While the research literature on teaching as a form of scholarship has been growing, there has been a concomitant growth in understanding that teaching itself is a kind of performance--an interactive dramaturgical relationship between students and teachers with potential positive outcomes for student learning, motivation, discovery, and community. This performance script, which focuses on teaching in a world impacted by September 11th, is intended for use in any classroom or conversational setting where educators, professors, students, or teachers might gather. Readers stand around the room, close to the audience, and share space with them. (Contains 32 references.) (SM)