JHS 185 Edward Bleeker and Puppetry in Practice -
"Puppet Power, Year 2"
Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth grade English Language Learner (ELL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) students will create shadow puppets and masks for a performance of West African folktales that the student will adapt/write and perform for their peers. The folktales provide moral dilemmas that the students will discuss and write
about, creating scripts and storyboards. In small groups the students will make decisions to create sets, musical accompaniment and dramatic lighting effects. The plays will be performed for each other, the school and will travel to other elementary schools. The
student puppets, sets, masks, and writing will be exhibited in the school.

PS 199Q and Making Books Sing - "Literature at Play at PS 199Q"
Over 15 weeks the Third and Fourth grade students will adapt books into musical plays.
The residency seeks to integrate language arts with theatre education and music curriculum to create alternate strategies for language, literacy and reading comprehension skills emphasizing Historical Fiction. The students will be creative, take risks, and grow socially through teamwork. The students will attend a musical production
of "The Butterfly," a play based on a book about WWII Nazi occupied France. The classes will then choose different books, each reinforcing the cultural and social messages in "The Butterfly," and then adapt them into a musical play. Dramatic structure, character, and dialogue emerge from whole and small group playwriting and drama activities. The most emotional moment of their plays will be created into a song.

PS 161Q The Arthur Ashe School and Making Books Sing -
"Making Books Sing"
Sixth grade students will study the Holocaust, learn about the context of WWII, and the scope of the genocide by creating plays from books that relate to social issues of tolerance and cross-cultural acceptance. The students will experience a theatre production of "The Butterfly," a play set in Nazi-occupied France. The students will each create a butterfly that will become part of the 1.5 million butterfly display at the Houston Holocaust Museum. The butterflies will be a remembrance of the children who died in the Holocaust. The students will adapt a book into a play using improvisation, dramatic structure, character development, and multiple perspectives. The students will write, examine, and discuss throughout the process. The students will engage in artistic interpretation expressing their own voice.

PS 721Q ’Äì Queens Occupational Training Center and InCollaboration Inc/Readers Theatre Workshop -
"Seeing the Big Picture: Integrating the Arts at QOTC, Technically its Art"
Special needs students at PS 721 will integrate music, visual arts, and technology to develop greater technology and career development skills. Using a project-based learning method of instruction the students will create original songs and photograph portfolios in an on-the-job-like setting culminating in a presentation and exhibition.
English Language Arts classes will utilize technology skills to enhance their communication skills and make better use of the internet. The students will make, play, discuss, document and record music. The students will photograph various types of imagery, use lighting, examine, and discuss their work.

Renaissance Charter School and Queens Theatre in the Park - "Renaissance presents: Curtains Up!"
Ninth grade students will read and analyze "Our Town," they will adopt a character from the play and find similarities to this character's 'inner world' and then create monologues and scenes that depict contemporary Queens' teens' look at life. They will learn to
analyze text, develop characters, and write effectively while also learning traditional theater skills. This will increase their English Language Arts skills, self-awareness, public speaking skills, self-confidence and deepen their analytical skills. Tenth and Eleventh
grade students will produce a full-length play. They will analyze text and develop characters from published plays as well as their own written material.

PS 107 The Thomas Dooley School and Puppetry in Practice - "Every Puppet Tells a Story"
Second grade students will develop a narrative into a 'Toy Theatre' puppet show/play.
They will read and re-tell a story using dramatic effects. The students will create puppets and perform the play raising self-esteem, self-confidence, and gain speaking /language skills. The students will engage in small group work, using imagination, analysis, creative
play, storytelling, improvisation, theatrical space and theater history. The teaching artist will collaborate with classroom teachers to extend the residency beyond the scheduled visit days. There will be a puppet theater workshop for the students and their families and the puppet shows will be recorded and shared throughout the school.

IS 227Q The Louis Armstrong School and Teachers & Writers Collaborative - "Poetry Illustrated"
Seventh and Eighth grade special needs students will engage in responsive writing activities based on works selected by the teaching artist and classroom teacher. The students will improve their communication skills through writing that engages in 'accountable talk' and interactive read-aloud activities. Development of reading strategy skills and improving self-expression will be emphasized. The students will learn to express themselves through poetry as this artform is integrated into the English Language Arts curriculum. An anthology of the student writing will be created to share the work the school and community/parent members.

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