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Whiz Kid of the Week: Maple Dale Puppeteers

After doing the research, these kids created puppets and performed for a full house.

Mary Moliere's fifth grade class, 11 years old

Maple Dale Middle School

Accomplishment: Students read biographies of their choice, then wrote plays based on the people they studied. Some students researched big names like Elvis, Bill Cosby, Walt Disney and Michael Jackson.

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In art class, they made puppets of the person they researched and then they put on a performance for a packed crowd in "the pit" at Maple Dale.

Key to Awesomeness: In order to really make the play a success, these students had to fully understand their subject, what that person was like, or in some cases still is like, and what made them unique.

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