THE GENIUS
• Title: The genuis
  
  
• Level: 3^rd cycle of Primary Education. Level 2.
  
  
• Brief synopsis: This is the story of a brother and his sister who lives with their granny, a fairy, but they do not know it... they dream about going to a beach or seeing the world from the sky. So one day a mysterious genius comes to their house to visit them on a magic carpet to see the world from the sky or go to the beach and other exciting adventures.
  
  
• Character descriptions and objectives:
  - Brother; he is ten years old, he is quite tall, his skin is light, his hair is blond, he has got deep blue eyes. He is responsible, he always takes care of his little sister, he likes studying and he loves going out with his granny to discover new plants and flowers
  - Sister; she is six years old, her skin is dark, her eyes are black and her hair is long and curly. She is shy, she is very proud of her older brother and she tries to imitate him, she does not like studying much but she loves reading adventure tales, she would like to be an adventurer and discover new worlds...
  Both are good children, their “granny” tries to bring them up as her grandchildren in the best way, being responsible of everything that sourrounds them, specially the nature and what it envolves
  - The granny; she is a wise woman, she found the children when they were little kids by the door of her house by a deep dark forest, so she decided to bring them up as her grandchildren. She is a good fairy she is responsible of the environment and all beings. She does not tell them her real nature, she wants to wait until the children are mature enough.
  - The genius; his skin is blue, his eyes are green, his hair is red. He is very strong, clever, wise, brave and he always travels on a magic carpet flying all over the world, first he lived in a wonderful lamp, his first owner was Aladin and after living adventures with him, he travels free all over the world. One day in a fairy meeting he met the Fairy of the Nature (the children´s granny) and they became friends
  Both, the granny and the genius are trying to show the children values like the respect of the nature and the importance of being responsible of their acts, including the caring of the environment: plants, trees, animals...
  
  
• Class preparation:
  Divide the class into groups of three or four students, then let them read the original script extract and cut it in many pieces as groups would be, first they have to put it in the right order (the whole class) and afterwards they have to rewrite the original script by changing the characters and some ideas. When they have done this, we choose the most original scripts.
  The children write on a paper the moral values they have learnt and then they say them aloud.
  
  
• Scenes - description of what happens in each
Scene 1
Scene set in a deep dark forest, where the brother and the sister live with their granny. The brother speaks, willing to know the world from the sky and how the beach could be.... saying all these wishes to his little and proud sister.
Scene 2
Scene set in the house, where they live with their granny, we focus our attention first in every part of the comfortable house, its rooms and specially in the fireplace. And then in the granny, who appears with a magical aspect (she has a young and beautiful face but her hair is white and silver. Her dress is blue, long and wonderful). She speaks with a calm and softy voice to both the boy and the girl who are paying attention to her words.
Scene3
Scene set outside the house, in the forest, where the children are outside with the granny who is teaching them the different kinds of plants, so the children do not speak, and while they are listening, the granny stops talking, and she begins to talk about a friend of her, a magic genius who is going to visit them. The children´s face change, now they are high emotional and the girl asks the granny more quiestions about the mysterious friend...................................
Scene 4
Scene set by the fireplace, the sister and the brother are playing and reading books, when suddenly a strong wind (sound) appears and both look at the door, the door opens and the big and strong genius appears...
Scene 5
Scene set on a magic carpet (big one full of different and marvellous colors) The boy and the girl are sitting on the magic carpet and the genius and the granny are standing on it. The children do not speak and the genius talks about the surprising journey... seing the world from the sky.....
Scene 6
Scene set as bird's eye view, all the characters are seeing the world from the sky, the nature: trees, flowers, rivers, mountains, people of different cultures, and villages. Nobody speaks.
Scene 7
Scene set by the house again, the children and the granny are out of the magic carpet and the genius is on it, Nobody speaks except the genius who tells the children: _”ready for another trip?””To the beach?? (the end is open to enjoy other adventures)


• Additional / relevant information
The most difficult aspect is how to create the world seeing from the sky. We are not able to create special effects in the school or the classroom, but, for example, we can use paper, draw and color rivers, trees, flowers, forest, indian people, black people..., villages on it, and as the children are sitting on the magic carpet (pretending to be flying), other students cross with this colored papers (background).
Taking care the nature, is the moral aspect I want to include in my script, children must know the power the human being has on it, and if we care the environment, the world could live more and more....

once upon a time...