ABC (Arts in Basic Curriculum)

The Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project provides leadership to achieve quality, comprehensive arts education (dance, music, media arts, theatre, visual arts and creative writing) for all students in South Carolina.
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Glitter, Glitz, and Heather Galler
Glitter, Glitz, and Heather Galler

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After completing a traditional still life, students expand and apply their new skills by building a still life in the art room with simple forms. This new drawing is embellished with shapes, lines...

Silent Film Storytelling
Silent Film Storytelling

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During this Silent Film Unit, students will explore the history of silent film, respond to clips of silent movies, create, rehearse, and perform their own silent films using the Silent Film Studio app...

Diving Deeper into Conflict
Diving Deeper into Conflict

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This lesson falls at the beginning of a 3-week children's book writing unit. It is meant to get students thinking about all the different types of conflict that they can pull from later when they...

Telling Stories Through Movement
Telling Stories Through Movement

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The students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic dance elements and choreographic structures. Students will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking by utilizing the 5-step writing...

Telling Tales with Kamishibai
Telling Tales with Kamishibai

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In Japan, the tradition of storytelling with art dates back as early as the 9th century when Japanese Buddhist monks would use storytelling scrolls to teach religious stories and lessons to an...

Version of Reality
Version of Reality

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In this lesson, students will create an animated GIF that constructs their own personal version of reality. Students will begin by reading James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and compare...