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11 Feb 2024

Greenacres Arts Center Presents: Live Performance Series – only available specific dates

Greenacres is proud to bring the community together to support local Performers and Arts Organizations. Our Greenacres Arts Center Presents Series is your opportunity to experience live Music or Theatre performances in an intimate, educational concert setting. Have the opportunity to ask questions of the performers and delve deeper into the intricacies of the performance. The performance is always followed by hands-on learning activities in small groups facilitated by Greenacres Arts Educators. This family-based program requires tickets for each performance date. Please reach out to us for more information or to be added to our mailing list!

Vocabulary:

Live performance, audience, actor, musician, instrument, evaluation

11 Feb 2024

Improve Your Improv: Finding Your Voice

August-June

Moving through high school and looking ahead at the next years of life, students may find themselves feeling nervous to speak in front of peers and teachers. Spend a day exploring the art of improvisation and comedy, guiding students towards confidence and trusting their voice and ideas.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.HS.4CE Compare and contrast motivations and reactions of characters confronting similar situations.
  • TH.HS.1PR Manipulate vocal qualities, posture, movement and language to express variety in characters and situations.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • SL.9-10.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence
  • SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.HS.D2.3.d Develop techniques to empower, encourage and affirm oneself and others, maintaining positive, healthy relationships.
  • SEL.C1.3.d Demonstrate empathy through compassion in self and encourage in others

    Vocabulary:

    improvisation, listening, empower, support, project, suggestion, confidence, inner-champion

    11 Feb 2024

    Live Performance Experience

    Greenacres is proud to bring the community together to support local Performers and Arts Organizations. Our Live Performance Series is your opportunity to experience live musical or theatrical performances in an intimate, educational concert setting. Have the opportunity to ask questions of the performers and delve deeper into the intricacies of the performance. The performance is always followed by hands-on learning activities in small groups facilitated by Greenacres Arts Educators. This is a customized program based on the school’s request and performer availability. We would love to connect with you!

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • HSP.7RE Discuss how people differ in their responses to musical experiences based upon culture, environment, values and personal experiences.
    • HSP.2CO Create a critique of a live music performance using criteria based on elements of music.

    Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

    • SL.9-10.1/SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10/11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively
    • TBD Standards based on performance topic, theme, and potential customization based on the school.

    Vocabulary:

    Live performance, audience, actor, musician, instrument, evaluation

    12 Mar 2023

    Bring a Book to Life: Hatchet

    August-June

    The young adult novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen is the story of how Brian survives on his own after a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. Students will experience some of Brian’s adventures through hands-on survival skills and knowledge. Students should have completed reading this novel prior to their field trip. This program may also be completed in a series, with each field trip focusing on a different aspect of the novel.

    Ohio Language Arts Standards:

    • RL.4.2 Analyze literary text development. a. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text. b. Summarize the text, incorporating a theme determined from details in the text.
    • RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
    • RL.4.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.

    Vocabulary:

    Character, Setting, Theme, Survival, Wilderness

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