A voice is an expressive instrument that can be developed.
Lines of Inquiry:
How the voice works
What can we do with the voice
Creating an improved tone
Vocal health
Essential Questions:
What is good singing?
How do we look after our voices?
What sounds can we make with our voices?
What do we use in our body to help produce the voice?
How can we help ourselves sing accurately?
How can we improve the tone of our voices?
Central Idea:
The performing arts have patterns and rules, but it can be fun to break them.
Lines of Inquiry:
How patterns are made in music
Notated and improvised music
Music without patterns or rules - chance music
Essential Questions:
How are patterns created in music?
What is the difference between notated and improvised music?
What is chance music and why is it important?
How can breaking the rules in performing arts lead to innovative and creative musical expression?
Central Idea:
Creative artists can use different techniques to express emotions and affect their audience.
Lines of Inquiry:
Different techniques we can use to express our ideas and emotions in the performing arts
How and why composers have expressed themselves in different ways
The creative artists' responsibility to their audience
Essential Questions:
How do we make music sound differently and express an emotion?
What does the creative artist make us feel?
Why do composers write different kids of music?
Central Idea:
Composers use musical dynamics and feelings to make their music interesting and varied. Instrumental groups and choirs are organized to created blended and contrasting timbres famous composers use a variety of instruments to create their musical compositions.
Lines of Inquiry:
Different timbres (sound colors) of instruments and voices and the families into which they are grouped
Essential Questions:
What is timbre and why is it important in music?
What are the different timbres (sound colors) of instruments?
What is the difference between instrumental and choral groups?
Central Idea:
Effective dancers can express musical patterns and features through dance and practice efficiently with others to create and ensemble.
Lines of Inquiry:
How many steps make up a successful sequence
Performing the sequence in hold and out of hold
How many sequences make the dance complete
Essential Questions:
What is a step?
What is dancing out of hold?
What is a sequence?
What is dancing in hold?
Central Idea:
Mime artists use a range of techniques and tools to communicate.
Lines of Inquiry:
Investigating the tools and techniques of mime
How to express feelings, ideas, and experiences in a variety of ways
Character development
Essential Questions:
What are the tools and techniques of mime?
How can mime be used to communicate feelings, ideas, and experiences?
