• 1. What POV is driving the story? What central point/need/desire for your community member must be conveyed?

  • Overall: Violence

    •  Ma Sarah

      • ​The amount they suffered was immense
    • Mama Sania

      • The rebels were inhuman

      • Beating by the rebels

      • Starvation- struggle to find and keep food

      • Struggled to survive

• 2. What dramatic question is organizing this narrative?

  • How to do you cope with your PTSD?/How do you “come back” after all this suffering?

• 3. What 5 central moments/themes must be included and why?

  • Death- important part in Mama Sania’s story

  • PTSD- main focus

  • What higher ground has done for them

  • Music- lighter moment

  • Resilience

    4.  In what order? How will you open, transition, close, etc.

• Open with Sarah’s story

• Ma Sania’s story

• Transition: How they got to the U.S.

• Suffering → today

  • Henri talking about PTSD and how it affected them

• Education- end

• Playing instruments- at the end