Creative Arts
Term 1 Week 9 Visual Arts
Students:
study colour, line, shape and texture through the artworks of Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky
create abstract paintings and relief sculptures.
Drama
Suggested activities
some teacher involvement in drama
less teacher direction in structuring what's going on; students are doing more of this on their own
more ongoing activities showing development over a period of time
whole-class and small-group work
varied topics, issues and themes
Examples
Improvisation
whole-class and small-group improvisations with minimal structuring from teacher
extended role-play in more challenging situations
more student-devised playbuilding with less guidance from teacher
Mime
extended mime sequences based on varied sources
Movement
extended depiction work, often in combination with other forms
extended movement sequences
Storytelling
use of storytelling in combination with other forms
more student-devised stories
Readers' theatre
enacting more complex texts
student narrators
Script
Reading and discussing others' scripts
Writing and performing playbuilt scripts
Puppetry
any of the above using puppets
Music
Match the instrument to the sound -
http://www.musicgames.net/livegames/orchestra/orchestra2.htm
Dance
Students:
develop an understanding of cultural and historical dances
perform a familiar dance, which they then manipulate to create an original dance, based on bush dance steps.
Students:
compose and perform dances, using rhythm, sound, percussion and everyday objects, often in non-traditional performing spaces.
Tap ... stomp is based on the characteristics of contemporary tap dancing. This unit could also form the basis of a unit to study African, South American or Native North American cultures.