Swoop, Lift, and Leap to the Lore

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Title:

Swoop, Lift, and Leap to the Lore

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

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.    

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 6
Dance
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 Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 7
Dance
17) Explain how the artistic expression of various dances is achieved through the elements of dance technique, context, and production elements.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 8
Dance
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.

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
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.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 7
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.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
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.
Tags: choreograph, Indigenous, locomotor, Native American, Native Peoples, Native Pride Dancers, North America, poetry
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