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poet13

I've been wracking my brain for a new idea for our school skit contest. The boys in the club have some up with some, but they've been done and done to death. Ajjumas, study vs play, bullying, school vs hakwqon trial, stealing, study pressure, English in the world, origin myths, Aesops fables, greed, internet addiction, sex, etc....

What we're looking for is ideas about what social issues middle school kids experience today that they didn't face even a few years ago.

Anybody have any ideas?

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Corporal punishment, Strange religious cults like the Moonies

North vs South Korea.

poet13 · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

I think you're trying to be funny, but corporal punishment might be a good idea. North vs South has be done. Most of my rural students wouldn't have any idea who the Moonies are.

Maybe we could adapt a role reversal or a fairy tale.....

patongpanda · Joined: 06 Feb 2007

What's a skit?

poet13 · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

A short play, usually for a small number of characters. Not dictionary, but that's what it is here.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

pecan · Joined: 01 Jul 2004

A skit idea that has worked wonders in the past...

Create several scenarios:

1) Giving and receiving something

2) Apologizing and forgiving

3) Interrupting and acknowledging

Etc.

The scenes can be set in a train station, at a bank, on the street, at home, in a classroom, etc.

Have a group demonstrate rude behavior via word choice and body language in the first scene and then have the same group or a different group demonstrate repeat the exact same scene with polite behavior and language. Repeat that for each scenario.

You can change it up and have the first scene be a conversation between intimate friends and the second a conversation with a child or an important person. It can be a great opportunity to teach linguistic register by the words we use in a given situation.

Not sure if I communicated that very well. PM me if you need a better explanation.

Good luck.

-Nut

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

A day in a middle school kid's life, as filmed by a TV camera.

poet13 · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:36 am Post subject:

pecan, that's interesting. Using several different situations to illustrate a point social manners.....but what about a current social dilemna? Maybe the pressure to say NO? No to smoking, to cuting classes, to shopllifting, to sex, to drinking? It's a boys school....I think the sex thing wouldn't work.

poet13 · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject:

I was thinking a few minutes ago about this during class while I was beating one of my students.

How about a role play, where the first two characters are an adult man and woman. Role pay drinking, male dominated violence, and female protestations that it's a misunderstanding when someone intervenes.

cue soliloquy (sp?) for each player lamenting their actions.

Next, role play two younger people, teens maybe. Role play the teens seing this behaviour and later on mimicking it.

cue soliloquy for each player lamenting their actions.

Maybe have some kind of confrontation where the female asks where does it stop and the male genuflects and declares, "It stops with me."
Could even throw in very young children as witness to the teen violence with the insinuation that it's picked up even at that age...

It's very simple, but I think it's an issue that many are afraid to tackle head on.

what do you all think?