Dance Party

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• Curriculum: Art, Language Arts
• Age/Grade: Middle School
• Subject: Collage, Drawing
• Materials: Markers
• Institution: New Horizons Bilingual School
• Location: Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
• Duration: 3 Classes

Description

5th grade students create a poster based on Keith Haring´s "Dance" series.

Objective

Content Objective: Identify, recognize and apply the elements of art in an aesthetic composition based on Keith Haring´s "Dance" series

Language Objective: Read and disscuss Keith Haring´s biography in pairs.

Materials

Construction paper
scissors
glue
black marker
80´s music

Procedure

This is a 3 class lesson plan.

DAY ONE:
Images of Keith Haring´s work are projected and students are asked to identify the elements of art (line, shape, form, color, space, value and texture) within it, and they way they are working in the composition. Afterwards, they are handed a page with his biography (downloaded from this site) and in pairs they must summarize the main ideas. We later discuss them as a group, focusing on discrimination and why ignorance equals fear.

DAY 2:
This is the most fun day! Half the students get up while the other half remains seated and is handed different colored sheets of construction paper (3 each). 80s music is played while the students standing up dance. Suddenly, the music stops and dancers must freeze in their poses, becoming statues while the other half of the class draws their outline. This is repeated 3 times, one for each different color of construction paper. Next, the drawing students become the dancers and vice versa.

DAY 3:
Students are handed scissors and cut out their dancing shapes. A poster board is pinned on the wall and students must paste their shapes trying to use space in an interesting way (concepts of proportion and overlapping are introduced). After they have pasted, they outline with black marker and create radiant lines or movement lines (or both) around them. Voila!

 

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