Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:44:05 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: Joe Dunfee <joe-AT-dunfee.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Request for Ideas


My personal experience with "at risk" high school kids was that they 
were a bit immature for their age. So, they were still in that "I'm 
not a kid anymore," phase of life and didn't want to participate with 
anything they saw as kid stuff.   Of course, this will vary with your 
particular situation and group of kids.

Seeing the Baker marionettes will be an especially motivating thing 
for them, so that may be the deciding factor.  With a local group who 
were 10th grade, I went with black light performance.  There is a 
cool factor involved with this.  But, also, since they were able to 
trace the characters onto cardboard (from art I had a professional 
artist draw) they felt the results were good enough to let their 
peers see.  Not really challenging, but again the issue of showing 
their work to their peers was a primary concern.


Joe Dunfee  joe-AT-dunfee.com
Gordonville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 

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