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08 Feb 2025

Speaking Up!

August-June

For ages, people have explored how to use their voice to confidently say what they mean. We will empower students to present themselves in front of peers through the light-hearted lens of improv comedy. We will also gather inspiration from visual artists who used their works to speak their minds.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.HSP.1PE Manipulate vocal qualities, posture, movement, and language to express variety in characters during improvisation and dramatic situations.
  • TH.HSP.2PE Demonstrate the collaborative skills necessary for producing a scene with a unified vision.
  • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.C1.3.d Demonstrate empathy through compassion in self and encourage in others.

    Vocabulary:

    listening, support, confidence, inner-champion, zines

    08 Feb 2025

    Art Walk and Talk

    August-June

    Visit Greenacres Arts Center for an experience all about an exclusive rotating art exhibition by local artists who gathered inspiration from their time at the Greenacres Artist Weekend. Students will practice visual analysis, art criticism, and strategies for interpreting artworks. Schedule permitting, this program could include time with artists from the exhibition

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.HSP.3CR Identify visual literacy strategies as a means to communicate concepts.
    • VA.HSP.3RE Utilize art criticism methods when responding to works of art.
    • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.
    • VA.HSP.2CO Recognize contributions of the visual arts in everyday life.

    English Language Arts Standards:

    • ELA.SL.9-10.1/SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10/11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

    *Standards may be customized to fit your classroom’s needs.

      Vocabulary:

      gallery, curation, description, visual analysis, interpretation, opinion

      08 Feb 2025

      Express Yourself!

      August-June

      Spend the day unlocking your students’ artistry and creativity! Students will discover different artistic mediums in the visual and performing arts, and learn how the art they enjoy can help them express themselves.

      Fine Arts Standards:

      • DN.5.3CR Apply and combine the elements of dance to express ideas, feelings, moods, and personal narratives.
      • MUS.5.5RE Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performances, composers, and musical genres both orally and in writing.
      • TH.5.3CO Combine at least three art forms to create a theatrical experience.
      • VA.5.3RE Evaluate the relationship between works of art and human experiences.

      English Language Arts Standards:

      • ELA.SL.5.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

      Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

      • SEL.A2.1.b Identify personal strengths based on interests and qualities.

      Vocabulary:

      self-expression, portraiture, performance, preference

      08 Feb 2025

      The Show Must Go On!

      August-June

      Putting on a show is a collaborative masterpiece that encourages an array of creative skills. For example, technical artists design sets, props, and lighting, while performing artists bring the story to life with their voice, body, and imagination. Join us at the Greenacres Arts Center to explore the artful thought that goes into every aspect of a performance!

      Fine Arts Standards:

      • TH.4.1PE Manipulate voice, movement, space, design, and physical objects to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas in both improvised and scripted activities.
      • TH.4.1RE Explain, through appropriate theatrical vocabulary, how manipulation of technical elements brings about changes in performances.

      Ohio English Language Arts:

      • ELA.4.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).

      Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

      • SEL.C4.1.b Identify others’ reactions by tone of voice, body language and facial expressions.

      Vocabulary:

      design, scenes, props, stage presence

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