Notebook Analysis

Kain and Wardle’s article presents the framework of activity theory as a useful way to view writing within communities while looking at how the people within a community or group interact with one another. An essential part of the activity theory is the activity system, which is a group of people that share a common goal and have specific ways of achieving that goal (Kain and Wardle 275). The effective analysis of an activity system stems from looking at the three major components of the system which Kain and

Dance began as a form of communication and storytelling. Thousands of years ago dancing served as a way for people to tell a story and helped distract themselves of the hardships they faced. Furthermore, dance was a form of storytelling through communication, which then turned into using storytelling through dance as entertainment. According to the History World, many dancers during the BC time danced in front of only a few people to get a story across. That later turned into hundreds of thousands of people as dance was used by many. Today, dance is also a form of entertainment and storytelling, but in a modern sense. However, today perfection and technique are stressed more than they were in the past. Yet, the passion for dance has not changed. Many dancers who share this passion also have many of the same qualities. Among a discourse community of trained dancers, one expects to find individuals who are healthy and active athletes, expect perfection from themselves through competition, and religiously attend dance performances.

In part 2, I will provide a critical reflection on my own teaching practice during recent placement by making detailed connections to an appended lesson plan.

Students will gain an understanding of how form in dance and music relate. They will increase their knowledge of movement vocabulary by applying it through choreography. Weekly exposure to new movements

By joining the Teacher Cadet Program and shadowing a teacher I will acquire various methods and skills I can later apply in my future in the teaching field. The major skill I am eager to learn is how to mold lesson plans to the needs of the classroom. I

Organisation of the lesson: the entry, structuring, and closure of the lesson. Teacher’s time management: allotment of time to different activities during the lesson.

A discourse community is a group of people with similar ideologies, goals, life experiences and ways of communicating. A lot of us have been in a discourse community without even knowing it. They are so easy to be a part of, you are practically born into one, for your family has a culture and background, which fits the definition of a discourse community. I am actually a part of a few communities myself, and you probably are too. Some examples of mine are my family, being a UTA student, Italian, a woman and a part of UTA’s musical theater program. Which brings me to the most important community I have been a part of, so far in my life, Colleyville Heritage High schools theater department, I am no longer a part of it, but in the short four years I was, my life has changed for the better. In my paper, I will talk to you about my time at Colleyville Heritage High School theater department, and how the community gave me a sense of belonging, taught me how to persevere, by means of loving art and preforming. This will be backed by ethos, logos and pathos, for I have experienced all the emotions of joining a new group, along with the four years of taking acting, and singing lessons and doing shows, paired with real life events to prove everything in this paper is one hundred percent real.

Furthermore, social networking would motivate student collaboration on a variety of projects and assignments. According to Tarantino, McDonough, and Hua, “Learners need to develop skills to share knowledge and to learn with others, both in face-to-face situations and through technology including social media.”. That means students must learn to collaborate with one another to complete work, which will help in the future with co-workers. If two students each had to work on a half of their projects, social media would help them to get that work complete by allowing them to remind each other. Professional writers also state that “Social media serves as a tool to

Since there is a concert we have to perform in a few months, it is especially important to work together. In the lab portion of the class, the people who chose to do percussions meet up twice a week and practice the piece we’ve been working on. In order to communicate with each other, we all meet up and practice together. We occasionally get emails from the professor telling us important dates and lessons. We use those mechanisms of communication in order to slowly improve as a group. Between our meetings and the emails, I think that the emails are the genre of the discourse community. While meeting as a group is important, it can be difficult and confusing based on the person. The emails that the professor sends are a genre because it is understood by everyone. They are useful because of the help they give students in the community, and it doesn’t require a specific lexicon to know what is being said. There aren’t many rules for the class, but it there are hidden ones. They are mainly common sense things like participate with the class, show up, and be on time. In the lab, it is important to have the necessary vocabulary to understand the class. Language is a key component to pass the lecture course. If you don’t know the difference between adagio and allegro, it is difficult to keep up with the class. Knowledge about music terms is completely necessary because it is all of the things we’re graded on. We were all required to know terms like dynamics, rhythm, and what is on a staff. The goal in the lecture is to understand key concepts of music, in order to improve ourselves when we play in the lab section of the class. In the community regardless of if we’re experienced or new to music, we all learn everything through practice and watching the professor perform. In the lecture portion of the class, the main goal is to have knowledge about the terms in music. The class is all

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I observed a multitude of children for this notebook activity because I felt like it was necessary to observe as many children as possible in order to see what differences there were not only between ages, but also between genders. The first child that I observed was Malachi. We played with a ball and I observed his throwing and catching techniques. He seemed to not be as developed in this area as he was with kicking the ball. Malachi was actually more physically developed in some areas than others. For example, he was riding a two wheel bicycle without any assistance, which is a skill that most children do not develop until the end of their fourth year of life. During

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The objective in lesson 1, we can see does not only broaden their understanding by introducing a new word and its meaning, but also demonstrates how this can become a stimulus for dance creation. As with lesson 2 they learn to use every day movements as a starting point for movement design and this is continued in lesson 3

U.S. teachers are engaging today's students in many ways to help them improve their education, social skill, and prepare them for society. One of the most popular methods that teacher use to engage students in teaching is the social network. Today, teachers use the social network to provide lessons in class and outside of class, with the idea of getting the students' attention when participation

The first reason why teachers should integrate dance into education is that dance increases students’ attention and reaches students of different learning types. One study was done to determine whether lessons that incorporate movement were effective at generating student’s situational interest. They compared the outcomes of movement and non movement lessons in second and third grade reading and math classes. The teachers provided one week of lessons that included movement and one week of lessons that did not. Students were asked to use their bodies to illustrate specific concepts they were taught. At the end of the study, the teachers rated students’ interest levels, and they found that students were more excited by and engaged in the lessons that integrated movement than those that did not. Surprisingly, they also found that the dancing did not hinder the amount of content learned during the lesson (Lindt and Miller). Dance could be a