Personal Project Proposal

My idea for my personal project is to write a short play about Christmas which I may or may not perform, depending on the circumstances. My play will most likely be 10-12 minutes, though it might be longer, and it will be a play about the true meaning of Christmas (biblical). My purpose is to tell about the true meaning of Christmas and to tell them the Christmas story in a way that will be interesting and easy to understand. By the end of the project I expect that I will have completed the play, a creative written piece of work, and possibly performed it as well.

The resources I will need are the following:

• The Bible (if I write about the true meaning of Christmas)
• Research about Christmas plays that have been written
• Information about the history of Santa Claus and the legends and stories about him (if I choose to write about that

If I end up performing the play I will also need the following:

• A theater to perform the play in
• Actors and Actresses
• Props
• Costumes
• Makeup

The study skills I will need for the project are writing, acting, and research. I will need to research what I am writing about, and I will need to know how to write about it. I will also need to act if I end up performing the play.
The area of interaction my project will focus on is Human Ingenuity, formerly known as Homo Faber. This is my area of interaction because I will be creating something myself from scratch, using my ingenuity. My project will also be about Approaches to Learning because I will be seeking to learn even more about what I will be writing about, and because I will be attempting to have a moral to the story and teach the audience something.

At the Personal Project Exhibition, I will display the script of my play, and if I perform the play as well as writing it, I will have a video of the play along with the script. I will also display my research and pictures of rehearsals (if we end up performing it). I might also display mind maps and other forms of planning I might use in the process of writing the play, and maybe the original drafts of the script, and all of the different drafts throughout the stages of the project.