It's Showtime...

Preparing The Stage

The Wisdom Givers Curtain Speech

Good Afternoon.  We’d like to welcome you to Clarkton School of Discovery for our presentation of The Wisdom Givers.  This production was completely created, researched, written, publicized, produced, and performed by the sixth graders of our school.  A grassroots grant, made possible by the North Carolina Arts Council, allowed us to bring in professional teaching artists, Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen from EbzB Productions to facilitate. (www.ebzb.org)

Inspired by an idea from a book on our 6th grade reading list, The Giver, Serena and David asked our students to interview and request the wisdom of older Bladen County citizens.  The students documented the answers to these three questions...

1) What is wrong with our world?  

2) What would you recommend we do to fix it?

3) What is right with our world?

The answers were compiled to create a script for today’s performance.  We have incorporated popular music into the production and we welcome you to join us in singing and dancing through the final song.  There will be a brief post-show discussion with the students and teaching artists, so get your questions ready.

And now, please enjoy The Wisdom Givers.