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Students will explore and create paper sculptures, using various forms and structures to express their personal ideas and emotions.
Medium: Visual Arts
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Basquiat Crowns (Graffiti Art) with Michele Haney
Students will observe and discuss imagery in Basquiat work, write identity statements using sentence frames, and apply their learning through a drawing on paper.
Medium: Visual Arts
Big Picture vs. Little Picture with Mika Martinez
Students will explore how what they see influences their initial perception of that moment, the people in or connected to what they see, and how that changes when more information is made available. By the end of the lesson, students will understand how an artist's choice impacts their thoughts and feelings about themselves and others.
Medium: Visual Arts
Character Creation with Rae Davis
Students will connect with one another through communal problem-solving-oriented storytelling.
Medium: Theatre
Connecting Through Dance with Jaese Lecuyer
Students will use a set of action verbs to explore ways of creating a movement vocabulary that expresses their ideas.
Medium: Dance
Crafting Community Through Storytelling with Orion Bradshaw
Students will investigate, self-reflect, and share their personal stories in various ways - while also practicing deep listening, observation, and collaboration processes to create and share a variety of stories about individual and communal identities, culture, interests, and concerns.
Medium: Theatre
Creating and Refining Samba-Inspired Rhhtms with Courtney Danley
Students will use words to create rhythms and add rhythms to their classmates rhythms to create a composition.
Medium: Music
Del Corazón al Escenario with Valentina Ortiz
Students will explore human emotions and learn how different individuals or characters can respond differently to the same event. Through exercises like body isolation and facial movements, they’ll develop awareness of their body’s position and movement.
Medium: Theatre
Hawaiian Hula with Lisa Chang
Students will learn that being taught Hawaiian hula dance is not just learning a dance form but will be learning about the Hawaiian language and culture.
Medium: Dance
Line of Action with Jen Hernandez
Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to create artwork that has meaning. Students will understand and can explain how the meaning of an artwork is connected to individuals and communities. I can describe my creative process and its connection to my community.
Medium: Visual Arts
Makin’ Mix-Tapes with Mo Phillips
Students will curate their own musical playlist using elements of music like timbre, tempo and vibe to match the intention they have for their playlist.
Medium: Music
Master of Ceremonies (MC) with Mic Crenshaw
Writing lyrics in a Hip Hop and pop music format that expresses something about your racial, cultural, ethnic, national, or religious identity.
Medium: Music
Observational Thinking and Dance with Nicole MCall
The focus of this lesson is to teach students Observational Thinking as a way to give feedback in an open-minded, curious, and non-judgmental manner. Students will create short dances based on a personal emotion, watch each other perform, then share observations and feedback to help each other see how their moves are understood by an audience.
Medium: Dance
Phoenix Dance with Jill Giedt
Students will explore the theme of fire and rebirth by embodying the mythological phoenix in dance. Students will practice safe dance techniques and learn choreography that emphasize dynamic and fluid motions inspired by flames and a phoneix's rebirth.
Medium: Dance
Playing To The Beat Of Your Own Drum… Together with Victor Villegas
Students will learn the basics of rhythm, create their own beat as a means of self expressing their own ideas and practice playing their beat with others to create a collaborative rhythmical composition as a group.
Medium: Music
Stories With Physical Expression with Jaese Lecuyer
Students will practice using physical expression as a way to identify and communicate feelings, emotions, character, objects/images and their interpretations of the world around them.
Medium: Theatre