DOCUMENT RESUME CS 510 338 ED 442 149 Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto AUTHOR "Caddie Woodlawn": Adapted by Greg Gunning from the Novel by TITLE Carol Ryrie Brink. Cue Sheet for Students. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, INSTITUTION DC Department of Education, Washington, DC. SPONS AGENCY 2000-00-00 PUB DATE 10p.; Additional funding provided by The Kennedy Center NOTE Corporate Fund and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. AVAILABLE FROM http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cuesheet/theater.html. Classroom Learner (051) PUB TYPE Guides MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE Audiences; Characterization; Class Activities; Cultural DESCRIPTORS Activities; Elementary Secondary Education; Novels; Playwriting; *Theater Arts; United States History *Drama in Education IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Caddie Woodlawn," adapted by Greg Gunning from the novel by Carol Ryrie Brink. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) The Characters (introducing the characters in the play and explaining some theatrical conventions such as narrators, scenes, and actors doubling parts); (2) The Story (offering a story synopsis and looking at where the story takes (3) Westward Ho: The Setting (discussing pioneer life and place on the map); the movement West, and how props and set pieces recreate this time); (4) Language on the Frontier (helping students understand language in the play (5) From Book to Play (looking at the that might be unfamiliar to them); challenges of adapting a book into a play that can be performed on a stage); (6) Carol Ryrie Brink and the "Real" Caddie (describing how the author wrote this book based on stories her grandmother told her about growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, and listing resources for further explanation); and (7) Going to the Kennedy Center (about the audience's role and the Kennedy Center itself). (SR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. rn 4.4 "Caddie Wood lawn": Adapted by Greg Gunning from the Novel by Carol Ryrie Brink. Cue Sheet for Students. by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office at Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION EST CENTER (ERIC) (ap PYAVAI This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. 00 Cr) Points of view or opinions stated in this Cri document do not necessarily represent Ci) official OERI position or policy. 2 kr) C/) -IR , WO' Watratiili" :VW .447 atiNIT 9' teg,2112:74161-craizT ';;;WiNITIONZ' kffi5fi- 'T.:W" FOR STUDENTS Welcome to Cuesheet4 a performance guide:, published by the. Education Department of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Perform. ing Arts in Washington,,',.. DC. This Cuesheet iS prepare for the \Nob,. performance of Caddie et-, ir The wagon marks activities you may want to do with The Characters, page 2.`'. The Story, page 3 i Westward Ho: The Setting, page 4 Language on the Frontier, page 5 Going to the Kennedy Center, page 8 Ill au:um. The Kennedy Center BESTCOPY AV the ghamo6'oro "Hi, I'm Caddie Wood lawn. When. I get into trouble, character a person, an my Ma calls me by my full name, Caroline Augusta animal, or sometimes an object in a play in this play. Wood lawn. I'm the main character That means I'm in almost every I'm also scene. a part of a play scene the play's narrator, which means I talk directly to circuit rider you, the audience. I explain what's going on. a pioneer preacher who visited many "There are many other characters in the play, too: towns my mother, is very Mrs. Harriet Wood lawn, proper. She is originally from Boston. my father. He left his Mr. John Wood lawn is wealthy family behind in England. is my brother. He likes adventure too. Tom Wood lawn is my school teacher. Miss Parker who visits our home. is a circuit rider Reverend Tanner a wise Indian chief, is one of my best Indian John, friends. my classmate, is a bully. He isn't very Obediah Jones, smart and he doesn't like Indians. my classmate, is lonely and shy. Besides Gus Hankinson, me, he doesn't have many friends because his father is white and his mother is Indian. is Gus's mother. She is sent away from Mrs. Hankinson Dunnville because she is Indian." During the performance ) Doubling Up o different Sometimes in plays, one actor plays many play Caddie Woodlawn is characters. This is called "doubling." The plays Caddie. Two performed by four actors. One young woman BESTCOPYAVAILABLE play the other nine parts. While you're men and one woman which actor appears as more watching the show, see if you can tell their voices, movements, than one character. How do they change different character? or costumes to become a ETaG Zaorg "The play you're gonna see is about me and my family, and what it is like growing up in Dunnville, Wisconsin, in 1864. We get news and supplies from a riverboat that travels along the Chippewa (pronounced CHIP-puh-wah) River. One day, after waiting for the boat, me and my brother Torn sneak off to visit my friend Indian John. When we get back home, Ma punishes me for going to the Indian camp by send- ing me to my room. "At school, my teacher Miss Parker is always trying to keep peace between me and a bully named Obediah Jones. He's always picking on my friend Gus Hankinson 'cause Gus is part Indian. I help Gus stand up to the bully. "Obediah starts a rumor that the Indians are gonna Later we find out that he lied. attack us pioneers pioneers. people who are the first to go to a new place "Before the play ends, I have one more problem. My family has to decide if we want to leave America. If we move back to England, my dad will receive land and money. "Will we stay or go?" Wisconsin on the Map On a map of the United States, find the state of Wisconsin. Now look at the northwest part of the state WISCONSIN and find the Chippewa River. See if you can find where the Chippewa River connects with the Mississippi Green Bay River. Caddie's teacher asks her class to name all the Chippewa River states through which the Mississippi River flows. /4. Dunnville sr_ Can you name them? There are ten. 0 4) Milwaukee 0 Madison e. 5 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT BY TRINA SCHART HYMAN FROM CADDIE WOODL AWN. SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, 01973 Yle kroi6'6,) est? Move Why "Caddie Woodlawn takes place during a 111) when peo- in this country's history 11/111.---111111i left the east coast of the United States ple Congress States the United and moved out west to get land, build In 1850, willing to land to anyone houses and start families. The pioneers gave free as as long years for four followed paths like the Santa Fe Trail live on it over white man was a and the Oregon Trail to new land, that person of 18. called frontier. They lived in log cabins the age and went hunting for food. 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CA01.11,1 DNOAGA NIZID Nl 611.3.1C0 I v ANSSIJNAIN IA GADSOVN 11111CNA1S- tL01.11SIANA S I 010111D The United States in 1861 6 BESTCOPYAVAILABLE agao Yomador oao °Da "You're gonna notice that the characters in Caddie talk differently Wood lawn from you. Our language is English, but our words and accents are old-fashioned and Some of our rural rural. from the country everyday words and people who have the races phrases might same history, culture, or come sound funny and from the same country unfamiliar to you. "We live near the Chippewa River, so we always a boat that's used mostly on rivers. see barges. Barge "The school bully Obediah Jones makes fun of my friend Gus by saying he's all `gussied up' and by call- ing him a 'half-breed.' a mean way of saying that someone's "Gussied up dressed neatly or in fancy clothes. Gus is criticized for being "gussied up." + "Half-breed a nasty name to call someone whose mother and father are of different races. "Besides English, you'll hear me and other charac- ters say some words and phrases in the same language the Indians speak. For example, I repeat the Indian phrase 'En-nen-eh-ko, neh-nah-toe-nee-hah-wah.' In English, this means: 'I sure hope so!' "Both me and Gus have Indian names in the play. My name is 'Keh-nee-ah-kee-wah,' which means, 'Little Eagle.' Gus's name is `Wah-pah-ken-nah- wah,' which means, 'White Eagle." After the performance The Name Game Why do you think the special names "Little Eagle" and "White Eagle" were given to Caddie and Gus? What special name(s) do your family members or close friends call you? 7 11, g3002 ar3 Pao ,FrOf§L, 3,g "Sometimes, books are turned into plays by This is playwrights. playwrights called 'adapting' people who or changing a write plays.. book into a play that can be per- formed on a stage. The play Caddie Wood lawn was After the performance adapted It's your play. from the Pretend you're a playwright adapting a book book. Which of your favorite books Caddie Wood lawn. In some cases, the would you like to turn into a play? How play is just like the original book. Other do you make the story easier to under- times, the play is different from the orig stand? Would you keep all of the book's final book. Usually when playwrights characters? If you would like, take an turn books into plays, they make the sto event from the book and write a scene. ries easier to understand and leave out some of the characters. The play Caddie Wood lawn has most of the book's characters and problems, but there are differences. "In the novel Caddie Wood lawn, I have six brothers and sisters, but in the play I only have one Tom. "In the novel, my brothers and I almost get hit by lightning and our school almost burns down. That doesn't hap- pen in the play thank goodness! "In the novel, my cousin Annabelle Grey comes to visit us all the way from Boston, but she is not in the play. (Lucky for her we tease her.)" A scene from Caddie Wood lawn gmrog 24e) 6,49Jc gadddG T.L40;" (33f/OX a'2150 "The book Caddie Woodlawn was written by Carol Ryrie Brink. Carol was born in 1895 in Moscow, Idaho. When she was only eight years old, her ma and pa died. After that, she went to live with her grandma, who told her stories about growing up in the frontiers of Wisconsin. "Carol liked her grandma's sto- ries so much, she decided to write them down and put them all in a book. She used her grand- ma's name, Caroline Augusta Woodhouse, for the main character but changed the last name to Woodlawn. "After Carol Ryrie Brink finished the first draft of Caddie Woodlawn, she sent it to her grandmother to read. Her grandmother loved the book, and said, 'You never knew my mother and father and my brothers how could you write about them exactly as they were?' "But, Gram,' Carol answered, 'you told me.' "If you like the play Caddie Woodlawn, you may want to read Carol Ryrie Brink's book. You may also want to read Brink's other book, Magical Melons: More Stories about Caddie Woodlawn." Carol Ryrie Brink as a teenager Resources You may want to... Read about pioneer life in: the Old West. Miller, Brandon Marie. Buffalo Gals: Women in Minneapolis:Lerner, 1995. Collins, 1994. Sandler, Martin. Pioneers. New York:Harper Read a biography of Carol Ryrie Brink: Series, Reed, Mary E. Carol Ryrie Brink. Western Writers 1991. No.100. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, Watch the movie: STCOPYAVA1LABLE Caddie Woodlawn. Wonderworks Series. Churchill Entertainment. Chicago: Public Media Video, 1989. COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MOSCOW. IDAHO CAROL RYRIE BRINK PHOTO BY RILE BRINK. COURTESY OF LATAH .Pac3 KommQXig gomOor (0- 1411:11 VII Jr fr111L; 111, r: ."The Kennedy Center has six theaters! It was named for John F. Kennedy, who was a 111111 110111 111111 popular president of the United States. The Kennedy Center "You're gonna ride a bus to the James A. Johnson something I've Kennedy Center Chairman never done. Back then, we just had horses and wagons. When you get Lawrence J.Wilker President to the Kennedy Center's You the Audience Derek E. Gordon Hall of States, look up Vice President, Education and see the flags from all "You play a very important role in the performance Cuesheet /Caddie Woodlawn fifty states, the District of of Caddie Woodlawn: You're the audience! Going Cuesheet is funded in part through Columbia, and the five to a play is different from watching television or a t .the,suppottof-the-U.S. Department_ 1. U.S. territories. movie because the actors are right there in front of Education, The Kennedy Center Afterwards, you're Corporate Fund, and The Morris of you. They can see and hear you if you talk and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. gonna ride an elevator during the performance. Acting is hard work, and Editor: Taunya Renson-Martin; Writer: to the Kennedy Center's the performers need to concentrate. Help them Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Design: top floor to get to the by watching and listening carefully and by Paul Dupree Communications, Los Theater Lab, where Angeles responding to what is happening on stage. Clap Caddie Woodlawn will be 02000,The John F. Kennedy Center at the end of the performance if you enjoyed for the Performing Arts performed. The Theater watching me in all of my adventures." Lab is big enough to seat 400 audience members."