Join Piggy Rae and her silly friends Bernie Bear, Tommy Turtle, Alistair McMoose and others in these engaging and interactive puppet skits that encourage both laughter and learning. This guide gives you everything you need for lively storytimes. In addition to ten complete scripts, you'll find literacy tips, preparatory checklists of materials and props needed, patterns, lists of books for literacy building displays, activities that relate to the story and promote early literacy, and take-home reproducibles for caregivers that help them reinforce the six early literacy skills. Designed for PreK-Grade 3, the puppet plays are perfect for in-house storytime settings and for community outreach projects. Grades PreK-3.

The Minstrel Show examines African American stereotypes and stock characters portrayed in media. Learn about the history of the minstrel show, blackface, and the various stock characters of Sambo, Mammy, Uncle Tom, the Mandingo Negro, and the Magical Negro.

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When Will Wright and his alternative rock band Morning Glory and the Medicine Men get a gig on Halloween, all hell breaks loose. Not only is the gig during the full moon, but it is for Billsmore College's Homecoming game against rivals North State. He must discover the secret that haunts the college if the band is going to get to play, so they can get paid. That's not even mentioning Will's accidental exposure to a strange new synthetic cologne and what he believes to be magical occurrences. Is something nefarious afoot or is he simply paranoid?All this and much more as the boys in the band attempt to achieve enlightenment and get laid through Zen Smoking.