For each talk, the topic maker picks a random topic, the speaker talks about it, and the timer makes sure the talk lasts for two minutes. They exchange lists and must generate a story that uses all the words on the list. This is a good introduction to students if they are reading a play and eventually acting it out. In each group students playing the clay and the sculptors. Each group is assigned an emotion and must come up with a sculpture that presents that.
Sculptors can move the arms, etc. of the clay or demonstrate to the clay what they want it to do.
Character transplant Each group is given a short story everyone in the class has read. Each group must think of a known person or character, alive or dead, to transplant into a scene. Each group will present to the rest who the transplanted character is and what happens in the scene as a result. Fun with states and other words games. The worksheets for these are attached.