Noisettes - So Complicated

На сцене стоит скамейка/дерево/кусты и тп.

*Yann Tiersen – Guilty на заднем плане*

Boy 1: Good day, boy and girls! We are glad to welcome you at our English party. Our school party is devoted to Mark Twain, a famous American writer.

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was born in 1835 in the small town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River. He was son of a lawyer.

Little Samuel Spend his childhood in his native town. He was a bright, lively boy. He went fishing and swimming to the river and he was the leader in all the boy’s games.

Boy 2: Samuel had a lot of friends a school. And when he became a writer he discribed them in his stories.

When Samuel was eleven years old his father died, leaving his wife and four children with nothing. And the boy had to leave school and look for a work. He learned the profession of a printer. For some years Samuel worked as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his older brother, who at that time started a small newspaper of his own. The two young men published it themselves. Samuel wrote short humorous stories and printed them in their newspaper.

Boy 3: When Samuel was a boy, he dreamed of becoming a sailor. At the age of 20 he found a job on a ship travelling up and down the Mississippi. Here on a ship he “found” his pen-name “Mark Twain”. It was taken from the call of the Mississippi pilots they measured the depth of the river.

Many steamboats moved up and down the river carrying all kinds of people – rich and poor, farmers and businessmen, slave owners and slaves. Thus Samuel Clemens saw America passing before his eyes. This work gave him the opportunity to get to know a great deal about life. He worked as a pilot for more than four years.

Boy 4: Later he used to speak about this time as the happiest period of his life and described it in his book “Life on the Mississippi”. Then the young man worked with the goldminers in California for a year, Here he began to write stories about camp life and sent them to newspapers under the name of Mark Twain.

Mark Twain did not get a good education but he knew the folk songs and tales of the Negroes who lived along the Mississippi River, where he grew up.

Звучит песня Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land на заднем плане, подпевать?

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

Boy 1: Some of his books are very popular with the children in our country, in the other countries of the world and in America.

So… Today we will tell you a story. Story about the adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Тихо звучит Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing

На сцене появляется девочка. Это Бекки. Она садится на скамейку.

Boy 1: Oh! It’s Becky, I believe. Do you recognize her?

(Появляется Том). * Звучат звуки природы - Осень - ветер, щебетанье птиц. *

Oh! Tom is coming. Shh! Let’s listen what they are talking about.

Том подходит к скамейке, на которой сидит Бекки, и садится на конец. Том принес рисунок, который прятал в левой руке. Бекки пытается увидеть рисунок.

Becky: Let me see it. I like this house. It’s nice. Draw a man.

Tom: I’ll try. (Рисует и дает рисунок девочке).

Becky: It’s a handsome man. Now draw me coming along.(Том продолжает рисовать. Отдает рисунок девочке)

Tom: Do you like it?

Becky: Hmm…yep, It’s very nice. I wish I could draw.

To: It’s easy. I can teach you.

Becky: Oh, will you? When?

Tom: At noon. What’s your name?

Becky: Becky Thatcher. Oh, I know yours. It’s Tomas Sawyer.

Tom: Yes, but I was so called, when punished. I’m Tom… when I’m good. You call me Tom, will you?

Becky: Yes.

Том начинает писать что-то и прячет от девочки.

Becky: Tom, let me see what you have written.

Tom: Oh… It’s nothing. You’ll tell.

Becky: No, I won’t. I won’t ever tell anybody. Let me see, pleace.

Tom: I love you.

Becky: Oh, you bad thing.

Бекки убегает, за ней Том. Сразу включается Noisettes - So Complicated