Topic: Basic Hip Hop

Objective: I can perform a dance phrase!
Vocabulary: Dance phrase, Hip Hop
Extensions: 

• Practice the dance phrase you learned in class! We learned part 3 and 4. Practice the whole dance!

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: 

• Practice body percussion (rhythmic body sounds, like clapping, snapping, stomping, etc.). Identify whether the body percussion is beat (the steady pulse of music) or rhythm (long and short sounds).

  • • Use the play-along videos Alpha Four or Cut a Rug from class. 

    • Have students suggest a favorite pop song and see if there is a body percussion play-along available on YouTube.

    • Have students demonstrate some of the body percussion patterns they created in class.

Topic: Being on Stage
Objective: I can create a solo performance that demonstrates the use of voice, body and stage directions.
Vocabulary: actor, stage, entrance, exit, ensemble, pantomime, stage directions
Extensions:

• Play the stage directions game "Trapdoor".  It's high energy, fun and solidifies the understanding of stage directions.

• Guide students though creating stage pictures/tableaux.  Show students an image image of people engaged in an activity, or recreate an image from a play/musical/book.  Using stage directions, tell each actor where and how to stand.  After a few rounds allow students to be the director.

Topic: Line
Objective: I can create a drawing using repeated line then cutting around its negative space.
Vocabulary: abstract, unity, variety, repetition
Extensions: