Arts Ed 8 (integrated strands)

Find your inner monster. This Arts Ed unit guides students in creating a “monster” composite and using them as characters who examine and explore social ideas and problems through drama, visual art, movement and music. 

Outcome: 

CP8.2 Investigate and use choreographic forms (e.g., theme and variations, canon).

CP8.6 Express student perspectives on social issues (e.g., poverty, racism, homophobia, sustainability, gangs) in drama and/or collective creation.

CP8.8  Investigate and make choices about musical structures in sound composition.

CP8.12 Solve visual art problems using a variety of processes and media.

CR8.3 Investigate and identify how arts expressions can reflect diverse worldviews.Outcome CR8.3

Indicators: 

• Use body and actions in innovative ways to develop sequences and ideas.
• Collaborate with other students to explore compelling questions through drama
• Contribute to the creation of a plan to document the creative process (e.g., reflective journal entries, video, photography, blog, or web-based diary)
• Demonstrate knowledge of how the elements and principles are used to create form and structure in music.
• Explore and expand upon an idea to achieve more depth of meaning and expression.
• Keep an ongoing record of ideas and works in progress for own visual art expressions
• Describe how diverse worldviews may be represented in the arts.

* Unit Plan:  My Monster Wears Prada (pdf)