Goldilocks Sings
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
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Shakespearean Sonnets
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is intended for students who are new to Shakespeare and his writing. In the lesson, students will read about sonnets, read and respond to specific Shakespearean sonnets, and explore the poetic elements - specifically meter and rhyme - of Shakespearean sonnets. This lesson was created by Tyler Barna as part of the 2020 NDE OER Workshop and was conceived from Maxx Stewart's lesson posted to OER Commons. It is designed for beginning Shakespeare students, typically in English Language Arts grades 8-10. It is expected that this lesson will take students 90 minutes to complete. All materials are linked digitally within the lesson. This lesson is written for students; "Student View" is the recommended output for this lesson.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Reading
Romeo & Juliet - Paraphrase and Summary Activity
(View Complete Item Description)Students will paraphrase and summarize a key scene from Romeo & Juliet in writing, working both in groups and individually.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan
Improvisation Recipe Book
(View Complete Item Description)The following recipes, or games, are intended to be used as reference and study for the college course: Improvisation. This format has been set up to help with ease of quick learning and immediate application. Bon Appétit! Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Identify Improvisational genres. Perform numerous and varying Improv games. Plan and Execute an Improv show. Evaluate performance. Examine and analyze aspects of the human experience and quickly construct an expression of that experience.
Material Type: Textbook
Using Micro:bits in the Performance Ensemble to Analyze Posture
(View Complete Item Description)Students will be given the opportunity to utilize Micro:bits in the music performance classroom. The provided lesson materials will help instructors program the Micro:bits with a program that will analyze their student's posture while performing.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson, Module
Theater Projection Design | Drama Arts Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Design Competition and learn about the skills required for a career in projection design.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The Masks We Wear | Social & Emotional Learning: The Arts for Every Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)This activity from the Commonwealth Theatre Center in Louisville, Kentucky uses drama to explore what emotions we like to share with the world and what emotions we tend to keep to ourselves, and why. Students explore the six core emotions and learn that they are all valid but we can work on how we deal with them.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Boal | Drama Arts Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)Boal is a play written and performed by high school students from the Central Academy of Technology and Arts in Monroe, North Carolina. Boal brings a variety of social issues to the stage, focusing on racism and Islamophobia. The play was inspired by Augusto Boal, a Brazilian theater director, writer, and politician. Boal was the founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical group dedicated to creating political change. The performance was taped as part of the High School Theatre Festival during the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Advice for Pursuing a Career in the Theater | Treasures of New York: "The Drama League"
(View Complete Item Description)Pursuing a career in the theater can seem intimidating and overwhelming. In this video from Treasures of New York: The Drama League, students receive advice from successful theater professionals like director Diane Paulus and actress Judith Light. From practical suggestions like staying informed by reading the newspaper, to more general advice like finding one’s passion, students hear from and are inspired by the words of experienced artists.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Fate vs. Free Will in the Balcony Scene | Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet
(View Complete Item Description)The forces of fate and free pull at Romeo and Juliet’s relationship throughout the play, and it is up for debate whether fate or free will plays a larger role in the tragic events that unfold in their story. Examine the balcony scene to see how these forces are already at play from the very beginning of their relationship in this video from Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Understanding Juliet's Feigned Death | Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet
(View Complete Item Description)Explore how production choices can contribute to characterization and provide a deeper understanding of how that character sees the world in this video from Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet. The National Theater's production creates a modern stripped-down version of the play that utilizes both staged theater and film techniques to tell the story of the iconic star-crossed lovers. Students will analyze these techniques and how they help reveal the essence of Juliet's character.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Romeo and Juliet in 60-Seconds! | Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet
(View Complete Item Description)Watch cast members from the National Theater's production of Romeo and Juliet attempt to summarize the play in 60-seconds! Use this video as a challenge to students to create their own version that covers the plot of the play in one minute.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Anansi's Rescue from the River | African/African-American Culture
(View Complete Item Description)In this video, storyteller Nana Yaa Asantewaa performs the story “Anansi’s Rescue from the River.” The Anansi tales are told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, West Africa, and have been passed down through the generations by oral tradition.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!
(View Complete Item Description)Students will observe dance movements depicted in a drawing and a painting. Partners will use simple lines to draw their partner's movements and paint dance costumes on the figures using various brushstrokes. Students will write a persuasive speech to the school superintendent explaining why they believe dance should be a regular part of the curriculum. They will then model dance movements for classmates in teams of four and recite their persuasive speech to the class.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Beginning Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about an artist's sketchbook that includes drawings of ballet dancers. They will practice two ballet steps and discuss how an artist uses line to depict dancers in rehearsal. Students will make a sketchbook and produce a series of quick sketches of dancers.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Arts Lessons in the Classroom: Visual Art Curriculum - Grade 2
(View Complete Item Description)A broad range of art is created using concepts of contour and line type, abstraction, color palette, 3-D form, and positive and negative space. Students make both realistic and abstract drawings, relief prints, paintings, and paper sculptures. Literacy-infused lessons include making sketch/journal entries, inventing clay characters and illustrating stories and poems in collage. The K-6 lesson handbooks were originally produced for the Lake Washington School District with grants from 4culture and ArtsWA. Encourage your colleagues, other schools, and organizations to use these materials for non-commercial, educational purposes at no cost by downloading their own copy at: http://artsedwashington.org/portfolio-items/alic-2
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Unit of Study
Arts Lessons in the Classroom: Visual Art Curriculum - Grade 4
(View Complete Item Description)Building traditional skills in drawing and painting is emphasized through study of proportion, value, color mixing, and space. Principles of balance and unity in 2-D and 3-D are explored through constructing tactile collages and paper sculptures. In literacy infused lessons, students connect word choice, detail, narrative and figurative language with images. The K-6 lesson handbooks were originally produced for the Lake Washington School District with grants from 4culture and ArtsWA. Encourage your colleagues, other schools, and organizations to use these materials for non-commercial, educational purposes at no cost by downloading their own copy at: http://artsedwashington.org/portfolio-items/alic-2
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Unit of Study
Introducing the Art Form of Collage
(View Complete Item Description)Introducing the Art Form of Collage A Lesson Inspired by Artist and Teacher Jean Martin Objectives: 1. Share information about the art form of collage. 2. Create a simple collage. 3. Tell a story about the artist who creates the collage. Audience: This lesson would be suitable for all ages.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
The Art and Accessibility of Music (Advanced Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about the jazz singer Billie Holiday and the sociohistorical context in which she performed. They will learn how discriminatory statutes (called Jim Crow laws) affected daily life. They will also analyze how movement is created in photographs and the effect of a photographer's point of view on composition. Finally, students will photograph a musician, paying attention to what can be communicated through point of view.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Pa'lante: Onward With Art
(View Complete Item Description)Students begin this unit by discussing their relationship with art, and the extent to which they believe art drives resistance movements. Students then participate in a Gallery Walk that highlights how members of the Puerto Rico community in the Young Lords used art to advance their ideas and preserve their culture. Students center the activism of Indigenous peoples in Puerto Rico by studying bomba music and murals. This helps them understand the roots of art—both visual and performance—as activism, and respond to the question: How can understanding Latinidad through art help us confront social and political injustices? Throughout this unit, students work in teams to create a poster series that inspires civic engagement and action on issues of social and political injustice.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study