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StoryBook Theater
Pinocchio
EDUCATOR’S CURRICULUM
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Pinocchio
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STORYBOOK THEATER
is produced by STUDIO EAST
11730 118th Ave NE, Suite 100
Kirkland, WA 98034
425-820-1800
www.StoryBookTheater.org
Adaptation by Lani Brockman
Music & Lyrics by Susan Bardsley
Pinocchio
HELLO, TEACHERS!
Thank you for choosing to bring your class to StoryBook Theater’s
production of Pinocchio! We’re confident that you will find our
show entertaining. We have created this packet for you to help
make seeing our play an even richer learning experience for
your students. Included are some pre-show preparatory reading
materials and a few post-show activities and games. All of our
exercises were carefully developed to meet the Washington State
EALR’s in Arts, Communication, Reading, Writing, and Math. Not
all activities may be practical for your particular grade level, so feel
free to pick and choose, as well as modify, from the activities below
to best meet your classroom’s learning needs. They’re not meant
to be followed to the letter, but to be used as ideas for your own
classroom’s creative dynamic. Have fun, and enjoy the show!
Story Synopsis
The lonely toymaker Geppetto has never had a son. One day, he carves a
puppet out of wood and names him Pinocchio. A magical blue fairy visits
Geppetto that night and brings the puppet to life, although he is still made
of wood and not yet a real boy. The Blue Fairy explains to Pinocchio that in
order to become a real boy, he must learn to listen to his father and always
tell the truth. Geppetto is so excited to have a new son, he goes out into
the village to sell his own coat so that he can buy Pinocchio a schoolbook.
Pinocchio sets off for school the next day, but is distracted when he sees a
puppet show in the village. He exchanges his new schoolbook for a ticket
to the show. While Pinocchio is dancing to the music, he is noticed by the
Fox and Cat, who are up to no good. They think that a live wooden puppet
can be their ticket to getting rich! They convince Pinocchio to go up on
stage with the other dancing puppets so that the Puppet Master will see
him, but instead, the Puppet Master is angry that Pinocchio interrupted his
show. He begins to carry Pinocchio away to use him as firewood to cook
his dinner, but Pinocchio pleads with him and sings a song that makes the
Puppet Master so sad that he lets Pinocchio go. He also gives Pinocchio five
gold pieces to buy a new schoolbook and a new coat for his father.
The Cat and Fox then convince Pinocchio that if he plants his gold pieces
in the Field of Miracles, they will grow a tree with five thousand gold
pieces. Pinocchio does as he is told and falls asleep. The next day Pinocchio
realizes that the Cat and Fox have stolen his gold while he was asleep.
The Blue Fairy visits Pinocchio to tell him that Geppetto is lost at sea
looking for him. When she asks him questions about why he didn’t go to
school, Pinocchio lies and his nose grows.
Pinocchio rushes to the sea to rescue his father. He is swallowed up by a
giant shark, but he finds Geppetto in the shark’s belly! He tells his father
the truth about what happened and that he is very sorry for what he did.
Together they come up with a plan to tickle the shark to make him cough,
and when he does, they surf back to freedom.
At home, Pinocchio does not wake up and Geppetto thinks he has lost
Pinocchio. The Blue Fairy’s magic brings him back to life and she explains
to Pinocchio that because he has learned his lesson and was a very good
and brave wooden puppet, he has finally become a real boy.
STORYBOOK THEATER is produced by STUDIO EAST
STORYBOOK
is produced
by STUDIO
EAST
11730 118thTHEATER
Ave NE, Suite
100, Kirkland,
WA 98034
402
Sixth
Street
South,
Kirkland,
WA
98033
425-820-1800 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Toll Free 1-877-827-1100 www.StoryBookTheater.org
WELCOME, EDUCATORS!
Vocabulary
Abandon – to give up or leave alone
Adieu – one way to say goodbye in French
Agent – a person or business authorized to act on another’s behalf
Alert – to warn or notify
Analytical – taking something complicated and making it simple
Associate – a person who joins others in some activity
Consider – to think about carefully
Declaw – to remove the claws from, like those of a cat
Deserve – to earn or be worthy of something
Dew – water that sometimes collects on the ground (i.e. grass) early
in the morning
Dim-witted – not very smart
Disguise – clothes or masks that are used to make someone look
different
Exchange – the act of trading one thing for another
Expectation – to want or hope that something will happen in the
future
Extravaganza – a spectacular show
Fate – something that will happen in the future no matter what
action you take
Furious – very angry
Generosity – the trait of being very giving
Gesundheit – a German word that is said after someone sneezes
Glum – sad
Ignorant – uneducated or lacking knowledge
Laden – filled with a lot of something
Lame – crippled
Marionette – a puppet
Mature – to be full-grown
Microscopic – so tiny it cannot be seen
Miracle – an amazing and perhaps impossible event
Opus – a musical work
Patron – a regular customer
Portray – to look or act like something
Presence – to exist in a particular place
Rascal – someone who is up to no good
Remark – a personal opinion
Resemble – to appear like something else
Scholar – someone who has a lot of knowledge
Selflessness – thinking about others before yourself
Shame – a feeling of guilt for doing something wrong
Sympathy – to share someone else’s feelings
Waterlogged – completely filled with water
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Theatre Terms
• Character – the people in the play
• Setting – where the action takes place
• Plot – the sequence of actions, from beginning to end
• Improvisation – in acting, making up the lines as you go without planning it
• Pantomime – to act without words, only moving your body
• Prop – any object used by a character in a play
• Set – on the stage, this is what shows the different settings, like the background or furniture
Character List
• Blue Fairy
• Geppetto
• Pinocchio
• Fox
• Cat
• Puppet Master
Settings
• Geppetto’s Toyshop
• The village
• A large field
• The belly of a giant shark
ACTIVITY #1 – ‘GOING TO THE THEATER’
(Grades PreK - 4)
Learning Targets: Students will practice and define appropriate
behaviors when seeing a live performance.
Materials: Board or paper and marker to make list of student ideas.
Room Arrangement: Seated circle to start, with room to walk
around.
What the TEACHER does:
1. Initiate a discussion with questions such as “how do we behave
at school?” “how do we behave at home?” “on the playground?”
“at the library?” etc.
2. Introduce the question “how do we behave at the theater?” and
encourage students to share ideas.
3. Designate areas of your classroom to be various locations. Have
students move around the room, and encourage students to act
out the appropriate behavior when they are in each space.
4. Once they have established the appropriate behaviors, write a
list of ground rules that will apply when going to the theater.
EDUCATOR’S GUIDE
ACTIVITY #2 – ‘PROUDLY PRESENTING’
(Grades PreK - 4)
Learning Targets: Students will take turns sharing information
about themselves with a partner and “presenting” them to the class.
They will demonstrate understanding of “performance space” and
the different roles of audience and performer.
Materials: none
Room Arrangement: open space clearly divided into “performance
space” and audience area
What the TEACHER does:
1. Make sure each student has a partner.
2. Explain that partners will have 5 minutes to take turns telling each other things about themselves (favorite foods, how many pets, favorite sport, hobbies…etc)
3. After partners have shared, have them sit in audience area with their partner.
4. Show them the “performance space” and explain that each student will have a chance to “perform” today by presenting their partner to the class.
5. Model for them by presenting a puppet or stuffed animal. “I am proud to present an amazing animal today who likes to swing on branches and make funny faces…please welcome Milton Monkey! (Milton appears and takes a bow.)
6. Discuss what the audience’s role is. (Active listening, quiet, applause after performances.)
7. Choose a student to come up to the performance space to present their partner. Partner waits until their name is presented to enter performance space and take a bow. Switch roles. Continue with all partners.
8. Encourage strong speaking voices and good posture.
9. Gather feedback after the activity. How many students enjoyed presenting their partners the best? How many liked being presented? How did you feel when you were in the “performance space”?
EALRs Arts: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3; Communication: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Adapted from: http://www.usq.edu.au/artsworx/schoolresources/
piedpiperofhamelin/preparingyourstudents
EALRs:
Arts Arts: 1.4
STORYBOOK THEATER is produced by STUDIO EAST
STORYBOOK
is produced
by STUDIO
EAST
11730 118thTHEATER
Ave NE, Suite
100, Kirkland,
WA 98034
402
Sixth
Street
South,
Kirkland,
WA
98033
425-820-1800 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Toll Free 1-877-827-1100 www.StoryBookTheater.org
“PINOCCHIO”
“CINDERELLA”
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Guide
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State
Cirriculum
Guide
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2013
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ACTIVITY #3 – ’MAD LIB’
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ACTIVITY #4 – PUPPET MASTER
(Grades 1 - 4)
(Grades 3 - 4)
Instructions: Ask students for specific words that fit the
descriptions of #1-10 below. Then plug their words into the short
summary of Pinocchio below.
1. Name (Proper Noun)
2. Thing (Noun)
3. Place
4. Number
5. Action (Verb)
6. Thing (Noun)
7. Body Part
8. Place
9. Animal
10. Thing (Noun)
A nice old man by the name of ___1___ made a puppet out of
___2___ and named him Pinocchio. One day Pinocchio was
supposed to go to ___3___ but went to a show instead. There
he met two rascals named Fox and Cat. They got Pinocchio in
trouble and almost cooked. Instead, Pinocchio was given ___4___
gold coins. Fox and Cat told Pinocchio to ___5___ his gold in the
ground and wait until it grew into a huge ___6___. Instead, they
stole his gift and Pinocchio was left with nothing. When the Blue
Fairy visited Pinocchio, he lied and his ___7___ grew. He had to go
find his father, who was lost in the ___8___. Pinocchio found him
in the belly of a giant ___9___. He saved both of them by tickling
the giant creature until it coughed them out. Pinocchio proved
himself worthy to be a real ___10___.
Read the story aloud to the class substituting the words they
provided. They will laugh, but invite them to correct you while
they are having fun, and see how much information from the story
they can recall.
Variation: Have students write their words down, then give them
a worksheet with the story and have them substitute their own
words and share stories with a classmate. Allow them to discuss
the differences between their stories and the true version.
Instructions: 4 players at a time. 2 players will be puppets;
these players offer improvised dialogue in a scene of your
choice, but they are not allowed to move about themselves.
The other 2 players are the puppet masters that will provide the
movements for the puppets. After a few minutes of this, select
4 new players to try.
Questions that may be used to prompt scenes:
1. What would it have looked like if Pinocchio really did
make it to school that day? The other character can be
a classmate or the teacher.
2. What would have happened if the Puppet Master did
not take pity on Pinocchio? What else can Pinocchio
try to save himself?
3. What if a giant tree grew with five thousand gold
coins? What would Pinocchio have done with that
money? The other character can be Fox, Cat or Blue
Fairy.
4. What do you think Pinocchio’s first day as a real boy
was like? How would it have been different from
being made out of wood? The other character can be
Geppetto or a new friend.
EALRs:
Arts 2.1, 2.3; Writing 1.1, 4.1; Reading 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2; Communication 1.1, 1.2
Extension: Audience etiquette. Discuss what the audience’s
role is (active watching, quiet, applause after each performance,
etc.)
EALRs:
ACTIVITY #5 – SOUND OFF
(Grades PreK-3)
Instructions: Everybody sits in a big circle. Remind students
about participating during the performance when they helped
make sound effects of the sea. One player starts the game by
making a gesture and a sound (they don’t have to make sense)
to his right neighbor. The neighbor immediately imitates
the gesture and sound, then turns to his right neighbor and
makes a totally different gesture and sound. Tell players not to
preconceive, ask them to throw themselves into this exercise.
Variations: Instead of passing the sound/gesture to your
neighbor, players can pass it to any player in the circle. Or try
the game without imitating the sound/gesture received; just
have players turn around and throw a new gesture/sound to
their neighbors as fast as possible.
EALRs:
STORYBOOK THEATER is produced by STUDIO EAST
STORYBOOK
is produced
by STUDIO
EAST
11730 118thTHEATER
Ave NE, Suite
100, Kirkland,
WA 98034
402
Sixth
Street
South,
Kirkland,
WA
98033
425-820-1800 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Toll Free 1-877-827-1100 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Arts 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Communication 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1
Arts 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Communication 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1
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ACTIVITY #6 – FAIRYTALE SNAPSHOTS
(Grades 1 - 4)
Instructions: Break into groups as evenly as possible – maybe
about 5 or 6 in each. Each group is to meet in a separate area of the
classroom so they can plan secretly. They are to:
1. Choose a popular fairytale story that everyone knows;
2. Select characters among the group (if there are more group
members than characters, they can select to be inanimate objects
that are vital to the story);
3. Develop three “snapshots” that portray the beginning, middle,
and end of the fairytale story by posing as their characters or
objects.
All players must be involved in each snapshot. They should also
remain consistently the same characters throughout to avoid
confusion.
Gather all the groups together after an allotted amount of time to
watch each other’s presentations. When a group is ready to present
at the front of the class, the audience must close their eyes while
the snapshots are arranged, and open them when the snapshots
are ready to be viewed. The audience’s job is to guess the fairytale
after each presentation. The easier it is for the audience to guess
the fairytale is a good indication of the success of the group.
Extension: Audience etiquette. Discuss what the audience’s role is
(active watching, quiet, applause after each performance, etc.)
EALRs:
Arts 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Communication 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1
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ACTIVITY #7 – NOSEY NUMBERS
(Grades 2 - 4)
Instructions: Either together on the board or separately on a
worksheet, challenge students to solve these number problems
relevant to the play (adjust them according to your classroom’s
math skill level):
1. On the street where Geppetto lives, all the houses on
the north side are even numbered, and all the houses
on the south side are odd numbered. Geppetto’s house
number is 21. Is it on the north or south side of the
street?
2. The Puppet Master asks Geppetto to make him 12
puppets on strings for his show. Geppetto already has 5
puppets in his store. How many more does he need to
make for the Puppet Master?
3. There are 2 windows on each side of Geppetto’s house,
which is shaped like a box. If Geppetto closes half of his
windows at night, how many windows does the Blue
Fairy have to choose from to enter the house?
4. Cat and Fox are hungry. Cat has 25 cents in his pocket
and Fox has 50 cents. They need $1.50 for a meal they
can share. How much more do they need?
5. A ticket to the puppet show Pinocchio wanted to
see was $5. Pinocchio traded his schoolbook, which
actually cost $20. How many tickets could Pinocchio
have actually purchased with his schoolbook?
6. The Puppet Master sold 8 tickets to his show one
morning. At $5 a piece, how much money did he make?
7. Pinocchio plants his gold coins in the Field of Miracles
at 5:30pm. Cat and Fox say that it takes 10 hours for the
tree to grow. Pinocchio falls asleep until 8:00am. If what
Cat and Fox said was true and the tree grew, how long
would the tree have been there before Pinocchio woke
up?
8. Pinocchio’s nose is 2 inches long. He tells a lie to the
Blue Fairy, and it grows 6 more inches. Then he decides
to tell the truth, so his nose shrinks back 3 inches. How
long is it now?
9. Pinocchio had to swim 1 mile before the shark
swallowed him. While they were inside its belly,
the shark swam away from shore 5 more miles. His
powerful cough sent them flying 2 miles closer to shore.
How much did they have to swim to get back to shore?
10. It takes at least 100 people to clap at the end of the
show to help bring Pinocchio back to life. If only 45
people are clapping, how many more need to join in to
save Pinocchio?
EALRs:
STORYBOOK THEATER is produced by STUDIO EAST
STORYBOOK
is produced
by STUDIO
EAST
11730 118thTHEATER
Ave NE, Suite
100, Kirkland,
WA 98034
402
Sixth
Street
South,
Kirkland,
WA
98033
425-820-1800 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Toll Free 1-877-827-1100 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Various Math EALRs within Numbers and Operations depending on grade level and modifications made to problems.
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AFTER THE SHOW:
DISCUSSION, VISUAL ART AND WRITING
PROMPTS
EDUCATOR’S GUIDE
Up Next..
1. Pinocchio thought it would be okay to skip school for one
day and do something fun. Do you think that was a good
idea? Why or why not? What makes you go to school every
day? Do you like school? Why or why not?
2. Would you believe anything that a stranger said to you?
What is the best way to deal with strangers approaching
you? Who is the best person to listen to and trust?
3. What would you have done with a tree filled with five
thousand gold coins? What would you buy, for whom and
why?
4. Do you always tell the truth? Why do people lie sometimes?
Is it sometimes a good thing to lie, or is it better to always
tell the truth? Why or why not?
EALRs Arts: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3
Communication: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.4, 3.2, 3.3, 4.3
Writing: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.4, 3.5
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school show information, dates and show times. To
schedule a school field trip or group reservation, please
call toll free 1-877-827-1100. We open performance
dates as needed. Please be prepared to provide contact
information, grade level, group size, and special needs
accommodations when making your reservation over
the telephone.
Payment is due approximately 30 days prior to scheduled
performance date. Changes may be made up to 30 days
prior to venue opening date, based on available seating.
We will make every attempt to accommodate all groups
with calendar date and time preferences.
STORYBOOK THEATER is produced by STUDIO EAST
11730 118th Ave NE, Suite 100, Kirkland, WA 98034
425-820-1800 www.StoryBookTheater.org
Neither long locks of hair nor large locks on
towers are enough to keep a rainbow-haired
maiden from trying to follow her dreams. Can our
hair-oine escape from her tiny room-with-a-view,
or will she be trapped in her tower forever?
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