Movie in the Making 
   A Language Arts Activity   

Charlotte's Web, The Movie
Miss Kecmer's Fourth Grade Class
Wallace School, Hoboken, New Jersey


 CAST

If we could choose the actors to play the characters in a movie version of Charlotte's Web, here's a list of the people we would pick.

 Fern - The person who we picked for Fern is Jamie Lynn Spears. The reason we picked her is because she has a good voice and she is a great actress. To see her, turn on television watch the show All That on the Nickelodeon channel. 

Wilbur -  The person who we picked for Wilbur is Little Romeo. The reason we picked him is because he is a good actor  and he likes to eat a lot.  To see him , watch the show Little Romeo  on the  Nickelodeon channel.

Templeton -  The person who we picked for Templeton is Bill Cosby. The reason we picked  him is because he is a great actor, and he is the right part for Templeton. To see him act turn on the television and watch  the show Bill Cosby on Nick at Night.

Charlotte -  The person who we picked to be Charlotte is Hillary Duff. The reason we picked her is because she is a wonderful actress and she is a helpful girl.  She was in the movie Lizzie McGuire  which can be seen on the Disney Channel.

John Arable - The person who we picked to be John Arable is John Stamos. The reason we picked him is because he was excellent at playing a father on the show Full House.  He also has a good accent.

Mr. Zuckerman - The person who we picked to be Mr. Zuckerman is Frank Muniz. To see him act, go to the movie Agent Cody Banks.

SCREENPLAY

We would film this story in three scenes and they are described below. We made a few changes to the story and the ending is happier. The setting is the present day in New Jersey.


Act One
Nicollette, Melissa V.

    Rolando, Fern and her mother are standing around the table arguing about why John Arable had to kill the runt. Next Avery will come down the stairs with a fake rifle. John Arable will tell Avery to go upstairs and stop making his sister, Fern, feel so bad. Wilbur was annoying Mr. Arable.  They decided to take Wilbur to Mr. Zuckerman’s farm with several animals: a goose, a gander, some goslings, an old sheep, some lambs and a rat named Templeton.
At the new farm Wilbur meet a beautiful spider named Charlotte. On a spring day Wilbur finds out he is going to be killed. Charlotte has a plan to save Wilbur. She is going to trick Mr. Zuckerman. by weaving the words  miraculous and miracle into her web. Everyone in town will be  amazed and thrilled with Wilbur. Everything will be TERRIFIC!!    

Act Two    
Irma, Michael, Angela

     Wilbur will persuade Charlotte to go to the Cumberland County fair which is in New Jersey. Charlotte begs Templeton to go with her so he could find the words for the web. If we are directors we would put Charlotte and Templeton in the crate with Wilbur. Next we would have Lurvy say that he can’t wait to kill Wilbur. Wilbur would hear this and he would faint. Lurvy would get water and buttermilk. He would pour it over Wilbur so he would be clean and shiny at the fair.

Act Three
Paula

       After Wilbur wins first prize he goes back to Millville, New Jersey with Charlotte. Charlotte is very happy because she helped Wilbur not get killed for being a runt. Also because she would soon be a mother of 514 spiders. When the spiders are born Charlotte and Wilbur will watch the spiders leave. Only three spiders will remain with Charlotte and Wilbur. Their names are Alicia, Nydia, and Mayra. Fern will spend less and less time at the farm as she grows and more time with her friend Henry Fussy. There’s not much to say about Templeton because all he really did was get fat. Charlotte and Wilbur will stay best friends. Wilbur, Charlotte, and the three spiders live happily ever after.

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