Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

Historical and Cultural Context
Understanding the Historical and Cultural Dimensions of Puppet Theatre
3.1 Compare and describe different forms of puppetry that share similar themes, and are from different cultures and different
time periods
3.2 Identify mask and puppetry artists from students’ own communities, counties, or states and discuss local or regional puppetry
arts traditions
3.3 Identify and describe masks or puppets from different parts of the world and the cultural and historical roles that they played in
their place of origin
3.4 Identify and write about a form of puppetry or mask arts that reflects the student’s own cultural background
Aesthetic Valuing
Responding to, Analyzing, and Critiquing Puppetry and Mask Arts Experiences
4.1 Develop and apply appropriate criteria or rubrics for evaluation of different forms of puppetry arts experience
4.2 Identify successful visual design elements, movement strategies, and expressive qualities of students’ own puppetry or
mask art works and performances, and describe what might be done to improve them
4.3 From the audience perspective identify and explain the successful compositional, performance, and communicative
qualities of a piece of puppet or mask theatre
4.4 Describe how layers of visual images, movement, text, and emotion contribute to the meaning of a piece of puppetry theatre
Connections, Relationships, Applications
Connecting and Applying What is Learned in Puppetry Arts to Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers
5.1 Use problem-solving and cooperative skills to create puppets and visual images to dramatize a story or current event in any
content area, with emphasis on the five W’s
5.2 Develop problem-solving and communication skills by working collaboratively on a production and performance team
5.3 Explain how the time management, problem-solving, cooperation and self discipline skills that are required for creating
puppet and mask arts, apply to other school activities
5.4 Describe how the use of puppet and mask arts has affected people’s lives in a variety of cultures
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
©2011 Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. All Rights Reserved.
52