A lesson was done in my Theory and Practice class regarding the use of silhouettes and puppets. I found it to be entertaining and intriguing which is extremely important when creating a lesson for students in a high school setting. To begin with the lesson, my classmates put on a puppet show utilizing the project that they were going to have us create. Right there, they got the entire class involved and tuned in to what they were doing. The show was short but meaningful and showed just how versatile a puppet could be in telling a story. After the show they began to explain how puppets are used by other artists and then went into the technical "making aspect" of the puppets and the show. As a whole, their lesson, to me, was extremely well thought and planned out and I don't know really what I would've done differently.
Now, this lesson brought me back to an assembly that I remember seeing when I was in either elementary or middle school. A guest artist came in and did an entire shadow puppet show which has stuck in my mind ever since. I wish I could remember the name of the artist but she unfortunately slips my mind. I do remember, however, just how realistic and entranced I was. I remember thinking how excellently a story was executed and then how well it stuck with me for so long.
Things like this lesson and that assembly are aspects that I want to have when being a teacher. I want to stick out in the minds of my students long after they graduate. I hope that I can be a teacher that they remember as the guy who made them do that really cool project that they really got something out of without knowing it.
And then I found this shadow puppet show that I thought was really cool so I included it here too :)
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