Topic: Filipino Dance

Objective: I can perform a dance from the Philippines
Vocabulary: Bakya - wooden shoe for which the dance is named
Extensions: 

• Practice dance skills like

  • Same-side body movements and patterning

  • Cross-side body movement 

  • Balance and Freeze

  • Skipping and galloping

  • Grapevine

  • Walks - cat, bear, crab

• Practice the dance together.

Currently, media arts lessons are only offered in grades 3-5.

Topic: Ostinatos
Objective:  I can create and perform ostinatos.
Vocabulary: steady beat, body percussion, ostinato
Extensions: 

• Review ostinato (repeated musical patterns) with the "Ostinato Explained" video from class.

• In class, we performed a tap-clap-snap-clap body percussion ostinato to "Miss Mary Mack." 

  • Have students create four new motions for their own ostinato.

  • Learn this partner hand game to "Miss Mary Mack."

Topic: Cooperation in Theatre Games
Objective: I can use sounds and movement in theatre games.
Vocabulary: actor, character, exaggerate, gesture, posture
Extensions:

• Have the students teach YOU the theatre game, Bippity, Bippity, Bop. Create 2 additional tableaux to call out.  For example; washing Machine where the person in the center in the spinning drum and the people on either side are putting in clothes.

• Play the improv game "I am a Tree."  Three actors create a tableau with their bodies. The first person says what they are positions their like that object. For example, they might stick out their arms like branches and say “I am a tree!” Then, anyone from the group can jump in and become an object that goes with the first object. For example, person B could say “I am a squirrel in the tree” and crouch down like a squirrel, or they could say “I am a pile of fallen leaves,” etc. A third person then jumps up and completes the scene (“I am a rake”). Once the three-person scene picture is complete, the third person remains onstage as the same object, and two more people jump in to create a completely different set of related objects.

Topic: Composition
Objective: I can draw shapes to create a human face
Vocabulary: contour line, geometric shape, natural shape, sketch, portrait.
Extension: