Boys can dance

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Dance Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.03: Identify and demonstrate similarities and differences between dance and other forms of human movement.
• Goal 6: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.
  • Objective 6.03: Identify and describe healthy practices including the importance of warm-ups to enhance the ability to dance.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.03: Demonstrate and explain similarities and differences between dance and other forms of human movement.
• Goal 6: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.
  • Objective 6.03: Explain healthy practices which enhance the ability to dance including the importance of warm-ups and nutrition.

Grade 3

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.03: Create dance movements from pedestrian movements.
• Goal 6: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.
  • Objective 6.01: Demonstrate safe and respectful practices during movement activities.

Grade 4

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.03: Demonstrate ways to create dance movements from pedestrian movements.
• Goal 6: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.
  • Objective 6.01: Explain how health and safety practices enhance a dancer's ability to dance.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.03: Identify similarities and differences between dance and other forms of human movement.
• Goal 6: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.
  • Objective 6.03: Identify how warming-up enhances the ability to dance.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).
  • Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Grade 2

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Grade 3

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama selections using self-selected topics and forms (e.g., poems, simple narratives, short reports, learning logs, letters, notes, directions, instructions).
  • Objective 4.08: Focus reflection and revision (with assistance) on target elements by:
    • clarifying ideas.
    • adding descriptive words and phrases.
    • sequencing events and ideas.
    • combining short, related sentences.
    • strengthening word choice.
  • Objective 4.09: Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres (e.g., personal narrative, short report, friendly letter, directions and instructions).

Grade 4

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).
  • Objective 4.09: Produce work that follows the conventions of particular genres (e.g., personal and imaginative narrative, research reports, learning logs, letters of request, letters of complaint).

Kindergarten

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name and words that tell action in a variety of simple texts (e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences).
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.