A Moving Experience
Medieval Times:
To Make a Knight
Junior (Recommended grade: 4)
Travel to the time in history when dignity and courtly manners were highly valued. Experience the elegant dance in the great castle. Travel with the brave young people as they courageously battle their way to knighthood. Sing a song of bravery and courage, with tambourines and drums. Draw images from an era gone by, learning medieval vocabulary along the way.
A1.1 Use movements that are part of their daily experience in a variety of ways in dance phrases
A1.2 Use dance as a language to express feelings and ideas suggested by songs, stories, and poems, with a focus on the element of body, particularly body shapes
A1.3 Create dance phrases using a variety of ways to connect movements
A1.4 Use varied and/or contrasting body shapes to communicate different types of messages
Cross-Curriculum Info
Strand A. Heritage and Identity:
Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities
A1. Describe some of the ways in which people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities relate to who they are and what their situation is, and how and why changes in circumstances might affect people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities as well as their sense of self
A3. Demonstrate an understanding that they and other people have different roles, relationships, and responsibilities, and that all people should be treated with respect, regardless of their roles, relationships, and responsibilities
