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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade 4

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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. Explain how the elements of dance are used to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings in movement sequences
  2. Demonstrate accurately movement sequences that use the elements of dance to interpret motivational stimuli

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Objectives
  1. Identify the relationship between technical proficiency and physical attributes
  2. Demonstrate the physical attributes of balance, timing, strength, and speed in movement sequences
  3. Perform characteristic movements from a minimum of three different genres representative of world cultures
  4. Execute memorized dance studies accurately

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Describe movement sequences in a minimum of three different dance genres using the language of dance
  2. Explain the purpose and meaning of specific movements in selected dances

August 5, 2008