Blindfold: Blanket: Candle and Lighter: Chart paper and markers
Game Openers: Concentrator: Key words concentration. Rules. Step in count .if not done last week then Fizz Buzz. [1] VGI.5 senses. Could this be used withother stories?? [2] Keeper of the Keys . [3] Trad picture examination. Small/big. Sims /diffs. Use the cover picture as base.
Read the story or, even better, tell it .
• Spread out the blanket. Light the candle. Walk around the room and see each eye. Then sit and watch the candle. Start the story. In voice of a forest animal. Against the hunter.
Stop the story at the point where the animals are on the way to the Hunter.
• Make a list of the 5 main events: Orally
• Using the blanket: make the group into 5’s. Then ask each group to name the five main points of the story. Then ask each group to name the five most important places for the Forest child. Then each group names ONE. Write on post-it or scrap of PAPER and place it on the blanket. When each group has named one- then each person takes a slip of paper and makes the unmentioned things in the story. Unmentioned, places or things. Hidden things. Secret things. Like hidden or forbidden path. Transfer the 3-D image to the wall 2-D with blutack on 10 ft Lining paper strip.
In five groups.
• Show or Make a map of the main events and where they happened. What were the special places for the FC.
• Flag other possibilities or ways of engagement.
• Keyhole of boy’s room
• Interior of cave
• Man Village
• Hunters house
Tableau Worst moment for the forest child: groups of 4. Building sympathy for the child. Read images as anti-hunter. Question the Child only –build up against the Hunter.
• Hot seat the hunter. Role Motivation: Concentrate on the way the hunter should or should not have behaved. Ask for questions in advance. Rehears how the participants will tackle him If he gets angry then we won’t find out-so how should we question him to not make him angry. Take suggestions: Indirectly, slowly in.
• Raise issues. Don’t reach a decision.
• How will it end? Five years time. First day at school
• Get into groups. Decide on a happy end or a sad one or a mixture.
• Make a play. Only one line each at the most two.
• Identify Themes, Underlying question, poss. other TIR’s
FOREST CHILD STORY
There was a child raised by animals in forest.
The Bear The Wolf The Beaver
She ran silently across the forest floor. The Bear showed her where the sweetest honey was
The wolf showed her the juiciest berries
And the Beaver – swam in dam.
One day a HUNTER and BOY came. Stay here! The Hunter said to boy.
The boy walked between the trees and saw her. Don’t be afraid!
She showed him all the hidden places in forest’s secret heart
One day The Hunter saw them playing. Waited. Snatched
Hunter brought her home. Taught her to behave.
Spoon, Pen and paper. Handed pen to her. Write your name! Hunter raised his hand. Her eyes glistened with tears.
Just then the boy came. Banged on door don’t shout at her!
Shed better understand. Stay out of this!
Boy hesitated and ran to forest. Animals had missed girl and had traced her scent to end of clearing.
Wolf howled!
Boy said Quick this way!
Animals jumped in window. They chased hunter
The wolf bit a hole in his trousers, the beaver tripped him and the bear sent him rolling down a hill, into big puddle and he sank from sight!
The sun in the forest streams through the trees. The girl and a village boy run silently through the trees. She teaches him how to find honey and get juiciest berries; they swim and dive in the lake behind the beaver dam.
And in the evening when they area all tired the all sleep together in a jumbled heap under a million stars
