Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Standard 3: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art

3. Students will express through written and oral language their understanding, interpretation, and evaluation of dances they see, do, and read about. Students will acquire the critical vocabulary to talk and write about a variety of dance forms.

Students:

demonstrate knowledge of words and symbols (kinetic, visual, tactile, aural and olfactory) that describe movement (a)
express to others their understanding of specific dance performances, using appropriate language to describe what they have seen and heard (b).

This is evident, for example, when students:

describe the patterns that they see in a video of a dance, such as, The March of The Wooden Soldiers
describe the bodily movement that they see in a dance and then imitate it.