Dance 1 · Week 16 · Dance, Culture, and Celebration
Folklórico and Family
Students learn about the regional roots of ballet folklórico and reflect on the dances that live in their own families.
- Students will
- Students describe the regional roots of ballet folklórico, analyze how its movement communicates meaning, and reflect on a dance or movement tradition that lives in their own family or community.
- SEL skill
- Name an emotion and a value that a movement brings up
- What it looks like
- Students recognize the emotions and values connected to a movement tradition and name what gratitude feels like in their body.
- Content focus
- Folklórico and Family
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, values, and strengths and how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
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Standards
- DA:Re7.1.HSI: Dance, Responding, Anchor Standard 7 (Perceive and analyze artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Dance 1
- My Moving Story Self-awarenessStudents create a short gesture phrase from moments in their lives and reflect on how they feel about moving in front of others.
- Listening to the Body Self-awarenessStudents learn alignment basics and a body scan and notice where emotions and tension live in their bodies.
- Energy and Emotion Self-awarenessStudents analyze how movement qualities such as sharp, smooth, and heavy express emotion and try each quality in their own bodies.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents reflect in writing on how their skills, confidence, and comfort moving in front of others have changed this semester.
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