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01 Mar 2021

Self Expression Through the Arts

August-June

Spend the day with us to unlock your students’ creativity and artistic spirit! Discover different artistic mediums of expression in music, theatre, and visual arts. This program is all about trying new things!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MU.5.3RE Describe how the process of learning in music connects to learning in other arts and other subject areas.
  • VA.5.5PE Focus attention on selected artworks to identify and pose questions about aesthetic qualities (e.g., sensory, organizational, emotional) in the works.
  • TH.5.1CE Investigate how past and present drama, theater and storytelling forms of various cultural groups reflect their beliefs and traditions.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.G.5.10 The Western Hemisphere is culturally diverse (e.g., language, food, religion, art, music) due to the influences and interactions of a variety of world cultures.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.B1.1.b Demonstrate strategies to express a range of emotions within the expectations of the setting

Vocabulary:

self-expression, color, culture, performance, aesthetic

01 Mar 2021

Improv 101

August-June

We all have an inner critic in our minds that tries to bring us down. Through the art of improvisation, we strengthen our inner champion– empowering the ways we can encourage ourselves. Improvisation is rooted in open-mindedness, listening deeply to others, and trusting your own instincts–skills that serve us in every avenue of life. Test out your acting skills and see how easily you can come up with a joke, all while having fun and building confidence with classmates.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.5.4PR Work cooperatively in different roles or jobs within a dramatic and theatrical experience
  • TH.6.1PR Create and perform improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience, imagination or heritage.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.D1.1.b Apply active listening and effective communication skills to increase cooperation and relationships

    Vocabulary:

    improvisation, collaboration, listening, suggestion, motivation, scene, sweep the scene, character

    01 Mar 2021

    The Sounds Around Us

    August-June

    Sound is an important part of our everyday lives. Learn about how the art of sound enhances all other art forms and how most forms of media would fall short without it! Spend the day learning the ways of a foley artist as we engineer our own sound effects for film.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.4.1PE Use sensory details and descriptive language to identify and describe universal themes, subject matter and ideas expressed across arts disciplines.
    • MUS.4.1RE Explain how the elements and subject matter of music connect with disciplines outside the arts.
    • MUS.4.2RE Describe the connection between emotion and music in selected musical works

    Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

    • ELA.SL.4.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

    Social Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.E1. 1.b Generate possible solutions or responses to a problem or needed decision recognizing that there may be more than one perspective

    Vocabulary:

    Foley, ambience, sound effect, film score, composer, storyboard

    01 Mar 2021

    Art Appreciation Series: Theatre

    August-June

    The art of theatre incorporates skills that we all need: collaboration, listening, patience, bravery, compassion, and creativity. If your students enjoy being expressive, join us at the Arts Center for a chance to develop characters, use real scripts, and be exposed to the artful thought that goes into every aspect of a piece of theatre. Programs in the Arts Appreciation Series encourage students to practice their communication skills, particularly oral communication, through intentional opportunities for speaking about and engaging with the arts and each other.

    All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • TH.4.1PR Create the movement and voice of a character to convey the character’s decisions, actions and motivation.
    • TH.4.2PR Manipulate voice, movement, space, design and physical objects to communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas in both improvised and scripted activities.
    • TH.4.3RE Explain how a theatrical experience (e.g., live theatre production, film, video and media) impacts its audience.

    Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

    • 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:

    given circumstances, director, project, scenes, comedy, tragedy

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