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Week 1

The Snowman – notes

Section / What happens? / From whose viewpoint?
1. Making the snowman
2. Snowman comes alive, explores house
3. Motorbike ride
4. Flying through the air
5. At the North Pole
6. Back in bed – the morning after

Week 1

Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 1: Making the Snowman

Week 2

Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 2: Snowman comes alive & explores house

Week 2

Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 3: Motorbike Ride

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Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 4: Flying through the air

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Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 5: At the North Pole

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Raymond Briggs “The Snowman”

Section 6: Back in Bed Morning After

Week 2

The Snowman Stage Show

Alternative Ending

(Boy stands peering through misted window to see the melted snowman standing on the grass)

BOY: OH NO! (Boy puts hands to face)

(From other room mum shouts and comes running!)

MOTHER: Whatever is the matter? … Have you spilt the milk again?

Week 3

Movie Monologues

101 Dalmatians
written by John Hughes, from the novel by Dodie Smith

Cruella De Vil: You beasts! But I'm not beaten yet. You've won the battle, but I'm about to win the wardrobe. My spotty puppy coat is in plain sight and leaving tracks. In a moment I'll have what I came for, while all of you will end up as sausage meat, alone on some sad, plastic plate. Dead and medium red. No friends, no family, no pulse. Just slapped between two buns, smothered in onions, with fries on the side. Cruella De Vil has the last laugh!

Antz
written by Todd Alcott & Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz

Zee: All my life I've lived and worked in the big city, which now that I think of it, is a problem since I always feel uncomfortable around crowds. I mean it I have this fear of enclosed spaces, everything makes me feel trapped all the time. You know I always tell my self there's got to be something better out there, but maybe I think to much. I think everything must go back to the fact that I had a very anxious childhood, you know my mother never had time for me. You know when your a middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention, I mean how's it possible. And I've always had these abandonment issues, which played me, My father was basically a drone like I've said, you know the guy flew away when I was just a larva... and my job, don't get me started on, cause it really annoys me, I was not cut out to be a worker, I'll tell you right now, I feel physically inadequate, I, I, my whole life I've never been able to lift ten times my own body weight and when you get down to it, handling dirt is..... aaaiiiheeww, you know is not my idea of a rewarding career. It's this whole gung-ho super-organism thing that I, I you know I can't get, I try but I can't get it. I mean you know, what is it, I'm supposed to do everything for the colony, and what about my needs, what about me? I mean I gotta believe there's someplace out there that's better than this! Otherwise I'd just curl up in a larva position and weep! (pause) The whole system out there just makes me feel... (thinking) Insignificant!

The Wizard of Oz
written by L. Frank Baum (novel), Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf

Dorothy: But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you and you and you...and you were there. But you couldn't have been could you? No, Aunt Em, this was a real truly live place and I remember some of it wasn't very nice, but most of it was beautiful--but just the same all I kept saying to everybody was "I want to go home," and they sent me home! Doesn't anybody believe me? But anyway, Toto, we're home! Home. And this is my room, and you're all here and I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again. Because I love you all. And... Oh Auntie Em! There's no place like home!

Week 4