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DocuSign Envelope ID:220566FB-947D-468C-B639-17D506BDD642 <br /> Teachinq Artist Residency Lesson Plan <br /> Residency Title: Teaching Artist: <br /> Jabali African Acrobats Erin Casanega-Wert <br /> Grade Level(s): Maximum Student Participants: Length of Residency: <br /> 3rd Grade 5 classes Total Days: 5 <br /> Arts Focus: Curriculum Focus: <br /> DANCE: creative movement, improvisation, Artistic expression & the function of dance in various <br /> choreography, and basic dance technique communities, cultures, and geographic locations <br /> (Modern, Ballet, African) <br /> Primary Learning Objective: <br /> To become familiar with basic dance skills through individual exploration and group collaboration. <br /> Connecting NC Essential Arts Standard Connecting Common Core State Standard(s) <br /> CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.0 <br /> Ask questions to check understanding of <br /> 3.C.1 Dance: Understand cultural, historical, information presented, stay on topic, and link <br /> and interdisciplinary their comments to the remarks of others. <br /> connections with dance.. <br /> 3.DM.1 Dance: Understand how to use basic skills Connecting NC Essential Standard(s) <br /> in dance. 3.C.1 Social Studies: Understand how diverse <br /> cultures are visible in local and regional <br /> communities. <br /> Residency Overview <br /> Day One: <br /> Introduction: Overview of dance concepts, tools, and key terms (Warm-up, Improvisation, <br /> Choreography, Locomotor, Non-locomotor, Isolations, Body Actions, Shapes, Time, Space, Energy, <br /> Range of Motion, Expression, Gestures) <br /> Exploration: Students will explore individual movements as well as work together to create group <br /> movement and sculpture. Focus- getting comfortable moving the body and working together through <br /> movement. <br /> Day Two: <br /> Review key concepts and tools. <br /> Circle warm-up and guided group improvisation (practice creating a variety of body actions) <br /> Introduce how to build and create dance sequences and have students practice creating short dance <br /> sequences on individually. (may write down the sequences using the + system) <br /> Share dance sequences in small groups and class reflection. <br /> If time: Work on exploring gestural movement <br /> Day Three: <br /> Review key concepts and tools. <br /> Circle warm-up and guided group improvisation <br /> Brief discussion about Jabali African Acrobats (meaning, function of dance in communities, human <br /> pyramid and the three words, different performance acts) Connect: different purposes for dance in the <br /> community (social, ceremonial/ritual, tradition, rites of passage, religious, entertainment, exercise, <br /> artistic expression, performance) How can you communicate ideas, emotions, feelings through <br /> movement? <br />