Summary
Highlights
Introduction to the Annual Teaching Plan (Term 4 Dance)00:00:06
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.
Weekly Breakdown: Weeks 1-400:00:32
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.
Weekly Breakdown: Weeks 5-800:01:55
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.
Required Knowledge and Resources00:02:30
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 and Remediation00:03:50
Informal assessments will be continuous through observation, reflection in workbooks, journals, worksheets, puzzles, quizzes, and class checks, assessed by self, peer, or teacher.
Final Examination: Weeks 9-1000:04:12
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.