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UNITS
Central Idea:
- Identity can impact performers' artistic and expressive choices.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How rap can be used to share the artist's identity
- Elements of hip hop
- My identity
Essential Questions:
- What are the different parts of my identity?
- What are my interests and values?
- How can I create a rap chorus?
- How can I use the elements of hip hop to make a rap?
Central Idea:
- Sounds can be used to communicate and convey ideas.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How sand can affect meaning in media
- How sound is my environment is caused by action
- How sound effects can be created
Essential Questions:
- Can students identify factors considered when creating a design?
- What are the sounds in the environments that I live in?
- What is sound?
- What is sound effect?
- How can I use materials to make a sound effect?
Central Idea:
- Performers can create in the moment through improvisation.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How performing artists can use and develop improvisational skills and thinking
- How to work with others in a group performance situation
- How improvisation applies to all of performing arts
Essential Questions:
- How do you prepare for an improvisation?
- What elements are important to help play a role convincingly?
- What are the similarities and differences when improvising in the three performing arts areas?
Central Idea:
- Actors can entertain an audience with different characters and techniques, without being seen.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How to entertain with puppets
- Different styles and techniques of puppetry
Essential Questions:
- How can you make a puppet entertaining for an audience?
- What skills do you need to be an entertaining puppeteer?
- How will you know if you have been successful?
