UP:AE17.D.3.20
Vocabulary
- Elements of dance
- Compare dance relationships to non-dance relationships.
- Connect dance to written and oral skills.
- Relate dance to culture, society, and community characteristics and values.
- Elements of dance
- Cultural Movement Practices
- Dance Literacy
Essential Questions
EU: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and context are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Skills Examples
- Identify appropriate/ inappropriate touch in a dance and compare to other context such as working with friends in a school setting or with siblings at home.
- Identify the beginning, middle, and end of compositions of dance and music.
- Isolate and move fractional sections of the body (half, quarter, and whole).
- Identify purposes of dance, for instance, to tell a story, build community, demonstrate a ritual, experience social interactions, or showcase movement for its own sake.
- Identify smooth and/or sharp movement within a folk dance.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
