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Year two
Fine arts
Feel the Beat
May 11, 2018
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By Lily Jones

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Feel the Beat

By Lily Jones
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Year twoYear three
Subject
Fine artsDanceReading & WritingGenre WritingPoetry Writing
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W.1.3 W.2.3
English Language Arts and ReadingYear oneK.10.C Grade 11.11.A 1.11.B.ii 1.11.C 1.12.A Grade 22.11.A 2.11.B.ii 2.12.A Grade 33.11.A 3.11.B.ii 3.12.A
EnglishGrade OneW.1.12.b W.1.12.e Grade TwoW.2.10.c W.2.10.h Grade ThreeW.3.8.c W.3.8.f

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English Language ArtsGrade 14.1.E.1 Grade 22.2.C.2 2.4.B.1 Grade 32.2.A.3 2.4.C.1 2.4.C.2 4.2.A.3
EnglishYear 1ACELA1448.a ACELY1661.c Year 2ACELA1468.d ACELT1593.a ACELY1671.a Year 3ACELA1482.c
EnglishLevel 1W.VCELA189.1 W.VCELY194.3 Level 2RV.VCELA216.4 W.VCELT228.1 W.VCELY230.1 Level 3W.VCELA262.3

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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.
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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.

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