Submitted by Cristobal Alvarez
Objectives:
Content:
Students will...
- identify the characteristics of the Lion Dance.
Cultural:
Students will...
- demonstrate awareness of typical dances in other cultures to compare and contrast them with the Lion Dance.
Language: Content Obligatory
Students will...
- Use the present tense (3rd person) in singular and plural to identify the characteristics of the dance with verbs like moverse, turnarse,tragarse, copiar, escupir, arroja and asegurarse.
- Use adjectives (eg. bonito, colorido, and especial) to describe the different features of the performance and the music.
- Use the new vocabulary words: el/la bailarin/a, la cola, el movimiento, el paso, apertura, cinabrio, vino, mezcla, fuegos artificiales, humo, tiras detriquitranes, comerciantes.
- Use different connectors such as luego, más tarde, and después to sequence the different parts of the dance.
- Use of different adverbs (rápido, lento, and suavemente) that describe the different actions in the dance.
Language: Content Compatible
Students will...
- Review and use the body parts as they describe how the Lion Dance is being perfromanced (la cabeza, los ojos, el cuerpo, la cintura).
- Review and use the different colors(rojo, amarillo, verde, azul, dorado ,and negro) that take part in the performance of the lion dance.
- Use the following expressions: "en el baile______ mientras que, pero, sin embargo en el baile del leon________" to compare the Lion dance to other dances.
- Use different expressions such as tienes que moverte asi, no es así, ïntenta de esta manera to improve the performance of the lion dance..
Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will...
- Work cooperatively to perform the Lion Dance.
Time Frame:
Four to five 50-minute periods.
Materials Needed:
- Book, "La Danza del León"
- The website of the video of the Lion Dance is: http://www.liondancer.com
- internet and Real Player program
- a computer lab for all the students
- a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the Lion Dance and other dance of a different celebration. (See handout)
- lion masks for each group
- lion music (see resources)
- Checklist to assess the lion dance performance
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
Pre-task:
Students will brainstorm names of dances that different communities have to celebrate important events. They will also discuss why dances are important in different communities to celebrate some events. The teacher will explain the origin of this dance.During-task:
Part 1. Students will read as a group the book "The Lion Dance". They will discuss the different features and parts of the dance. The student will answer these questions:Qué se hace durante la preparación de la ceremonia?
Cúales son los movimientos y pasos más importantes del baile?
Qué otros aspectos del baile del león puedes ver?They will compare this dance with other dances that they know. To compare and contrast the dances, the students will use a graphic organizer.
Part 2. Students will click on the web site to see a Lion Dance performer. The students will be in a computer lab and each one of them will have headphones to listen to the music. The students will describe the performance in the video, writing a paragraph. The students will need to focus on:
a. The different parts of the dance.
b. The description of the clothes and materials used for the dance.
c. The description of the music.Post- Task:
The students will perform the Lion Dance. The students will be in groups of 6 for this task. The groups will take turns performing the dance. The teacher will provide a Lion mask and the music for the dance. One of the students will be the narrator of the dance and describe the different parts of the dance and the music.The teacher will select a student by drawing the names of the students in each group. The teacher and the students that are participating as an audience in each performance will assess the narration and the performance using a checklist. The student that is assessing needs to write his/her name in the sheet. The teacher will collect all the checklists to grade their work and knowledge of the performance.Follow Up
The students in the audience will share their comments after each group performance .
Assessment:
*The teacher and the students that are not participating will use a checklist to assess the narrator in each group of students during the narration. See handout.
References and Resources:
Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year
by: Madeline Slovenz-Low, Kate Waters
Illustrator Martha Cooper
Purchase from ScholasticaFor the lion masks and music:
From your local stores, you can find supplies to make masks yourself, or do it as a project with your students.
Find a number of different percussion instruments and teach the students how to use them.
Attachments:
NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)Gráfica para organizar las semejanzas y diferencias entre la danza del león y otro baile de otra celebración.
La danza del leon