dinosaurs before dark script
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1st Grade Podcast Podcast scriptTRANSCRIPT
Martin J. Gottlieb Day School Mrs. Loeser’s 1st Grade Class
2011-2012
Based on Mary Pope Obsorn’s “Dinosaurs in the Dark”
from the Magic Tree House Book Series
Podcast Script Audio file available on MJGDS iTunes Podcast Channel
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mjgds-podcast-channel/id375749044
Dinosaurs Before Dark Interview ................................................................................................................ 3 Chapter 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Chapter 2 .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Chapter 3 .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 4 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Chapter 5 .............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter 6 ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 7 ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 8 ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 9 ........................................................................................................................................................... 14 Chapter 10 ......................................................................................................................................................... 15
Dinosaurs Before Dark Interview
Chapter 1 Interviewer: Who are you and how do you know each other? Annie: I am Annie and this is Jack. I am 7 years old and Jack is 8 1/2 years old. We
are brother and sister. Interviewer: Where do you live? Jack: We live in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania. (frog ribbit) Interviewer: Why did you go into the woods? Annie: I was pretending that there was a monster chasing us. So I wanted us to run
away from it. But Jack didn’t want to. (monster noise) Interviewer: Do you like to pretend, Jack? Jack: No. I like real things and not to pretend. Interviewer: What did you find in the woods? Annie: I found a very big oak tree that had a rope ladder that led to a tree house.
(footstep sounds in leaves) Interviewer: Where did the tree house come from? Jack: I am not sure. We have never seen it before. Interviewer: Why did you go into the tree house? Annie: I was very curious about it! Interviewer: What was inside the tree house? Annie: I saw a lot of books. I called Jack to come up because he likes books a lot. Interviewer: Why do you like books so much, Jack? Jack: I like to read because I can learn so much and it is exciting and fun. (pages of
a book turning)
Chapter 2 Interviewer: What did you find in the tree house? Annie: We found a bunch of books with dusty covers and ones with new shiny
covers. (sound of hand brushing over a surface) Jack: There was a dinosaur book that Annie thought I would like. And there was a
book about castles that Annie would like. (squeaky door) Interviewer: Did you open the books? Jack: Yes I did, even though I knew they did not belong to me. I opened the book
about dinosaurs because I like reading about them. (dinosaur roar) Interviewer: What happened next? Annie: The wind started blowing really hard and fast. The tree house started
spinning. (fast spinning wind) Interviewer: Were you scared? Jack & Annie: YES! We were VERY scared! (soft scream) Interviewer: Then what happened? Jack: The tree house got really really still. (silence) Annie: I looked out the window and I saw a monster flying towards us. (flapping of
wings…possibly hands rhythmically hitting desk) Interviewer: What did it look like? Jack: It had very big bat-‐like wings, a long weird crest on the back of his head and a
skinny beak. Interviewer: This creature was flying in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania? Annie: No. The tree house had landed in a tree, but not in the same woods in
Pennsylvania. (gently crashing on landing sound)
Chapter 3 Interviewer: What did you see out the window? Jack: We saw that the world outside was exactly like what was in the picture. Annie: There was a volcano, some ferns and tall grass, and a stream outside.
(babbling brook; volcano eruption) Jack: And then we saw a pteranodon flying around. Interviewer: I didn’t know that pteranodons are still alive! Jack: They aren’t. I read in the book that they lived about 65 million years ago. Annie: So the wind must have carried the tree house back in time. (wind blowing
briskly) Interviewer: Did you stay inside the tree house? Jack: I tried to tell Annie not to go out, but Annie didn’t listen to me. Interviewer: What did you do Annie? Annie: First I shouted to the pteranodon because it looked so nice. Then I climbed
down the ladder to see it. (footsteps)
Chapter 4 Interviewer: What happened when you climbed down the ladder, Annie Annie: I touched his crest and stroked his neck. (brushing sound) Interviewer: What did the pteranodon feel and look like?
Annie: He was fuzzy. He felt soft like our neighbor’s dog Henry, so I decided to name him Henry too! (giggle)
Jack: His crest was long and bony. Interviewer: What did you do, Jack? Jack: I took notes like a scientist would. (pencil writing on paper) Interviewer: What did you write about? Jack: I wrote that it had fuzzy skin, if his brain was small like a bean and that his
mouth moved up and down like a scissors. (scissors opening and closing or hands clapping)
Interviewer: Why were you taking notes? Jack: I guessed we are probably the only people who have ever seen a real
pteranodon. I didn’t want to forget anything we saw. Interviewer: Did you see anything else? Annie: We saw a volcano and a huge dinosaur on the hill. (volcano erupting)
Chapter 5 Interviewer: Oh my! What did you do then? Jack: We raced back up into the tree house. (running and stomping very fast) Interviewer: Did the dinosaur come chasing after you? Annie: No, the dinosaur stayed on the hill eating flowers. Jack: Then I knew that we WERE back in time! (crunching, munching noise made by
crumpling paper) Interviewer: What did the dinosaur look like? Annie: It was VERY big! It was bigger than a truck! Jack: It had 3 horns, two long ones above his eyes and one on his nose. Annie: There was a big shield-‐like thing behind his head. Interviewer: What kind of dinosaur do you think it was? Jack: I knew it was a triceratops, so I looked it up in the dinosaur book. (book
turning pages) Interviewer: What did the book say? Jack: The Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period. It was a plant-‐eating
dinosaur. Annie: It weighed more than twelve thousand pounds. Jack: I was so happy that it didn’t eat people! (yeah! clapping) Interviewer: What did you do next? Annie: I told Jack we ought to go see it and take some more notes. Jack: So we went out of the tree house to look around. (footsteps) Interviewer: Was the pteranodon still around? Annie: He was still there. He stared at us kindly. I blew him a kiss. (kiss, blow,
giggle) Interviewer: Did you go back to the tree house? Jack: No, I started writing notes about the Triceratops. Interviewer: What did you write? Jack: I wrote that it eats flowers and eats slowly. Then Annie started to run
toward the big dinosaur and I tried to stop her. Interviewer: Did you get close to the Triceratops? Annie: Pretty close. But I realized that it was very nice. It didn’t bother me. It gazed
at me and then walked away. Interviewer: Was there anything else around?
Jack: Yes, I found a gold medallion in the grass. It had an engraved M on it. I guess someone had been here before us.
Chapter 6 Interviewer: What did you do with this medallion? Jack: I tried to show it to Annie, but Annie was on the top of the hill picking
magnolia flowers. Interviewer: What did you see on the hill, Annie? Annie: When I was picking the flowers, I saw nests filled with eggs in the valley
below. Interviewer: What did these nests look like? Annie: The nests were really big and made out of mud. They were filled with baby
dinosaurs. There was a gigantic duck-‐billed dinosaur standing over me. Interviewer: How did you feel when you saw this dinosaur standing over you? Annie: I was VERY scared! Interviewer: What did you do, Jack? Jack: I told Annie not to stand up, but to crawl very slowly toward me. (scooting
sounds…maybe softly hitting legs like steps) Interviewer: Did you get away safely? Annie: Not really! The duck-‐billed dinosaur kept following me and still kept making
loud bellowing noises like a tuba. (sounds of a tuba) Interviewer: What did you children do next? Jack: We crawled a little bit more. I told Annie to bow her head and pretend to
chew? (chewing sound) Interviewer: Why did you want to pretend to chew? Jack: I read that when you are close to a mean dog, you get down and chew. Interviewer: Did it help? Annie: Yes it did help very much. The dinosaur got quiet. I guess she wasn’t mad at
us any more because now we were away from her babies. Interviewer: Did the mother dinosaur leave? Jack: No, Annie started feeding her the magnolia flowers. Annie: When I ran out of flowers, she made a sad tuba sound. (sad tuba sound) Interviewer: Then what happened? Annie: I ran up the hill to get more flowers. Interviewer: Did the dinosaur follow you? Annie: Yes, she waddled after me.
Interviewer: Did you go up the hill also, Jack? Jack: No, I didn’t. I examined the babies and I wondered where their mothers
were. Then I pulled out my research book and found out that these dinosaurs live in colonies. Some mothers baby-‐sit, while other mothers go to find food. I figured the other mothers must be nearby.
Interviewer: What did you do, Annie? Annie: While I was feeding flowers to the Anatosaurus, she started running down
the hill because she was afraid of something. Interviewer: What did she see? Annie: She saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex coming across the plain.
Chapter 7 Interviewer: Were you scared? Annie: Yes, I was VERY, VERY, VERY scared! Jack told me that we needed to run
down the hill to the tree house. (gasping sound) Interviewer: Did you get there safely? Annie: Yes, we got there safely and we made a wish that we could go back to Frog
Creek. Interviewer: So you left the valley then? Jack: No, we couldn’t get back because we didn’t have the dinosaur book. I had left
my backpack and the book up on the hill. Interviewer: Did you go back to get it? Jack: Yes I ran back past the Pteranodon, through the ferns and tall grass and I
found it up on the hill. (running sounds) Interviewer: What did you see when you were up on the hill? Jack: When I picked up my things, I saw the Anatosauruses all standing around
their nests to protect their babies. Interviewer: So did you go back to the tree house? Jack: No, first I ran down the hill to get my backpack and the dinosaur book. I
heard the Anatosauruses bellowing. (loud tuba sounds) Interviewer: Why do you think the dinosaurs were bellowing? Annie: They were making those loud noises to warn Jack that the T. Rex was close. I
think they were trying to protect my brother. Interviewer: Did you see the T. Rex, Jack? Jack: No, not at first. But when I raced back up the hill to get to the tree house, I
saw it. The T. Rex was between me and the tree house. I stopped and FROZE!!! (running and then complete silence)
Chapter 8 Interviewer: Did the Tyrannosaurus Rex see you? Jack: Luckily he didn’t see me. He was opening and closing his jaws. His teeth
were as big as steak knives! (our teeth chewing or opening and closing our jaws)
Interviewer: So what happened next? Jack: I looked in my book to find out about more about the T. Rex. But it didn’t
give me any information to help me. It said it could eat a human in one bite!! I tried to stay calm.
Interviewer: Did the T. Rex go away? Annie: No it didn’t. Actually, he started getting closer to Jack. But I had an idea. I
climbed down the rope ladder to talk to the Pteranodon. Interviewer: What did you say to the Pteranodon? Annie: I asked if he could fly over to pick up Jack and bring him back to the tree
house. Interviewer: That was a splendid idea, Annie! Jack: The Tyrannosaurus Rex then started coming toward the hill. I could feel the
ground shaking. (heavy steps) But just then, I saw a giant shadow covering me.
Interviewer: Was it the T. Rex? Jack: No, it was the Pteranodon flying over me. (flapping wings made by hitting
your legs slowly)
Chapter 9 Interviewer: What did you do? Jack: I thought I was too heavy to get on the Pteranodon, but I said to myself, don’t
think……just do it! Interviewer: Why did you want to get on? Jack: I got on because the T. Rex was getting too close, so I wanted to get to a safer
place. Interviewer: Where were you Annie? Annie: I was in the tree house, but I saw Jack sitting on the Pteranodon’s back. At
first it teetered, but then he steadied himself and flew toward the tree house. Jack: It was AMAZING!!!!!!! I loved it so much. Interviewer: What did it feel like? Jack: I felt like a bird. I was as light as a feather. I laughed because it was so much
fun. I couldn’t believe I was flying on the back of an ancient flying reptile! (laughing sounds and wings flapping)
Interviewer: Where did it take you? Annie: The Pteranodon brought Jack back to the treehouse. When Jack got off, the
Pteranodon flew away. I heard Jack whisper, “Bye, Henry”. Interviewer: Weren’t you glad you were finally safe? Jack: I really wasn’t safe yet. The T. Rex was coming toward me. Annie: I shouted to Jack to hurry up the ladder because T. Rex was getting really
close! Then I heard loud noise and the tree house started to shake like a leaf. (slamming sound and rustling paper)
Interviewer: Then what did you do, Jack and Annie? Annie: I told Jack to make a wish. Jack: But I had to find the Pennsylvania book first. I finally found it and searched
really fast to find the photograph of Frog Creek woods. (flipping pages) Interviewer: Did you find it? Jack: Yes, and then I shouted, “I wish we could go home!” Interviewer: What happened then? Annie: The wind started to pick up and we heard a whistling sound. Then the tree
house started to spin faster and faster. (whistling sound of wind) Jack: I closed my eyes and grabbed on to Annie really tightly. Jack and Annie: Then everything went still. ABSOLUTELY STILL! (TOTAL SILENCE!)
Chapter 10 Interviewer: Where did the tree house take you? Jack: It took us to the exact same woods that were in the picture. Annie: The time was the exact same time as when we left! Interviewer: So then what did you do? Annie: We heard our Mom calling us in for dinner. (Lady calling JACK, ANNIE) Interviewer: Did you leave the tree house right away? Jack: Not immediately. We tried to figure out what had happened to us. How did
we go so far and so long ago? (uhhhhmmmmm) Annie: There were so many books around, and I reminded Jack that he had wished
to go to the place he saw in the picture. Interviewer: Did you bring back anything from the dinosaur land to remember where you
had been? Jack: I brought back the gold medallion that I found. It had an “M” engraved on it. Annie: I think the “M” stands for MAGIC PERSON! Interviewer: What did you do next? Annie: We heard our mother calling us again. Jack: So I put the book back with the other books and then we climbed down the
rope ladder. (book dropping on a stack of books and then footsteps) Interviewer: What did your parents and friends say when you told them about your
amazing trip? Annie and Jack: We didn’t tell anybody. Interviewer: Why not? Jack: We knew no one would believe us! They would think that we made this
whole story up. Interviewer: Would you ever go back to the woods again? Jack and Annie: Yes, we want to go back to the tree house again tomorrow. It was really
incredible!