Topic: Ghanian Dance

Objective: I can demonstrate and describe dance from Ghana.
Vocabulary: Ghana, Kpolongo
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

• Consider how the dance moves represent daily movement in village life. Create dance moves for daily movement in your life or classroom. 

Topic: Vantage Points and Collage
Objective: I can create a collage using at least two different vantage points of the same subject and order them to make a unified and purposeful media arts production.
Vocabulary: collage, consent, diptych, subject, vantage point
Extensions:

• In pairs or small groups, students create a collaborative collage project that combines their diptychs from the lesson and discuss creative choices.

• Have students write a short story about a series of photographs in a digital storytelling project, emphasizing the importance of consent and respect in storytelling and photography.

Topic: Body Percussion
Objective: I can create and perform rhythm patterns using my body.
Vocabulary: beat, rhythm, body percussion
Extensions: 

• Ask students to explain and/or demonstrate the difference between beat (the steady pulse or "heartbeat" of music) and rhythm (long and short sounds). 

• Keep a steady beat with any song or poem. Show the beat with the students' choice of body percussion (making rhythmic sounds on the body, like clapping, snapping, stomping, etc.).

• Perform body percussion along with this video (steady beat only) or this video (uses rhythms beyond steady beat) from class. 

Topic: Pantomime
Objective(s): 

• I can use my actor’s tools to explore character.

• I can share a pantomime performance with an audience.

Vocabulary: character, gesture, pantomime
Extensions:

• Lead the pantomime exercise "Coming Together" which is about community and friendship.

• Play the "Social Roles" pantomime game which can explore the roles people play in different cultures.  Great HSS integration.

Topic: Line
Objective: I can  create a landscape using contour lines, patterns with foreground and background elements.
Vocabulary:  contour line, landscape, pattern, sketch, foreground, background
Extensions: