Dance: Grade 2

Creating

Artistic Process

Performing

Artistic Process

Responding

Artistic Process

Connecting

K-12.Cr.1

Anchor Standard

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

K-12.Cr.2

Anchor Standard

Organize and develop artistic ideas and works.

K-12.Cr.3

Anchor Standard

Refine and complete artistic works.

K-12.Pr.4

Anchor Standard

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic works for presentation

K-12.Pr.5

Anchor Standard

Develop and refine artistic works for presentation.

K-12.Pr.6

Anchor Standard

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic works.

K-12.Re.7

Anchor Standard

Identify and analyze artistic works.

K-12.Re.8

Anchor Standard

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic works.

K-12.Re.9

Anchor Standard

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic works.

K-12.Cn.10

Anchor Standard

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make artistic works.

K-12.Cn.11

Anchor Standard

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, historical, cultural, and personal context to deepen understanding.

2.DA.Cr.1.1

Outcome

Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and propose additional sources for movement ideas.

2.DA.Cr.1.2

Outcome

Combine a variety of movements while manipulating the elements of dance.

2.DA.Cr.2.1

Outcome

Improvise a dance phrase with a beginning, a middle that has a main idea, and a clear end.

2.DA.Cr.2.2

Outcome

Choose movements that express a main idea or emotion, or follow a musical phrase. Explain reasons for movement choices.

2.DA.Cr.3.1

Outcome

Explore suggestions and make choices to change movement from guided improvisation and/or short remembered sequences.

2.DA.Cr.3.2

Outcome

Depict the levels of movements in a variety of dance movements by drawing a picture or using symbols (for example, high, middle, low)

2.DA.Pr.4.1

Outcome

Demonstrate clear directionality and intent when performing locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, facings, and pathways in space. Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes. Differentiate between circling and turning as two separate ways of continuous directional change.

2.DA.Pr.4.2

Outcome

Identify the length of time a move or phrase takes (for example, whether it is long or short). Identify and move on the downbeat in duple and triple meter. Correlate metric phrasing with movement phrasing.

2.DA.Pr.4.3

Outcome

Select and apply appropriate characteristics to movements (for example, selecting specific adverbs and adjectives and apply them to movements). Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness while dancing the movement characteristics.

2.DA.Pr.5.1

Outcome

Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning, and dance sequences that require moving through space using a variety of pathways.

2.DA.Pr.5.2

Outcome

Move safely in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space.

2.DA.Pr.5.3

Outcome

Repeat movements, with an awareness of self and others in space. Self-adjust and modify movements or placement upon request.

2.DA.Pr.6.1

Outcome

Dance for and with others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.

2.DA.Pr.6.2

Outcome

Use limited production elements (for example, hand props, simple scenery, or media projections).

2.DA.Re.7.1

Outcome

Find movements in a dance that develop a pattern.

2.DA.Re.7.2

Outcome

Demonstrate and describe movements in dances from different genres or cultures.

2.DA.Re.8.1

Outcome

Use context cues from movement to identify meaning and intent in a dance using simple dance terminology.

2.DA.Re.9.1

Outcome

Observe or demonstrate dances from a genre or culture. Discuss movements and other aspects of the dances that make the dances work well, and explain why they work using simple dance terminology.

2.DA.Cn.10.1

Outcome

Describe, create, and/or perform a dance that expresses personal meaning and explain how certain movements express this personal meaning.

2.DA.Cn.10.2

Outcome

Respond to a dance work and create movement using ideas from teacher-led discussion. Explain how certain movements express a specific idea.

2.DA.Cn.11.1

Outcome