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What to Look For...1
“Lear Strikes Out”...2
Word Search...6
Song Lyrics...7
Dear Doubles...8
Otto’s Diary...10
Crack the Code...11
Scrapbook...12
Poll Results...13
Music Beat...14
Izzi & Anna’s Research Report...16
Sticker Board...17
Meet The Doubles...Back Cover
The Doubles was made possible by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to Joel Epstein of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. Production team - Karen Kadela Collins, Kelly
Gregory, Thom Pancella; script by John Frain; art and layout by Tom Dineen; Doubles logo by Eric Lubbers; Music and Lyrics by Allen Epstein (ASCAP) and Peggy Epstein; content and curriculum
consultants – Kathleen Bucholz, Theodore Cicero, Linda Cottler, Ty Ridenour, and Elizabeth Schwartz. The Doubles: Carrie Walther as Anna O’Banyon; Emily Walther as Hannah O’Banyon; James
Walsh as Otto Kravitz; and Kayla Wingbermuehle as Izzi Kravitz. Additional cast includes Thom Pancella as Gordon, Theresa Masters as Aunt Sam, and Corey Eisenstein as Dooger. ©2003,
Curators of the University of Missouri.
what to Look For...
You’ll find each of the musical symbols shown below other places in this
Doubles fanzine. Each symbol goes with a fact that applies to the title of
this issue: All About the Brain.
Can you find all five important facts and write them in below?
Here’s a clue: the answer for the first one is found in the scrapbook on
page 14. (It’s found on other pages as well.) Good luck!
1. The brain is a very important part of your body because it controls
everything you _____________, ____________, and do. It also
controls other things like your breathing and _________________.
2. The ____________ is made up of many different parts working
together, each part doing a different thing.
3. _____________________ is the way brain cells talk to each other
using electrical and chemical messages.
4. The brain is ______________, but it is protected in many ways.
5. The brain can store huge amounts of __________________ because
it has so many connections between its billions of cells.
Answers on Page 8
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“No problem.”
But it was a problem.
Otto already plays
keyboards for us.
We had a big show
scheduled for Saturday
where we were going
to be the opening act.
None of us could figure
out how to tell Otto the
news. We were worried
what would happen at
Monday’s rehearsal when
You see, Dooger was
two keyboard players
playing the part of the
showed up. Instead, we
king. Anna thought he
had zero keyboard players
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t was a
boring Saturday night
until King Lear came
along. Well, not the
real king, of course.
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Anna
and I
went to
Westside
to see our
school play.
They were
performing
King Lear by
a guy named
Shakespeare. Nothing
would be boring the rest
of the week thanks to
King Lear.
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with our band.
“I can only play
keyboards,” Dooger said.
“You’ll play keyboards,” Anna replied.
uesday
went the same
way, so at
school on
Wednesday,
I confronted
Dooger.
“Rehearsal
is at
6:00 sharp
tonight,” I said.
“Be there or beware!”
“Practice is boring,”
he said. “I’ll just show up
for the performance on
Saturday.”
I couldn’t believe it.
After school I went home
We nee
d to
convin
ce Ott
o to
rejoin
the ba
nd!
and pulled
the headphones off
Otto’s ears. “I know the
brain is fragile,” I told
him. “But it’s protected
in many different ways.
You don’t have to wear
these headphones.”
“I’m not protecting
my brain. I’m listening to
music.”
“Speaking of music,”
I said, “why haven’t you
been at rehearsal for two
days?”
Hi!
I’m Shakespeare
... just a guy who
writes plays.
He told
me he heard
about our
plan to
replace him
with Dooger.
“I’m done
We nee
to use d
our
BRAINS
!
with The
Doubles, Iz. You
guys didn’t even have the
brains to tell me you were
getting Dooger to play
keyboards.”
I’ve researched a lot
about the brain with
Anna. So I’m really
confused sometimes.
For example, I
actually learned about
neurotransmission.
Really, that’s a word!
Neurotransmission is
the way brain cells talk
to each
other with
electrical
and
chemical
messages.
So if I can
figure that
out, why
couldn’t
I figure out that we’d
hurt Otto’s feelings if
We nee
d to
consul
t
Aunt S with
ama
and Go ntha
rdon!
we asked Dooger
to play keyboards?
Well, I don’t know
the answer to that,
but I knew I had to
change things. I called
Hannah and Anna and
we all decided to consult
with Aunt Samantha and
Gordon.
g
ordon
could help because he’s
our band manager and
he might have some ideas
about how to get the
band ready by Saturday.
Sam could help because
she always has good ideas
about everything. We all
met in Dubby, our band
bus. Otto came up with
that name.
Sam stood at the front
of the bus. “So, you have
two keyboard players in
your band, but you don’t
have any keyboard players
in your band. Right?”
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We looked at each
other again.
“That’s a no-brainer,”
Gordon finally said.
“If he doesn’t show up
to practice, how will
What a
this Go bout
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w
e all looked
at each other. It sounded
kind of funny when she
put it that way, but Sam
was right.
She continued. “What
about this guy Goober –”
“Dooger,” Anna
corrected her.
“Okay, Dooger. If he
thinks he’s too good to
practice, do you want
him in the band?”
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he do at the
performance? He won’t
know which songs we’re
going to do. He might be
off-key. All sorts of things
could go wrong. Besides,
rehearsals with you guys
are fun. Otto
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always makes them fun.”
Gordon paused. “Well, he
used to anyway.”
We all agreed with
Gordon.
Sam continued.
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“Speaking
of the brain, let
me tell you guys
something. The
brain is made
up of many
parts working
together, and
each part does
something
different. One
part controls your
memory. Another part
gets input from your
taste buds. And that’s
how we’re going to get
Otto back.”
“Huh?” we all said.
“Okay, it’s
like this. The
brain can store
huge amounts of
information because
it has so many
connections between
its billions of cells.
In Otto’s brain right
now, there’s something
that remembers how
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much fun it was to play
in the band. Gordon
just said that even
rehearsals were fun,
right?”
“Yeah,” Hannah
spoke up. “Otto
always made them
fun.”
Gordon was
nodding his
head. “I see
where you’re
going, Sam. We
just need to
remind Otto how much
fun the band was and
his brain will tell him to
rejoin the band.”
Sam smiled. “Exactly.”
I was smiling too,
but I was still a little
confused. “Where do
Otto’s taste buds fit
in?”
“Oh, I know,”
Hannah said
before Sam could
answer. “One of
the parts of his
brain controls
his hearing. If
we bake Otto a
cake, the taste
bud section of
the brain will tell
the hearing section of
the brain to listen to us!”
We all laughed at that.
“You’re learning well,
Hannah,” Sam said.
We made Otto a
chocolate cake with
Solution to Puzzle on Page 6
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strawberries. It
worked! Otto couldn’t
wait to get back in the
band and he practiced
harder than ever. Our
show on Saturday
for
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perfect. Now
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rehearsals are fun
again. It’s good to be
back together.
The End
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Answer on Page 5
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Answers for Crack the Code from Page 11
#1: The brain is a very important part of your body because it
controls everything you think, feel and do. It also controls other things
like your breathing and heartbeat.
#2: The brain can store huge amounts of information because it has so
many connections between its billions of cells.
Lyrics
DOUBLE DECKER BUS
One
Two
Three
Four
Life’s such a bore.
One
Two
Three
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There must be more
For you and me
And me and me to do,
All together two plus two.
One
Two
Three
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We need some fun,
Something different
That we’ve not done.
Hey wait,
What’s that across the street?
C’-mon, it’s a double decker bus.
On a double decker bus
Four of us can double date.
And we’ll touch the sky
As the world goes by.
So grab my hand,
I can’t wait.
On a double decker bus
Four of us can double date.
Ev’rybody waves
And they smile at us.
It’s gonna be really great.
We won’t take trucks, tanks, or trains.
No DC-10s or private planes.
We won’t hang glide,
Camel ride, or cruise on motor bikes.
No to limos,
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October 8
Day 1 of my new life
I heard today that Anna and Izzi asked Dooger to play keyboards in the band. I’m
quitting. I quit The Doubles! Today is the first day of the rest of my life. It doesn’t feel
so weird strange bizarre freaky. Okay, so maybe it’s a little squirrely (however you spell
that wacky word).
October 9
Day 2 of my new life
I am not playing second fiddle keyboard to Dooger. He already beat me out to play King
Lear in the school play and now he’s taking my spot in the band. Forget it. Although I do
miss seeing Hannah a little bit.
October 10
Day 3 of my new life
Now I hear Dooger hasn’t shown up for rehearsal a single time! I hear the brain is made
up of many different parts working together and each part does something different.
I bet Anna and Izzi want to get at part of Dooger’s brain right now. I kind of miss
rehearsal. But I’m not going back.
October 11
Day 4 of my new life
Ha! Dooger quit, got fired, isn’t playing keyboards anymore - even though he never was
because he never showed up for one single rehearsal. They’re not getting me back. I
wonder if they’ll ask me. I guess I could think about it. I mean, it’s kind of fun and all.
I hope they ask me. Maybe I should go see if they want me back. It’s almost rehearsal
time, I better get moving.
October 12
Day 1 of my new, new life
Yes!!! Otto’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble!! Otto just wants to have fu-un!
Hoo-ha, I’m back in the band, Mr. Keyboard Player. We’re the opening act for a concert
tomorrow so we have to practice hard tonight since we’ve missed a few days. Hannah
and Izzi and Anna baked me a cake to get me to join the band again. Of course, I was
already coming over there to beg them to let me back in, but don’t tell them that!
I think Hannah made the icing because it was the best part. I know the brain holds
a ton of information, I just hope my brain can remember everything I need to play for
the concert!
10
finding lots of facts for their science report. But they
Anna and Izzi have been
know how far along they are on their assignment, so
don’t want anyone to
they send each other messages in secret code.
This month, they’re using a wheel code. They’ve
decided that “ ” is the key letter so they’ve lined
the inner “ ” to the outer “ .” Just match the
letter in the code to the inner ring and look on
the outer ring to decode. For example “ ” =
“ ” and “ ” = “ .” To make things even more
tricky, the inner ring isn’t complete. You’ll
have to do that yourself. If you get stuck, you
can find the answers to the key on page 15.
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Effects of
DRUGS
on HUMANS
By Izzi Kravitz and Anna O’Banyon
Here’s our report update for Mr. Stephens. We really want to get an A, so we’re
working hard. It’s interesting discovering new things.
Our second chapter is titled “All About the Brain.” The brain is extremely important.
It controls what you think, feel, and do. It even controls stuff like your breathing and
your heartbeat. So you can see how important the brain really is, right? That’s why
we gave it a whole chapter.
The brain weighs only three pounds. That’s a pretty good bargain for us. Only
three pounds but it can store huge amounts of information because it has so many
connections between its billions of cells. Wow!
The brain looks like it has a bunch of wrinkles. It has lots of different parts all
working together, but with each part doing a different thing. For example, one part
is responsible for your speech, another part controls your thinking, another part
controls memory, another part your vision – well, you get the idea. Your brain is
fragile, but fortunately it gets lots of protection, like from your skull and skin and
some other things.
Okay, ready for the hard part? Neurotransmission. Try saying that with a mouth
full of spaghetti! Neurotransmission is the way brain cells talk to one another using
electrical and chemical messages. In other words, if a neuron in your brain gets
excited, it sends an electrical message somewhere else in the brain and pretty soon
you’re excited. Actually, really soon you’re excited, because all this happens at
about 220 miles per hour. The world’s fastest wooden roller coaster
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