The Magic Flute digital resource book
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ACTIVITY 3 - CALL OF THE WILD<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong> explores many different themes,<br />
but above all, this is an opera about transformations. Use the<br />
synopsis and character introductions in this <strong>book</strong>let to ask your<br />
students to explore the ways different characters develop and<br />
transform as the story unfolds.<br />
In this activity, your students are going to create a poem or<br />
song inspired by the theme of transformations. Starting points<br />
could be:<br />
Who they are going to focus on for their inspiration?<br />
• A character from the opera<br />
• <strong>The</strong>mselves<br />
• A person they admire<br />
What style of poem or song are they going to write in? E.g.<br />
• Limerick<br />
• Ballad<br />
• Sonnet<br />
• Rhyming poetry<br />
• Mnemonic<br />
How will the language they use help tell the story? Would<br />
repeated words or phrases help emphasise the transformative<br />
aspects of the poem or song? <strong>The</strong>y might use alliteration, simile,<br />
metaphor or onomatopoeia in their poems.
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