Speech and Debate Curriculum Part 2.pdf

The Crocodile’s Toothache
To prepare the poem -
Assign Narrator 1 to read narration about the dentist
Assign Narrator 2 to read narration about the crocodile
Character 3 is the crocodile
Character 4 is the dentist
The Crocodile’s Toothache
by Shel Silverstein
The Crocodile
Went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said,
“Now tell me, sir,
Why does it hurt and where?”
“I’ll tell you the truth,
I have a terrible ache in my tooth,”
And he opened his jaws so wide, so wide,
That the dentist, he climbed right inside.
(Continue in this manner for the remainder of the poem. After the last line has been read,
all four people could repeat it.)
“But what is one dentist, more or less?”
“But what is one dentist, more or less?”
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