8/12/2019 Assignment Plays and Drama
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Selection
Why this story is suitable to be rewritten to scripts?
Title The Straw, the Coal and the Bean
Genre Pour Quoi/Why stories
Characters 3 main characters; a woman, the straw, the coal, and
the bean, a tailorPlot 1. A woman was cooking beans. She lit a fire
with some straw and a piece
of it fell to the floor.
2. Then she emptied the beans into the cooking pot. Plop! One
droppedonto the ground beside the straw. A burning coal leapt down
from the
fire to join them with a crackle!
3. The straw, the bean and the coal congratulated themselves on
escapingthe fire which would have destroyed them.
4. They ran through the open door and didnt stop until they
reached alittle brook. But there was no bridge over water, so the
straw lay across
the brook and invited the others to cross.
5.
The coal leapt at first, but half way over he got scared and
couldntmove. As he was still hot from fire, he burned through the
straw and
they both fell into water with a hiss!
6. Hahaha! the bean laughed so hard that she split in two, and
thatwould have been the end of her too, if it wasnt for a tailor
who
happened to be passing.
7. The tailor kindly sewed the bean back together again. And
that is why,to this very day, some beans have a black seam!
Setting Timewithin a day
Placein a kitchen, outside house, river
Development social
cognitive
aesthetic
moral dimensions -
Bingham, H., & Louise Martin, A. C. (2011).A Story a Day 365
Fairy Tales, Rhymes and Other Stories.
Bath: Parragon.
8/12/2019 Assignment Plays and Drama
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Adaptation
Year: Year 5
Theme: World of Stories
Development:
Drama technique:
Drama activity:
Cast
Mother
Daughter
Mr. Bean
Black coal
Billy the straw
Broomy broom
Scene 1
[In a kitchen]
Narrator :
Daughter : (from far) Mum, I feel very hungry. Can we have some
bean porridge for our dinner
tonight? Please, mum..
Mother : Alright then. But you have to help me first here.
Narrator : So, the daughter helps her mother lit a fire with
some straw and a piece of it fell to the
floor. Then, she put all the beans into the cooking pot. One of
the beans dropped onto
the floor beside the straw.
Mrs. Bean : Auww!
Narrator : A burning coal also fell down from the fire and join
Mrs. Bean and Billy the straw.
Coal : (cracking) Ouch! It hurts. Eh, hey Billy. Hey Mrs.
Bean.
Billy : Wow, it was too close just now. If not, we are all will
be destroyed by the fire.
Mrs. Bean : Well, yeah. But we have to get out from here now
before those two monsters catch for
us.
narrator : They ran through the open door and did not stop until
they reached a small drain.
Mrs. Bean : So, what about now? I cannot get through this. There
is no bridge here. (sad)
Billy : (thinking) Hmm.. I can be the bridge. (lay across the
drain)
Mrs. Bean : Coal, you first.
Narrator : the coal was very excited to cross the drain but
suddenly, he got scared and could not
move. Since he was still hot from the fore, he burned through
the straw and fell into the
water together. (splashing)
Mrs. Bean : Hahaha! You two are very pity.
Narrator : The bean laughed so hard until she split into
two.
Mrs. Bean : (crack) Oh, no.. What is happening to my body?
Help!
Billy and Coal : Hahaha! Serve you right!
narrator: Suddenly a tailor passing through the place and Mrs.
Bean ask Mr Tailor to sew her body
back together again. And that is why; some beans that we found
today have a black
seam.
