TIME: Two
45-minute class periods
MATERIALS:
- Video camera
- Craft materials
- Student props
INTRODUCTION/PREPARATION/ANTICIPATORY SET:
The students are learning about the weather and its transformations.
The students will observe the weather through the window and will orally
describe its conditions.
The teacher will relate the description of the weather and these transformations
to dance movements. The students will sing the songs and perform the
actions. The students will create masks yo wear while they perform their
weather dance. They will use their own props or objects to imitate the
noise of the weather. The teacher will encourage them to be creative.
ACTIVITY:
The teacher will model and explain the French weather vocabulary terms.
The students will make a connection between dance movements and weather
description and transformations.
The teacher will monitor, guide and assist students while they act out
the weather.
The students will choreograph a dance, accompanied by song and weather
related noises.
The students will perform their dance, wearing the masks they have created.
The students will create a video of the dance.
The students will view and assess the video.
EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT:
The teacher will observe students and determine success/completion.
The students will describe the weather both orally in French and by movements.
GRADE
LEVEL EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS/BENCHMARKS:
Louisiana Arts Content Standards/Benchmarks:
Dance:
D-CE-E2 Recognize and explore dance as away to create and communicate
ideas and feelings
D-CE-E6 Identify relationships among dance, other arts and disciplines
outside the arts
Music:
M-CE-E1 Recognize and imitate simple melodies and rhythmic patterns using
voice, musical instruments, or other sound sources
M-CE-E5 Participate in organized musical activities including singing,
playing and movement
Theater Arts:
TH-CE-E1 Explore and express various emotions in interpersonal setting;
(1,5)
TH-CE-E2 Interact in group situations and show differentiation of roles
through experimentation and role playing. (2,5)
MODIFICATIONS/ACCOMODATIONS:
Repeated directions
Extended time
Peer assistance
Examples
of Weather/Movement Connections:
Il fait beau:
Le soleil brille (j’ouvre grand les bras), je tourne autour du
soleil.
Les oiseaux volent, ( je tends les bras et je bouge les bras).
Les nuages blanc bougent de droite a gauche, de haut en bas.
Il ne fait pas beau:
La pluie tombe sur ma tete (main sur la tete), j’agite l’objet
pour imiter le bruit de la pluie
Le vent souffle, (les joues se gonfflent, l’air sort de ma bouche,
bruit de la pluie).
Le vent chasse les nuages blancs. Les nuages blancs deviennent noirs:
l’autre face du nuage.
Le tonnerre gronde (les pieds tapent sur le sol).
Le beau temps revient:
Les nuages blanc redeviennnent blancs ( face blanche des nuages)
L’arc en ciel apparait. Agiter de droite a gauche les bandes de
couleurs de la forme de l’arc en ciel.
The weather is nice:
The sun is shining, I open big my arms, I turn around the clouds
The birds are flying; I spread out my arms and move them.
The white birds move from the right to the left, from the top to the
bottom
The weather is bad:
The rain is coming down on my head; I shake the props that reproduce
the rain noise.
The wind is blowing, I puff my cheeks and I blow out noisily.
The wind pushes away the white clouds that become black, I turn my
cloud mask to other side.
The thunder is crashing: feet stamp noisily the floor.
The good weather comes back:
The rainbow appears. I move from the right to the left the prop I made
with color bands.
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