WEEK 5
Essential Question: How can performance be used to express personal understanding?
Students will examine the Fine Arts as a means of expressing and communicating ideas about societal issues. During this week students will begin synthesizing their learning for the performance project. Points of Interest: The Queer Arts Society, ManUp!, music videos and lyrics, Social Justice guest speaker
OBJECTIVES
Students will understand the relationship between Fine Arts and Social Justice
Students will synthesize their previous learnings into a rough draft of their performance piece
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENT
Students begin week by examining provocative art pieces and their connections to social issues
Students will use these art pieces as models for the scaffolding of their own work
Students will participate in improv and role playing activities to expand their conception of performance
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Students will examine performative art and its function in Social Justice, especially through an LGBTQ+ lens, through a guest speaker talk from the Calgary Queer Arts Society and Man Up!
Students will write or perform a reflective exit slip after the talks
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Students will create a short script and storyboard for their piece
For the purpose of metacognition, students will document and reflect on each stage of the group project's development
Students will send out invitations to families and community members
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Students will practice giving feedback to their peers through examining each other's Digital Journals
Students will record on a handout their favourite aspects of two peers' Digital Journals and reflect on how they have provoked further thought