Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate real community stories through interviews, photographs, oral histories, and artifacts to identify historically and culturally grounded themes for a shadow theater scene.
Students will be able to analyze character, conflict, setting, and theme in a shadow theater script to determine how story elements work together to communicate meaning.
Students will be able to write and revise a bilingual shadow theater script with dialogue, narration, and stage directions in English and Chinese for a specific audience.
Students will be able to apply light, silhouette, scale, and movement to design translucent puppetry that communicates emotion and meaning.
Students will be able to collaborate to refine a shadow theater performance by using critique, reflection, and feedback from peers and community partners.
Products
Community Story Research Portfolio and Solo Shadow Scene Prototype
Each student creates a research portfolio with interview notes, artifact evidence, and a written problem-to-story rationale, then designs and presents an individual shadow scene prototype. The prototype must show how one real community story could become a dramatic moment for an audience.
Bilingual Shadow Theater Performance Package and Exhibition Presentation
Small teams develop a shared shadow theater performance package that includes a refined script, handcrafted puppets, staging elements, and an exhibition talk. The final product must clearly show how individual research and prototypes shaped the team’s collaborative solution.
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