Dreamgiver
Silently a group of orphans sleep in an orphanage.
Quietly, the window shutters open and in crawls a mysterious creature.
He doesn't look too friendly at first but we soon see what his plan is.
This is the Dreamgiver and by cracking his dream eggs he makes sure the childrens' nights are pleasurable. He creates the dreams by cracking the eggs onto stories, posters and ballet shoes. But what will happen if an egg is accidentally spilt on something not so nice? Well that is what happens.....
A 'dream egg' is knocked off the bed and onto a 'shadow serpent,' this is surely going to turn into a nightmare for one of the unlucky children.
Teaching Ideas
Quietly, the window shutters open and in crawls a mysterious creature.
He doesn't look too friendly at first but we soon see what his plan is.
This is the Dreamgiver and by cracking his dream eggs he makes sure the childrens' nights are pleasurable. He creates the dreams by cracking the eggs onto stories, posters and ballet shoes. But what will happen if an egg is accidentally spilt on something not so nice? Well that is what happens.....
A 'dream egg' is knocked off the bed and onto a 'shadow serpent,' this is surely going to turn into a nightmare for one of the unlucky children.
Teaching Ideas
- I showed some pictures of the Dreamgiver. I asked the children to describe them. Who do they think he is? What does he do? What are his character traits look like?
- In one lesson the children brought in objects and found images that they would like the Dreamgiver to crack his egg onto, then they described the dreams that happened afterwards.
- Some of my class this week experimented with 1st and 3rd person. They were retelling the story - they told the story in 3rd person but when the action switches into the boys dream about the shadow serpent then they continued in 1st person until the boy woke up.
- The children could make up their own Dreamgiver, what does he look like? How does he give the dreams to people?
- Compare with The BFG or The Sandman.
