4. Create one play with a beginning, at least 3 incidents, and an ending

After each member of your group has written a scenario, meet again. Share your work with one another. Then talk about what you find interesting in each scenario. Are there:

• interesting characters? Which ones? Why?
• special things in the setting? What are they? Can you find places in your school that will look like this?
• does the problem fit the characters? Does it seem original, different? What will interest your audience?

Now talk about putting these ideas together. When you discuss your work, it is very important that you talk about what WORKS WELL. It is important that EVERYONE in the group has a time to share his or her ideas. It is also essential that you use ideas from everyone in the group. This is called consensus. This means you cooperate by listening to everyone. But you go even further because you USE IDEAS FROM EVERYONE and make certain that EVERYONE AGREES with your choices.

Check out how we compromised to create “The Drug Store Robbery.”

Print a fresh form for the scenario. Get someone in the group to write out your new scenario.