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| A Character Lifebox
Students create a "life box" for a character in the play Shakespeare Stealer, based on the book (and Kennedy Center play) of the same name.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| A Deeper Shade of Purple
Students observe that a variety of objects are tints and shades of purple, and classify the objects in several ways.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Science |
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| A Geometric Song: Patterns in Math and Music
In this lesson students will explore the connections between mathematics and music as they write poetry, construct graphs, improvise songs and build geometric structures.
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Music |
Language Arts, Math |
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| A Lens into the Past
This lesson which supports the YFP Production of Dreams In The Golden Country uses photographs to visually describe the transition from old world to New World experienced by immigrants to the United States.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| A Listening Doll
Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening, and create a listening doll.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| A Question of Style
Students will explore a variety of stylistic approaches for staging comedy, then informally stage the opening scenes in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| A Simple Melody
Students will learn the notes of the treble clef staff, play simple melodies, and complete a short melodic composition.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| A Suitable Job for a Woman
Students identify the model for the character, Amelia Martin, by
discovering information about four women: Abbie Burgess, Louisa May Alcott, Ida Lewis, and Clara Barton.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| A Tribute to Miró
Students create a modern artist's painting in the style of Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). Students explore how horizontal, vertical and curved lines can be combined with basic geometric and natural shapes to create an original painting.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| A Variety of Unwise Characters
Students interpret folktale characters by reading a Puerto Rican tale and comparing it to other tales and the characters found in them.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| A Way with Words or Say What?
Students use drawing and pantomime to analyze words and phrases invented by Shakespeare.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| A World of Myths
Students explore myths that explain science and nature, and create graphic representations of them.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Acoustical Science
This unit explores the connection between size and materials used to create a musical instrument, and the pitches and tones the instrument makes.
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Music |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Acting Up, A Melodrama
In this lesson, students practice melodramatic movement.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Acting Up, Backstage
In this lesson, the students read the melodrama written into the play Little Women aloud, interpreting the scene and designing a set to accompany it.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Adapting a Musical
This lesson explores the implications of developing a musical from a literary text or an historical event.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Adjective Monster
Students will be introduced to adjectives and explore how descriptive words are used to creatively tell stories. Students will choose an adjective to describe a monster, and then create their own monster using paper sculpture techniques.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Aida and Its Relevance to the World Today
This lesson uses the opera Aida and the history of the Middle East and Africa to open discussions about the current crisis in the Middle East.
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Music |
Social Studies |
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| Alexander Calder, Master of Balance
Students will gain a deeper understanding of levers and their functions by viewing the mobiles of Alexander Calder.
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Visual Arts |
Math, Science |
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| Alexander, Who's Not Going to Move
This unit uses the book Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Meant It!) Going to Move by Judith Viorst as a jumping-off point for exploring architecture, design, and self-portraiture.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| All Around the Baseball Field
Explore baseball by constructing a mock baseball field using an assortment of materials including pattern blocks, tiles and a variety of geometric shapes.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Physical Education |
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| All the News That's Fit to Print
ESL students read several versions of Cinderella and create an English-language newsletter based on the story.
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Dance, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| America, A Home for Every Culture
Students will explore how various cultures have contributed to making the United States a unique and diverse country.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| American Puritanism: The Nature of Guilt
This unit examines the consequences of personal conscience in conflict with rigid societal perceptions of what is "right" in human behavior. Using Puritanism as a focus, this conflict is articulated in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and selected plays of Tennessee Williams.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| An American Scene Painter
Following the example of artist Charles Burchfield, students create original watercolors from observations recorded in personal journals.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| An Owl in the Woods
Students create watercolor paintings inspired by illustrations from the book Owl Moon.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Analyzing Photographs: From Theory to Practice
in this lesson, Analyzing Photographs: Putting Theory into Practice, students will examine works of art and learn tools to analyze and discuss photography.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Analyzing the Structure of Williams' Cat
This lesson is an exploration of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with emphasis on Williams' use of characteraization and dramatic structure, and his techniques for engaging the audience.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Ancient Greece, In Us and Around Us
This unit is dedicated to bringing students in touch with the deep and far-reaching influence of ancient Greece on modern Western philosophy and culture.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Animal Habitats
Early primary students will learn about animal habitats through song, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts, Math, Science |
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| Animal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
Nahual is the Aztec term for an animal spirit. In this lesson, students select a nahual and then compose bilingual poems to describe it.
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Visual Arts |
Foreign Language, Language Arts |
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| Architectural Clues
Students will identify meaning in visual form, and distinguish between visual and verbal language.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Architecture and Nature
Through designing and constructing birdhouses, students learn the elements of architecture.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Are the von Trapps Historically Correct?
Students compare the reactions and perspectives of Austrians during the Nazi invasion to those of the characters in The Sound of Music.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Art Show with the Masters!
Through research and understanding of a selected famous artist and examples of their work, students will create an artistic interpretation, exhibit their work, and act in an impersonation of the artist.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Arthur Miller and The Crucible
This lesson examines the consequences of personal conscience in conflict with rigid societal perceptions of what is "right" in human behavior, as articulated in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
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Dance, Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Artists as Explorers
Students gain an understanding of humans' need to explore by creating a "journey map" to depict the accomplishments of an artistic explorer.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Arts Careers
This lesson exposes students to several careers in the visual arts through the use of "arts stations".
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Arts of the Gilded Age
Students will explore the varied art forms of the Gilded Age, then develop a creative piece to perform, present, and/or exhibit as a studio project.
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Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Atomic and Molecular Structure
Students will use physical science knowledge to create movement patterns that simulate the movement of atoms and molecules.
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Dance |
Physical Education, Science |
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| Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Students demonstrate and learn about the Latin dances of salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, cha cha, bachata, and samba through oral group presentations on the dance.
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Dance |
Foreign Language |
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| Ballet and Classical Music
Students are introduced to the conceptual and practical elements of classical ballet as they learn ballet history, vocabulary, and steps.
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Dance, Music |
Foreign Language |
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| Bibbidi Bobbidi Tunes
The elements of Baroque music are introduced as students compare "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" to a Bach-inspired version of the song.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Boston Tea Party: Making a Mask
Students create a buckram mask for use in a reenactment of the Boston Tea Party.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Boston Tea Party: Tea Party Reenactment
In this lesson, students research, analyze and reenact the Boston Tea Party.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Boys Can Dance
This lesson looks at the male dancer and reinforces that dancing is beneficial for men and women.
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Dance |
Physical Education |
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| Brass Instruments and Pitch
Students will create their own "brass" instruments, and make predictions about how pitch changes based on the distance air travels in the instrument.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Broken Worlds
Students engage in a series of activities comparing Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and conduct a comparative analysis of the two plays.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Brothers of the Knight
This unit uses the book Brothers of the Knight, and the musical of the same name by Debbie Allen and James Ingram, to explore topics as diverse as choreography, songwriting and fashion design.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Building Chairs with Don King
Don King, an artist and former range botanist with the U.S. Forest Service, started building furniture to use in his home, a large Shoshone teepee. Using his "Windswept" chair as a starting point, students will investigate the evolution of chair design and the practical, decorative, and artistic functions of this often-overlooked furniture form.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Can You Measure Up?
Primary students will learn measuring skills as they explore cooking, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Science |
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| Capturing History
Through images, students study the political and economic reasons for the African-American migration to Northern cities.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Castles & Cornerstones
This lesson will explore the historic importance and function of castles in King Arthur's time, and introduce students to a general history of castles and architectural terms.
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Visual Arts |
Math, Social Studies |
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| Characterization in Literature
In this lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Cheerful Hearts and Willing Feet
This lesson encourages students to explore the methods Louisa May Alcott uses to develop characterization in Little Women.
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Dance, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Children of War
Based on the Scholastic Book The Journal Of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, students explore the realities and effects of war by examining children's diaries, journals, and letters.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting
In this lesson, students learn basic calligraphy strokes for the creation of Chinese writing as an art form.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Chinese Instruments
Students identify and classify Western and traditional Chinese instruments, then create an instrument from recycled materials.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Chivalry and Courtly Love
Through exploration of the Arthurian codes of chivalry and courtly love as portrayed in various media formats, students will examine the way in which these ideals have influenced modern concepts of love, friendship, and honorable behavior.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Choreographing Characters in a Painting
Students learn a choreographed dance from the musical Sunday in the Park with George.
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Dance, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Cinderella Trilogy
Students will compare and contrast different versions of the Cinderella story.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Social Studies |
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| Circus, A Living Timeline
Students create a timeline highlighting the history of the modern circus, then perform a movement piece based on it.
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Dance, Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Civil War Music
Students compare and contrast Civil War songs of the North and the South.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Clowning 101
Students learn about different types of clown characters, then create an original character and develop a skit.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Color Me Dark
Inspired by the Scholastic book Color Me Dark and the Kennedy Center production of the same title, this five-lesson curriculum unit will provide learning activities to help students understand the experiences of these African-American people and their families during The Great Migration—as well as help them learn the history of this period and relate it to their present-day lives.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Community Buildings
Students explore different types of buildings and the role they play in shaping a community, and create buildings from recycled materials.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Comparing and Contrasting Fables
Students will apply literal, interpretive, and critical thinking skills to two versions of a fable.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Comparing O'Neill and Williams
Students engage in a series of activities comparing Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Comparing Tales through Performance
Students identify similarities and differences between contemporary and traditional versions of The Three Little Pigs.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Composing for The Nightingale
Students explore David Maddox's music from The Nightingale and create an original composition personifying the nightingale.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Composing with Solfege
Students create a melody using solfege syllables for the notes of the scale.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Corridos About the Mexican Revolution
Students will be introduced to causes of the Mexican Revolution and key revolutionary figures through the study of a particular Mexican song form, the corrido.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Counting Crows
Fusing math and art, students analyze Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" through puppetry and experimentation.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Crafts, from Gallery to Classroom
This unit introduces students to the techniques involved in landscape painting, chair design, treescapes, and pottery, while also addressing diverse subjects such as Native American culture and the environment.
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Visual Arts |
Math, Science, Social Studies |
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| Creating "AB" Patterns
Students will construct patterns concept using visual arts designs and math manipulatives.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Creating a Wall Story
In this lesson, students create a wall story as a means of retelling a story.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Creating an Original Opera
In this lesson, students will learn about opera’s dramatic and musical elements, and discover the similarities and differences between opera stories and students' own lives.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Creating Comic Strips
Students create comic strips to express ideas for which words alone are insufficient.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Creating Costumes
Students will conduct research on the attire of monarchs, then sketch and create a costume model for an emperor to wear.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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Creative Voices of Harlem
In this lesson, students learn about the artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Cultural Creation Myths
Students explore the creation mythologies of three different cultures and present a play on one of them.
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Theater |
Math |
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| Culture and Society of the Gilded Age
Students will research everyday life and culture during the Gilded Age, then create a short theatrical piece, based on their research, with historically-accurate characters, setting, costume, and props.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Cut It Out
Students will use symmetry to create paper cuttings depicting scenes from The Emperor's New Clothes.
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Dance, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Dalí & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Students will learn about the writers and artists of the Surrealism movement. Students will analyze imagery in poetry and visual art of the period, then create a poem incorporating surrealistic techniques.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Dancing A Christmas Carol
Students read the classic Dickens' tale A Christmas Carol and recreate the dance the "Roger de Coverly" described in Chapter (Stave)2.
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Dance |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Dancing in the Park with Friends
Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George is inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," by Georges Seurat. In this unit, students study both the painting and the play. After answering questions about Seurat and his artwork, students learn a dance based on a character in the Sondheim's play. Finally, they choreograph an original dance piece.
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Dance, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Dancing through Poetry
Students will review methods and create performances in which poetry can be expressed through dance metaphorically.
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Dance |
Language Arts |
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| Dancing Winds
In this lesson, students are introduced to the heating and cooling, expanding and condensing properties of air masses. Students will use movement skills and dance to learn and communicate information about the patterns of wind cycles, and the attributes of the atmosphere.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Debbie Allen's Pearl
In this unit, students embark on an interdisciplinary study of the circus—with emphasis on clowning—using writer, director and choreographer Debbie Allen's Pearl as a framework.
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All |
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| Decades Mural Project
Students will create murals about the events and trends of a decade of the twentieth century.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Students will examine areas of ancient Greek influence on Western thought and culture and research diverse topics to assess the ways Western ideals resonate ancient Greek ideals.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Designing a Willy Wonka Board Game
Students will create a board game about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by reading the book or by seeing the play, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Designing a Shoe Box Set for Willy Wonka
Students identify settings in the play, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, creatively use their bodies to create a setting, and then plan a set for a scene in the play.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Discovering National Parks
Students explore connections between art, the environment and political activism.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Discovering Peace
Students explore peace through vocabulary, discussion, pantomime, illustration, and group construction of a "Peace Quilt."
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Doggie Dance
Students compose lyrics and choreograph movement based on a dog's life.
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Dance |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Drawing from Observation
After discussing feet as the first means of transportation, students create images of shoes, with attention to various design elements.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Drawing Political Cartoons
This lesson explores the purpose of political cartoons.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Dreams in the Golden Country
This unit introduces students to American immigration paths and time periods, Ellis Island, and immigration waves of the late 19th to early 20th century.
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All |
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies |
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| Dressing Up
Students research the clothing of the 1860's and pantomime getting dressed up.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Dvorak in America
Students study Antonin Dvorak and his extended stay in America.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Dystopian Worlds
Students read Dystopia, discuss issues raised about the individual's role in society, and design a book cover that reveals the themes of the novel.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Elements of Dance
In this lesson, students will explore and discover the elements of dance by demonstrating various simple movements.
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Dance |
Physical Education |
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| Elements of Fables
Students will be introduced to fables and learn to identify the major elements of the genre
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Elements of Folktales
Students discuss the differences between literary and media versions of folktales.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Elements of Myths
After reading myths that explain natural phenomena, students identify elements of the literary form and create their own science-based myth.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Eugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Students study the text of Long Day's Journey into Night and explore the impact of reading the play silently versus acting out and staging parts of the play.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Every Picture Tells a Story
This unit explores how illustrations contribute to storytelling, as well as the techniques that illustrators use to tell a story.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Examining Tone in Parody and Tragedy
Students will analyze Romeo and Juliet and determine if the death of Juliet could be considered to be a parody.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Excalibur
In this unit, students will explore the history and legend of King Arthur, including the symbols and social values expressed by the story of King Arthur.
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All |
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| Explorers' Experience
Students will research a world explorer and prepare maps of the routes traveled.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Students study setting, plot, character development in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire and discuss its impact on American theatre, then participate in group reading and analysis of the play.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Exploring The Sound of Music
This unit explores the connection between the musical story of The Sound of Music and the historical context of its setting.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Exploring American Tall Tales
Students study the elements of tall tales, write responses to these tales, and perform them as monologues.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Exploring Native American and Puritan Cultures
This unit explores the ways that the Puritans and Native American tribes viewed the relationships between nature, God, and the individual/society.
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All |
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| Exploring Neighborhoods through Art
The book Harold and the Purple Crayon is used to launch an exploration of colors and neighborhoods.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Exploring Pioneer America
This unit focuses on post-colonial westward expansion of United States territory, and introduces an explanation of westward exploration and expansion.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Exploring the Expository Scenes in Macbeth
Students will examine the function of exposition, and develop multiple interpretations and visual and aural production choices for Shakespearean scenes. Students will then read, rehearse, and perform scenes from Act I of Macbeth.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Exploring Weather Conditions through Painting
Students will learn about how weather influences culture, daily life, and mood by examining paintings depicting different types of weather. Students will demonstrate their understanding by painting a picture depicting a particular weather condition.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Fables
This unit introduces students to traditional fables. Students learn about the qualities that make a tale a fable and read representative selections. Students also engage in storytelling activities and dramatic presentations of traditional and original fables.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fairy Tale Tunes
Students create music for a mini-musical of their stories from the book they created in the Fairy Tale Variations lesson.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fairy Tale Variations
Students create the book for a mini-musical based on The Frog Prince and The Frog Prince Continued.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fancy Fencing
This lesson introduces students to the art of stage fighting.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Physical Education |
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| Fiction Writing
This unit introduces students to the elements of fiction and writing techniques used in fiction writing.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fiction, Creating Characters
Students explore characterization as an element of fiction.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fiction, Plotting the Story
Students explore plot as an element of fiction.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Fiction, Setting the Story
Students explore how authors manipulate settings as an element of fiction.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| First Rhythmic Composition
This lesson introduces rhythm concepts, including the names and symbols associated with music notation.
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Music |
Math |
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| Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Students will explore how major artistic personalities in the Mexican Revolution influenced the Mexican art of the time.
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Visual Arts |
Foreign Language, Social Studies |
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| Folk Art as Communication
Students choose a type of folk art to represent a method of communication, and present a research paper on it.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Folktale Theatre
This lesson engages students in basic techniques for creating a character through movement and voice.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Footprint Collage
Students create a footprint collage from their shoe prints using personal experiences with tissue paper, construction paper, and prints.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Forests and Treescapes with Romey Stuckart
Romey Stuckart is an artist who creates large-scale paintings of the forest and her surroundings, skillfully balancing abstraction and representation. Her heavily textured paintings are filled with inspiration and intuition. Using Stuckart's painting "The Cedar" as a focal point, students will create paintings while learning about the role that forests play in our environment and our imagination.
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Visual Arts |
Science, Social Studies |
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| Form and Theme in the Traditional Mexican Corrido
Students will analyze the themes and literary devices used in the traditional Mexican musical form of corridos.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Fractured Families in American Drama
Using comparative analysis techniques, students explore A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, centered on tensions and tragedies in two American families.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Freeze Frame
Designed to extend the experience of the opera The Emperor’s New Clothes, this lesson uses specific references to various Hans Christian Andersen resources to frame student-created tableaus.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts |
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| From Greece to Main Street
Students will define elements of Greek Revival Architecture in America by comparing buildings of today to those of yesterday.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| From Moccasins to Tap Shoes
Students will learn the basic dance steps of various American dance styles. Later, the dance lessons are incorporated into a writing activity.
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Dance |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| From the New World
Join Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Antonin Dvorak as they journey to America and discover a new world of music.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Giving Voice to History
Students learn about the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Gods, Heroes, and Other Celebrated Greeks
This lesson is designed to help students shape a frame of reference for examining specific areas of ancient Greek influence on Western thought and culture.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Graham's Appalachian Spring: A Study
Students will study Martha Graham's seminal work, Appalachian Spring,analyze the historical themes, and explore the relationship of the music and the set design to the structure of the choreography and narrative.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Grand Canyon: Stories Told and Untold
Students learn about various historical, social, environmental, and geological elements of the Grand Canyon through art.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Science, Social Studies |
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| Graphs of the Heart
Students will examine four of Martha Graham's key dance-dramas, and learn about the symbolic and mythological sources, and the relationship of set design and collaboration to the choreography and narrative of Graham's work.
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Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Greek Mythology: Cultures and Art
Students learn to analyze and critique as they gain insight into Greek culture through the exploration of mythology.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Greek Theater
Students will discover the origins of our own modern theater in the ancient Greek Theater by learning historical facts, studying the evolution of theater, and presenting a choral reading of Greek playwrights.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Guantanamera: A Poem and a Song
In this lesson, students analyze the Cuban folk song "Guantanamera."
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Gyotaku: The Japanese Art of Fish Printing
Students learn about the Japanese art of fish printing and make their own fish prints.
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Visual Arts |
Science, Social Studies |
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| Harlem
This unit introduces students to Harlem, starting with black migration from Africa and from the American South to the North, to the Harlem Renaissance (including jazz musicians, visual artists, writers, and poets), and on to aspects of daily Harlem life.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Theater |
Language Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies |
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| Harlem Renaissance: A Living Museum
Students learn about the people and places that figured prominently in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Harmonic Composition, An Essay
This lesson introduces students to jazz or the blues by reading and writing about a jazz or blues musician.
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Music |
Language Arts |
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| Harold and the Purple Crayon
This unit uses Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon to explore neighborhoods, principles of color, and map reading.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit
Students use a variety of sources to research Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments, then use this information to create a collage and choreograph a movement piece.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 1
Students use a variety of sources, including photographs and artwork, to research and report on Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 2
Students depict a scene from the life of Harriet Tubman, in the style of Jacob Lawrence.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 3
In this lesson, students are introduced to the spiritual, an African American musical form that originated during the time of slavery.
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Music |
Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 4
Students use movement to express the words and music of a song about Harriet Tubman.
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Dance, Music |
Physical Education, Social Studies |
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| Hats Off To Color
Early primary students will learn about primary and secondary colors.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Haunting Music
Explore the "dark side" of classical music through famous works by Berlioz and Saint-Saëns.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Heroes
Students recognize the positive character traits of heroes depicted in various art forms.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Historical Figure: A Monologue
Students choose a famous person from their state and research his or her contributions to history.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Historical Timeline
Students create a historical timeline and an important personal event timeline based on the historical fiction book and play, A Light in the Storm.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| How Do Cells Reproduce?
Students explore scientific drawing as a means of communicating ideas and information as they learn about the process of mitosis, or cell division, in yeast.
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Visual Arts |
Math, Science |
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| How Many Cells are Born in a Day?
Students predict and graph the number of cells resulting from a series of divisions, as part of an exploration of pattern and repetition in nature.
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Visual Arts |
Math, Science |
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| How Romantic! Parallels in Music and History
Students will explore the ways music reflects contemporary society by focusing on popular music of the 19th and early 20th centuries—orchestral music of the Romantic era. After students conduct research online about musical instruments, they will create an advertisement about a musical instrument and its connection to history.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Identity Boxes
Students will research the lives and background of Lucas Samaras and Joseph Cornell and present themselves by creating their own identity box.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| If the Shoe Fits
Students research the history of shoes and recreate dance movements from a specific time period.
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Dance, Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Illusion and Reality in American Drama
This unit examines the divergent themes and innovative forms of three of America's most celebrated playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Immigrant Contributions to America
Students will recognize the various contributions of immigrants to the United States.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies |
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| Immigrating to America
Students perform dramatizations depicting what it was like for new immigrants to come through Ellis Island at the turn of the century.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Inlaid Slip Decorated Tea Bowls
The book A Single Shard is used to introduce the unique celadon glazes and slip inlay techniques utilized by 12th century Korean potters.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Inspired by Muses, Graces, and Fates
The Muses of ancient Greece inspired poets, playwrights, dancers, actors, musicians, and scientists. In this lesson, students identify the character traits of each Muse, Grace, or Fate, and study written and artistic renderings of them. They then create a line or two of literature, as well as dance, music, and choral speaking performance based on a specific Muse, Grace, or Fate.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Interpreting Mythology Through Dance
In this lesson, students learn about Ancient Egyptian rituals and attitudes about death and the afterlife.
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Dance |
Social Studies |
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| Into the Woods, Jr.
This unit uses the Grimm Brothers' Book of Tales and Stephen Sondheims musical Into the Woods to help students create their own musical versions of Grimm's tales.
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Music, Visual Arts, Theater |
Language Arts, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies |
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| Introduction to Seurat and Sondheim
Students study Seurat's painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and develop physical gestures for one of the characters.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| It's All in the Translation
Students will examine the important role translation plays in interpreting the dramatic literature and theater of the ancient Greeks. Students compare and contrast four different translations of the Greek tragedy, Hecuba.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| James Wyeth: Capturing Dance
Students observe and learn about dance and create a series of artworks depicting a type of dance or specific dancer.
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Dance, Visual Arts |
