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Mad About Dance: Book 3

Motivate, Action, Discovery

Written by a highly skilled dance teacher, Mad About Dance Book 3, offers creative, ready-to-teach units in dance to help senior primary students explore, express, create and think about issues and problems that humans face. It contains units based on appealing and accessible sources of motivation.

Ages: 11-13 | Pages: 56 | Code: 0369 | ISBN: 9781877440694

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Greg Pearce

Over the 15 years he has been a teacher, Greg Pearce has worn many hats. He has been a classroom teacher, specialist arts teacher, lecturer and adviser in schools. He has developed performing arts troupes and cultural groups, as well as being involved in musical theatre as a performer. He enjoys finding ways to make dance accessible to all teachers and students. A particular interest is promoting boys in dance. Together with Ginny Thorner, Greg teaches performing arts classes privately with Momentum Performing Arts. He is also a key member of the Learning Through the Arts team and is a co-director of the highly successful Christchurch Original Dance Festival.

Contents

Introduction4
Using the MAD model4
Motivations needed for this series5
Other support materials5
Tips for working in dance7
Some fundamentals of doing dance8
Clarifying your rationale for dance8
Demonstrating that you value dance8
Developing quality9
Unit 1: Freedom to learn10
Suggested curriculum links11
Preliminaries and tuning in12
Lesson 112
Lesson 213
Lesson 315
Unit 2: The choice is yours ...17
Suggested curriculum links18
Lesson 119
Lesson 220
Lesson 321
Lesson 422
Taking it further23
Unit 3: Moving movie moments24
Suggested curriculum links25
Preliminaries and warm-ups26
Lesson 127
Lesson 228
Lesson 328
Lesson 430
Lesson 531
Unit 4: Stereotypical32
Suggested curriculum links33
Lesson 134
Lessons 2–335
Lesson 435
Lesson 536
Lesson 637
Optional extra: a dance presentation37
Resource vault38
Action words38
Dance elements40
Student-directed assessment sheets45
Words to remember47
Challenge cards50
Greg's top 10 CDs for creative dance work55

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