after the show - Idaho Shakespeare Festival

AESOP’S NETWORK
Broadcasting theatrical Fables
2010
Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Presentation of
Idaho
Theater
For
Youth
AESOP’S NETWORK
Broadcasting Theatrical
Fables
January 25 — April 9
Table of Contents
Section one: welcome!
Special thanks………………………………………… pg 4
Using this study guide……………………………… pg 4
A note from the director…………………………. pg 5
About the author …………………………………… pg 5
About the Idaho Shakespeare Festival……… pg 5
Section two: before the show
Meet the artists…………………………………… pg 6
Meet the author…………………………………. pg 7
Get to know the fables………………………… pg 8
Fun animal facts…………………………………. pg 9
Section three: after the show
Vocabulary…………………………………………………..pg 10
Activity: Lion’s journal…………………………………. pg 10
Activity: Draw like an art director………………….. pg 10
Activity: Create a character……………….………….. pg 11
Activity: Change three things………………………… pg 11
Morality…………………………………………………….. pg 11
Activity: Write your own fable………………………. pg 11
Activity: Think like a set designer………………….. pg 12
Activity: Color the set……...…………………………… pg 13
Activity: Think like a costume designer………….. pg 14
Costume sketches………………………………………... pg 15
Activity: Critter Scope experiment!.................... pg 16
Activity: Ant Attraction experiment!.................. pg 17
Activity: How many ants?................................... pg 17
Activity: Word search…………………………………... pg 18
Activity: Who said that………………………………… pg 19
Section four: appendix
Suggested reading………………………………….……….. pg 20
More information about Aesop…….…………………. pg 20
More information about E. Gray Simons III…….. pg 20
Final thought from Reporter……………………………. pg 21
welcome!
A Very Special Thank You!
As a part of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s educational programming,
Idaho Theater for Youth (ITY) performances have enriched the lives of
over one million students and teachers since 1981 with productions that
express the unique and impacting voice of the art of theater. The magic of
this art form is brought to schools across the State of Idaho each Winter/
Spring semester with assistance from a generous group of underwriters:
US Bancorp Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation
Idaho Community Foundation and the following funds:
Kissler Family Foundation Philanthropic Gift Fund
Gladys E. Langroise Advised Fund
Sara Maas Fund
James A. Pinney Memorial Fund
Perc H. Shelton & Gladys Pospisil Shelton Advised Fund
Miles and Virginia Willard Fund
Idaho Commission on the Arts
Boise City Department of Arts & History
OfficeMax Community Fund
Home Federal Foundation
Idaho Power
J.R. Simplot Foundation
Union Pacific Foundation
The Whittenberger Foundation
Using This Guide...
Dear Teachers,
Welcome to the Idaho Theater for Youth study guide for Aesop’s Fables! These materials have been designed to expand your students’
engagement with the fantastic fables that Aesop created in the sixth
century!
This resource includes a range of information, discussion topics, and
activities that can stand on their own or serve as building blocks for a
larger unit. The activities are designed to be mixed, matched and
modified to suit the needs of your particular students.
Inside, you’ll find activities to share with your students both before
the show and after the show, indicated by headings at the top of the
page. These are designed to help focus your students’ engagement
with the performance by giving them specific themes to watch out for,
as well as to foster critical thinking and discussion following the performance. Each activity is designed to meet Idaho Content Standards.
The activities are labeled with an abbreviation of the standards it
meets in order to aid in your planning.
We encourage you and your students to share your thoughts with us!
Any of the artwork or activities your students send will be shared with
the artists who created Aesop’s Fables, and any feedback from you will
help to improve our study guides for future audiences! Our mailing
address is located on page 9.
Thank you so much!
Idaho Content Standards Addressed in this study guide:
Health (he), humanities (hum), language arts (la), physical
education (phys), science (sci), social studies (soc), theater
(th), and visual arts (va).
A Note From the Director...
I come from a generation who started out listening to
contemporary music on a record player. It was such a big deal
when my mom or my dad would bring home a new LP, my brother
and I would look over the cover for hours while listening. One of
my all-time favorite LP’s was Aesop’s Fables by the Smothers
Brothers. They were absolutely hilarious. Granted it was not
music, they were stories, but we drooled over this LP with the
same fascination as any of the music LP’s.
The stories were funny, short, and poignant in my young, impressionable mind. Those Smothers Brothers knew comedy!
When the playwright, Grey Simons, sent me this play to consider
for our ITY touring show, I fondly remembered the stories I loved
so dearly on my LP. I could not help but fall in love with the script.
It’s filled with contemporary references and music, fast paced, and
yet still poignant lessons for any young person’s life.
We have had an absolute blast creating this production. I hope this
version of the stories, Aesop’s Fables, brings you laughter, but I
also hope it brings discussion to your classroom.
Enjoy.
Warmest Regards, Renee Knappenberger
welcome!
About our education program...
The Idaho Shakespeare Festival has become an integral part of the arts
education throughout Idaho. The Festival’s annual Shakespearience tour
brings live theater to more than 25,000 high-school students in more than
50 Idaho communities each year. Since it began touring in 1986,
Shakespearience has enriched the lives of nearly 500,000 students.
In 1999, the Festival assumed the operations of Idaho Theater for Youth
(ITY). This alliance has more than doubled the Festival’s annual
educational programming, resulting in the Festival becoming the largest
provider of professional, performing arts outreach in the state of Idaho. In
addition to the statewide Idaho Theater for Youth school tour, which
brings professional productions to nearly 30,000 students in grades K-6
across Idaho, the Festival oversees year-round Drama School programs.
This series of classes in acting, playwriting and production, for students of
all ages, enrolls over 300 Treasure Valley students each year. Look for
upcoming student productions throughout the summer, fall and spring.
For more information on any of the Festival’s educational activities, please
contact the Director of Education at the Festival offices or by email at
[email protected].
About Aesop!
Aesop was famous for his Fables, and supposedly lived from about 620 to to 560 B.C. Aesop’s fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children’s plays and cartoons.
Aesop’s place of birth is uncertain—Thrace, Phrygia, Aethiopia, Samos, Athens and Sardis all
claim the honor! Very little is known about Aesop’s life, and some people even believe he never actually
existed. But scholars who do believe he was real are quite certain that he spent a large part of his life on
the island of Samos and was actually a slave.
It is generally agreed that Aesop’s fables were not all created by him; his fame became so great
that many other fables were eventually put to his name.
Whether or not Aesop was a real person, we will never know. But someone out there helped to
contribute to over 200 listed fables known today!
before the show
Meet the Artists!
Turtle Tundra
Aesop’s Adventureland!
Renee Knappenberger
Director
Actor
Reporter 1 & 4
Mouse
Grasshopper
Clown 2
Wolf 2
Ant Hill
Nick Garcia
Grasshopper
Grasslands
Actor
Anchor
Villager 2
Ant 1
Hare
Sheep 1
Mother
Clown 1
Wolf 1
Mikenzie Ames
“Try to see
where the other
person is coming
from. Put yourself in their
shoes.”
“Some things
aren’t as big of a
deal as they
seem. Patience is
a virtue.”
Seth Asa Sengel
Sound Designer
Hare’s Hideout
Mouse Town
Lion’s Land
“No matter what
you do, you will
always have
family and
friends who love
you.”
Veronica VonTobel
Noah Moody
Actor
Actor
Reporter 2
Villager 1
Ant 2
PT Skeeter
Sheep 2
Lightening Bug
Announcer
Lady Bug
Attorney 2
Reporter 3
Villager 3
Lion
Tortoise
Boy
Attorney 1
Wolf’s Den
Cry Boy’s Village
Aesop’s Alley
“Sharing is
caring.”
Josh Frachiseur
Nicole Frachiseur
Costume Designer
T.J. Little
Stage Manager
Scenic Designer
before the show
Gray and students at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Meet the Author!
E. Gray Simons III – Gray has worked for thirteen years as an Artist-in-Residence at Berkshire Theatre Festival. In 2000, he became the Artistic Director of BTF PLAYS! and since then he has written several original plays
including Hansel and Gretel’s Grimm Tale, Hercules, Aesop’s Network: Broadcasting Theatrical Fables, The
Three Threads of Fate, Nursery Rhyme Café, Mystery Sideshow, Strange Waves and Way Out West. In 2000 he
made his playwriting debut at Berkshire Theatre Festival with his adaptation of Wind in the Willows. In the summer of 2001 he became the director of the Summer Performance Training Program and since that time he has
adapted several classics such as Alice in Wonderland, Just So Stories, The Odyssey, Arabian Nights, Robin Hood
(Co-adapted with Foster Durgin) and Monkey – initially, a 1997 collaboration with Eric Hill’s Bluehill Performance
Ensemble.
Gray and his theatre students
E. Gray Simons III
Check out: www.berkshiretheatre.org for more information!
before the show
An Introduction to Aesop’s
Fables…
la
“The Tortoise and the Hare”
There once was a speedy hare who bragged about how fast he could run.
Tired of hearing him boast, Slow and Steady, the tortoise, challenged
him to a race. All the animals in the forest gathered to watch.
Hare ran down the road for a while and then and paused to rest. He
looked back at Slow and Steady and cried out, "How do you expect to
win this race when you are walking along at your slow, slow pace?"
Hare stretched himself out alongside the road and fell asleep, thinking,
"There is plenty of time to relax."
Slow and Steady walked and walked. He never, ever stopped until he
came to the finish line.
The animals who were watching cheered so loudly for Tortoise, they
woke up Hare.
Hare stretched and yawned and began to run again, but it was too late.
Tortoise was over the line.
After that, Hare always reminded himself, "Don't brag about your lightning pace, for Slow and Steady won the race!"
“The Lion and the Mouse”
“The Ant and the Grasshopper”
A small mouse crept up to a sleeping lion. The mouse
admired the lion's ears, his long whiskers and his great
mane. "Since he's sleeping," thought the mouse, "he'll
never suspect I'm here!" With that, the little mouse
climbed up onto the lion's tail, ran across its back, slid
down its leg and jumped off of its paw. The lion awoke
and quickly caught the mouse between its claws.
"Please," said the mouse, "let me go and I'll come back
and help you someday." The lion laughed, "You are so
small! How could ever help me?" The lion laughed so
hard he had to hold his belly! The mouse jumped to freedom and ran until she was far, far away.
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping
about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An
Ant walked by, grunting as he carried a plump kernel of
corn. "Where are you off to with that heavy thing?"
asked the Grasshopper. Without stopping, the Ant replied, "To our ant hill. This is the third kernel I've delivered today." "Why not come and sing with me," said the
Grasshopper, "instead of working so hard?" "I am helping to store food for the winter," said the Ant, "and think
you should do the same." "Why bother about winter?"
said the Grasshopper; "we have plenty of food right
now." But the Ant went on its way and continued its
work.
The next day, two hunters came to the jungle. They went
to the lion's lair. They set a huge rope snare. When the
lion came home that night, he stepped into the trap. He
roared! He wept! But he couldn't pull himself free. The
mouse heard the lion's pitiful roar and came back to help
him. The mouse eyed the trap and noticed the one thick
rope that held it together. She began nibbling and nibbling until the rope broke. The lion was able to shake off
the other ropes that held him tight. He stood up free
again! The lion turned to the mouse and said, "Dear
friend, I was foolish to ridicule you for being small. You
helped me by saving my life after all!"
The weather soon turned cold. All the food lying in the
field was covered with a thick white blanket of snow
that even the grasshopper could not dig through. Soon
the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger. He staggered to the ants' hill and saw them handing out corn
from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then
the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days
of necessity.
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he
took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!" The villagers came running up the hill to
help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the
sight of their angry faces. "Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "when there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill.
Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away. When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!" But the boy just grinned
and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.
Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could,
"Wolf! Wolf!" But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.
Stories provided by: www.storyarts.org &
www.dltk-teach.com
At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the
hill to find the boy. They found him weeping. "There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!"
Why didn't you come?" An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village. "We'll help you look for
the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"
Fun Facts About the Animals in Aesop’s Fables!
sci
•
•
•
•
•
They live in Britain, Europe, Asia & Africa They have also been
introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Chile and USA.
Their ears are 10 cm long!
Hares can live up to 12 years.
They mainly eat grasses and herbs, but they also love tree bark.
A hare is the more athletic relative of the rabbit.
•
•
•
•
hare
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Wolves can weigh up to 177 pounds!
They live about 7 years.
Wolves are the largest wild members of the dog family.
Wolves can eat almost 100 pounds of meat at one feeding!
The only real enemy to a wolf is man.
wolf
•
•
Lions lives in Africa and the Gir Forest of India.
They can get close to 9 feet long!
Their favorite meats are wildebeest, zebra, impala, antelopes
and gazelles.
Lions are very social animals.
They have anywhere between 2 and 5 cubs per litter.
There are many, many different kinds of
mice.
The Wood Mouse only weights 14-28
grams!
Mice rarely live more than 2 years.
They love to eat seeds, fruit and buds.
mouse
Tortoise have feet that are not webbed, unlike turtles.
They are often 5 ft long!
They can weight anywhere between 300 and 400 pounds!
The tortoise lives at least 100 years.
They eat grass, leaves and cacti.
The most famous type of tortoise is the Galapagos Tortoise, which
originated in the Galapagos Islands.
tortoise
•
•
•
before the show
•
•
•
•
•
Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight!
They only live about 45 days.
There are over 1,000 known species of ants.
The Army Ant of South America often has
700,000 ants in the colony!
Ants are very clean and tidy insects.
•
•
•
•
ant
A grasshopper weighs about 3 grams.
Swarming grasshoppers are called locusts.
Only male grasshoppers sing.
Long-horned grasshoppers have ears in
the knee joints of their front legs!
grasshopper
Information on the animals provided by:
lion
www.lingolex.com & www.ypte.org.uk
after the show
Activity…
Lion’s Journal
Vocabulary Words…
la
Hootenanny—noun. A social gathering or
informal concert featuring folk singing and
sometimes dancing.
Chaotic—adj. Completely confused or disordered.
Ballyhoo—noun. A clamor or outcry.
la, th
Ask your students to imagine that one day, when
they were on their way to the circus, they found a
small journal written by Lion. Ask your students
to write a journal entry from Lion’s perspective.
Some starters:
• Does Lion really like being in the circus?
• Lion calls himself the “star of the ‘Big Cats
Menagerie’.” Do you think he likes being famous? What are the pros and cons of being a
celebrity?
* See if your students can incorporate one or two
of the vocabulary words in their journal entry!
Activity…
va, th
Draw Like an
Art Director!
Awestruck—adj. Filled with awe.
Ecologist—noun. Someone who deals with the
interactions between organisms and their environment.
Gloat— verb. To look at or think about with
great or excessive satisfaction.
Feud—noun. A bitter quarrel or contention.
Wager—noun. Something risked or staked on
an uncertain event.
Menagerie—noun. A collection of wild or unusual animals.
Definitions provided by: www.dictionary.com
In professional theater, there is often a person called the ‘art director’ who is responsible
for designing all the advertising materials for a production,
including promotional posters, programs, etc. Using any art materials from the classroom
or special materials from home (magazines to make a collage, etc.), have your students
design posters for Aesop’s Network. They can
advertise the ITY production, or use their imaginations and create their very own productions! Above are three examples of book covers of Aesop’s Fables you can share with your
students for inspiration. Some information they may want to include:
• The show’s title
• The dates, times, and location the play is being performed
• Contact information (phone numbers, addresses, or websites)
• Names of actors appearing in the play (could be their friends, celebrities, anybody!)
• A tagline or excerpts from imaginary reviews (“Two paws up!”)
• A drawing or collection of drawings that highlights a character, scene,
location, or theme from Aesop’s Network that the student feels is
important for a potential audience member to understand about her
production.
after the show
Activity…
la, th
Create a Character
E. Gray Simons III based his characters on familiar animals
(see page 9), which the ITY actors then brought to life using
their voices and bodies. Create your own character in the
style of Aesop’s Network.
• Choose an animal. What do you know about that animal
(its habits, where it lives, what it eats, etc.)?
• Imagine if that animal had human qualities. What
would they be? What kind of personality would it have?
What kind of job? What would its house look like? What
are its likes and dislikes?
• Once you’ve imagined a little about your character, start
to act it out! How does he walk? What does his voice
sound like? Allow your students to quietly walk around
the room and interact with each other as their new
characters.
Activity…
Let’s Talk About Morality…
Definition of Morality: virtuous conduct.
Aesop’s Network is the intertwining of the fables written by Aesop. Aesop’s Fables, “through the use of (mostly) animal protagonists, consist of simple tales
with moral endings transcending time and place so to be as relevant
today as they were millennia ago. Universally popular, they still inspire many
contemporary stories, plays, and movies.”
The simple morals of Aesop’s fables is what makes them so easily accessible to
kids.
Here is a list of some of the morals Aesop uses in his tales. Ask your students
if they have any story in their own life that uses one of these morals.
• A false tale often betrays itself.
• A villain may disguise himself, but he will not deceive the wise.
• An act of kindness is a good invention.
• Beauty is only skin deep.
• It is better to bend than to break.
phys, th
Change Three Things
This is a game that can be played easily without moving chairs or
desks. Explain that one volunteer will stand up in front of the group.
They will slowly turn around once or twice, during which time the
group should observe them carefully looking for details about the
person’s appearance. After a couple of turns, the volunteer should
leave the room and take about a minute to change three things
about his appearance. Some suggestions include tucking or
untucking a shirt, removing glasses or pieces of jewelry, untying a
shoe, or anything else (within reason). After he has changed three
things, he may return to the group. Tell the group that if they think
they see something that has changed to raise their hands. Have the
volunteer call on anyone with their hand up. After each change has
been guessed – or after the volunteer has stumped the group –
choose another volunteer.
Activity…
la
Write Your Own Fable!
After reading the fables seen in Aesop’s Network (pg. 8),
ask your students to write their own fable. Some helpful
hints:
• Discuss possible ideas for the moral of your story
(see above).
• Pick just 2 or 3 characters for your story.
• Keep it simple.
• Describe the scenery and characters.
A Little Tip: Combine the “Create a Character”
activity with “Write Your Own Fable!”
after the show
Think Like a Set Designer!
The set of Aesop’s Network
Copy this page!
va, th
Here is a stage drawing for reference
Copy this page!
Color the Set! You decide the colors of the set for the show
after the show
after the show
Copy this page!
Think Like a Costume Designer!
va, th
The director and costume designer of Aesop’s Network worked together to create costumes that would be
colorful, whimsical, and fit the turn-of-the-century when this book was written. They had the challenge
of creating costumes that would remind the audience of animals without being literal.
Think like a costume designer and choose what colors you would want the costumes to be! They can be
the same as in the ITY production, or completely different. Be creative with color!
TIP: use page 15 for some costume ideas from the show
LION
HARE
GRASSHOPPER
WOLF
Costume Sketches!
after the show
Our costume designer worked very hard to draw out these sketches of what the costumes
for Aesop’s Network would look like.
after the show
Critter Scope Experiment!
Did you ever wonder what life is like under water?
Well now is your chance to find out how different insects live in a stream. The critter scope is an exploring tool that can peek into the lifestyles of the wet and wiggly
world!
Materials
• a can opener
• a clean coffee can or large juice can
• waterproof tape or duct tape
• clear plastic wrap
• a large and strong rubber band
• scissors
Procedure
1. Carefully remove both ends of the can and cover sharp edges with tape.
2. Place plastic wrap around one end of the can, leaving about one inch extra
around the edge.
3. Put a rubber band around the can and plastic to keep the plastic wrap tight.
4. Cut excess plastic wrap away and put tape over the rubber band and plastic
wrap.
5. Take your critter scope for a test run in a sink. Look through the open end and
place the closed end (the one with the plastic on it) in the water.
6. Now you are able to visit the wet and wiggly world of a stream.
Experiment provided by www.epa.gov
sci
Ant Attraction Experiment!
Will ants be more attracted to sugar water, salt water or
plain water?
Materials
• ants
• sugar
• salt
• water
• 2 Bowls
• paper
• eyedropper
Procedure
1. All you need to do is gather up some ants. This can easily be done by
1
grabbing a container and going into your backyard, or taking a walk
down the street as ants often make their ant hills on lawns, sidewalks and driveways.
2. Get out the 2 bowls and put water in them.
3. In one bowl, add 2 teaspoons of sugar.
sci
after the show
How Many Ants?
math, sci
An ant can lift 20 times it’s own body weight! Check out the list of
objects below and write down how many ants it would take to
carry that object.
Tip: Ant’s weight: 3 milligrams
Ant can lift: 3milligrams x 20 = _____ milligrams
Object:
Object’s weight:
1. match
200 milligrams
2. drop of water
1 milligram
3. popcorn kernel
12300 milligrams
4. butterfly
400 milligrams
5. American flag
226,796 milligrams
6. gumball
900 milligrams
7. pencil
100 milligrams
8. 1/2 c ice cream
70,873 milligrams
9. paperclip
1400 milligrams
4. In the second bowl, add 2 teaspoons of salt.
5. Grab your piece of paper and draw three circles on it. Label one circle
“sugar”, another circle “salt” and the last circle “plain.”
6. Take the eyedropper and make a small puddle of each type of water
in each of the corresponding circles.
7. Take a few ants and place them in the center of the paper and watch
to see which puddle attracts them. Give them a few minutes to really
decide which one they like best.
10. you!
_____________ milligrams
Tip: 1 pound = 453,592 milligrams
# of ants:
after the show
Activity…
Just for fun!
Copy this page!
Aesops Network Word Search!
Copy this page!
Activity…
Just for fun!
after the show
Who Said That?
Below is a list of quotations from the Idaho Theater for Youth production of
Aesop’s Network. Read each line, and see if you can remember which character
said it! Write the character’s name on the line next to the quotation. Some
characters may be used more than once.
1. “Hi. I’m not officially an employee of the circus, but I do help clean up a lot of the scraps that
people leave behind after the show.” ______________________________
2. “You’re small and helpless and you’d probably taste good with a dash of A-1.”
____________________
3. “I’ve already printed more than 6 billion invitations and I’d hate for all that paper to go to
waste.” __________________________
Character Bank!
4. “When I was a kid, I was the slowest animal in school.” _______________________
5. “It’s really amazing that so many people want to come on national television to make fools of
themselves.” __________________________
6. “Here, look I took these pictures on my digital camera.” ______________________
7. “I’ve already worked out a deal with the dancing poodles.” _____________________
8. “We could throw a party in the name of recycling!” ________________________
Lion
Grasshopper
Ant
Boy
Hare
Mouse
additional materials
Suggested reading for students who enjoyed Aesop’s Network:
Young Readers
Older Readers
Greek Myths For Young Children by Heather Amery
The Golden Book of Fairy Tales by Adrienne Segur
Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
Curious George by H.A. Rey
Bonjour, Barbar! By Laurent de Brunhoff
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Paddington Treasury by Michael Bond
Tales From The Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen by Margaret Clark
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Stuart Little by E.B. White
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Mr. Poppers Penguins by Florence Atwater
For More Information on Aesop
Online Resources:
www.biographybase.com/biography/
Aesop.html
www.online-literature.com/aesop/
DVD:
Aesop’s Fables (2009) Distributed by Disney,
NR
Audio CD:
Aesop’s Fables, The Smothers Brothers Way
Music for Little People, 1990
For More Information on E. Gray
Simons III:
Berkshire Theater, Stockbridge MA
www.berkshiretheatre.org
the end
“And as we speed
toward the conclusion
of our broadcast, we
should remind
ourselves to slow
down and deliberate
on the questions of
life.”
- Reporter