Lesson plan
Feel the Beat
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to write poems to represent dances.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask students to share their favorite dance moves.
- Call on students to come up to the front of the class to show their dance moves.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling
(20 minutes)- Read aloud Feel the BeatBy Marilyn Singer.
- Tell students that the book represented different dances through poems.
- Look closely at the poem for the cha-cha. Analyze how the poem represented the cha-cha with words.
Guided practise
(10 minutes)- Choose an established dance or make up your own dance move.
- Tell students that you are going to write a poem about your dance.
- Model how to create a poem to represent the dance.
Independent working time
(15 minutes)- Have students pick or create a dance of their choice.
- Hand out paper to students and have them write their own poems.
Differentiation
Support: Select a dance for students to write a poem about.
Enrichment:Have students write a book of poems about different dances.
Assessment
(5 minutes)- Assess how students are creating poems that represent dance moves.
Review and closing
(5 minutes)- Call on pairs to read their poems and, if possible, do their dance moves.