Script for 'schoolhouse description' scene

Chris begins by saying "It is 9 o'clock in Paradise"

We all move closer together and sit in a 'childlike' position, e.g. legs crossed with fingers on lips.

Lynsey: The schoolhouse is white
Amy: A small building made out of wood, constructed by local villagers
Sian P: There are 3 wooden steps leading to the door (those standing stamp 3 times)
Sara: There is one large room with a single door
Laura: There are pegs with the children's names on
Stacey: There are paintings on the wall, each child has signed their name (turn and read the girls names out: Naomi Rose, Marion, Lena, Mary Liz and Anna Mae)
Gemma: The floor is made of wooden panels, you can hear the teachers footsteps. (turn around and walk to the back of the room)
Sian G: There are wooden individual desks have lids that open, placed in rows of 5 by 5 (clap and walk to the front of the room - everyone else put the chairs out)

ONCE EVERYONE HAS SAT DOWN

Kathryn: The teachers large wooden desk is at the front of the room facing the children's desks
Louise: Resting on the desk is a large bell with a wooden handle (all pretend to ring bell with right hand twice)
Michael: There are 3 windows on either side
Lauren: Out of the windows (look left) all we can see is fields of green (click with right hand and look back to the front)
Emily: The wooden floor echos as chairs are scraped along it (all turn chairs to the left)
Mel: In the hall which is 4 times the size of the classroom, there is a stage at one end and a stack of chairs at the other (pick up chairs and turn back the right way)
Chris: At the back of the stage there is a chalkboard with the words: 'visitors brighten peoples days'

Gemma walks to the front of the room knocking down five chairs whilst saying the five girls names.
Once Gemma is at the front, all say: VISITORS BRIGHTEN PEOPLES DAYS.

End

final running order

1. draw round suits
2. drawing in space
3. mini scenes with 4 students, 1 carl
4. school description
5. news report
6. monday monday
7. timeline
8. phonecall (between 3)
9. hostage taking
10. house description
11. charles carl roberts
12. lords prayer
13. phonecall (pairs)
14. draw round chairs
15. take off suits
16. text action
17. fur elise
18. blue sky thinking

END

Running Order

Hello everyone

Please find below all the scenes we have so far - please spend Monday discussing a running order from 9am - 10am and 10am - 12pm running the scenes as much as possible to see how it works.

Thanks and have a great Christmas break

All best

Michael

1. Monday Monday
2. Phone Call
3. Hostage Taking
4. Description of teacher / house / Carl
5. Lord's Prayer
6. Moving Charles Carl Roberts VI scene
7. Amish rules - Ordnung
8. Olbermann
9. Fur Elise
10. School House description
11. It is 3 O' Clock... texting scene
12. Investigators on the scene - drawing the space

That's it for now - if you can remember any more please add them

Thanks in advance

Michael

Here are some pictures of Charles Carl Roberts IV....

Sian

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNeRzCnne4&feature=related


I thought this was quite an interesting video. Emily.

Amish and parenting

Ever Present Parents

Nothing, Amish parents believe, can substitute for their own direct and constant involvement with their children, and they practice that conviction fervently. Most Amish families eat three meals a day together.
Datt (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Dad") and Mamm (the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect word for "Mom" or "Mother") work at home on the farm. If they aren’t farmers, Datt likely works in a machine or cabinet shop across the yard or within the neighborhood.
From late August through the end of May, the schoolchildren miss the noontime meal with their families. But then they are in the company of other Amish children, in a world nearly as familiar and secure as home.
Days are full for these children. The littlest ones stay in the house or garden with their mother, free to play but never out of view in the sprawling kitchen or yard. Older preschool youngsters may circle between house and barn, but not without the parents knowing which of the two of them is responsible for the children’s activities and safety. School-age sisters and brothers often monitor their younger siblings, keeping them happy and occupied, while savoring the trust that task requires.
Bought toys are minimal in this lively world. Yet within its boundaries are animals and ever-present playmates, and space for rolling and running, for chasing and games of pretending "House" or "Store" or "Farm."
A Well-Paced Life

These children’s days are not given shape by a line-up of soccer games, piano lessons, camp, or play groups. Instead, the morning sun, chore-time twice a day, and the coming of evening set a structure for their time. So, too, do the days of the week and the seasons. In this largely rural, soil-anchored world, life follows the lead of the weather and the promise of productive fields and gardens. The children are not removed from this daily interplay with nature. They learn it, they begin to sense it and read it alongside their parents, who interpret what is happening while they go about their jobs, who point out the signals as they come, who invite their children to join them in responsive work.
Not dulled by television or computers, not distracted by telephones, these children grow to be keenly alert both to the natural environment and to the interests of their church community. They are fully occupied but not frenzied. They learn a contentment still available to those who focus their energies on the earth and its requirements, who devote themselves to giving and receiving from others. These are the lessons that the Amish know take a lifetime to learn and practice. These ideals require the reinforcement of a fully convinced community who live what they believe concretely and visibly. These are convictions best transmitted by immersion into the world which believes and propounds them.
And so the Amish speak a distinctive language, dress in distinguishing clothes, use and refuse particular technologies. They form and maintain their own schools and social events. They agree on and articulate boundaries for the safeguarding of their children, their families, their devotion to God.
Why Do They Stay?

One Amish historian, regarded for honestly assessing his own people, believes that more than 80% of children who grow up in Amish families join the Amish church and choose to stay in the community. He immediately credits "the grace of the Lord and our strong beliefs."
His statistics and reasoning are echoed by a young Amish mother who quickly and with certainty expresses why she thinks so many Amish children decide officially to become Amish: "Most important of all is whether or not they feel they belong. That is helped if they feel close to their parents and their friends. And if they can respect the way that they were taught."
"What holds our young people?" asks an Amish grandfather. "The support they have from their parents and from the community. For myself, it was the closeness I felt to the group. I felt wanted. I belonged. As a teenager I saw I would have support for being an adult."

Lauren Mcdermott

The Roberts' household.

so, when u walk into the front door u see a corridor leading right to the end of the house. 

it is all on one floor. 

walk through the door, and on the left you come to a door, behind that door is a bath room. 

straight in front of the door is the window. 

underneath the window to the left is a toilet, facing that is the sink. 

to the right of the window is a bath / shower. 

coming out of the bathroom and following the corridor along a little to you come to a door on the right. 

In there is the master bedroom, again directly in front is the window and underneath is the double bed. 

either side of the bed is two side tables. to the right of the bed is two wardrobes and a chest of draws. 

to the left sits a dressing table. 

leaving the bedroom and following the corridor a little further till you come to another door on the left. in here there is a bunk bed, wardrobe and chest of draws. 

back out onto the corridor and along to the next door on the right which is a much smaller room with a tiny window and a cabin bed with draws underneath. 

coming to the end of the corridor and into a large open room. 

on one side there's a kitchen with a breakfast bar separating it from the living room section. 

the kitchen has work surfaces, cupboards a cooker a fridge. at the breakfast bar there are 4 stools. 

going over to the living section of the room there is a sofa and an arm chair and against the wall facing the cooking there is a sideboard. 

in front of the large sofa sits a t.v set. 

chris