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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade 2

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Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Dance:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

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Objectives
  1. Identify and demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements accurately that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
  2. Combine selected elements of dance and use sensory stimuli to create movement patterns
Objectives
  1. Demonstrate movement patterns using kinesthetic awareness
  2. Execute movement patterns using balance and timing effectively
  3. Demonstrate characteristic movements from dance genres representative of world cultures
  4. Execute memorized movement patterns accurately

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Identify movement patterns from different genres using the language of dance
  2. Select specific movements from a pattern and explain their purposes

August 5, 2008