Literature Component for Secondary Schools

Drama in the Classroom

BAHAGIAN PEMBANGUNAN KURIKULUM

KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MAAYSIA
OCT 2010
 Benefits of Drama:

♫ Encourages students to speak : Gives confidence

and elevates their shyness;
♫ Allows students to communicate, using both
verbal and non-verbal communication;
♫ Helps students learn about emotions, problem
solving and relating to other people;
♫ Builds up imaginations and confidence;
♫ Stimulates creativity in problem solving.
 Benefits of Drama:

♫ Challenges students perception of their world and

about themselves
♫ Provides students an outlet for expressions of
emotions, thoughts and dreams
♫ Helps in the total development of students : builds
confidence, self-image, self control and discipline.
♫ Dramatizing a text is motivating and fun
 Drama Activities
dramatic play story enactment

music dance

imagination
journeys games
Literature Component for Secondary Schools

DRAMA ( FORM 2 )

RUMPELSTILTS
KIN
The Fairytale

Title : Rumplestiltskin

Writers : Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm

(4 Jan 1785 – 20 Sept 1863)
Wilhelm Karl Grimm
(24 Feb 1786 – 16 Dec 1859)

Origin : Hanau, Germany

Other : Grimm’s Fairy Tales Collection :

tales Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel,
Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel,and The Frog
Prince
The Playwright

Name : Angela Lanyon

Origin : Leamington Spain (1930); lived all over

British Isles; 3 children

Career : - Children’s writer in Residence Swan

Theatre, Worcester;
- Asst. Manager & Administrator for
Children’s Work at Westcliff-on-Sea;
- House Manager for Chichester
Festival Theatre;
- Theatre Manager at the Theatre
Royal, Plymouth
Synopsis
 A miller and his wife lied to the king that their daughter, Lisa
can spin straw into gold
 The king then takes Lisa to his castle and locks her in a high
tower room full of straw and one spinning wheel
 The king instructed her to spin the straw into gold by morning,
or be executed. She gives up all hope when a strange little
man appears in the room and spins straw into gold for her in
return for her necklace.
 The greedy king is impressed, but demands more gold. The
little man returns at night and spins gold in return for her ring.
Synopsis (cont’d)
 The greedy king wants more gold. So on the third night,
the little man spins straw into gold in return for Lisa’s first-
born child.
 The happy king marries Lisa. When their first child is born,
the little man returns to claim his reward.
 Lisa is frightened and offers him all the gold he wants if
she can keep the child. The little man refuses but finally
agrees to give up his claim to the child if Lisa can guess
his name in three days.
 Will Lisa manage to guess the little man’s name? What
will happen if Lisa is unable to guess the right name?
Plot The king marries Lisa and they
have a baby; the little man returns
to claim his reward; Lisa refuses to
•The king demands that
Lisa spin all the straws in give up her baby
the tower into gold or be
executed;
• A little man appears and
offers to spin the straws
The little man agrees
into gold in return for to let Lisa keep her
rewards; baby if she is able to
• When the rewards run guess his name
out, Lisa is given the correctly in three
condition that her first- PLOT days
born be given to the
little man

A miller and his wife lie to the Lisa finally guesses correctly the
king that their daughter, Lisa can little man’s name. He gets really
spin straw into gold; the king is furious and vanishes into air.
impressed and takes Lisa back Lisa’s parents learn not to be
to the castle boastful again
SETTING : Time, People, Culture
The Feudal Society
- A social system that existed in Europe
during the Medieval era (from 5th to
15th century)
- Powerful Kings or Lords owned the lands
- In order to live on these lands, the people must
serve and fight for the Kings or Lord.

Rumpelstiltskin
- The name is derived from German Rumpelstilzchen
which means "little rumble stilt".
- A rumpelstilt or rumpelstilz is a mischievous and
noisy goblin. It clatters stilts or posts and hits planks.
 SETTING : Places

The Nursery
The Tower
The Cottage - At the King’s palace
- At the King’s The Woods
- In a village - Lisa is held in three
palace
of a small different rooms
- The place where - Lisa’s parents follow
country - Each room is bigger
Lisa nurses her Rumpelstiltskin into
- Belongs to and has more straw
baby son the woods to discover
Lisa and than the one before
- There is a cot in his name
- In each room, there is
her parents the room - Rumpelstiltskin
a
spinning wheel, heaps reveals his name in
of straw and a window. the woods
- Rumpelstiltskin climbs
into each room through
the window
CHARACTERS
Lisa
• A young girl
• Has excellent baking skills
• Sensible as she tries to stop her parents from
boasting about her to the King
• Anxious when the parents boast to the King that she
can spin straw into gold
• Dutiful as she obeys her parents and the King
• Desperate when she agrees to Rumpelstiltskin’s
bargains
• Reluctant to give her baby to Rumpelstilskin as
promised
Father and Mother
• Proud of Lisa
• Boastful of Lisa’s abilities
• Hopeful for the King to take Lisa as the Queen
• Worried for Lisa after boasting that she can
spin straw into gold.
• Helpful as they secretly follow Rumpelstiltskin
to find out his name
The
King • Loves apple pies
• Impressed by Lisa’s delicious apple pies
• Irrational as he accepts the claim by Lisa’s
parents that Lisa can spin straw into gold
• Cruel because he threatens to behead Lisa if
she fails to spin straw into gold
• Greedy when he orders Lisa to spin more
straw into gold
• Trustworthy as he keeps his promise to marry
Lisa
Rumplestiltskin
• A noisy and mischievous goblin
• Enjoys playing tricks and solving riddles
• Skillful in spinning straw into gold
• Opportunistic as he demands payments from
Lisa in exchange for his service
• Unscrupulous as he tricks Lisa into promising
him her first-born child
• Furious when Lisa succeeds in solving the
riddle to his name.
 THINK THERE’S A PRICE FOR
BEFORE YOU ALMOST EVERY
SPEAK DESIRE

SPEAK THE
TRUTH
BE HUMBLE, NOT BOASTFUL

KEEP UP PROMISES

DO NOT BE GREEDY

BE RATIONAL
Drama is :
an opportunity to seek knowledge, to create presentations, to be someone
or something, to explore situations and to work and learn together with
friends and strangers.

an educational tool by which teachers can take their students beyond the
realms of entertainment and create a workable environment that can give
rise to meaningful learning experiences.