Lesson 9

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

Dramatized experience is a process of communication in which both participants and spectators are engaged.

Here are the kinds of Dramatized Experience:

• Formal Plays - depict life, character, or culture or a combination of all three.
• Pageants - usually community dramas that are based on local history and presented by local actors.
• Pantomime - is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only.
• Tableau - is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.
• Puppets - unlike regular stage play, it can present ideas with extreme simplicity, without elaborating the scenery or costume yet effective.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Types of puppets

1. Marionettes - are generally fashioned from wood and resemble a human body.

2. Shadow Puppets - similar to the marionette, but less sophisticated and are generally flat characters created from heavy paper or cardboard.

3. Stick Puppets - are simple as a styrofoam ball head attached to a stick, or a two-dimentional picture attached to a stick.

4. Hand Puppets - most common type of puppet which are relatively simple to create. 

5. Mouth Puppets - are distinguished from other puppets because they have movable mouths, thus allowing the puppet to talk more realistically.

6. Rod Puppets - these are flat cut out figures tacked to a stick with one or more movable parts, and operated from below the stage level by wire rods or slender sticks.

7. Glove and finger Puppets - make used of old gloves to which small costumed figures are attached.