GRADE LEVEL: PREK-2 x 3-5 x 6-8 x 9-12 ___?_____
NYC ARTS BLUEPRINT STRAND or BENCHMARK; STATE STANDARD
For more information: http://schools.nyc.gov/offices/teachlearn/arts/blueprint.html
Use language, voice, gesture, movement and observation to express their experiences and communicate ideas and feelings
LITERACY OR SUBJECT AREA STANDARD:
For more information: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ela/elarg.html or http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/default.htm
Use a wide variety of categories for selecting, organizing and categorizing information
Relate new information to prior knowledge and experience
ARTISTIC AIM:
Children create a tableau of the story ‘buffalo woman’ by Paul Goble
LITERACY/ MATH/ SUBJECT AREA AIM:
Make personal connections to literature by using experiential exercises like drawing and acting thereby deepening understanding of story
Motivation:
Imagination exercise using the word journey and then drawing their idea of a journey
Also the reading of the book- Buffalo Woman
MATERIALS: blank paper, book, colored pencils
Procedure:
1. call-out- in a clear and powerful voice say your favorite beast or feast
2. hand out paper and pencils
3. centering exercise into imagining the word “journey”
4. drawing the image of a journey
5. put papers aside and do i say-you say it vowel play
6. do tongue twister- big blue buffalo bellows
7. read the story out loud- Buffalo Woman – and ask children to pay attention to important images, moments and feelings in the story and in their imaginaton
8. children pick one moment in the story to draw
9. talk about/identify the characters in the story- man, buffalo woman, villagers, son, buffalo chief
10. do embodying/feeling/freezing exercises with each one:
· beautiful woman drinking water
· man hunting/falling in love
· villagers gossipPing
· worried boy
· stern proud buffalo chief
11. go back to the pictures they drew about the storyand ask them to embody/freeze that moment of the story
12. create a group tableau using those moments, if possible do two groups so children can see as audience and also perform
13. close- make a big circle and ask children how they felt about the experience
14. each child chooses one word related to class or how they feel around the circle
15. close with a pulse (the pulse takes several journeys around the circle)
Assessment:
Rubric: 3 elements all tableaux must embody
RESOURCES; LINKS
book- buffalo woman by Paul Goble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Buffalo_Calf_Woman
https://www.google.com/search?q=buffalo+woman&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jSw0UbLKNoXQ0wGLv4CIDw&ved=0CE4QsAQ&biw=1006&bih=889
Lesson Plan Developed By: juniper foster Email Address: