9th graders read Never Fall Down, listened to live music by Arn Chorn-Pond, and saw a Khmer dance performance at the Joyce Theater. They reviewed methods found in Cambodian shadow puppets online and made a puppet theater in five, 50-minute visual art classes.
1. Students quickly modeled poses for corresponding torn paper collages. Each selected a final pose to glue and title.
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2 + 3. Working in self-selected groups, classes storyboarded narratives. Using cardstock paper, x-acto knives, hole punchers, fasteners, tape and dowels students made puppets with movable parts.
5. Finally, 9th graders edited their shadow puppet videos using iMovie in a school computer lab.