Year 2 - Physical education
South African gumboot dance
Dance: my world, how we dance
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Unit Summary
A stylistic approach applies Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships in combination to cultural, historic and geographic factors. Pupils learn key features of different dance genres e.g. stance and formations as a stimulus for devising motifs and developing awareness of commonality between cultures.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to compose and perform rhythm patterns using your body.
Key Notes
- Move: using our bodies to create rhythm patterns and sound needs stamping, clapping, clicking and tapping.
- Think: evaluation helps us to compose body percussion movements creating sound and use them to design rhythm patterns.
- Feel: performing work accurately needs rehearsal and resilience.
- Connect: sharing our actions with other pupils involves trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rhythm: a repeated pattern of sound or movement
- repeat: to perform an action or series of actions more than once
- quartet: a performance by four people
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- 'The beat' and 'the rhythm' are the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using our bodies to create rhythm patterns and sound needs stamping, clapping, clicking and tapping. Think: evaluation helps us to compose body percussion movements creating sound and use them to design rhythm patterns.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rhythm'
a repeated pattern of sound or movement.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: 'The beat' and 'the rhythm' are the same thing. Correction: The beat is the steady pulse of a piece of music that stays the same. Rhythm is how we mix up the beat to make patterns of sound.
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