PERFORMING ARTS – Understanding Hip Hop

SCHOOL VISITS PRE AND POST VISIT PACKAGE PERFORMING ARTS – Understanding Hip Hop TEACHER GUIDE: PROGRAM DETAILS: Thank you for choosing to visit Harbourfront Centre! Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural Grades: 4 to 12 organization which provides internationally renowned Curriculum Links: programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all The Arts – Dance (Grades 4-8): Creating and within a collection of distinctive venues in the heart of Presenting – apply the creative process to composition of Toronto's downtown waterfront. Our School Visits programs movement sequences and short dance pieces, using the are rooted in the inquiry-based learning model, and elements of dance to communicate feelings and ideas accommodate for a number of exceptionalities. The Arts – Dance (Grades 9-12): Creating, Presenting and Performing – combine the WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOUR DAY? elements of dance in a variety of ways in composing When you arrive at Harbourfront Centre, you will be greeted individual and ensemble dance creations by one of our Educators. Payment will be taken care of by Foundations – demonstrate an understanding of the social our Registrar (if you are onsite) or our Educator (if you are and cultural origins and development of dance forms, offsite) during the morning of your visit. Your class will then including their influence on each other and society receive a brief introduction to Harbourfront Centre. Your Social Studies , 2013 (1-6): program will begin shortly thereafter. Heritage and Identity Canadian and World Studies, 2015 (11-12): Cultural Characteristics and Identity ACTIVATION (Pre Visit Ideas) Key Inquiry Question: How can the elements of hip hop be a tool for self 1) Introduce the topic of hip hop through the use of a mind expression? map . Place the word ‘hip hop’ in the centre of a page, and have students generate as many ideas, connections, examples or images that come to mind. EXTENTION (Post Visit Ideas) 2) Have students complete a KWL chart (see link in the 1) Have your students revisit their KWL charts and Additional Links to Learning section for a template). In complete the Learned column. See if any pieces of this chart, students should complete what they Know information that they shared in the K or W columns about hip hop, and what they Want to know before proved to be inaccurate. attending Harbourfront Centre. 2) Have your students perform in a ‘dance battle’ . 3) Have students complete a research assignment on a Work with your students to consider where to host the different Canadian Hip Hop performer. Work with battle, what resources would be required to run the students to develop the format (fact sheet, oral battle and what (if any) additional time would be presentation, collage, etc) and criteria for the research necessary to rehearse. assignment. Select from the list below, or have students suggest other artists to research themselves. 3) Have your students complete a reflection exercise • Devon on their experiences with the Understanding Hip Hop • Dream Warriors program. This could take any number of forms, and • Ghetto Concepts could provide cross-curricular support to your literacy • Ground Control block. • Kardinal Offishall • K-cut 4) Have students complete a research project on an • Kish aspect of hip hop culture as discussed in class. • K-Os These include break dancing, beatboxing, DJing, • Luther Brown graffiti, krumping, Emcee, tutting, and so on. The • Main Source format and criteria for the project can vary by ability. • Measestro Fresh Wes • Michie Mee • Organized Rhyme ADDITIONAL LINKS TO LEARNING • Rascalz (Harbourfront Centre School Visits does not assume responsibility for • Shebang content on the resources listed below. Please confirm the content is appropriate for your class and school community before using these • Sir Scratch suggested resources in your classroom) • Swollen Members • Tre Armstrong 1) KWL Chart http://eworkshop.on.ca/edu/pdf/Mod37_graph_KWL.pdf 4) If you have access to a media lab and/or ability to project video, show clips of various artists from the list above. PERFORMING ARTS – DANCE ONSITE ASSESSMENT TOOL Student Name: Date: Criteria Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Interaction responds responds never able to rarely able to occasionally to frequently to in respond to direct respond to direct questions; questions; questions; never questions; rarely occasionally routinely Group volunteers point of volunteers point of volunteers point of volunteers point of view view Discussion view view student does student does not student listens student listens not listen when listen when others when others Listening when others others talk, and talk, and talk, and often talk, and always follows few of the sometimes follows follows the Skills follows instructor’s instructor’s the instructor’s instructor’s directions directions. directions directions applies all (or applies few of the applies some of pplies most of a almost all) of the Use of skills, concepts the skills, the skills, skills, concepts and techniques concepts and concepts and and techniques Techniques taught. techniques taught. techniques taught. taught. student student never student rarely student willingly enthusiastically participates participates and participates and participates and Participation willingly and acts occasionally acts acts appropriately always acts inappropriately inappropriately appropriately Comments .

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