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Show BAC Trainees Plan Marionet and Puppet Show Tuesday Some of the students attending attend-ing the Branch Agricultural college col-lege summer session might feel as if they were back in elementary elemen-tary school judging from some of the activities they are carrying carry-ing on. The students in Mrs. Gwynn Clark's course on Children's The-'ater The-'ater have been making puppets, dramatizing Little Red Riding Hood, and acting out nursery rhymes. It's all part of the work of learning how these activities are done. During the course, members of the class all elementary teachers teach-ers or those preparing to teach have built a marionet and puppet pup-pet theater, and have fashioned their own characters. They will climax this activity next Tuesday Tues-day morning by putting-on a show for their own children, and those of other summer school students and instructors. The waives, and Grandmas and other characters have all been made by the class members from a sawdust and paste compound com-pound or from other plastic ma-terials. ma-terials. Some members of the class have made marionets also. As an application of another phase of the class, one of the members of the class, Mrs. Eva Schmutz of New Harmony, is planning to have members of I one of her former classes at New i Harmony elementary school dramatize dra-matize stories, poems, and musical musi-cal plays for the class. Emphasis has been on activities activi-ties which will help children express ex-press themselves more fully, and enjoy themselves as they do it, Mrs.. Clark explained. . Acting out some of their own problems often of-ten helps students solve them. They also leam more rapidly through dramatic activities, it was explained. |