Dance Crazy Capers - Full scheme of work Year 7/8

This unit is inspired by Looney Tunes Cartoons.
Pupils will explore common features of cartoons, such as the suspension of reality, the indestructible nature of the characters, the sticky situations they encounter and how, eventually, good always triumphs over bad.
This theme is accessible. Great fun and will instantly engage the pupils. The content is action packed and demands a high level of energy, plus pupils will have the opportunity to use their imagination to create and interpret various cartoon storylines. Throughout the unit, pupils work on creating dances based on cartoons.

Technical skills—The unit focuses on refining and developing technical skills in a variety of basic whole body actions. The attention to characterisation and concentration on extreme dynamic contrasts develops pupils’ expressive skills.

Choreographically, pupils concentrate on creating and developing movements that relate to the themes of the cartoons, structuring a simple narrative duet and using dynamic contrast to enhance communication of the dance idea. As they work, they identify and interpret the storyline of various cartoons, explain their choice of actions in relation to the dance idea and describe what they see using descriptive and dynamic vocabulary.
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