Social DanceTerm 4

Matamata Intermediate

SchoolYears 7 and 8

Unit Plan and ObjectivesVI

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Organisation of Lessons

Personal Hygiene and Health(This saves embarrassment )

BOYS Shower Clean teeth Clean nails Deodorant (roll on only

at school please.) Combed and styled hair Clean Clothes and

polished shoes

GIRLS• Shower (clean body and

shampooed hair)• Clean teeth• Deodorant (roll on only at

school please)• Clean nails• Brushed and combed hair,

neatly tied back if long.• Clean Clothes and shoes• Small heel or flat shoes

(they must be comfortable and easy to dance in)

Etiquette for MIS Social Dance in the Hall

GENTLEMEN Smile and use the 3 C’s. Take time with your grooming to look and feel confident. Offer your bent arm to a lady and ask her “May I please have this dance?” After the dance, you lead the lady with her holding your bent arm, back to her seat and thank her for the dance. It is both considerate and responsible to check that all ladies in your class have had a dance on the dance-floor (everybody must be included).

LADIES• Smile and use the 3C’s.• Take time with your grooming to look and feel confident.• When sitting, keep your knees together, rest you hands on your lap.• Always accept a dance that a gentleman has offered by saying, “Yes, you may.”• Rest your hand on forearm of the offered arm near his elbow.• When the gentleman has returned you back to your seat you say, “Thank you.”• Remember we do not own our friends and it is showing consideration when we check everyone in our class has been included.

Resources

Unit Plan Instructional Movie (Please do not put this on class wiki or internet.) CD of music – Includes song titles and style of dance used with it. This Power Point Each Other

The Dances (Movie)Time to hit the dance floor!

The group always moves around anticlockwise when looking at the stage (entrance is 6 and stage is 12 on the clock face).

The 5 main dances Waltz Fox Trot Gay Gordon Maxina Line Dance

Year 8’s Auld Lang Syne Wilbury Twist

VIEW: “Come Dancing” MIS Dance Tutorial DVD

THANKS• Unit Plan = Mrs. Tami Ward• Filming and DVD production = Mr. Rob• Dance Instruction = Mr. Gerard O’Neil• Music CD and PowerPoint = Mrs. Robyn Wilson

Thanks also to Mrs. Stiles for support with development of these resources.

And thanks in advance to the teachers who will use these resources to teach a consistent Social Dance structure of skills to the students of MIS.