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Love That Dog Theatergroep Kwatta LOVE THAT DOG PARAMOUNT THEATRE APRIL 9-11, 2017 AUSTIN, TEXAS FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE ROOM 105 September 13 I don’t want to because boys don’t write poetry. YOUR TAKE Girls do. Review the performance you saw today. What was great about it? What emotions did you feel throughout the show? What THE STORY questions do you still have? ______________________________________ Jack hates poetry, thinking only girls write it. ______________________________________ Every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. ______________________________________ But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won’t stop ______________________________________ giving her class poetry assignments—and Jack ______________________________________ can’t avoid them. But then something amazing ______________________________________ happens. The more he writes, the more he learns Now rate today’s show from 1-5 stars: he does have something to say. THE AUTHOR Theatergroep Kwatta Theatergroep Kwatta Sharon Creech is a is a professional youth theatre company that was established in 2002. South Euclid, Ohio It is based in the Theater Het Badhuis, which is native who grew up located in the Gelderland province in the East in a rowdy family Central part of the Netherlands. Under the with a sister and direction of artistic manager Josee Hussaarts, three brothers and Kwatta creates lighthearted productions with dreamed of being a painter, an ice more poignant undertones. Kwatta’s mission is skater, a singer, a teacher, and a to create room for amazement and admiration reporter, eventually landing on a career by asking simple questions about difficult issues in writing and teaching literature in and difficult questions about things that appear England and Switzerland. She called to be simple. They do this, in part, by making upon her childhood in fictional works no assumptions, always searching for the such as Absolutely Normal Chaos, Walk unknown and the absurd, and by tilting reality Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and to create a different perspective. Productions Bloomability. Her award-winning book by Kwatta often combine text with other forms Love That Dog was inspired by the of theatre such as instrumental music, song, Walter Dean Myers’ poem “Love That puppetry, or film. Boy” which hung on Creech’s bulletin Learn more at board for many years. www.kwatta.info/english ADAPTING STORIES Theatregoep Kwatta chose to turn THE PLAY the book Love that Dog into a play. Love That Dog brings Jack’s free-verse This is called adapting. Which of your poems to the stage in an inventive favorite books would you like to see production that features live action adapted into a play? and music, real-time projections, and _______________________ puppetry. Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own voice with the help of _______________________ a teacher, a writer, a pencil, some paper, and of course, a dog. _______________________ G A W G ET WAG WAG WAG WA O P T LAY K UR P AR F O P T T G F S DO O E E S V H O T GOOD L N DANCES I GIRL!TRUE LOYAL,LOVE BYALWAYS MY SIDE FEET HAPPY HAPPY GIRL? GOOD GIRL! WHO’S A GOOD SHE’S A TCHING, LOOKING OUT FOR ME A G BEST W N S I S PAT PATAY JUICY WET NOSE SMELLS EVERYT H E W R IM AL HE GS! READY FOR TREATS AT ALL T - HIN ES F T IT FRIEND IF HE ND SAUSAGE PIZZA ARE HER FAVOR SN T A F LL ES PAWS IF A ID ROOL, BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK! SN TS H D A W P WALKS E A I BARK! GOING ON R SOFT R D ARE THE IP MOST FUN! DR LET’S GO! LET’S SOFT GO! LET’S “Emmett’sby BetsyA Ode Dazzling Franco To His Displayfrom Tennis the ofBall” book Dogs In the play the actors perform the concrete poem, “The Apple” by S.C Rigg. The shape of this poem is very special. In the play Jack is inspired and writes - Use adjectives his own poem in the shape of his dog Sky. Can you do this as well? Choose your favorite animal and create a concrete poem of your own! CHALLENGE that describe both the personality and the physical INSPIRED POETRY look of your animal. YOUR CONCRETE POEM Love That Dog (Inspired by Walter Dean Myers) By Jack Love that dog, like a bird loves to fly I said love that dog like a bird loves to fly Love to call him in the morning love to call him “Hey there, Sky!” _____________ Can you write your own poem inspired by the poem that Jack reads at the end of the play? It’s important you choose a subject __________ !” close to your heart. Like Sky is important to Jack. You can choose animals, people, places...everythingYOUR is possible. INSPIRED Fill in the spaces POEM below to complete your inspired poem. (Inspired by Jack) __________ loves to Love That ___________ __________________ ________________ ____________________ loves to By in the _______ Love that like a _______ ______ I said I love that _________________ _____________________ like a Love to Love to “Hey there, ACROSTIC POETRY CREATE YOUR In an acrostic poem, the letters in a topic word are used to create the lines of a poem. In the OWN PLAY example below, the letters in the name “JACK” The artists of Theatergroep are used as the first letters of each line to create Kwatta took the story and a poem about Jack. Complete the poem: poems from a book and turned them into a play for the stage. J - J OYFUL Start with the poem you just wrote, or part of a story you A - like, and try to tell it in a different way. Choose one of C - the following forms: K - DIALOGUE Now describe yourself in an acrostic poem below conversation between using the first letters of your name: characters PANTOMIME acting it out without speaking ILLUSTRATION comic or story-book style PUPPETRY create puppets and small sets SHELTER HELPER Jack and his family adopted Sky from their local animal shelter. Did you know that BINGO adopting shelter pets isn’t the Read a book to a shy “Like” your local only way you can help your Help a friend/ family dog at the shelter who Donate a bag of dog/ animal shelters local animal shelters? Take a member find their isn’t ready for pets cat food to any local on social media, look at the BINGO card for perfect pet at a local and walks, this helps shelter with your parents’ more ideas on how you can get animal shelter them feel safe around permission of course involved. Challenge a friend humans to Shelter Helper BINGO and see who can be the first to Write a letter Organize a donation Spread the word- tell check off enough boxes to yell- thanking the drive- invite people Get crafty and make a your class, sports BINGO! employees of shelters to bring in towels, dog/ cat toy to donate team, or friends about around town for their food, and toys for the to a shelter near you how they can help dedication to animals animals in need Austin animals To be a shelter helper, Foster a dog or cat Bake up some Help a shelter dog check out any of these while they are waiting homemade dog treats get some exercise by Call 311 if you find a shelters around town: to find their fur-ever and drop them off at a volunteering to walk stray animal in need homes shelter nearby dogs for an afternoon Austin Pets Alive www.austinpetsalive.org Write to your local Adopt a pet of Austin Animal Center legislators encouraging your own! www.austintexas.gov/ Attend an event that Help your local shelter them to keep our department/aac helps raise money for clean the kennels animals’ welfare in local shelters Austin Humane Society mind when passing www.austinhumanesociety.org new laws ADMIRABLE ICONS POETIC VOCABULARY Find the vocabulary words in the word search below, then look up their definitions or write an example: Walter ALLITERATION Dean ASSONANCE Meyers!!!! CONCRETE POETRY CONSONANCE LETTER TO AN AUTHOR FREE VERSE In the play, Jack’s favorite poet visited his school! If you could invite your favorite author or artist to your school for a IMAGERY visit, who would you invite? ______________________________________ METAPHOR On a separate sheet of paper, write them a letter like the one NARRATIVE POETRY Jack wrote to Walter Dean Myers and invite them to visit you and your classmates! ONOMATOPOEIA PROSE THANK YOU, TEACHER RHYME Miss Stretchberry helped Jack realize his talent and love for poetry. Think of a teacher in your life who helped you discover a hidden talent. RHYTHM ______________________________________ SIMILE On a separate sheet of paper, write them a Thank You letter. SYMBOL TEACHABLE POEMS A L L I T E R A T I O N R C N Want to learn more about the poetry that inspired Jack? Head B Y F O H E G S P V Y H O E T to your school’s library to find the following poems that Ms. Stretchberry taught in her class. L R L N U X S R I R G N H Q V • “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos William Z T M O R M O R E M S X P K U • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost R E A M F S H G E O I A A W H • “The Tiger” by William Blake • “dog” by Valerie Worth P O R A E I A Y N V R L T M C • “Pasture” by Robert Frost F P H T N M I A V B E U E I Q • “Street Music” by Arnold Adolf • “The Apple” by S.C.
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