ALEX Classroom Resources

ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] DAN (6) 15 :
15) Determine meaning or artistic intent from the patterns of movement in a dance work.

Example: Rippling or back and forth actions in body parts and spatial design in Alvin Ailey's Wade in the Water.

[ARTS] DAN (7) 17 :
17) Explain how the artistic expression of various dances is achieved through the elements of dance technique, context, and production elements.

[ARTS] DAN (8) 17 :
17) Observe a dance and explain how artistic expression is achieved through relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context, and provide evidence to support your interpretation using genre-specific dance terminology.

Example: Observe Alwin Nikolais' Noumenon and discuss how the movement, costuming, lighting, and sound score create intent for the choreography.

[ELA2021] (6) 3 :
3. Explain how authors use setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view to contribute to the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.
[ELA2021] (7) 3 :
3. Explain how the author's choice of setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view contribute to and/or enhance the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.
[ELA2021] (8) 3 :
3. Analyze how authors use key literary elements, including setting, plot, theme, characters, internal and external conflict, dialogue, and point of view, to contribute to the meaning and purpose of a text, using text evidence as support.
Subject: Arts Education (6 - 8), English Language Arts (6 - 8)
Title: Swoop, Lift, and Leap to the Lore
URL: https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/lessons-and-activities/lessons/6-8/swoop-lift--leap-to-the-lore/
Description:

In this lesson, students will identify how animals and elements of nature are represented by dancers. They will read poetry by Indigenous and Native Peoples of North America.  Using basic locomotor movement, students will choreograph and perform a dance from a poem.    



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