Rumpelstiltskin
A classroom guide for teachers
Create your own lyrics to the Name Polka
What you need for this lesson:
- Worksheet for the Name Polka
- Pencil California Content Standards used in this lesson:
- Reading: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
- Listening and Speaking 1.0, 2.0
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California VAPA Standards used in this lesson - 1.0, 4.0
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Download & Print Name Polka Worksheet
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:
Anytime words are set to music, they must have a rhythmic pattern. This rhythm is similar to poetry, because each word has a series of syllables that are either stressed or unstressed within the rhythmic pattern.
OBJECTIVE:
Students will study the Name Polka. The will identify the rhythm to the lyrics and then rewrite them with their own ‘name’ lyrics.
PROCEDURE:
Launch
Ask students if they have ever changed the lyrics to a familiar song to lyrics of their own? Have them share some of those lyrics with the class.
Development:
Identify rhythmic pattern
Ask students to review a familiar poem or song that has been written on the board. Then ask them to clap their hands for each syllable and decide how many syllables are on each line of the poem or song.
For example:
Hap/py Birth/day to you 6 syllables
Hap/py Birth/day to you 6 syllables
Hap/py Birth/day, dear John/ny 7 syllables
Hap/py Birth/day to you. 6 syllables
They have mapped the rhythmic pattern for this song.
Identify stressed and unstressed words
Look at the song again and decide which syllables are stressed and which are unstressed.
Stressed syllables get an astrisk drawn over them. (*)
Unstressed syllables get a straight line drawn over them (-)
For example:
* – * – – *
Hap / py Birth/day to you
* – * – – *
Hap / py Birth/day to you
* – * – * * –
Hap/py Birth/day, dear John/ny
* – * – – *
Hap / py Birth/day to you.
Guided Practice:
Pass out the lyrics to the Name Polka and listen to it on the CD. Read it aloud with the students. Remind them that they will only be responsible for changing the names in the lyrics, not the entire song.
Next, tap out the first line with the students to identify the number of syllables and stressed/unstressed syllables. Find names of students in the class whose names fit the same stresses and unstressed pattern and replace the existing name with the name of a student in the class.
Practice:
Allow students to continue on their own in small groups to complete the new lyrics for the Name Polka.
Assessment/Essential Questions:
Allow students to share - out their new lyrics for the class.
How many student names were they able to use?
On the day of the performance tell our Stage Manager, Brian Pedersen that you have a new version of the Name Polka. Give him a final draft of the worksheet in tidy handwriting and if there is time, the singers will perform the new version during the talkback after the performance!
The ‘Name Polka’
Guide #2
This dwarf has a goal.
That dwarf on the whole,
Never will allow the Queen to wriggle out of his control.
Name that little troll,
King shall pay the toll,
Never will identify the little man without a soul.
Wolfgang, Johann, Florian or Anton…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guide #2
Kaspar, Lothar, Diederich or Kayetan…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guide #1
Giuseppe, Giacomo, Bartolo or Italo…
Carlo, Figaro, Jacopo, Antonio …
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Miller
What’s his hidden name?
Bidden to the game,
Now I wander in the woods, this journey is a bit insane.
Truth my only aim,
Not for any gain.
Can I save the little babe, my reputation to reclaim?
Guide #1
Leonid or Stanislav or Vladimir or Sviatoslav…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guide #2
Nikolai, Rodion, Viktor, Pavel, Vladislav…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guides
Amador, Emilio, Vittorio or Salomon…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guide #1
Quirino, Pacifico, or Leonardo, Claudio…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guide #2
(To Rumpelstiltskin) Come to Mama, now!
(Aside to the audience) Let me show you how
Loose a tongue can get when all my powers on his head endow!
(To Rumpelstiltskin) Come, you little cow,
Dance and take a bow!
(To Guide #1) Utter all the names you can…how many can he disavow?
Guides
Jackson, Henry, Christopher, Nathaniel,
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guides
Theodore, Julian, Abraham, Emanuel…
Rumpelstiltskin
No! No! No! No!
Guides
Edmond, Morgan, Trenton, Harrison…
Dominic, Brendan, Winston, Johnathan…
Pinkerton or Benjamin or Adrian or Cameron,
Damian or Gallagher or Donovan or Heremon…
Alexander, Ebenezer, Zacharias, Algernon,
Abelard or Beverley or Emerson or Remington?
All
Let’s go all the way…
Keep that troll at bay…
Flattery and treachery can keep him up ‘til break of day.
May his mouth betray,
Now, without delay!
Flattery and treachery can keep him up ‘til break of day.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin!
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Geisel Director of Education and Outreach
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Education Tour Manager
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Associate Director of Education,
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