Resumo de Scripture - SM THOMPSON

The parable of The Good Samaritan is often /first/ in my list of scriptures for a class of 34 in the days when Maggie Thatcher was Prime Minister of England.

I would wake up in the morning, with the anxious feeling of

/what was I going to do with my class today in RE/

My colleague had taken a firm hand in my life and told me to

/invent something from your wonderful array of Dramatic writings in your teacher's file/

I paused a moment, and reflected on what he had said: MY WONDERFUL ARRAY OF
DRAMATIC WRITINGS!! Possibly he had read my translation of Macbeth or Julius Caesar or
read my work on King Lear! Certainly there was a moral line there that was relevant to the
subject of Religious Education. I thought I would pursue him further so I chased him around
the table in the Staff Room:

/its one question after another/ was his reply.

It was time for me to grasp the nettle and take courage: I browsed through the Bible and
read again the Parable of the Good Samaritan! How was I going to translate this to my class of 34 students:

Well, I had the answer right in the palm of my hand! I wrote a script: thus:

The Good Samaritan, would be played by our class group leader: and she was improvise all the answers and questions:

Such as: Why did you stop to give thanks to Jesus?

After all, all the other guys were cured, but only ONE person stopped to give thanks!

I thought long and hard and decided that it was a moral maze! I would have to scriipt
CLOSED ANSWERS - such as:

Good Samaritan could be played by the girl in class with the lowest marks or the FAIL student!

so they came up with the reply in class as follows:

/I stopped because God invited me to/

I loved that answer! It was even better than the answer to a question often cribbed from famous comedy sketches on television:

/Who wrote Macbeth?/
answer: /Mrs. Macbeth?

NO was my reply: it was William Shakespeare: Then I pondered again, perhaps here they were making a pertinent comment: Perhaps in the hall of fun the correct answer was

LADY MACBETH should have written the play but she was too busy being married to Macbeth so Shakespeare had to write it instead!

A long way off scripture in class - but that was how a group of 34 girls wrote, talked about and acted out the story of the Good Samaritan with grateful thanks to the Christian Bible and some thanks to the bard himself: William Shakespeare!

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