Literacy - The Lost Happy Endings - Drama

"By the time she reached the middle of the forest, the mist had thickened and Jub could only see a little way ahead.
The shadowy trees looked villainous: tall ghouls with long arms and twiggy fingers.

Bushes crouched in the fog as though they were ready to pounce like muggers."

Freeze Frame

We split into groups and brought the text to life with a reader's theatre.

The other groups had to guess which part of the text we were silently acting out :

1. The witch danced crazily around the fire, singing hideously. The flames danced with her, cheek to cheek, step by step, arm in arm, 1-2-3 1-2-3.

2. The witch's scream scattered the sleeping birds from the trees, in a panic of wings. Jub heard the awful noise and smelled a strange, salty, burning smell drifting through the trees. She followed her nose, and it led her to the middle of the forest.

3. At first she thought she had stumbled upon a fire, spitting and crackling like the breath of a dragon. But the fire open its jaws and roared and she saw it was the witch burning to death.