We have provided a level of detail in this curriculum that will give guidance to teachers working with a theater artist in your community in teaching the lessons with your students.
Mexican Puppetry is a middle school ELL 34 lesson cross-curricular folk arts integrated unit taught in 50-60 sessions. The ELD ELA teacher teaches 23 of the lessons in English class. The Music teacher teaches 7 of the lessons in Music class. The English and Music teachers co-teach the 4 Puppet Theater lessons with the community folk artist. The community folk artist (Mexican puppeteer) is present as a co-teacher for a total of 16-17 sessions, with some in lessons in English class and the rest are the sessions of the Puppet Theater lessons.
After looking at the curriculum framework, we present the lesson summaries to show the flow of the unit at a glance. We present a sample schedule to show how the lesson in the various content classrooms interlace in the order the students experience the lessons. Then we go into the detailed plans for each lesson and provide links to the items in the Handouts for Teaching the Unit section that are used to teach each lesson. The English lessons are presented in detail first, followed by the Music lessons, and finally the Puppet theater lesson details are presented.
See the companion curriculum Puppet Making: A Folk Arts Integrated Unit for Middle School English Language Learners With Veronica Ponce de Leon, Mexican Folk Artist, by Veronica Ponce de Leon and Linda Deafenbaugh.
Puppets by Veronica Ponce de Leon, Mexican Folk Artist