Investigating Our Surroundings

Original Plays Written by the Students

Soccer

Characters:

Basketball Referee - JP
Soccer Referee - AK
Narrator - SL
Soccer Player 1 - KH
Soccer Player 2 - CM
Nintendo Player 1 - WJ
Nintendo Player 2 - JJ
Basketball Player 1 - NC
Basketball Player 2 - CS

Narrator - Today we have made a play on how people get angry and in the future we think people will still get angry and have fights and wars.

Scene: Soccer field

Soccer Player 1: You cheated at the kickoff.
Soccer Player 2: No, that was you. I pushed it off to my teammate.
Soccer Player 1: No
Soccer Player 2: Yes, You're telling me I can't remember?
Soccer Referee: Stop fighting. CM's team has the kickoff because KH's team had the last goal. These are the rules, Period!

Scene: Basketball court

Basketball Player 1: You bumped me. And I got the foul.
Basketball Player 2: Well, you were in my way.
Basketball Player 1: Before I shot the ball you bumped me.
Basketball Player 2: No I didn’t.
Basketball Referee: Stop fighting. It is CS's foul. CS has two more fouls and then he'll be out. I call it the way I see it. Period!

Scene: Living room

Nintendo Player 1: I beat you in Nintendo racing. I got across the finish line first.
Nintendo Player 2: No you didn’t. I'm driving the yellow car. It got across first.
Nintendo Player 1: You kept switching games. I stayed with the orange car the whole time.
Nintendo Player 2: I stayed with yellow. But I bumped you, WJ.
Nintendo Player 1: That means you cheated.
Nintendo Player 2: Uh Uh. I kept on turning. I saw you and I tried to turn back.
Nintendo Player 1: Oh well. I guess we're tied.
Nintendo Player 2: We both won. To fight this time.

Narrator: First we showed soccer arguing then basketball, then kids playing Nintendo. I hope you can see how easy it is to get to a fight, or war, and we think it will continue in the future. I hope you enjoyed the performance.

Hospital

Characters:

Dr. - AH
Dr. - BG

Scene: Hospital - Two doctors and a dummy patient on an operating table.

Narrator: In the future there might be a problem with cell phones and other communication devices. They might give diseases.

AH: I think this disease is spreading very fast. He may not make it.
BG: He seems to have gotten a thunder shock from a cell phone
AH: It may not be thunder as much as talking too much on a cell phone. I'm a scientist. I've been researching how much people talk. They talk hours and hours.
BG: Maybe you're right Dr. AH. Oh, his kidney and blood vessels are blocked and damaged. Problems are also in the intestines.
AH: How are we going to fix this phone problem? This is such a big problem. Should we have a guard or a camera on everybody?
BG: I know. We'll find out how to stop their electricity and that will stop them. But first we should find out what kind of cell phone. If it's an Argentina cell phone, he's in big trouble. They die in 55 seconds.
AH : I think we should stop people from building cell phones. Dr, there should be a law to talk just for a couple of minutes.
BC: That doesn’t make sense. Also we don’t have to stop them. Let's announce on TV. Let’s make talking on cell phones expensive. If they talk long they will not have food money.
AH: Yes. That's true. I still think they need a law. The law can say you can't talk long. If you talk too long for two times - then we'll just let you die.
BG: A voice can come on the phone saying - "you've talked too long" and cut them off.
AH: I agree that we should cut people off.

Space

Characters:

Alien - MA
Robot Crystal Queen - NO
Robot - LM

Scene: Alien is working on planet Pluto. Building a battle druid. The robots are on Venus.

Robot: 10, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Robot Crystal Queen: Fire.
Robot: We're going to Pluto.
Robot Crystal Queen: We're flying in space; we're almost there.
Robot: Prepare to land on Pluto. Start the radio active signal.
Robot Crystal Queen: OK.
Robot: We've landed (gets out of the spaceship)
Both: See all those druids - back up.
Robot: Step aside druids.
Alien: Oo-too-ta-ta. (In Plutonian - step aside earthling)
Robot Crystal Queen: We do not understand that language.
Robot: Let's teach him Sign Language, maybe French, or Spanish.
Robot Crystal Queen: Here are the ABCs.
Alien: (copies) Oo-ta-te-ka (in Plutonian - I'm learning)
Robot: Buenos Dias, Bon jour.
Alien: Buenos Dias, Bon jour.

Robot, Robot Crystal Queen shake hands with the alien.

Robot: Ooh, only three fingers, and slimy hands

Narrator: They learned to get along, the robots decided to stay on Pluto forever, and they became friends.

Family in the Park

Characters:

Mother - HB
Kids:
Anne - JB
Jane - JF
Christy - KS

Scene: in the house, then in the park.

Mother: Do you want to go to the park?
Christy: Yes.
Anne: Sure.
Jane: Of course.

Off to the park they go.

Anne: I want to swing.
Christy: The swings are all being used.
Jane: Lets just take them away.
Mother: Don’t just take them away because somebody might get hurt.
Christy: There's some more swings being built.
Mother: They're not going to be done today. Maybe tomorrow or the next day.
Anne: OK. Ill wait.
Jane: Well then can we check and see if they are done tomorrow.
Mother: We will. But now its time to go home. Its bed time.
Anne: It's not 8:00. My watch says it's still 7:55.
Jane: Yeah! I don’t want to go to bed yet.
Christy: We didn’t get to swing.
Mother: It'll be 8:00 in 5 minutes. Let's go. I will read you a story.
Christy: I love stories.
Anne: I want to hear Wodney Wat. Will you read this one?
Mother: Would you like to hear that one, Annie and Christy?

Back at home

Kids: Yes.
Christy: Thank you Mommy, that’s a funny story.
All: We love you Mommy.
Mother: I love you too.

Court

Characters:

Judge, Mr. Cornelius - CO
Lawyer - Mr. JH
Person getting talked to - SJ

Scene: Court room

Judge: Now what happened Miss SJ? What did you do?
Person: (whispering)
Lawyer: She stole some jewelry and money. She stole bangles from the jewelry store. And the money in a cash register.
Judge: Why did you do that?
Person: (Whispers)
Lawyer: She stole the bangles so this guy, this person would tell her she's pretty.
Judge: Why didn’t you just pay for them?
Person: No one was there at the store.
Judge: Why didn’t you just call a person and say, "Here's all my money for these bangles"?
Person: Because I didn’t know their phone number.
Judge: Or do you not want to talk to strangers?
Person: Hmmm, I don’t like to talk to strangers.
Lawyer: Why didn’t you just wait to buy them until the next day when someone was there?
Person: There was no time. I had to go to the party tonight.
Judge: Why did you have to wear bracelets, you have plenty of necklaces? And why did you need the money?
Lawyer: And see you aren't at the party - you are here in jail. Why couldn’t you not just go to the party?
Judge: Why was it so important?
Person: I'll give it all back. Just let me go.
Judge: But before you go to jail, why was it so important? Why did you have to have the money?
Lawyer: It's just a party!
Judge: You made a bad decision.
Person: I'm sorry!
Lawyer: If you promise to never do it again, or else…
Person: I promise

One year later:
Judge: One year has passed and now you can go back to your party.
Lawyer: If you do this again you will stay for two more years.

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