1) Sign up for the event by clicking the "Sign Up" link in the top, right-hand corner of the site starting on March 1. Select “Teacher.” This will register you as a Script Frenzy Young Writers Program teacher (and a participant) and will create a basic profile and account for you on our site.
2) Log in. Click “My Script Frenzy" on the top menu bar, select "Edit"--->"Writer and Script Info" and tell us about your brilliant self and script to be. Teachers are encouraged to write scripts alongside their students, but it is certainly not required—just know that writing your own script is a great motivator for your students. As a young writer, there is nothing more triumphant than surpassing your teacher’s page count with your own!
3) If you or any of your students are working with a partner this April, make sure to link your accounts by April 15. You can do this by entering your partner's username in the Writing Partner Box under "My Script Frenzy"--->"Edit"--->"Writer and Script Info." As soon as your partner does the same thing, you'll both be officially linked on each other's profiles, and when one person updates the page count for their script, it will change the number for both partners.
4)Once you're signed up as a teacher, you will have access to our new and improved Teacher’s Lounge by clicking the "Leaders and Teachers" link that'll appear up in the masthead! There you will find great writing resources including our scriptwriting Boot Camp for elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms; mini-lessons to keep your kids writing during April; a private teachers forum where you can swap advice with other teachers who are facilitating Script Frenzy; participant certificates for your kids; information about our AlphaSmart Lending Library Program, and more.
5) Order your Script Frenzy Classroom Kit by filling out our Kit Order Form for teachers. The form in the Teacher’s Lounge ("Leaders and Teachers"--->"Classroom Kit Order Form"). Each kit comes with a beautiful Script Frenzy poster for your classroom and up to 35 “I’m in the Frenzy” stickers for your kids. If you have more than 50 kids in your classroom email Tavia_Stewart@ScriptFrenzy.org.
6) Near March 31, host a launch party! If your students have internet access and are interested in using the resources on our site, they can create their own accounts on our website as well. Check out How Script Frenzy Works for Young Writers to help guide your kids through the sign-up process. Note: Students do not need access to computers in order to participate in Script Frenzy. Writing scripts with pens, pencils, and paper is just as valid.
7) On April 1, begin writing your scripts as a class! Your goal is to write a script by midnight, local time, on April 30.
8) Also starting April 1, we’ll add two new items to everyone’s Script Frenzy profile ("My Script Frenzy"--->"Edit"--->"Writer and Script Info."): spaces for you to enter your cumulative page count for the month on the honor system, and a place for you to post an excerpt from your script in progress (totally optional, totally encouraged).
9) Write like crazy for thirty days. If you reach your page-count goal and upload a version of your script to our site for counting between April 25 and midnight, local time on April 30, you will be added to our hallowed Winner’s Page, and receive a handsome winner’s certificate and web icon. The adding of your name to the Honor Roll of Winners requires that you upload a version of your script to our site to be counted. We do not keep or read any scripts uploaded to our site, and we'll offer instructions for scrambling the script before uploading it. We'll post step-by-step instructions on how to upload your script to our team of superpowered computational robots starting on April 25.
10) On April 30, throw an “It's a Wrap!" party for your class! Print out certificates, host a reading (or a performance!), hand out stickers, eat cake—whatever you do, make sure that your students know that they may have been ordinary kids when April began, but now they’re scriptwriters!
And that’s it! If you have any questions, just check out our General FAQs. For additional ideas on how to facilitate Script Frenzy in your classroom or library, please sign in and head on over to our Teacher's Lounge.