Dance A Timeline through U.S. History
Discover and uncover the major eras that influence the U.S and create a timeline that shows the relationship between social and political development.
Resources
- CD/iPod/music source
- Variety of music suggested.
- Drum for signaling
- Evolution of Music by Pentatonix
- 100 Years of Style East London
Fine Art Standards
- DANCE STANDARD 1: Body awareness
- DANCE STANDARD 2: Investigating – The student identifies and demonstrates the basic dance concepts
- DANCE STANDARD 3: Creating – The student understands and demonstrates choreographic principles and processes of dance.
- DANCE STANDARD 4: Contextualizing – Learning dances from different era’s of 1900’s in U.S. History.
Integrated Standards
SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARD 5: Students will address the causes, consequences and implications of the emergence of the United States as a world power.
Objectives
- Students will experience and learn different social dances in U.S. History
- Students will understand how social influences of the generation effected the dance, music, and visual art.