I-93 SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE: THE UNTOLD STORY
A Shared Reading Script Based on a Well-Known Rhyme.
6 Solo Readers: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, King, Queen, Maid, Knave
Readers Chorus: Flock of Blackbirds (as few or as many as you'd like)
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Too old for nursery rhymes? Maybe not. In this version a King, Queen, Maid, and Knave take this tale in a whole new direction!
The king spends all his Counting House dollars (or loonies, if you are Canadian) on twenty four Bumbleberry pies. The queen spends her quarters on large amounts of bread and honey. The maid spends her dimes hiring the gardener's boy to help her hang the clothes. Eventually, they have nothing to show for their purchases.
A chorus of blackbirds continually warn our characters to save for "a rainy day". Only the knave takes their advice and hides his pennies away. When that rainy day finally comes, the characters sing their own songs of "money and ways to save or spend it." Yes, the story has a moral - and that is how they end it.
This script may be read and performed by a combination of ages and/or reading levels. Because the Flock of Blackbirds may consist of as many birds as you’d like to include, you might use a whole kindergarten class (or other younger readers) for the Birds Readers Chorus lines, then assign individual solo reading parts to the appropriate readers of varying ages.
Simple costume pieces and/or props, creative gestures, and use of facial expressions work well with this script and will help define each character.
Student (Reader) Version is 7 ½ pages in length.
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