Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
EQ: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
Skills Examples
- Perform a dance to express the coming of spring.
- Utilize shapes and movements of the body to improvise the metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly.
- Utilize dance to show a plant's life cycle.
- Utilize shapes to create a setting for a story.
- Demonstrate the shapes and movement of a dance that was performed at school or in the community.
- Identify attributes of cultural dance that was taught in class.
Vocabulary
- Elements of Dance
- Connect dance to a familiar experience.
- Connect dance to an illustrated story.
- Elements of dance
- Cultural Movement Practices
- Dance Literacy
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
