Unpack Your Adjectives
Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Marco and Ax are sitting/standing around the
barn. Jake and Marco are in a heated debate, Rachel is inspecting her nails,
Tobias is up in the rafters being the lookout, Ax is just standing off
in his own little world. However, they all snap out of it when the introduction
starts, a spotlight focuses on the entrance to the barn and Cassie steps
in, singing.
Got home from the valley last spring.
Saw people, places, and things.
Points to her fellow Animorphs
We barely had arrived,
They asked us to describe
The people, places, and every last thing.
So we unpacked our adjectives.
Cassie steps up to a bag that's conveniently sitting in the barn.
I unpacked "frustrating" first.
Reached in and found the word "worst".
Then she picked "soggy" and -
The music stops. Cassie looks back at the Animorphs.
"That was your cue, you know."
Rachel blushes. "Oops, forgot that. I was busy marveling over
your singing voice."
Cassie sighs. "Right. Can we get this over with quickly? The
music is upsetting the animals."
Rachel shrugs. "Sure."
Music starts again, Rachel, Jake and Marco are now standing by Cassie.
Rachel reaches into the bag.
Then she piccked "soggy" and -
Marco reaches into the bag
Next he picked "foggy" and -
He looks confused for a moment, but Cassie just shrugs and continues
singing
Then we were ready to tell them our tale.
'Cause we'd unpacked our adjectives.
Rachel, Marco and Jake are now standing behind Cassie, swaying from
side to side and snapping the beat as Cassie sings.
Adjectives are words you use to
really describe things.
Handy words to carry around.
Days are sunny, or they're rainy.
Marco and Ax step forward, Marco on Cassie's left, Ax on her right.
Cassie points to Marco
Boys are dumb
Cassie points to Ax
or else they're brainy.
Adjectives can show you which way.
Tobias and Ax are now in human morph, and have joined Rachel, Marco
and Jake.
Adjectives are often used to help
us compare things,
To say how thin, how fat, how
short, how tall.
Girls who're tall get taller. Rachel suddenly
becomes Super Rachel
Boys who're small get smaller, Marco shrinks
to Helmacron size
Till one is the tallest And the
other's the smallest of all.
Shot of Rachel grinning as she threatens to step on Marco.
Marco screams,
Now the Animorphs, including Ax for some inexplicable reason, are
walking through the construction site. Cassie is still singing.
We walked home easily
We see Visser Three in the constuction site, looing very out of
place without his platoon of Hork-Bajir guards.
Tobias sings
Then we saw Visser Three!
Marco sings
He was a hairy guy!
Jake sings
He was a scary guy!
Rachel sings
We beat a hasty retreat from his lair The Animorphs
run out of the construction site.
Cassie sings
And described him with adjectives.
Marco speaks
"Whoah! Boy, that was one big, ugly Andalite!"
Ax looks more than mildly insulted. He's about to go on a tirade
when Cassie quickly steps in with her next (spoken) part.
You can even make adjectives out of the other parts of speech, like verbs or nouns. All you have to do is tack on an ending like "-ic" or "-ish" or "-ary." For example: this boy she pulls Marco up to her can grow up to be a huge man, Rachel snickers, both Cassie and Marco glare at her but still have a boyish face. Boy is a noun, but the ending "-ish" makes it an adjective, boyish, that describes the huge man's face. Get it?
Everyone stares at her blankly. Cassie shrugs and the Animorphs are back in the barn
Cassie sings, the other Animorphs are behind her doing the annoying
swaying/snapping thing
Next time you go off to war
Remember what these are for:
The minute you get back,
They'll ask you this and that.
You can describe people, places and things.
Simply unpack your adjectives.
She begins to leave, turning around each time she sings a line.
The Animorphs are still doing the sway/snap thing
You can do it with adjectives.
Tell 'em about it with adjectives.
You can shout it with adjectives.
Cassie leaves, shutting the door firmly behind her. The remaining
Animorphs collapse to the floor (it's a miracle Ax hasn't done this several
times already), thoroughly sick of their very small routine.
