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Weekly Breakdown
Session 1
Your group will… talk about yourselves, learn about each other, create group agreements for collaboration, and brainstorm sentence starters in case someone breaks an agreement.
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Session 2
Your group will… discuss a lesson you want to teach through a story and come up with the setting, protagonist, goal, antagonist, and climax for a story teaching the lesson.
Session 3
Your group will… map out your story in an outline, from the opening scene with an inciting incident to the climax where the protagonist and antagonist face each other and learn a lesson.
Session 4
Your group will… write the first part of your script in screenplay format.
Session 5
Your group will… continue writing your script, adding details about the setting and characters.
Session 6
Your group will… continue writing your script, up to around the climax.
Session 7
Your group will… finish and / or revise your script, come up with a title and tagline, and write an introduction for the Big Show.
Session 8
Your group will… meet the actors, introduce your script, and watch your words come to life in a Big Show performance.
Session 9
Your group will… reflect on the experience and complete surveys on the program.
