For my second visit to Mrs. Golesh's class we talked about speed in dance and how this related to the Social Pyramid during the Middle Ages. First Amanda introduced the classifications in the social pyramid and talked about some of the activities and responsibilities of the different classes in the social pyramid. To help the students understand how taxes of the people worked during the middle ages the students participated in an M&M activity in which their M&M's represented the money they were paying or being paid for taxes. Each student in the class was assigned a different social class and had to pay taxes according to that class. We used these class assignments later on in the dance portion of the lesson as a part of the choreography section.
To get warmed up to dance we did the brain dance. After the brain dance we talked more about what kinds of activities were associated with each social class and what speed of movement these activities would require. To practice differences in speed of movement students performed locomotor movements across the floor working with different speeds.
After the students had time to experience different speeds of movement we worked on an improvisation of a social pyramid dance. Each student lined up in a social pyramid according to their assigned social class. The students were asked to move to the opposite side of the room improvising creative movement at the speed associated with their social class. Once they had reached the opposite side of the room they were asked to hold an interesting shape until the rest of the class had reached that side of the room. The class practiced this improvisation several times and got chances to watch each other's improvisations.
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