Good triumphs at Sagle Star Wars presentation
Lynne Haley Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 6 months AGO
—Photo by LYNNE HALEY Shelby Smitha and Xander Caven take part in a Star Wars-themed skit for fellow Sagle Elementary students.
—Photo by LYNNE HALEY Savannah Cronin, Kenzie Wyman, (inside R2D2) Logan Mayhugh, Cody Newhart, and Emma Lawson take part in the play.
—Photo by LYNNE HALEY Fifth-graders Austin Smith, Emma Hall, Darrion Resso, Xander Caven, and Midnight Reich perform a Star Wars-themed skit for fellow Sagle Elementary students.
—Photo by LYNNE HALEY Austin Smith, Alex Macias, and Brandon Tenney perform a Star Wars-themed skit for fellow Sagle Elementary students.
SAGLE — The forces of good and evil battled it out on the Sagle Elementary School stage Friday as fifth-graders performed vignettes they had written themselves. Borrowing characters and themes from the Star Wars film series, they acted out scenes illustrating problem solving, anti-bullying and perseverance.
Sagle music teacher Noelle Argue worked with students from Dawn Miller's and Jennifer Cornelius' classes to put together the program that the budding playwrights performed for other students, staff and parents. Throughout the skits, those not performing at the moment played the Star Wars theme as background music on their recorders.
"The notes and techniques they learned on the recorders were much more advanced than they had played before," said Argue.
The fifth-graders made their own costumes, including a foil and paper R2D2 robot on a drum base, character masks, capes and robes. Darth Vader figured large in several of the short plays, representing the forces of evil. Some of the themes of the plays included a demanding substitute teacher, a lunchroom bully and cheating at a football game. In each scenario, the forces of good arrived to vanquish the forces of evil.
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