Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

Step-by-Step Sequence of Learning – use these cognitive processes: experience, inquiry, creation, performance, reflection, assessment
Model Lesson Nine – Theatre & Puppetry Arts: Rehearse Your Found Poem Shadow Play
ASSESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
What are the three elements of poetry we learned?
What is Choral Reading?
What is solo reading with giving and talking focus?
What are the techniques for manipulating your puppet you have learned?
EXPERIENCE - Getting Smarter
Differentiating instruction: Grades 2 - 3 have one group puppeteer, while second group narrates and performs sound effects.
Grades 4 - 5 break into puppeteers, and narrators and musicians within each group.
Directions: Model the following steps with one group before each individual group practices the sequence by themselves.
Each group selects TWO or THREE puppeteers and ONE to THREE narrators and musicians.
o Teacher devises strategies in which this is done objectively and fairly.
Each group differentiates and assumes their correct positions.
o Puppeteers sit behind their imaginary screen, thinking about where the light source is
They should position themselves so they will not block the light.
o Narrators sit to the left or right of the screen in the same line as the screen.
They should be able to see both the puppeteers and the images on the screen.
o Musicians sit on the opposite side of the screen from the narrators in a position.
They should be able to see the images on the screen.
Puppeteers lay the shadow puppets on top of each other in REVERSE ORDER of the puppets’ appearance.
Narrators divide the lines they will speak as soloists, and which lines will be read in Choral Reading.
Puppeteers determine which puppets they will manipulate.
o Teacher devises strategies in which this is done objectively and fairly.
As the lines are spoken and the scenario (vocabulary in Lesson Five) progresses:
o The puppeteers COORDINATE the entrance of each puppet with the appropriate lines.
o The puppeteers COORDINATE the action/emotion of each puppet with the appropriate lines.
o The puppeteers COORDINATE the exit of each puppet with the appropriate lines.
Ask these questions:
Who is speaking in the performance of your Found Poem?
To whom are the puppets and puppeteers speaking?
How are the puppets behind the screen communicating the lines of the poem to the audience in front of the screen?
What are the responses, actions, and emotions of the puppeteers and their puppets in performing the Found Poem for the audience?
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
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