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Now I know why stories fizzle for me sometimes (o.k., I admit it, lots of times) – I do not use scripts the way they are intended to be used. As a matter of fact, I haven’t been using scripts at all. I usually just let the kids run with it as I don’t want to suppress their creativity – lots of times we end up with really great stories but just as many times, the stories just tank and then we have nowhere to go (being a newbie at this, I am still having trouble being quick on my feet with to come up with alternate directions). This week, I completely stole everything you offered on the site: Tripps’s structures and Robert’s German Halloween script. The resulat was amazing – the kids just as engaged as if we had come up with our own story line and they never realized that it was not “their” story.
I have been avoiding writing scripts in advance (it just takes me soooooo long to come up with something exciting) but I realize that, in the long run, it will make my stories more effective and give me a better platform for PQA and circling.
Thanks, once again, for opening my eyes !
It took me seven years to figure out how scripts work so don’t feel badly. Then, I had to beg and plead with Matava to send me some for a few years – each one worked once I figured out a few of the things that you express above, Catharina. Then I asked Anne to write those scipts books and in the editing process she casually pointed out how she underlines the variables and explained in the appendix how she crafts the stories. It had a blockbuster effect on me because now I knew how to write my own and I got a much higher level of what I could call a working relationship with the script in my classroom during the story. Others like Blaine may have done what Anne did before her, but it was her scripts – the way Anne crafted them – that made it all work for me. I owe Anne so much because I think that she as elements of genius as a teacher. The only other person I have met who has reached her level of creativity and clarity with scripts is Jim Tripp.