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MOVEMENT
Key Idea: Students
will explore dances from many cultures and times. Students will recognize
that dance is performed in many different cultural settings and serves
many functions in diverse societies.
Performance
Indicators--Students:
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explore basic dance movements that
are typical of the major world cultures
• explore the
settings and circumstances in which dance is found in their lives and
those of others, both past and present
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THEATRE
Key Idea: Students
will learn about past and present cultures as expressed through theatre.
They will learn how theatre reflects the beliefs, issues and events of
societies past and present.
Performance
Indicators--Students:
• dramatize
stories and folk tales from various cultures
• engage in
drama/theatre activities including music, dance, and games which reflect
other cultures and ethnic groups
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MUSIC
Key Idea:
Students will develop a beginning
performing and listening repertoire of music of various genres, styles and
cultures that represent the peoples of the world and their manifestations
in the United States. Students will learn about the cultural features of a
variety of musical compositions and performances and the functions of
music within the culture.
Performance
Indicators--Students:
• will
listen to and perform a basic repertoire of folk songs/dances and composed
songs from the basic cultures that represent the peoples of the world
• will listen to
composers of well-known examples of classical concert music, folk and
blues/jazz selections
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VISUAL
ARTS
Key Idea: Students
will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world
cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a
given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence
the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to
understand the social, cultural and environmental dimensions of human
society.
Performance
Indicators--Students:
• look at and discuss a variety
of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art works from different times
and different cultures and learn that art tells us something about those
people
• look at art
and artifacts from different cultures of the United States and discuss
what they look like
• make a work of
art based on an image or a design that they see in a work of art from
another period or another culture |
