Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Supplemental Study Materials

Dear Educator,
We are excited that you have chosen Theate Bristol's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Facotry as part of your curriculum. This story of fantasy is a must for every young person's "Good Book" list.

Enclosed are numerous materials to facilitate understanding and initiate responses from your students in relation to the play Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The information and activities provided can be used to enhance curriculum standards in many subjects. We have students from diverse age groups attending the show ranging from pre-school to sixth grade. you know best the needs and abilities of your students.

Please feel free to adapt the suggested materials for discussion or activities with your students. You are invited to make copies of the enclosed materials for other teachers as well as your students. We hope you will enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Sincerely,
Rebecca Greasby
Director of Education

Special Thanks to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Show Sponsors:
Strongwell, Siemens, CAMAC-Cookson Fibers and Huff-Cook

Background Information

About Roald Dahl
Mr. Dahl was born on September 13, 1916 in South Wales and died in November 1990 at the age of 74. He had five children. Roald Dahl workd for Shell Oil Company from 1933 - 1939 and later joined the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot in 1939. In 1940, his plan was shot down by enemy fire. Dahl was asked to tell his story and through a turn of events he ended up writing the story himself for The Saturday Evening Post, which is what began his writing career.

During his career, Dahl wrote and published short stories, poems, novels, movie and tv scripts. Some of his other books include The Gremlins, James and the Giant Peach and Danny the Champion of the World. In 1965 Dahl published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Dahl won numerous awards for his writing including Mystery Writersof American Award, the Edgar Award, the Whitebread Award, the World Fantasy Convention Lifetime Achievement Award and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award.

A Brief Summary of the Play
The owner of the local candy factory, Willy Wonka, is having a contest and has hidden five golden tickets in his candy bars. Four of those tickets have been found.

Charlie Bucket, a boy from a very poor family, is having a birthday and as a treat his family saves up enough money for him to buy a candy bar. Unfortunately, his candy bar did not have a golden ticket. On his way home from school one day, Charlie finds a silver dollar which he purchases some candy bars, eventually finding the last coveted ticket.

The lucky winners show up at the factory with a parent each and enter Wonka's magical world. They see a chocolate river, Everylasting Gobstoppers, Oompa Loompas, and other fantastical creatures and inventions. One by one each of the children are eliminated from the tour by their greed and only Charlie is left. Wonka informs him that he has won, not only the candy promised to him but also the factory and everyhting that goes with it. Charlie and his family will no longer need to worry about surviving thanks to Wonka.

Vocabulary
adore - to love greatly
altered - changed, made different
appreciate - to think well of
brute - cruel, stupid
cacao beans - the seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made
culprits - a person guilty of a crime
disappoint - to break ones promise
disgusting - sickening, repulsive
enchant - to charm greatly
enormous - larger than normal size
frump - a dowdy, ill-tempered woman
furnace - an enclosed structure where heat is produced to heat a building
gorgeous - beautiful, wonderful
grudge - a strong feeling of resentment toward someone
hunch - a feeling that something is going to happen
imagine - to make a mental image
insist - to demand strongly
interrupt - to break into a conversation
invent - to think up
liable - responsible, likely
loath - unwilling
luscious - highly gratifying to taste or smell
magical - mysterious, unexplainable
meddling - to concern oneself with others affairs
miniature - very small
proceedings - course of action
repulsive - strong dislike, disgusting
sensational - exciting or thrilling
shelling - to remove the shell or covering from
spoiled - damaged, rotten
staring - looking intently
starving - to become weak from hunger
tamper - to interfere with
tremendous - wonderful, amazing

Vocabulary Fun!
Concentration: Vocabulary Style - On index cards, write the vocabular terms you want to work with. Write the corresponding definition on another set of index cards. The number of words and definitions per game is up to your discretion. Students may work with a partner or small group of people to play the game. Shuffle tht two sets together and have students lay the cards face down in front of them. The first student will turn over two cards. If the word matches with the definition, they keep the set. If not, they turn both cards face down again. Students who match a set may continue playing until they miss a match. Students should rotate, taking turns. When the cards have all been matched, students should count up their cards. Whoever has the most cards wins!

20 Questions
Have a student choose a vocabulary word. Other students take turns asking questions of the student with the vocabulary word and try to guess their word. Whoever guesses correctly in less than 20 Questions chooses the next vocabulary word.

Pre Show Enrichment

Discussion Questions
The title of the play should set your mind spinning with ideas about the play. Can you predict what the play, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is about from its' title? What characters are in it? What is the story line?

What is a fantasy? What is a fantasy play or story? Can you name some fantasy plays or stories?

Do you like chocolate? What is your favorite kind of chocolate? Name different types of chocolate.

Would you ever enter a contest? What kind of contest? What would you do if you won? How would you feel if you did not win?

If you found some money in the street, how would you spend it?

Do you know any greedy people? How do they act towards others? How do they make you feel?

Have you ever done something you were told not to? What happened?

Charlie is very close to his Grandpa Joe. Are you close to a member of your family? Who? How do you spend your time together? What makes that person special to you?

Activities
Create your own Golden Ticket. What type of contest would you have? What would be the reward? How many people would receive the tickets? How would they get the tickets?

Create a class cookbook. Have everyone bring in their favorite chocolate recipe and compile them into a classroom cookbook. Be sure to have each child bring in a sample of the receipt for the class to taste before they submit the recipes.

Willy Wonka invents many new and interesting machines and candies. Create your own new candy or machine. Describe it and draw a picture of your new design.

How Chocolate is Made
Chocolate comes from cacao beans which grow where it is very hot. The cacao tree bears fruit three times a year. Cacao beans come from these fruit pods.

The fruit is harvested. Inside the pods are approximately 30 to 40 beans. Next the beans are left out in the sun to dry. As they dry, the beand lose their bitter flavor.

Once dry, the beans are placed in sacks. The sacks are then shipped to other countries for processing.

At the factory, the beans are carefully cleaned then roasted in ovens. Roasting brings our the flavor in the beans and makes the tough skin easier to remove.

After the skins are removed, the beans are ground. The ground beans turn into a paste called cocoa butter. With a few additions, the cocoa butter is made into chocolate.

Machines add sugar, vanilla, milk and other ingredients like nuts, fruits, and flavorings to the cocoa butter. The mixture is then heated and stirred for several days until smooth.

Next the chocolate mixture is poured into molds. The molds are shaken to remove any air bubbles then chilled to make the chocolate hard.

Finally, the chocolate is packaged and sent to stores for purchase.

Post Show Enrichment

Discussion Questions

Why did Willy Wonka decide to close down his factory for a while?

Do you think any of Wonka's inventions could actually be created?

What events led up to Charlie finding the golden ticket?

If you were in Charlie's position, who from your family would you chose to go with you?

How do the children behave when they are in the factory?

What happens to each of the children?

How is Wonka's elevator different from other elevators?

Do you think Charlie will be able to successfully run the factory? What will Grandpa Joe's job be?

Do you think the ordeal changed Violet, Augustus, Mike or Veruca in any way or will they be the same after their visit? Do you think that running the factory will change Charlie?

Activities

Pretend you are one of the children chosen to take the tour. What mishap would you have to eliminate you from factory ownership? Draw a picture and explain the mishap.

Research and report on one of the following topics: Chocolate (history, kinds, nutrition, recipes, how it's made), Factories, Candy, Inventions, Nutrition (junk food, calories), Television, Manners, Roald Dahl.

Become an actor. In small groups act out the following scenarios:
2 people - Grandpa Joe and Charlie discuss what will happen during their visit to the factory.
4+ people - Mr. Wonka tells the Oompa Loompas about the visitors that are coming to the factory.
3 people - Charlie's parents discuss how he is to behave at the factory.
3+ people - Veruca tells her friends about finding the Golden Ticket.
3+ people - Violet tells reports what it is like in the factory
5+ people - Charlie tells his classmates he is taking over the factory.
8 people - Wonka gives Charlie and his family a tour of the factory.

Books of Interest
Chocolate Moose for Dinner, Fred Gwynne
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl
Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
Cocoa Beans to Daisies, Pascale Allamand
Freckle Juice, Judy Blume
From Cocoa Beans to Chocolate, Ali Miitgutsch
Fudge Manie, Judy Blume
Hot Fudge Pickles, Marilyn Anderson
The Chocolate Touch, Patrick Catling

Cool Websites to Check Out!
www.hersheys.com - Direct link to the Hershey website. Great graphics and links.

www.sanjuan.edu/select/3t/lyda/Chocolate_Plan.html - Online lesson plans and ideas for a chocolate unit

www.surfnetkids.com/chocofactory.html - Great website with links to Ghirardelli, Hershey's, Lindt & Spprungli, M&M, Wonka, Cadbury, Chocolate Wrappers and Godiva. This is a great educational site with lots of info.

www.wonka.com - Official website of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. Fabulous webiste with downloadable games, trivia, screen savers, wallpapers, joke of the day, view candy videos, lesson plans and more. Graphics are wonderful and entier site is interactive. Check this one out!