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 The **North Carolina //Standard Course of Study // (SCS)** provides a comprehensive framework for dance in the public schools. The SCS communicates what students should know and be able to do as a result of instruction at each grade level or from a course.

To addresses the learning needs of the whole child. Studies in dance address the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and aesthetic development of children. Movement engages students by providing a hands-on approach to the learning experience. Dance study allows for all learners to be successful as it addresses various learning styles and intelligences. Performances are a by-product, but are not the primary goal of dance education. Performances are the outcome of the creative process. This process helps students develop the ability to think critically. Through the process of creating, students are able to be imaginative, and approach things in new or different ways. Students develop their own aesthetic criteria, and evaluate and validate their work and the choices they make. Students also look outside of themselves, discovering and developing respect for the efforts and work of others.
 * Learning Needs **

The competency goals for the SCS incorporate the standards from the //National Standards for Arts Education, // which was developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. The curriculum for each grade level and course includes a heading, foci, strands, competency goals, and objectives. This SCS is organized in a grade-by-grade (K-8) and course-by-course (9-12) format. The SCS is organized as a sequential program of study, with each grade span building on what students have learned before.
 * Course of Study **


 * Students at the high school level will have the option of studying dance as an area of interest, or specializing in studies to prepare them for a career in dance.**

Strands ** The strands define the major elements of dance that are relevant across grade levels and provide unifying threads of understanding supported by the goals and objectives of the SCS. Creating, Performing, Responding, and Understanding are the strands in which all aspects of dance can be defined: **  I like how the grade levels are broken down into K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each of the 4 groups are defined into 5 sub-categories titled characteristics, the learning experience, content integration, presentations, and program continuity. From there the competency goals are broken down into strands by each grade level. The strands are (creating, performing, responding, and understanding). The following is an outline of K-2.All grade levels k-12 follow this format.
 * Creating: ** Refers to expressing ideas and feelings through improvising, composing, or choreographing dance. **
 * Performing: ** Refers to presenting or demonstrating, informally or formally; a process that calls upon the technical, expressive, and interpretive skills of the learner. **
 * Responding: ** Refers to observing, describing, analyzing, critiquing, and evaluating dance. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Understanding: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> Refers to synthesizing knowledge of dance in relation to history, culture, heritage, other content areas, ideas, and life-long learning. **

K-2 The Learning experience Content Integration Presentations Program Continuity **
 * Characteristics

Kindergarten Competency goals 1-8 **
 * Strands: creating, performing, responding, and Understanding

First Grade Competency goals 1-8 **
 * Strands: creating, performing, responding, and Understanding

Second Grade Competency goals 1-8
 * Strands: creating, performing, responding, and Understanding

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Lastly I want to mention a list of glossary terms that are included in the North Carolina standards. I believe it’s helps to keep all k-12 teachers on the same page. **

<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">AB **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A two-part compositional form with an A theme and a B theme; the binary form consists of two distinct, self-contained sections that share either a character or quality (such as the same tempo, movement quality, or style). ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">ABA **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A three-part compositional form in which the second section contrasts with the first section. The third section is a restatement of the first section in a condensed, abbreviated, or extended form. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Abduction **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The movement of a body part away from the midline. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Abstract **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: To remove movement from a particular or representative context and, by manipulating it through the elements of space, time, and energy, create a new sequence or dance that retains the essence of the original. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Accumulation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Repeating a sequence with the addition of one movement each time (e.g. 1, 12, 123, etc). ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Adduction **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The movement of a body part toward the midline. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Aesthetic criteria **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Standards on which to make judgments about the artistic merit of a work of art. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Alignment **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Proper anatomical placement. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Call and Response **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: An African tradition which refers to a dance leader who calls out or demonstrates dance steps to which the group responds by repeating or performing the correct steps or combination. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Canon **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Movement which is performed identically but with multiple entry points. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Choreographic structure **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The specific compositional forms in which movement is structured to create a dance, such as theme, variation, canon, ABA, rondo, etc. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Choreography **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: 1. The process of making a dance which involves the understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures. 2. The product that results from the process of choreography. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Circumduction **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The movement of a body part so that its end follows a circular pathway. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Composition **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: 1. A dance which has been created. 2. The way in which the parts of a dance are put together to form a whole. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Contrast **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: To compare or oppose two contrasting movements to show their differences. Movements might be different in terms of energy, space, design, or time. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Design **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The general form of arrangement of movement or technical elements. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Dynamics **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The energy of movement expressed in varying intensity, accent, and quality. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Effort actions **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Press, flick, punch, float, slash, glide, wring, dab. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Effort: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> Actions, as defined by Rudolf Laban, that are analyzed in terms of weight, time, space, and flow factors. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Energy **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The amount of tension or stress of a movement; the flow and control of force. It is defined by the degrees of impetus and follow through which are employed. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Ensemble **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: 1. A group of dancers. 2. A feeling of continuity or togetherness that exists in performing dance. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Extension **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Increasing the angle of a joint. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Flexion **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A bending or folding movement in which the angle of a joint decreases. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Flocking **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A group activity that changes leaders as directions change. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Form **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The overall structural organization of a dance composition (e.g. AB, ABA, Call and Response, etc). ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">General space: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A defined area of space through which dancers can travel using all the available space. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Genre **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A type or category of dance (e.g. jazz, modern, ballet, etc). ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Gesture **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A movement of the body or a part of the body used to express an idea or emotion. Such movement could include a wave, handshake, head nod, shaking of the fist, etc. Ritual gestures may include gestures that are part of ceremonies or functional gestures such as brushing teeth or washing clothes. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Hyperextension **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Extreme extension of a joint. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Improvisation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Movement that is created spontaneously, occurring within free or highly structured environments, but always with an element of chance. Provides the dancer with the opportunity to bring together elements quickly, and requires focus and concentration. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Informance **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A sharing or showing of dance that demonstrates the process for how students arrive at the product or performance as a result of instruction, rather than focusing solely on the end result. An informance may include explanation or discussion. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Interdisciplinary dance **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A dance experience that explores specific dance concepts and related concepts from other content areas or disciplines. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Kinesthetic awareness **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The ability of the body's sensory organs in the muscles, tendons, and joints to respond to stimuli while dancing or viewing dance. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Labanotation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A symbolic notation for recording human and animal movement developed by Rudolph Laban. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Levels **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The height of the dancer in relation to the floor. Levels in space are referred to as high, middle, and low. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Locomotor movement: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> Movement that travels from place to place, usually identified by weight transference. Basic locomotor movements are walk, run, leap, hop, jump, skip, slide, and gallop. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Manipulation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A choreographic tool that helps to change and develop a movement or phrase. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Mirroring **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A partnering activity that involves simultaneously following a leader's movement while facing that leader. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Narrative: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A choreographic structure that is representational and in the form of a story. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Negative space **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The empty or open space created when the body makes a shape. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Non-locomotor/axial movement: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> Any movement that does not travel, but uses the available space in any direction or movement organized around the axis of the body (axial movement). Bending, twisting, stretching, and swinging are examples of axial movement. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Pantomime **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Simulation of reality through movement. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Pathway: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> The path traced as movement proceeds through space. A pathway may be either on the floor or through the air and is constructed of straight and/or curved lines. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Pedestrian movement **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Everyday movement that may be incorporated into a dance. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Performance **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: 1. To execute movements. 2. A presentation of dance choreography. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Personal space **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The "space bubble" or the kinesphere that one occupies; it includes all levels, planes, and directions, both near and far from the body's center. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Phrase **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A brief sequence of related movements that have a sense of rhythmic completion. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Positive space **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The filled space created by the body when a shape is made in space. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Retrograde **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A compositional manipulation in which the movements in a phrase are performed from the end to the beginning as if rewinding the movements. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Rhythm: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A structure of movement patterns in time. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Rondo: **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A form based on alternation between a repeated section (A) and contrasting episodes (B, C, etc) i.e. ABACA. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Rotation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The pivoting of a bone on its axis (internal-toward the body midline; external-away from the body midline). ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Sequence **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The continuation and order in which a series of movements and shapes occurs. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Shape **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The spatial contour the body makes such as curved, angular, twisted, straight, symmetrical, or asymmetrical. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Space **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The unlimited area which extends in all directions and within which all things exist. It involves use of level, pathway, shape, positive and negative space, general and personal space, size, focus, and direction. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Style **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A distinctive manner of moving; the characteristic way dance is done, created, or performed that identifies the dance of a particular performer, choreographer, or period. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Technology **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Electronic media that can be used in dance such as videotapes, camcorders, CD and cassette players, stage lighting and sound, cameras, and computer software and hardware. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Tempo **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The speed of a movement such as fast, moderate, or slow. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Theme and variation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A form in which an initial theme is established and then followed by variations. The variations are excursions from or alternative treatments of this basic theme without altering its essential character. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Theme **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: The underlying idea/motif or intent used to create movement. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Time **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A concept which organizes movement; it encompasses tempo, rhythm, and duration. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Transition **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Organize connection between dance movements that maintains flow and continuity in the dance. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Unison **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Movements which are performed simultaneously and identically by more than one dancer. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Unity **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: A feeling of wholeness in a dance which is achieved when all of the parts work well together. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Variation **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Manipulation of the original movement without losing the intent and character. ** <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Warm-up **<span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: Movements and/or movement phrases designed to raise the core body temperature, move the body through a preparatory range of movement, and bring the mind into focus for the dance.

Rigor <span style="color: #042a55; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The North Carolina dance program is designed to teach students fundamentals in dance and choreography, and to help students develop self-discipline and focus. Coherence yes

Focus

yes

Specificity

yes

Clarity/Accessibility yes

Measurability

yes

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