Selected Poems of Joy Harjo - Music Center

Sequence of 10 Support Visits & Teacher Follow Up/Preparation for Lessons featuring Selected Poems of Joy Harjo
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Model Lesson SIX – Puppetry: Choral Reading of the Found Poem
Artist models
Teachers observes and takes turns leading
Teacher uses rubric to assess
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Model Lesson SEVEN – Theatre: Giving and Taking Focus
Artist models
Teacher observes and participates
Teacher & Artist supervise a screen for the puppet movement practice
Teacher uses rubric to assess student learning outcomes
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Model Lesson EIGHT – Puppetry: Creating Meaning through
Motion & Sound – Bring Your Puppets to Life!
Artist models
Teacher observes, gives feedback
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Model Lesson NINE – Theatre & Puppetry: Rehearse Your Found Poem
Shadow Play
Rehearsal and “Performance!”
Teacher and artist co-teach
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Model Lesson TEN – Theatre & Puppetry: Performing and Reflecting on
Your Found Poem Shadow Play
Final student performance and reflection
o Teacher leads
o Artist observes, coaches and/or co-teaches
o Students use criteria to discuss their own/others’ performances
Teacher uses rubric to assess
Music Center Anchor Work Model Curriculum Unit: Selected Poems of Joy Harjo.
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Teacher Follow-up & Preparation
Teacher guides students in practicing skill in “speaking as one voice” and
“communicating meaning”
Curriculum integration strategies:
Teacher Follow-up & Preparation
Teacher reviews and continues Lesson #7 on their own between visits for
students to complete practice of puppet movement
Curriculum integration strategies:
Teacher Follow-up & Preparation
Teacher reviews and continues Lesson #8 on their own between visits for
students to reinforce practice.
(grades 2,3) Teacher matches groups for performance so that one group will
narrate and perform sound effects for the other group’s performance and vice
versa. Both groups will have copies of the found poems.
(grades 4,5) Teacher provides team time for student to decide who will narrate,
puppeteer or do sound effects for their group’s performance
Curriculum integration strategies:
Teacher Follow-up & Preparation
Teacher and students repeat Shadow Play performance before Visit Ten
Curriculum integration strategies:
Culminating Week / Follow-up
Teacher follows-up with students to debrief their learning/understanding of
poem
Evaluation meeting scheduled for teachers and Music Center staff
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