Dance 1 · Week 18 · Dance, Culture, and Celebration
Semester Reflection
Students reflect in writing on how their skills, confidence, and comfort moving in front of others have changed this semester.
- Students will
- Students reflect in writing on how their dance skills, confidence, and comfort moving in front of others have changed this semester and connect those changes to specific class experiences, documenting one early phrase and its intent in words.
- SEL skill
- Name a change in your confidence and the evidence for it
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by naming how their feelings about moving have changed and identifying strengths that grew.
- Content focus
- Semester Reflection
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means understanding your own feelings, strengths, and thoughts and how they affect what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- DA:Cr3.1.HSI: Dance, Creating, Anchor Standard 3 (Refine and complete artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- 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.
- Folklórico and Family Self-awarenessStudents learn about the regional roots of ballet folklórico and reflect on the dances that live in their own families.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.