http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/10/07/the-best-resources-for-using-puppets-in-class/ ...For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/10/07/the-best-resources-for-using-puppets-in-class/comment-page-1/#comment-11785 San D Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:28:54 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=5628#comment-11785 I am fortunate enough to have a puppetry program in a high school. I teach 4 classes of puppetry. Not only can you supplement regular classroom activities with puppets, but puppetry is used to explain, illuminate, entertain, and provoke. My puppet classes are required to not only make their puppets but to also perform. I have a puppet club as well, and we are contracted to give shows for the elementary schools on a variety of character education issues like bullying. Our next show will be to introduce incoming special education students to the high school environment. Puppetry also introduces students to the intracies of theater from choreography to script writing to acting. By the end of the class, students have made and worked hand puppets, mouth puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets. I am fortunate enough to have a puppetry program in a high school. I teach 4 classes of puppetry. Not only can you supplement regular classroom activities with puppets, but puppetry is used to explain, illuminate, entertain, and provoke. My puppet classes are required to not only make their puppets but to also perform. I have a puppet club as well, and we are contracted to give shows for the elementary schools on a variety of character education issues like bullying. Our next show will be to introduce incoming special education students to the high school environment. Puppetry also introduces students to the intracies of theater from choreography to script writing to acting. By the end of the class, students have made and worked hand puppets, mouth puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets.

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