Florida State University Schools

1. Presents The Living Literature Project Florida State University Schools Presented By: Angelyn Hirai and Ruthie Platt

2. Selecting a Book • Look for patterns, reoccurring • themes, chants and rhymes. • Find sound effect opportunities. • Select a book with plenty of characters but minimal set • changes. • Look for cross curriculum • connections .

3. Six sons to help him, six sons to help him.

4. Brown Barbaloots, Brown Barbaloots, Brown Barbaloots in their Barbaloot suits! Crazy with greed, crazy with greed, crazy, go crazy, go crazy with greed.

5. Creating Musical Arrangements Embellish Text with sound effects. Use text to create ostinato patterns Pentatonic Scale Develop themes that can be layered. Contrast patterned sounds with sound effects

6. Building sets • Acquiring Materials • (Ask and you shall receive!) • Recycle: Paper tubes, big boxes, packing material, newspaper print, bike helmets, clothing, bamboo, scrap material • Frequently used materials: Duct Tape, glue dots, wire, fishing wire, hoola hoops, zip ties, glitter, Velcro, staple gun

7. Know Your Space Measure Lights? Sound? Can you hang things? Duct Tape? Staples? Audience?

8. Include Special Effects Swing it Drop it! Throw it Move it! Hang it!

9. Developing Characters Costumes verses Puppets • Building Costumes • Recruit parent volunteers (Use Parent Volunteer Form) • Use Masks • Keep it simple • Check out thrift stores and on-line resources • Measure Carefully • Practice with costumes

13. Puppets!

20. Role Possibilities Narration Singers/ chanters Back Stage hands Instrumentalist Puppeteers Characters in Costume Greeters Props

21. Casting Students • Practice everything with everyone • Have in class auditions • Help students know themselves – point out their strengths • Emphasize responsibility, trust, problem solving – at all times! • Create opportunities for pull-outs

22. Casting Cards • Review jobs required for the show – emphasize that students should select something they know they are good at. • Have students write on an index card three different parts they would like to have for the show. Encourage them to think of one acting job and at least one musician job to increase their chances of getting the part they want.

23. Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for 3rd Grade Living Literature Project MU.3.C.1.1 Describe listening skills and how they support appreciation of musical works. MU.3.C.1.2 Respond to a musical work in a variety of ways and compare individual interpretations. MU.3.C.1.4 Discriminate between unison and two-part singing. MU.3.C.3.1 Identify musical characteristics and elements within a piece of music when discussing the value of the work. MU.3.S.1.1 Improvise rhythms or melodies over ostinati. MU.3.S.1.2 Create an alternate ending to a familiar song. MU.3.S.2.1 Identify patterns in songs to aid the development of sequencing and memorization skills. MU.3.S.3.1 Sing rounds, canons, or ostinati in an appropriate range, using head voice and maintaining pitch. MU.3.S.3.2 Play melodies and layered ostinati, using proper instrumental technique, on pitched and unpitchedI instruments. MU.3.S.3.5 Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns using traditional notation. MU.3.O.1.1 Identify, using correct music vocabulary, the elements in a musical work. MU.3.O.1.2 Identify and describe the musical form of a familiar song. MU.3.O.2.1 Rearrange melodic or rhythmic patterns to generate new phrases. MU.3.O.3.1 Describe how tempo and dynamics can change the mood or emotion of a piece of music MU.3.F.1.1 Enhance the meaning of a story or poem by creating a musical interpretation using voices, instruments, movement, and/or found sounds. MU.3.F.2.1 Identify musicians in the school, community, and media. MU.3.F.2.2 Describe opportunities for personal music-making MU.3.F.3.1 Collaborate with others to create a musical presentation and acknowledge individual contributions as an integral part of the whole.

24. Next Generation Standards Visual Art and Language Arts 3rdgrade Living Literature

25. Next Generation Standards Visual Art and Language Arts 3rdgrade Living Literature

26. Next Generation Standards Visual Art and Language Arts 3rdgrade Living Literature

27. The End