Students should include any story that they hear from parents, siblings, friends, the news, television, or through homework for different classes. They should bring the lists to a future class to discuss the different purposes of relaying different types of stories in our society. Students will be evaluated based on journal writing exercise, participation in class discussions, group work on creating an outline for a history-based one act puppet show, and list of stories heard in a given time frame. These books, written in comic book form, detail the narrator's father's story of survival in Poland before the Holocaust, his harrowing existence in Auschwitz, and his striving to regain his life after the liberation of the concentration camps. Students can discuss the effectiveness of the medium of comic books to depict such a story.
Students can tour a puppetry workshop or see a rehearsal show.
Students can find pictures of puppets from around the world or study different methods of puppetry native to different countries. In addition, this lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards of a specific state. Links are provided where available from each McREL standard to the Achieve website containing state standards for over 40 states. Standard 4- Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures. Standard 4- Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.