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The Story of Water in Dryville was created by Ms. Dory Witzeling Grades 3 4 Highlands Elementary School Appleton, Wisconsin This story was adapted from the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Water Science for Schools” Web page, “The Story of Dryville”, /edu/dryville.html, Howard Perlman, hperlman@ Notes from Ms. Witzeling: The class play for The Story of Dryville was created by Ms. Dory Witzeling of Highlands Elementary School in Appleton, Wisconsin. She adapted the text of the USGS Water Science for Schools Web page The Story of Dryville (/edu/dryville.html). Here are Ms. Witzelings comments about setting up and performing the play: We put on two performances. One was during the day for a few classes of students. One was in the evening for family members. Because I allowed the students to choose their own parts (no try-outs) I had some strong performers in the bag parts in the afternoon, and some weaker performers in the big parts in the evening. The afternoon performance was fantastic! I ran about 35 minutes and got some good laughs. We could have used some microphones for kids speaking longer parts, but it wasnt bad. The principal and some of the parents told me that they thought it was great and that it had a LOT of great content. The performance in the evening went considerably longer because my narrator and Henry were not very efficient with their speaking parts. I thought it dragged, but the parents loved seeing their kids on stage. :) The stage itself was very simple, we just made a long backdrop out of a long piece of light brown paper (what you use for bulletin boards). I had some students volunteer to stay in for a recess and draw a desert scene with a stream running through it. We also had a podium (for the narrator) and a table (for Henry). The costumes were a big hit. We were lucky enough to have what we needed just through sharing among ourselves! One student had a fish costume, one had a chicken, we made a table for the water