AE17.D.2.17

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Dance

AE17.D.2.17
Use context cues from movement to identify meaning and intent in a dance, using simple dance terminology.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
EQ: How is dance interpreted?

Skills Examples

Students create a call and response hand clapping rhythm and allow students to identify the pattern.
Students create a short phrase that includes a pattern of movement, then have other students identify the pattern.
View and/ or perform the Russian Troika, Charleston Bump, or Hoe Ana cultural dances.
Sauté to show surprise, melt to show sadness, leap to show happiness.
Identify the characters and describe the story in a narrative dance.
Draw a picture and write a caption in response to a live or recorded performance of dance.
Create short sentence that tell a story and have students improvise movement to describe the sentence.

Vocabulary

Identify recurring movement.
Create recurring movement.
Perform dance movements from a culture or genre and describe movement.
Identify meaning utilizing simple dance terminology.
Identify and explain movement to convey a theme or concept.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.