Drama, Skits, and Sketches Vol. 3 : 54 Brand-New Scripts for Youth Groups

by Youth Specialties

• ISBN13: 9780310238232
• ISBN10: 0310238234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

If you ate up the previous two best-selling volumes of Drama, Skits, & Sketches, you're gonna really dig this next batch of 54 brand-new, youth group-tested thespian exercises! With the help of the scenarios in Drama, Skits, & Sketches 3, you can discuss important issues with pizzazz . . . present Bible stories with humor . . . and add serious significance to your lessons. Use them any way you'd like--whether as fun, informal, no-prep reader's theater or as guides for seriously polished performances!SCRIPTURE SKETCHES Designed to supplement your Bible teaching--and add flesh and bones to already powerful Bible stories--your students will love acting out scenarios such as "Community Kitchen," "Recipe for a Quiet Time," and "As the Cookie Crumbles: The Search for Fig-nificance." (And we've provided an index that lists scripts according to Bible reference--quite the handy tool as you prepare specific lessons!)CONTEMPORARY SKETCHES These 21st-century skits will hit your kids where they live, using terms, imagery, and situations they're intimately familiar with. Looking to beef up a topic for the evening--or even add some spice to announcements? Try on "Can O' Blame," "Backward Lip Sync Contest," and "American Master" for size.TV TAKEOFFS These humorous sketches based on television programs are great for lively discussion starters or as openers at camps and conferences.TIMES OF CRISIS Here are scripts that deal with tough issues and tough times. And while many discuss crisis in a lighthearted manner, their themes will grab your students' attention and prepare them for some excellent dialog.MONOLOGS Time for one kid in your group to shine! These scripts require little or no costumes or props, but they can be as powerful as an ensemble cast's three-act play!Plenty of skits and sketches here--serious, spiritual, educational, and humorous--to keep your group learning and having fun for months. Drama, Skits, & Sket

Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Scripts	5	(1)
Scripts by Bible Reference	6	(1)
Scripts by Topic	7	(4)
Scripture Sketches
Recipe for a Quiet Time	11	(1)
Absolute Power	11	(1)
In the Dark	11	(1)
A Day in Court	12	(1)
As the Cookie Crumbles: The Search for Fig-nificance	12	(1)
Who Am I?	12	(1)
The Building Permit	12	(1)
I'm Almost Ready	12	(1)
Community Kitchen	12	(1)
Parable on Justice	13	(1)
David and Jonathan	13	(1)
The Wonder Years	13	(1)
Trust	13	(1)
NTTV Presents: New Testament News---Good News, All the Time	13	(1)
Running from God	13	(1)
Hell's Barbershop	14	(1)
Bible Walk through the Beatitudes	14	(1)
Genesis 1--3	14	(1)
Walking on Water	14	(1)
Love That Will Not Let Me Go	14	(1)
In the News This Week	15	(76)
Contemporary Sketches
American Master	91	(1)
Working Parts	91	(1)
Love on the Brain	91	(1)
Going Up?	92	(1)
Screaming Announcements	92	(1)
The Flower	92	(1)
Silent Night	92	(1)
Baggage	92	(1)
You Don't Have to Pay	93	(1)
Can O' Blame	93	(1)
The Exchange Shop	93	(1)
God Calling	93	(1)
Daily Dose	93	(1)
Backwards Lip Sync Contest	93	(1)
Upgrade	94	(1)
I'm Listening	94	(1)
Flunking English, Flunking Life	94	(1)
The Chat	94	(39)
TV Takeoffs
The Big Question	133	(1)
Priorities	133	(1)
Who Wants to Be a Christian?	133	(10)
Times of Crisis
Too Late?	143	(1)
The Visit	143	(1)
Without Her Consent	144	(1)
Guardian Angel	144	(1)
The Only Way Out	144	(31)
Monologs
Waiting for the Commercial	175	(1)
The Valley Girl History of the World from Creation to, Like, the Birth of Christ	175	(1)
Generation X	175	(10)
Readers' Theater
They're Not Like Us	185	(1)
Where Is God?	185	(1)
Remotely Entertaining	185	(1)
For God So Loved	186