I CAN create movement vocabulary. I CAN create a dance. I CAN collaborate. I CAN present my work. I CAN separate fact from fiction. I CAN determine bias. I CAN engage my audience. I CAN have an informed opinion. I CAN use multi-media to tell a story. I CAN understand how to better keep myself safe and informed on social media.
Students will enjoy a live performance by members of Sonia Plumb Dance Company. Watch as they use movement to explore media messages, authorship, how media messages shape our perceptions of reality, what creative techniques are used to attract attention, media distribution, and how different people might understand the same message differently, among other considerations.
Grade 6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.5 Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.8 Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
DA:Cr1.1.6
a. Relate similar or contrasting ideas to develop choreography using a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events)
DA:Pr6.1.6
b. Compare and contrast a variety of possible production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work. Select choices and explain reasons for the decisions made using production terminology.
Grade 7
Grade 7: Reading Standards for Informational Text: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 9. Analyze how two or more authors w writing about the same topic shape their presentation of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Grade 7: Speaking and Listening Standards: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 5. Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.
Grade 7: Dance: Creating: DA:Cr1.1.7 a. Compare a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events) and make selections to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression.
Grade 7: Dance: Performing: DA:Pr4.1.7 c. Collaborate with peers to practice and refine dances. Develop group performance expectations through observation and analyses 9for example, view live or recorded professional dancers and collaboratively develop group performance expectations based on information gained from observation.)
Grade 8
Grade 8: Reading Standards for Informational Text: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 9: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Grade 7: Speaking and Listening Standards: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 5. Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
Grade 8: Dance: Creating: DA:Cr1.1.8 a. Implement movement from a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events) to develop dance content for an original dance study or dance.
Grade 8: Dance: Performing: DA:Pr6.1.8 b. Collaborate to design and execute production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performance on a stage, in a different venue, or for different audiences. Explain reasons for choices using production terminology
