Vermont, while story. living there one cold winter with his American wife’s family? THE JUNGLE a a a BOOK is actually a collection of short Plays are about characters -- some good, some silly, stories set in India. In his best loved some with bad behavior! Write down five adjectives novel, the story of , Kipling’s own that describe your character. Include the definitions for children appeared in the stories as Dan each word. Write down an antonym and synonym and Una. for each word on that list. How do you perceive the characters of Bageera the panther, Akila the wolf, and Did you know… that each tiger has its Kaa the snake? How could those traits show in how very own stripe pattern. Researchers they look? Include a character trait from your own who observe can identify life. individuals by their unique stripes! Other interesting tiger markings are the white a a a spots on the backs of their ears. This Mowgli finds himself in serious trouble when he may be a visual cue for tigers looking chooses the wrong friends. Early in the story, he for other tigers, or it may be a way for spends some time with mothers to keep their cubs in sight in the the monkeys in the dense forest undergrowth. Some cats do treetops, eating nuts like water—and tigers are among them! and having fun. They On a hot, steamy day in the Asian forest, convince him life is tigers will take to the river to cool off. much more exciting without the rules and Did you know… The snake in The responsibilities of the Jungle Book, Kaa, is a python, a non- wolf pack (his family). venomous constricting snake related Once they even kidnap to boa constrictor. This kind of snake him and carry him off climbs trees and then drops down on to be their leader, but to its prey and kills it with a strong Mowgli finds himself bear-hug! Some pythons can grow to hungry and afraid in be over 20 feet long and the midst of their crazy can squeeze the life out antics. Fortunately, Mowgli’s true friends, Baloo of a large antelope and and , come to his rescue. What are some swallow it whole. things about your friends that makes you enjoy their company? How can you show each other you are TRUE, loyal friends who can depend on each other?

Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade ELAKR2, ELAKR6 ELA1W1,ELA1LSV1 ELA2W1, ELA2R2 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade ELA3W1,ELA3LSV1 ELA4W2, ELA4LSV1 ELA5SV1, ELA5W4 6 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed 1, 2, 3 Iguana Math This section is for lower grades Mowgli has 2 good friends. Draw a line with space on both Draw an S with a circle at the Draw two circles to be their sides. Draw 4 squares (to be top to be a snake. Add some heads. Over one, draw two turtles!) as a river on one side eyes and 5 little black dots to small triangles pointing down of the line. How many turtles be flies for him to eat. How as Bagheera’s ears, and circles will we have if 3 turtles come many flies will be left if he eats as ears over the other to be on the other side of the river? 3 of them? Baloo the bear.

This section is for upper grades

1. Panther cub has 4 legs. If she has 2 sisters and 1 brother, how many legs do the panther children have? How could you write this as a number equation? 2. Shere-Kahn has lazy time when he’s not hunting and spends aboauta 15 hours a day sleeping. What fraction does he spend awake? 3. A hungry snake eats 50 frogs in the morning and 7 fewer frogs in the afternoon. How many frogs did he eat that day? 4. The monkey king is taking swimming lessons which cost him 390 bananas and is making 12 equal banana payments. How many bananas is each payment? 5. A wildlife refuge in the jungle is planting trees as food for their monkey population. For every fig tree planted, 2 kiwi and 5 mango trees are planted. If 40 mango trees are planted, how many fig trees would be planted?

Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade MKN2c, MKG1a, MKG2a M1N3d, M1G1c M2N2a, M2N1c 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade M3N2c, M3N4d M4N6b, M4M2b M5N3c, M5N4c 7 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards listed Answers: 1.16 legs total, 4+8+4 2.9/24 or 3/8 3. 93 frogs 4. 32.5 bananas 5. 8 fig trees You probably know that when you look closely at something, you usually find something you didn’t see at first. For instance, you know your teacher’s face well, but do you know what color eyes he or she has? Or in the picture on the left, can you spot the 15 animals hiding Seeking in the jungle? So here is a brain exercize to help you find hidden words within other words. Hidden Instead of thinking of the three words MOWGLI’S, JUNGLE and FRIENDS, look at the individual leters and see how Words many different words you can come up with. Think of some possible letter combinations (like SH,...) and see how far you get -- we know you can make at least 30 new words! We’ve given you a few to get you started.

MOWGLI’S JUNGLE FRIENDS

______Sun ______Fur ______Red ______

Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade ELAKR1: c & d, ELAKR2: b & d ERA1R1:a, ELA1R2:c ELA2R1: a, b & g 8 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above Kipling’s Stories: why things are just so

In addition to The Jungle Book, one of Rudyard Kipling’s most celebrated works is Just So Stories, a 1902 book of short stories that give wild accounts for why certain animals look the way the do. The stories began as bedtime stories for his daughter Josephine, who insisted they be told “Just So,” using exactly the same words in each telling that she remembered and loved. Some of the stories in the collection include How the Camel Got his Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got his Skin, How the Leopard Got his Spots, The Cat that Walked Himself... you get the idea! In many cases, animals are changed as the result of some bad decision or foolishness. Read or listen to one or more of these stories online. Now you’re going to write your own “Just So” story. You can write about an animal you know about and admire, or about one of the animals in The Jungle Book, personifying your subject and giving it a personality. Be as creative as possible as you ask yourself: w What are some adjectives that describe this animal’s body now? w What adjectives describe the personality or temperment of this animal? (think about posture, speech patterns, pride vs. humility, etc.) w How might this animal have looked looked before and how might that have indicated different character traits? Did their relationships with other animals change? Then finally, come up with a wild story about HOW the animal changed! Here are a couple of ideas to get you started: w Why do giraffes have long necks? w What might have happened to make woodpecker peck? w How did racoons get their masks? w Why are pandas black and white? w How did Bagheera’s fur become all black?

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade ELA6R1A, ELA6RC3, ELA7LSV2; ELA7R1, ELACC8L2, ELACC8L3 ELA6W4 ELARC3 9 The assignments on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above Once upon a time a tiger ate 4.68 antelopes (story problems from the jungle!)

1. The monkey king had 7.5 lbs. of banana pudding. If four monkeys split it evenly, how much pudding does each monkey get? 2. The wolf pack has 280 wolves altogether, a 5% have green eyes. How many wolves are have green eyes? 3. The elephants march through the jungle at 20 miles an hour. If they sleep 5 hours a day and eat for 15 minutes, how far can they travel in a day, a week, and a year? 4. told Mowgli he was allowed to roam only 3/8, 35%, 0.38 or 5/16 of the jungle. Which would be the biggest portion of the jungle? 5. A basket full of tasty frogs can be shared equally by 3, 5 or 6 snakes with no frogs left over. What’s the least amount of frogs that can be in the basket? 6. Bagheera ran 10 times around the perimeter of a rectangular pond at the rate of 180 kilometers per hour for 30 minutes. If the pond has a length that is twice its width, find the area of the pond in square meters. 7. Mowgli spent 7/8 of his banana savings on a party for his monkey friends and the rest on a boat for himself. If the boat cost him 200 bananas, what were his original banana savings?

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade MCC6.RP.3c, MCC6.NS.1 MCC7.RP.3, MCC7.EE.2 MCC8.SP.4

Work on this page address the core area Georgia Performance Standards above.

5.30 frogs 6. 8 square meters 7. 1600 bananas 1600 7. meters square 8 6. frogs 5.30

. 2.14 tigers 3.385 miles 4. .38 .38 4. miles 3.385 tigers 2.14 lbs 1.88 or oz. 1.30 Answers: 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 completely 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 es- pecially 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 doing! Also, you should applaud when the play is over, and when the actors take their bow. Most of all, HAVE FUN! 11 11 The Jungle Book Production Evaluation

Your input is extremely valuable to us, helping us to shape future shows and to attract and retain funding. Please take the time with your class to answer the following questions after the production and return it to WonderQuest via mail or email. Thank you for your support and participation in our theatre!

Optional) SCHOOL ______GRADE LEVEL ______

1. What character(s) did you or your students like the most (or the least) in the play? Why?

2. What about the play seemed the most memorable? (Costumes? Set? A specific event? Or some element of the story?)

3. What aspect about coming to the theatre do you think is the most valuable to the students? What would you change about this experience for the next time?

4. Please rate the following aspects of this production (5=excellent, 4=good, 3=adequate, 2=unexciting, 1=poor) _____ Production Values (quality of the visual elements of the play; set, costumes, lights) _____ Performances by the Actors (overall believability/suitability for their roles, interest level) _____ Choice of Play (suitability to students, educational value, fun, challenging, etc.)

5. How would you rank the usefulness of the on-line Performance Study Guide (see scale above)? _____ What aspect of it did you find most useful or interesting for your class?

6. Please list any suggestions you may have for plays or types of plays that support your curriculum and that WonderQuest should consider? (i.e., Classics, Fairy Tales, Social Issues, Other Cultures, etc.)

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