CH.RT-57 MIMIC, ADAPT, AND DECEIVE!

Teaching a unit on how plants, insects, and animals must mimic, adapt, or deceive to survive?  If so, this script might turn out to be a great teaching aid!  After reading it aloud, it would be difficult not to remember what the words mimic, adapt, and deceive actually mean in Mother Nature's world.

In this story-poem script, corn plants, orchids, inchworms, frogs, plant traps, and butterflies all have an important survival story to tell.

A FEW EXAMPLES:  Corn plants produce a "perfume" when certain pests (such as caterpillars) attack them. Wasps are tricked by the perfume and come in search of a wasp mate. Instead, they find the caterpillars. The wasps deposit their eggs on the caterpillars, they soon dies, and the corn plant is free of her enemy. Those poor wasps have been deceived!

The Viceroy Butterflies tastes good to predators, but because they mimic the look of bad tasting butterflies such as the Monarch Butterfly, predators often stay away from them.  Because the two look so much alike, predators can't tell the difference!

The Poison-Arrow frogs have adapted into one of our most handsome amphibians. They are very brightly colored and, since some of them are very very poisonous, their bright colors warn predators to "stay away".  This not only saves the predator's lives, but the frogs' lives as well.

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This script is formatted for 7 SOLO READERS, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, and ALL. The script is very flexible and allows a director to use as few or as many readers as required by dividing the reading parts between all available readers. If the class is very small, double up on solo reader parts. If the class is very large, you can still include everyone by assigning all readers to the ALL GIRL, ALL BOY, ALL lines.

This is a combination Choral Reading/Readers Theater script with the emphasis on Choral Reading.

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Script length: 7 pages of reading text.  For sample pages, please click HERE.