Monday

9:15am – 11:30am
*consider: bathroom break at 1hr mark around 10:15am – not a hard and fast time

-Attendance, explanation of specific classroom rules (respect, listening skills, democracy). Describe what
Friday’s informance will be – a presentation on our process and the result of our work, including a
preview of the show.

-Explanation of what a musical is (what makes a good musical? What can you find in every musical/every
story? Eg. Conflict, heroes and villains, setting, a beginning, middle and end, etc).

*Begin outlining. Following MAY occur out of order*

-Introduce, discuss, and vote on type of genre. What is a genre? Have students name some genres and
examples from stories they know, and suggest some if they get stuck.

-Introduce, discuss, and vote on type of conflict. What is conflict? Why does every story need conflict?

-Discuss characters—protagonists and antagonists. Inform students this must be an ensemble piece,
with many characters working together. Who are our heroes? Our villains? What do the heroes need to
accomplish?

-Discuss scenes and songs. Every good story has a beginning: characters and conflict are introduced, a
middle: the action grows and the stakes rise, and an ending: action climaxes and is resolved.

*What happens in part 1, part 2, and part 3? What characters appear in each scene?

*We also need to include music: how many songs? What does each song accomplish in the
scene, what does it add to the scene?

11:30am – 12:30pm

-Lunch and games

12:30pm – 1:30pm

-Continue outlining

-1:30pm – 1:45pm

-Snack

1:45pm – 2:45pm

-Continue outlining

**Include games as focus starts to deteriorate

Tuesday

9:15am – 11:30am

-Explain that outline must be completed before lunch. Finalize outline.

-When outline is finished: explain breaking up into music/script groups. IF TIME: break up & start work.

11:30am – 12:30pm

-Lunch

12:30pm – 1:30pm

-IF already broken up: return to groups. OR: explain breaking up into music/script groups & break up.

1:30pm – 1:45pm

-Snack

**Touch base: if Krista needs time to put music together, can fill some time after snack with games

1:45pm – 2:45pm

-Complete draft of 1st scene, 1st song – have students write suggestions/edits in final minutes

Wednesday

9:15am – 9:30am

-Groups meet and share progress – present work on scene 1 and song 1

9:30am – 11:30am

-Break back into groups and continue work

-Goal: complete draft of scene 2 and song 2

11:30am – 12:30pm

-Lunch and games

**Touch base: if Krista needs time to put music together / Abby needs time to write scene drafts, can try
to include theatre games in afternoon

12:30pm – 1:30pm

-Continue work in groups: scene 3 and song 3

1:30pm – 1:45pm

-Snack

1:45pm – 2:45pm

-Finish first draft of ALL scenes and songs – let students write suggestions/edits in final minutes
Thursday

9:15am – 9:45am

-Share work on scene 2 & 3, song 2 & 3

-Explain: today is EDITING day. Now we clean things up to make them the best they can be. There will
NOT be much time (if any) to edit on Friday.

9:45am – 11:30am

-Break into groups for editing

11:30am – 12:30pm

-Lunch

12:30pm – 1:30pm

-Break into groups for editing

1:30pm – 1:45pm

-Snack

1:45pm – 2:45pm

-All students meet for staged reading

-Finish editing – keep things moving at a pace (don’t let students get stuck on little specifics), have
students write additional suggestions/edits in final minutes

Friday

9:15am – 10:00am

-Pass out scripts – these are the FINAL versions

-Have students vote: which scene to perform, which song to perform

-Discuss plan for the presentation, begin practicing

10:00am – 11:00am

-Practice onstage

11:00am – 12:00pm

-Lunch and t-shirts

12:00pm – 12:30pm

-Informance – Musical creation camp has a brief presentation about their work, gives the audience a
preview of the performance for next week
Writing a scene:

-Who is in the scene?

-What needs to be accomplished? / What do the characters want?

-What is preventing the characters from achieving their goal?

-What are each of the characters like? (Leader, comic relief, nerd, wise sage) What flaws prevent them
from reaching their goal? (Fear, insecurity, selfishness, bad temper)