Dance: Grade 6

Learning Dance Skills and the Creative Process

Analysis, Culture, and History

Healthy Practices

Integration

Community and Careers

Reading for Literacy in Dance

Writing for Literacy in Dance

Students demonstrate knowledge and skills of dance elements.

Students understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

Students understand and demonstrate dance as a way to create and communicate.

Students reflect upon, evaluate, and analyze dance experiences.

Students understand and demonstrate dance from diverse cultures and historical periods.

Students demonstrate connections between dance and healthy living.

Students integrate dance with the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

Students value the role of dance in the life of the community and identify its associated careers.

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Text Types and Purposes

Production and Distribution of Writing

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Range of Writing

Demonstrate knowledge of kinesthetic awareness (body awareness) by exhibiting proper body alignment, balance, coordination, and articulation of isolated body parts.

Demonstrate increased spatial awareness by combining three or more spatial components.

Demonstrate increased awareness of the element of force by combining three or more force components.

Demonstrate increased awareness of the element of time by listening to a sound source and creating movement using various time components.

Demonstrate knowledge of all the dance elements by combining kinesthetic awareness with spatial awareness.

Demonstrate the ability to incorporate the choreographic principles of contrast, variety, transitions, and repetition with a partner and in a group.

Improvise, choreograph, and present dance sequences based on students' ideas or concepts from other sources.

Utilize previously learned choreographic structures to create movement phrases adding call and response, accumulation, and theme and variations.

Identify and explore personal feelings, stories, or ideas through movement.

Demonstrate an increased awareness of how interpretation of a dance can be changed or affected by theatrical elements like music, sound, spoken word, props, lighting, scenery, or costumes.

Demonstrate knowledge of movement by creating dance sequences from everyday movements and gestures.

Recognize and discuss personal feelings and thoughts from involvement in dance.

Recognize and discuss personal feelings and opinions about an observed dance.

Evaluate and critique a dance based on dance elements, choreographic principles, processes, structures, and theatrical elements.

Students develop their own aesthetic perspective by reflecting on the personal and artistic significance of a dance combined with knowledge of how choreography is constructed.

Identify similarities and differences of dances from two or more cultures or historical periods.

Create a dance based on a particular culture.

Identify and demonstrate a folk, social, or theatrical dance from a specific historical period.

Identify and explore the physical benefits of dance.

Identify and explore the relationship between physical anatomy and range of motion in dance.

Create a dance movement sequence inspired by another art form (visual art, music, theatre).

Create a dance movement sequence using concepts or ideas from other disciplines (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Demonstrate increased awareness of personal growth gained through attendance at dance events and discover ways to be actively involved in supporting dance in the community.

Identify skills required for dance related careers.

Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of technical dance texts.

Follow precisely a multistep procedure when performing technical dance tasks.

Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific technical dance context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.

Integrate technical dance information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

Compare and contrast the information gained from performances, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.

Translate technical dance information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mechanically (e.g., in an equation) into words.

By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend technical dance texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Write informative/explanatory texts, including technical/mechanical processes. <ol type="a"><li>Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.</li><li>Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.</li><li>Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.</li><li>Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.</li><li>Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone.</li><li>Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.</li></ol>

Note: Students' narrative skills continue to grow in these grades. The Standards require that students be able to incorporate narrative elements effectively into arguments and informative/explanatory texts. In technical subjects, students must be able to write precise enough descriptions of the step-by-step procedures they use in their technical work that others can replicate them and (possibly) reach the same results.

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.