Everything you need to understand or teach The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson.
Jiro is a boy living in feudal Japan with his parents, who make puppets for the local puppet theater. Jiro apprentices himself to the theater so that his parents will have more to eat. He makes friends with the other apprentices, especially a boy called Kinshi. As time passes, Jiro begins to realize that Yoshida, the puppet master, is linked to the bandit Saburo. When Kinshi is determined to help the...
The Master Puppeteer Lesson Plans contain 138 pages of teaching material, including: