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This video provides an annual teaching plan, or scope, for the Grade 9 Creative Arts Dance final examination. The speaker encourages viewers to watch until the end for a comprehensive understanding of the term's requirements.
Weeks 1 and 2 cover dance performance, improvisation, composition, theory, and literacy, involving revision of practical work and theory from terms 1 to 3. Weeks 3 and 4 continue with the same topics, focusing on in-class dance performance, which can be individual or group sequences.
Weeks 5 and 6 continue with dance performance, improvisation, composition, theory, and literacy, including memory of dance in class and individual/group sequences. Weeks 7 and 8 maintain the same topic, emphasizing practical classwork.
Students need to acquire basic dance techniques, understand concepts like warm-up, locomotor and non-locomotor movements, dance elements (time, force, space, shape), correct posture, safe practices, improvisation, composition, and dance master techniques. Resources include classroom space, a CD player, interactive whiteboard, projector, laptop, props, pictures, stories, poems, accessories, and video clips.
Informal assessments will be continuous through observation, reflection in workbooks, journals, worksheets, puzzles, quizzes, and class checks, assessed by self, peer, or teacher.
Weeks 9 and 10 are for the practical and written formal assessment examination. The practical assessment (25 marks, assessed with a rubric) involves individual or group dance performance, improvisation, composition, and performing a short dance sequence. The written assessment (25 marks) covers work from terms 3 and 4, including terminology, elements of dance, safe practices, literacy, composition structure, and self-reflection.