Lesson Overview
The students will explore the meaning of words through movement and how dancers can express themselves without using their voices. This exploration will help the students to create their own dances to show the meaning of the words in a poem. The students will suggest production elements, such as lighting to enhance the meaning of the dance/poem when they perform.
Essential Question
How can we use the vivid language of a poem to create an abstract dance that still communicates an idea?
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Multiple colored LED lights
Silverstein, Shel. Where The Sidewalk Ends : the Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein. New York :HarperCollins, 2004. Print.
Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic. New York, N.Y. :Harper & Row, 1974. Print.
Silverstein, Shel. Falling Up : Poems & Drawings by Shel Silverstein. New York :HarperCollins, 1996. Print.
Silverstein, Shel. Every Thing on It : Poems and Drawings. New York :Harper, 2011. Print.
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- D.CR Creating - I can conceive and develop new artistic ideas and work.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- RL.LCS.9 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
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Lesson Partners: ABC (Arts in Basic Curriculum)