Miriam+Shenitzer

=Miriam Shenitzer= Here are some clips of students performing a puppet show of Puss-in-Boots. Puppet shows are great visual tools, since the information is presented visually to the audience by the students using the puppets and the sets, the students demonstrate their knowledge by acting out the script appropriately with their puppets, and, finally, the students are engaged in the whole process: designing and making the set, making the puppets, rehearsing, acting and filming their puppet shows. As a bonus, they get to see themselves perform on film.

Note: I am also including a clip of the students grinding wheat into flour, since I found out when we did "Puss-in-Boots" that my students had no idea of what a mill was and what went on there. Using a mortar a pestle to make flour was both a visual and a tactile learning aid.media type="file" key="puss-in-boots Scene1 alpha.m4v" width="300" height="300" Puss in Boots Scene 1

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Grinding Grain into Flour; Puss in Boots: Romance

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Puss-in-Boots Scene 3

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