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Students' Lessons

DAN385

Professor Jorge

Sirong Fu

04/20/2020

Dance Lesson

Age Level

-          Middle School (grades 7-8)

Component

-          Movement skills

Objectives

-          To show that the student has control of the body and technique.

-          To show the strengths and weaknesses of the student.

-          Develop the student’s confidence.

Standards

-          The student can move around to show the control that they have on space.

-          The student can repeat choreographies without a struggle. 

-          The student has a grasp of primary positions.

-          He students show right balance and control of their bodies.

Materials

-          T-shirt and airy pants or “athleisure” wear

-          Shoes are necessary

-          Functional space for the students to move. Dancers should be 1 meter apart

-          A radio or musical device

General Plan

1. Greetings and welcome students
2. Introduce the lesson 
3. Warm-up for 3-4 minutes. The preparation is very simple
4. Activity. Teach the dance.

-          Explain slowly as students are not familiar with the routine

-          Start without music

-          Repeat and encourage them to personalize

1. Wrap up and mention that they can ask me for help if they wish.

 Warm-up. About 3 minutes long

Start with a sidestep and clap.

-          For the clap, you should clap your hands up and forward.

-          Start to get into the feeling of the music and have fun

Sidestep and a shoulder lift

-          Move your feet from side to side and loosen your shoulders.

-          Move to the beat of the music.

Then do a sky punch and arm opener

-          Punch as high as you can and get the blood flowing. As this is a warm-up, it prepares you for the next workout. 

-          Punch from side to side

Do a left knee kick

-          Stretch your arms to the opposite side and bring them to your lifted knee. Act as if you are pulling something and bringing it to your knee. Do not be too tense.

Do a right knee kick

-          Do the same with the right knee

Do a side step and arm opener

-          Continue with this motion. Move your head if you want.

Sky punch and arm opener

-          Add your twist and personality if you feel like it. 

Do a hip shake

-          Add your character to this and suck in your stomach. Keep your back straight. By now, you should be warming up.

Shake your hips to 4 corners

-          Trace a square with your hips. Front, left, right, back. 

Hip circles

-          Trace a circle with your hips

Sky punch and arm openers

-          Punch up and down. Add some force and extend your left leg and the right arm and the right foot with the right hand.

Hip shake

-          Shake your hips again softly

Activity (About 7- 10 minutes long)

-          The music is “Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake.

-          Start by teaching the dance moves first before turning on the music.

-          Teach two workouts at a time and allow the students to go section by section. 

-          Let the students practice after every two moves.  

1. Move your right forward as you move side to side.
2. Face the opposite side. Move from one side to the other. 
3. Do the rainbow arms as you move side to side. 
4. Chop the air side to side four times as you move the arms up and down
5. Do the airplane (spread hands wide open) and cross palms and repeat.
6. Then punch the air above left and right and alternate
7. Take the right foot behind and, then the left foot at the back.
8. Bounce four times while folding your knees
9. Repeat moves with students from the top with no music
10. Punch all four corners with arms
11. Move arms around, shake your head as you jump up and down as if you are skipping and repeat.
12. Dance to all the moves from the top with music.

-          Give the students the options to freestyle or add their personality if they want.

-          Occasionally commend students to develop confidence.

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 Teacher: Qianyu Di

The Element of Time in Dance

Link: https://youtu.be/EtYAFcdK0a0

LESSON PLAN

Sixth Grade-Eighth Grade

Subject: Dance

Title: The element of time in Dance

Component:

Movement Skills and Underlying Principles

Objectives：

1.Identifies time, and movement qualities (energy) as elements of movement

2. Dance Making

Competency：

1.The student can demonstrate the ability the execute proper warm-up of upper and lower areas of the body before performing movement compositions by leading a class warm-up activity that includes selections, rotations, extensions, and flexions

2.Given Small Group Assignment,the student can cooperate with others to create an unaccompanied group dance study by using a group decision process to manipulate floor pattern and spatial arrangement

Activity:

1.Warm-up

2.The definition of time in dance.

3.Videos to identify fast and slow

4.Small group assignment to see the understanding of students.

5.Exit ticket to know what the student know and what need to change next class

Assessment:

Group assignment to demonstrate the understanding of time. Students can use their own music and choose slow or fast to show time in dance.

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Rachel Rao

Link: https://youtu.be/xbsymlT39zY

LESSON PLAN