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Consider what you'll use for handouts. A copy of the Magician's Code (suitable for framing)? A certificate of completion? Homework assignments? Instructions for the trick taught that day?

Times being what they are, consider the patter that you use and teach. A few years back a teacher got into trouble for giving a handout that taught the "Four Burglars" trick; some parents thought that it was too negative, and glorified crime.

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Consider too Grand Illusions: The history of magic. Not to show the whole thing (that would take up entirely too much class time) but rather the intro episode, perhaps at the beginning of the first class.

Another thing to consider, to tie everything together, might be to recreate a magic act as it might have existed in 1850, or 1890, or 1920, so there's a unifying theme, and chance to do some research.

Anonymous Learn How to be a Handcuff King and Mystery Man. Johnson Smith & Company, c. 1940 26 pp.

Siberian Chain Escape (very inexpensive)

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Chain escape with stock and two locks (This is incredibly easy)

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Grand Illusions (the story of magic) (one of the chapters deals with escapes, and the rest should provide ideas and perhaps other avenues of interest to a young person just starting out in magic)

But -- escapes can also be incredibly dangerous. Please use your common sense, adult supervision, and remember safety first.

And since we were talking about Houdini : https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2022/01/secrets-of-new-houdini-seance-by-jim.html

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Illusions-Story-Wilson-Coneybeare/dp/B00008975I