Revision!

With alot of enthusiasm, we have revised most of our story! It's been alot of work but the students have learned alot from the process. We have completed the script and new songs also. Here is the outline:


Anansi’s Journey Through West Africa

Beginning

Setting – Guinea

Anansi is carving a drum on a hot sunny day. He feels tired and lazy to complete carving the entire drum. He tricks the villagers by telling them they if they help him with his drum, he will share the gold he will get from the emperor in return. When the villagers are done carving the drums they are ready to go with Anansi to the emperor to drop off the drum and get the gold. He tells them that they should rest because they have worked so hard and he would take the drum to the emperor. The villagers go and rest and they never see Anansi again. He leaves Guinea with all the gold.


Middle

Setting – Seirra Leone

Anansi notices the farmers in Seirra Leone using a special potion that helps their crops grow big. He wonders if he could also grow big if he drinks the potion. He tells the farmers that he could do their job of spraying the potion on the crops much faster because he had 8 legs that he could use all at once. They love the idea and go and do some other work that needs to be done. While they are gone, Anansi drinks the potions. Instantly, he grows big! When the farmers come back, they realize Anansi had tricked them because their crops had not grown. He leaves the country before the farmers could find him.



Ending

Anansi is proud of himself because he has successfully tricked the villagers into doing his work for him and without sharing the gold with them. He also can’t believe how foolish the farmers were to trust him with the special potion. Flaunting his gold, he arrives in Ghana. The evil lion notices Anansi flaunting his gold. He goes up to Anansi and asks him if he wants to grow even bigger so he could be the largest insect in the forest. Without hesitation, he agrees. However, the lion tells him that in return, Anansi must give him all his gold. Of course, Anansi does not like this idea. So he secretly exchanges the gold in his bag with stones and gives the bag to the lion. When he ask how he can get bigger, by eating the cocoa bean on the largest tree by the Niger River. Throughout his journey to the Nile River, he gets lost and needs directions. Every time he stops and asks the villagers for help they ask him for something in return – his gold. By the time he gets to the Niger River, he has no more gold left. When he gets to the tree he eats as many cocoa beans as he can. To his surprise, he starts to shrink! Everyone laughs at him and the lion realizes that he also got tricked when he notices the stones in his bag. He finally learns his lesson – What goes around, comes around!

The villagers all celebrate!