2015-263-E Arts - Grady A. Brown Elementary School PTA Arts Grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:93E8DFEA-2589-4FBB-AD00-88DACE83A85D Grady A Brown Elementary Queen will come in to four third grade classrooms on February 17, 18, 19, 22 and 23, 2016. Each day, she will go to each of the four third grade classrooms for one. On the final day, February 23, parents/families will be invited to the classroom to observe some of the activities students participated in throughout the week and share their work. Prior to the start of the residency, Queen will meet with the four third grade teachers to plan specifics of the residency and gather feedback from teachers regarding additional extensions. Following the performance, students and teachers will complete evaluations to measure their experiences during the residency, and Queen will meet with teachers to discuss the residency as a whole and evaluate what worked well and what could make the experience even better. Specifically, the residency will cover the following curriculum areas in Social Studies and Theatre Arts: Social Studies 3.C.1 Use movement, voice and writing to communicate ideas and feelings 3.C.2 Use performance to communicate ideas and feelings 3.CU.1 Analyze theatre in terms of the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which it was created Theatre Arts 3.H.1 Understand how events, individuals and ideas have influenced the history of local and regional communities 3.H.2 Use historical thinking skills to understand the context of events, people and places 3.0 & G.2 Understand how citizens participate in their communities Approximately 492 kindergarten through fifth grade students (ages 5-11) will participate in the performance on February 24. Of those, 261 are male and 231 female. The race/ethnicity breakdown is as follows: Hawaiian Pacific Islander—2, African-American — 52, White — 320, Asian —4, Hispanic— 98, and Multiracial — 16. There are approximately 86 third grade students who will participate in the residency. Grady A. Brown Elementary has participated in residencies/performances of this nature in the past. Most recently, Teaching Artist Charles Pettee, a bluegrass musician, worked with kindergarten through fifth grade students in April 2014 to explore North Carolina culture through music and dance. During the week, he led sessions with individual classes and then had a culminating performance at the end of the week for all students. And in April 2012, second graders at Grady A. Brown Elementary participated in a residency with cross-cultural percussionist Beverly Botsford, and then at the end of the week the whole school had an opportunity to work with her in a culminating performance.