Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

Instruction: Tell your students that the words determine the ACTION, for example:
“you are all people and all people are you”
o ACTION: Appears to be one person – opens into stream of connected people.
“All is in motion, is growing, is you.”
o ACTION: Person dancing amidst growing plants etc.
Directions:
When they are speaking, the narrator looks at the focus point.
The narrator when they are not speaking looks at the screen.
When doing the Choral Reading, the speakers look at the focus point.
Side coaching: The students may need help tweaking the performance to give it a clear Beginning, Middle and End.
To simplify: Teacher narrates while students manipulate puppets.
To challenge: Devise more complex scenarios involving more challenging puppet actions. Also, rehearse and refine the puppet performance for greater
quality and coordinate with sound and speech.
Lesson Extension Add music. Add sound.
INQUIRE
What new understanding of the anchor work poem did you get from doing the Shadow Play?
What new understanding do you have about working as a team?
CREATE & PERFORM – Becoming an Expert:
Task: Students perform a small group Shadow Play.
Criteria
Performance must demonstrate:
Use of six puppet manipulation techniques.
―Giving and Taking‖ Focus in Choral and Solo Reading.
Narration that stresses appropriate syllables to indicate meaning.
Clear articulation of words when speaking.
Music and sound effects that adds emphasis to the puppet performance.
REFLECT - Making Connections
Compare and contrast seeing a Shadow Play with seeing a movie, a television show, a play. What are the similarities and differences?
How did you and your teamwork together? How did you resolve differences? How did you choose the Narrators? Puppeteers?
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
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