Taking turns and sharing. Identifying each other s own unique strengths and skills. Being open-minded and listening to others.

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1 Study Guide Music by: George Stiles A story about working as a team Book & Lyrics by: Anthony Drewe For the Three Little Pigs, working as a team means: Taking turns and sharing. Identifying each other s own unique strengths and skills. Being open-minded and listening to others. We hope you and your early learners will use these show-related activities to get inspired about working as a team.

2 A Letter from Emerald City 2 A Note From Our Artistic and Education Directors: Welcome to Emerald City Theatre and our presentation of The Three Little Pigs. We are thrilled that you have decided to support live theatre. We hope that this show will be a gateway for your students to a lifetime enriched by the arts. In addition to creating theatre of the highest standards, Emerald City is dedicated to providing creative educational tools to enhance your experience. Please use this guide to prepare your class before the production and help them continue their understanding of concepts after their visit, making your field trip more than just a one-day experience. Developed with the National Standards and Illinois Common Core Standards in mind, the themes of this production are introduced and explored throughout our guide. Theatre and the arts are full of creative possibilities. We hope that this guide and production are inspiring for you and your students! Ernie Nolan Producing Artistic Director Jacqueline Stone Education Director Guide Written by: Rachel Sherman, Education Manager Guide Design by: Joelle Weber Show Graphic Design by: Charles Riffenburg IV GUIDE CONTENTS Introduction Letter & Show Theme... 2 National/Common Core Standards Guide... 3 How to Be a #1 Audience... 4 Theatre Words... 5 About the Play/Author Bio... 6 Adaptation and Origins of the Story... 7 Cast of Characters... 8 Discussion Questions Theatre Games Wolf Wanted Moving Day! Create Your Own Actor Bio Become a Costume Designer Write Your Own Theatre Review About Emerald City... 19

3 National Standards and Common Core Standards 3 Teachers: Here s a map for you to match the National Standards and Common Core Standards to the icon you ll see on several of the pages throughout this study guide! National Theatre Standards in this Guide: 1. Script writing by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history. 2. Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations. 3. Designing by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations 5. Researching by finding information to support classroom dramatizations. 7. Analyzing and explaining personal preferences and constructing meaning from classroom dramatizations and from theater, film, television, and electronic media productions. Common Core Standards in this Guide: Reading Standards ELA RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. ELA RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. ELA RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. ELA RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. ELA RL.K-2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures. ELA RI.K-2.4 Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. Writing Standards ELA W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. ELA W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. ELA W.K-2.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. ELA W.K-1.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects. Speaking and Listening Standards ELA SL.K-2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ELA SL.K-1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. ELA SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. ELA SL.1.4 Describe people, places, things and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. ELA SL.2.4 Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. ELA SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

4 How to be a #1 Audience! ELA SL.K Whether it s your first play or your fiftieth, here are a few guidelines for being a respectful audience member. Every person has a job to do to make sure the live performance goes on! Here is how you can play your part! 1. Stay sitting in your seat. 2. Keep your hands and feet to yourselves. 3. If the actors ask the audience a question, it s okay to answer! 4. You can laugh when something is funny! 5. Pay attention! Watch and listen carefully to what is going on. 6. Get ready to clap at the end of the show when the actors bow. 7. Have fun, and enjoy the show! The Audience Game Learn the difference between a #1, #2, and #3 audience Teachers, here s a theatre game to play with your students. It s a fun way to reinforce what it means to be a #1 listening audience and prepare for watching a play in the theatre. #1 Audience is quiet, stays still, and pays attention to what is going on. #2 Audience whispers, fidgets a little, and looks around. #3 Audience talks loudly, moves around, and doesn t really care about what s happening on the stage. After explaining the differences among the different audience behaviors and having your class practice each one, hold up one, two, or three fingers to signal which audience the class should pretend to be. Switch from one audience number to another to get the appropriate response. To be tricky, you can hold up the same number finger twice or change numbers really quickly! You can also have students, one at a time, take your place, allowing them to be the leader of the group by holding up fingers and directing the class themselves. I m a #1

5 Theatre Words! ELA RI.K How many theatre words and their definitions do you know? A b Actor a person who uses their mind, body, and voice and pretends to become a character on stage to tell a story. Adaptation when a story is changed from one form into another; for example, a book can be changed into a play or movie. Audience the people who are watching the show on stage. Bio a short paragraph about the actor put in a show s program for the audience to read. c Choreography the dance steps and movements performed by actors in a musical. d Designer the people who create everything we see in a play besides the actors; there are light, sound, set, and costume designers. Director the person who tells the actors where to go and how to move and thinks about how all parts of the play come together to best tell the story. H Headshot a photograph of an actor smiling or looking serious, usually just of their head and shoulders. m p r s Musical a special kind of play that includes song, music and dance to help tell the story. Play a live story put on by actors in front of a group of people. Playwright the person who writes a script which has lines, or sentences, that the actors memorize. Program a small book given to audience members at the theatre that has information about the actors, crew, and the play. Review written by a person who has seen the show to tell what they liked and didn t like about it. Set the background scenery that is on the stage to show where the story takes place.

6 About the Play/Author Bio 5 ELA RL.K-1.3 ELA RL Summary When the Pigpen starts to look like a real sty, Mother Pig says it is time to leave and build something new. Help Cha, Siu, and Bao watch out for wolves while they use hay, sticks, and bricks to make it in a big, bad world. The Three Little Pigs is truly an enchanted tale that will huff, puff, and blow you away! About the Authors George Stiles (music) and Anthony Drewe (lyrics) have been writing together since they met at Exeter University over twenty years ago! Aside from The Three Little Pigs, Stiles and Drewe have written five other musicals together: Mary Poppins, Tutankhamun, Just So, Honk!, and Peter Pan. Stiles and Drewe have also written two revues and contributed songs to a variety of theatre, TV, and radio shows.

7 A House of Straw, A House of Twigs, A House of Bricks... 5 ELA RL.K-2.2 ELA RL Adaptations and Origins of the Story This musical version of The Three Little Pigs is an adaptation. An adaptation is when a story is changed from one form into another. However, the tale of The Three Little Pigs went through many variations before it became the story we know of today; it is popular in fairy tale books, plays, and movies. Though no one knows where the first version of the story came from, the common thread in each version is that three pigs build their own homes out of different materials and learn the importance of hard work and working as a team though their journey. Where Did the Story of The Three Little Pigs Originate? 1842: The first published edition of The Three Little Pigs was included in The Nursery Rhymes of England by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, an English Shakespearean scholar and a collector of both nursery rhymes and fairy tales. 1933: The Three Little Pigs was included in a Walt Disney cartoon called, Silly Symphonies. The cartoon, which included the song Who s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? became a success during the Great Depression, and helped inspire people to overcome the wolves in their own lives. 1989: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs was written by Jon Scieszka. In this untraditional adaptation of the classic fairy tale, A. Wolf explains that we simply have not heard his side of the story until now. This fairy tale is narrated in first person by the Wolf, as he explains his side of the story!

8 Cast of Characters 7 ELA RL.K Look below to see which actor plays which character in the story and get a chance to read the bio of the actor who plays The Big Bad Wolf! James Nedrud The Big Bad Wolf The Big Bad Wolf loves to huff and puff, and blow houses down! He is a sneaky creature who wants to capture the three little pigs! Little does he know that Cha, Siu, and Bao have tricks up their sleeves as well! Rachel Pallante Mother Pig James favorite part of the show is how the pigs learn to help each other when there s a problem they can t face alone. He has been seen at Emerald City as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. James has been seen elsewhere in We Three Lizas (u/s) (About Face Theatre), Under a Rainbow Flag in Pride Films and Plays (Jeff nominated) (About Face Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center), and The Phantom of the Opera (The Jedlicka Performing Arts Center). James would make his house out of gingerbread with a licorice roof. When the Pigpen starts to look like a real sty, Mother Pig says it s time for Cha, Siu, and Bao to leave and build something new. Mother Pig loves her piglets very much but wishes the three of them could work together as a team and get along.

9 Cast of Characters 9 Cameron Benoit Bao Bao loves to play, but believes that you should work first. He loves to read and learn. Bao is the pig that chooses to build his house out of bricks, and is the one responsible for saving his mother, siblings, and himself, from the Big Bad Wolf. Mary-Margaret Roberts Siu Siu loves the environment and nature, and just wants her brothers to get along! She is the pig that chooses to make her house out of sticks. Micah Kronlokken Cha Cha loves to exercise and use his barbells. He thinks that reading is silly and loves to have fun! He is the pig that chooses to make his house out of straw.

10 Discussion Questions 10 7 ELA SL.K-2.2 Before the Show 1. Have you ever read a 3 Little Pigs book? What was your favorite part of the story, and why? Teachers, below are some ideas to help your students start thinking about the Three Little Pigs, Mother Pig, the Big Bad Wolf, and learning to work as a team. Feel free to discuss these questions before the play and after on the bus or in the classroom! 2. Do you think it is important to listen to others? Why or why not? 3. What does being part of a team mean to you? 4. Have you ever had a disagreement with someone? How did you solve it? 5. Do you think it is a good idea to share your skills and interests with people in your life? Why or why not? After the Show 1. Were the 3 little pigs kind to each other at the beginning of the play? Why or why not? 2. Do you think Cha, Siu, and Bao learned any lessons on their journey from home? What did they learn? Here are some ways to engage your students in conversation after the show! 3. Was it easy for Cha, Siu, and Bao to build their houses alone? Why or why not? 4. When was it important for Cha, Siu, and Bao to work together as a team in the story? 5. What are some reasons Mother Pig would be proud of her children at the end of the play?

11 Theatre Games for Students! 11 Dear Teacher, 1, 2, 7 ELA SL.K.1 ELA SL ELA SL.1.5 Here s your chance to put a little drama into your classroom! (The good kind!) On the following pages are drama games for theatre-goers. When you explain the games to your students, make sure to give clear instructions and model what a good example looks like! (Try it! It s fun!) The goal is to encourage students to explore the world of the play with a dramatic flair! Let The Play Begin!

12 Big Wide World 1, 2 ELA SL.K.2.2 ELA SL.1.4 ELA SL Objective: Students will practice listening and following directions in this fun, adventure-inspired, movement-based activity! Materials Needed: A clear classroom space. 1. Clear enough space in your classroom so that students can move about the room easily and safely. 2. Explain to the students that you are going to give directions to them as they move about the space, and that they will be going on the three pigs journey through town. 3. Introduce the first command to them - Go. When you say go, the students move around the room without touching each other. 4. The next direction to give is - Stop. When you say stop, the children should stop moving immediately. 5. Once they have mastered those two commands, introduce the next command - Build. When they build, they must stay in one place and mime building a house out of hay, twigs, or brick. They can decide what type of material they want to build with! 6. The next command is - Big Bad Wolf. When you say these words, have the students put their hands up in the air, make a wavy motion, and say, I ll huff, and I ll puff, and I ll blow your house down! They should perform this motion only once when you say the command. 7. Have the students practice these new commands, integrating them with Stop and Go. 8. When they are comfortable with those four commands, introduce the last two commands - Famous Pigs and Mother Pig. Have the students create a movement for each of these commands. Encourage them to be creative and active; the sillier the movements, the better! Have the students practice performing these last two movements when you say the words. 9. As the students walk around the room, you now have six different directions to give them: Go. Stop. Build. Big Bad Wolf. Famous Pigs. Mother Pig. Feel free to play around with the order, and with the tempo! Have fun! For an additional challenge: Once the students know how to play the version of the game outlined above, you can change the rules, so that some commands are opposite now! For example, go means stop and stop means go. Have fun!

13 Here Comes a Three Little Pigs Friend! 2, 7 13 ELA SL.K-1.2 ELA SL.2.2, ELA SL.1.4 ELA SL. 2.4, ELA SL.1.5 Objective: Students use creative thinking skills to describe which Three Little Pigs character is walking into their classroom! Students will take turns listening to how the character is described and acted out by their fellow classmates, and will use teamwork to figure out which Three Little Pigs friend is entering their classroom! Materials Needed: A clear classroom space, and your imaginations! 1. Clear a space in your classroom so that you can have the majority of your students act as audience members in chairs, or on the floor. 2. Set up two chairs in front of the audience space. Make sure there is room for at least two children to walk between the chairs and audience space. 3. Choose two children as the first volunteers to sit in the chairs on the stage, as Describers. Choose one or two children as Actors who will transform and walk across the stage. Place the Actors off to one side of the chairs. 4. The two Describers will describe a character from The 3 Little Pigs. The one or two brave Actors standing to the side will listen very carefully and prepare to act out what the two Describers have to say about the character. 5. The Describer in the first chair should say something that the character likes to do. The Describer in the second chair should say what the character sounds like. 6. Review all the descriptions that were just said with the student(s) who will be acting. 7. Then all together the class will say, Here comes a Three Little Pigs friend! I wonder who it is? The Actor(s) will walk across the stage as described. After the Actors are done walking across, the audience gets three guesses as to who the Three Little Pigs friend is. When they guess the character, that round of the game is over. The audience should clap, the students should sit back down, and you should choose a new set of Actors and a new set of Describers to start the game over again! Below are some examples to help get you started! : Example for Cha: 1. Chair 1: This character likes to use barbells 2. Chair 2: This character makes the sound. [ Oink ] Example for Mother Pig: 1. Chair 1: This character likes to pack pig-nics 2. Chair 2: This character makes the sound. [ Oink ] Example for The Big Bad Wolf: 1. Chair 1: This character likes to huff and puff, and blow houses down! 2. Chair 2: This character makes the sound. [ Wolf howl ]

14 Wolf Wanted 7 ELA W.K-1.2 ELA SL.K Bao finds a Wanted poster of the Big Bad Wolf during his journey. What does the Big Bad Wolf look like to you? Can you help the three pigs capture the Wolf by drawing his picture in your very own Wanted sign? WANTED! FOR HOUSE DESTRUCTION BIG BAD WOLF

15 Moving Day 7 ELA RL.K.3 ELA RI.K-2.4 ELA SL Cha, Siu, Bao, and Mother Pig love each other very much, but they like to do different things! Can you figure out what object each pig would bring to their new home? Draw a line from the pig to the object you think they would take with them! Cha Bao Siu Mother Pig

16 .. Create Your Own Actor Bio! 7 ELA W.K Actors write bios or short paragraphs about themselves for the programs so that we learn about who they are, what other plays they have been in, and what sorts of things they like to do! Now is your chance to write a bio about yourself! (name) is a student at (school) and is in the (number) grade. He/She loves going to see Emerald City Theatre shows, especially (title of the play you just saw!) (name s) (favorite subject) favorite subject at school is because (why?) After school, he/she really loves to play (activity) and also (activity). Create Your Own Actor Headshot Too! All actors get photos taken of themselves either smiling or looking serious. The photos are usually of the actor s head and shoulders that s why they re called headshots! Draw a photo of yourself-smiling or serious-on a blank piece of paper. Or, get your own Star Performer coloring page from the Emerald City Website:

17 Become a Costume Designer! 7 ELA W.K.2 17 Draw the costume design for Cha, Siu, or Bao s outfit below. What do you think this pig would wear?

18 Write Your Own Theatre Review! 18 7 ELA W.K-2.2 ELA W.K-2.6 Play reviewed by: Emerald City News A reviewer s job is to see a play and write about what they liked and what they didn t like. Now it s your turn to share your thoughts about the play! Teachers, your students can create individual reviews or write a review together as a class. Submit your review electronically through the Emerald City website or by to Rachel Sherman, Education Manager at rsherman@emeraldcitytheatre.com. Every review submitted will earn one entry for that classroom to win a special prize; a drama workshop with an Emerald City teaching artist!

19 About Emerald City Theatre 19 Emerald City Theatre School s Outreach Programming At Emerald City Theatre School, we want to be your partner in raising an imaginative, loving, and confident student. Emerald City offers several outreach programs that bring drama to your classroom including our popular Read, Write, & Act Residency Program, After School Drama Classes, and Touring Productions. See below for more information. Read, Write, & Act Residency (for pre-k through 5th grade) Bring the gift of creative drama and literacy to your school! Emerald City Theatre s Read, Write, & Act Residency program focuses on developing confident readers, writers, and actors in your classroom during the school day. Our professional teaching artists help your students to develop academic, artistic, and life skills during multiple visits over a period of several weeks. Students focus on comprehension, creative and dramatic exploration, vocabulary acquisition and oral language practice, ensemble building, self-esteem, and awareness of actor, author, and playwright s tools. For more information about residencies, contact Education Director Jackie Stone at x815 or jstone@emeraldcitytheatre.com. After School Drama Classes Our world-class teaching professionals come directly to you! We offer a wide array after school drama classes for all age levels with exciting new themes each session! Bring the gift of theatre to your school by providing students with classroom opportunities to dive into acting, singing, and dancing after the bell rings! Our weekly programs heavily focus on team building, communication and listening skills, storytelling techniques, and self-esteem. Each class session culminates in an informal performance open to family and friends. For more information about after school programs, contact: Jacqueline Stone, Education Director at x15 or jstone@emeraldcitytheatre.com. Tours We will travel to you with everything needed to transform your location into a magical place where anything can happen! All we need is a gym, auditorium, or cafeteria, and we ll create a theatre experience for your entire school. To book a tour for your school or library, contact Audience Services at x 10, or oz@emeraldcitytheatre.com. Our current touring production is Llama Llama Emerald City Theatre Emerald City creates theatre experiences to inspire early learners through play. Our programming includes professional productions at the Apollo Theater in Lincoln Park, The Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, and The Little Theatre in Lakeview. Emerald City Theatre School offers classes, camps, and in-school programming year-round. The Season at the Apollo Theatre is Llama Llama, Rapunzel, Stiles & Drewe s The Three Little Pigs, and Ramona Quimby. For more information, visit N. Southport Avenue, Chicago P F