All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!

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Title:

All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!

URL:

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/arts_lang_arts/a_la_lesson38.html

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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will observe dance movements in drawings and paintings.  Students will work in pairs and do simple gesture drawings of their partner in a dance pose. They will choose a sketch to make a new drawing and paint it with watercolors.  They will write a persuasive essay discussing the importance of dance in schools.  Students will work in groups to choreograph a short dance.    

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 3
Dance
3) Recognize choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns.

Examples: Retrograde, scramble/deconstruct, transposition, inversion, or fragment.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 4
Dance
1) Identify ideas for choreography generated from a variety of prompts and source materials.

Examples: Music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, or experiences.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 5
Dance
1) Develop content for choreography using ideas generated from a variety of prompts.

Examples: Spoken word, text, poetry, images, or nature.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 3
Visual Arts
1) Elaborate on an individual or prompted imaginative idea.

Examples: Create an imaginative mask showing his/her personality.
Look at masks from different cultures such as Chinese, African and Native American.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 4
Visual Arts
3) Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 5
Visual Arts
1) Combine ideas to develop an innovative approach to creating art.

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
35. Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, using an introduction, logical reasoning supported by evidence from various sources, and a conclusion.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
37. Write an argument to persuade the reader to take an action or adopt a position, using an introduction, logical reasoning supported by evidence from relevant sources, and linking words to connect their argument to the evidence.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
36. Write an argument to persuade the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim, supporting the claim with relevant evidence from sources, using connectives to link ideas, and presenting a strong conclusion.

Examples: first, as a result, therefore, in addition
Tags: choreograph, dance, gesture drawing, persuasive essay, sketch, watercolor
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Author: Tiffani Stricklin