Week 34: Moving into Bunraku

Thursday:Since we are starting a new school year we went over the due dates of the various theatre projects and reviewed our blogs. Then we began our next topic: Bunraku Japanese Puppetry. This is the first time any of us, including Mr. Fearnehough, has studied Bunraku, so this will be a new exciting experience. Mr. Fearnehough will be learning about this with us. The first thing we did was look at the National Theatre of Japan website and discussed the reliability of it.
Pros

• It is the official website of Bunraku and its homeland
• It is written and taken care of by the Japanese people who are experts in Bunraku

Cons

• The Japanese government censors its websites to make its image look good, this could include providing incorrect information

Friday:Today we concentrated on learning the basics of Bunraku by making and presenting powerpoints on different parts of Bunraku. I made one about the  Chanter, Shamisen player, and puppeteers. After each person presented Mr. Fearnehough asked questions to get us to think and see what was missing or unclear. Then he told us to  redo our powerpoints with this added information. This seems like a good way to do this because  hen each person gets a "rough draft" version and then gets feedback on what is missing.