Remember to Remember

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TITLE: REMEMBER TO REMEMBER

RECOMMENDED AGE GROUP: Primary Year 4

CHARACTERS: Mother and child, Teacher and several children in a class

SYNOPSIS: The teacher wants to start the lesson but children keep interrupting because they’ve forgotten something. In the end when the teacher can start the lesson she realises she’s forgotten her book.

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES: The teacher’s objective is to give her class but as the children are so forgetful they interrupt her continually, until the end of the class when she realises she’s forgotten her book.

SCENE BREAKDOWN:
I - AT HOME – a student with his parents getting ready for school. The mother checks his schoolbag and asks him about all the subjects in his timetable for that day, making sure that he has put everything in his bag.

II – ON THE SCHOOL BUS – the students are seated on the bus and as the driver starts up the engine several children have forgotten school objects and the driver has to wait for them. When everyone is finally ready the driver realises that he has forgotten his keys, and the children have to wait until he finds them.

III – AT SCHOOL – The children are in English class and the teacher is about to start the class. However, she keeps getting interrupted because of children forgetting their school materials. Finally when she can begin, she realises that she’s forgotten her book.