Gather together as a group. Select one person to act as coordinator. This person should make sure everyone in the group has had a chance to talk and brainstorm ideas.
One or two people should act as recorders (secretaries) and write down ideas the group presents.
Use the nomative technique to go around the group and brainstorm ideas. Coordinators should make sure that everyone has had an opportunity to speak.
Your task:
1. come up with a contemporary theme that the group will write about. In The Colored Museum, the theme deals with African-American identity.
2. After the group agrees on a contemporary theme to explore, brainstorm ideas for skits. Members of the group should jot down the ideas they like.
3. After brainstorming ideas for skits and having a few ideas floating around, go back to your computer stations and write your skit.
4. The skit should be between 2-5 typed pages - in proper playwrighting format.
5. Turn in your skit Thursday at the end of class.
6. Complete Miss Julie for Thursday. There will be a quiz.
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