Names: Jessica Andrade, Karen Luedtke, Hannah Migliorini, Desiree Maldonado, Anavelen

Macias, Fabiola Magdaleno, Tawnia Loung

Date: March 8th, 2016
Subject: Dance
Topic: Language Arts
Grade Level: High School (Sophomore year)
Multi Day Lesson
Day 1: Explaining the background of The Great Gatsby: The 1920s, Jazz, and Literary/Art/Music
History
Day 2: DANCE!
Standards:
1. 2.1 Create and perform more complex improvised movements, sequences, and dance
studies with focus in greater energy.
2. 2.4 Convey a range of feelings through gestures, postures and movements
What is our lesson:
You look across the lake, there is a flashing green light. It brings you back to 1922 when wall
street was BOOMING! Youre in a small cottage, you can barely move around your pitiful
square cottage. There is a paper on the floor. Pick it up. What is it? Its an invitation to the party
tonight at Gatsbys mansion. How EXCITING! (freeze) Youve arrived on the grounds, you
make your way up the grand staircase. Now youre in the mansion, it is night, the air is cool, the
lights are twinkling. There is champagne flowing, flow like champagne. Now bubble. Bubble
like champagne. Twirl, twirl like the dancers. People are jumping in the pool, go with them.
Youre sinking into the pool, youre sinking down. Now swim. Up up up. Get out of the pool.
Where is Gatsby? Turn to your neighbor, have you seen Gatsby? Look to the right, now to the
left, look high, now low (freeze). He taps you on the shoulder. Tap tap tap. You turn, there he is,
in all his Gatsby glory. Suddenly he is gone, and youre dizzy. Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy. Your
dizziness makes you faint.
You wake up. What a ride.
S: Physical Science (physics)
T: Body, Images
E: Interpretation of dance movement and structure. Working together to create a dance.
M: Shapes and Angles
Music- Jazz (instrumental) ipod
Props: Pictures of 1920s, The Great Gatsby Book, Bodies
Special Accommodations/modifications: The picture cards will serve as visual aid. Two teachers
will be focused on the kids who need more help. Also, depending on the physical capacity of
students, half the class will be sitting, the other half will be standing.
Teacher Duties:
1. One aid teacher will be reading the paragraph.

2. Two teachers will be holding picture cards and explaining the history of the story.
3. One Music person
4. One Floater or class management teacher
5. Two focused teachers helping kids with severe needs.