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Task Title: YEA! Days: Watershed Project

24J Student Goal
Curriculum Framework/Guidelines Items Addressed
Performance Task Guide
Products & Performances To Be Assessed

Benchmark Level: Checked Box 1Check Box2 Check Box 3Check Box CIM

Oregon Arts Content Standard
 to be assessed (using a scoring guide):

Check Box Aesthetics and Art Criticism: Respond to, explain, and analyze works of art, based on technical, organizational, and aesthetic elements.
Check Box Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand how works of art relate to the time periods and cultures in which they are created and how certain works of art from various time periods and cultures are related.
Checked Box Create, Present and Perform: Use ideas, skills, and techniques in the arts.

Academic Content in the extended definition(s):
(* possible other connections)

Check Box English*
(including Literature & Reading)		 Check Box History Check Box PE
Check Box Second Language
|		 Check Box Civics Check Box Art*
Check Box Science*
|		 Check Box Economics Check Box Music*
Check Box Math
|		 Check Box Geography* Check Box Health
Check Box Technology
|		 Check Box Culture* Checked Box Other Interdisciplinary
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State Curriculum Framework items
addressed at the benchmark level:

(See State Standards document for this statement listed by benchmark level along with Arts Content Standards.)

Create, Present and Perform: Use ideas, skills, and techniques in the arts.
Benchmark 1 (by end of grade 3) - Create, present and/or perform a single art form, using experiences, imagination, artistic methods, and composition to achieve desired effect.

Note: This proposed performance task is from a YEA! Days project that integrates multiple art forms including: visual arts, music, creative writing, and dance.

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Performance Task Guide

Amount of Time to Complete:
20-minute storytelling session.
Introductory 50-minute session for each of the art forms.
Additional sessions allow for more individualized work and varied group work.

Task Description:
(include whole class, group and individual work as appropriate)

YEA! Day Curriculum Outline

  • Theme: Watershed
  • Watershed: All water wants to join the mother sea.
    All land is watershed.
Three YEA! Days using Northwest Native American folk tales as inspiration were developed.
  1. Exploring the Upland/headwater zone of watershed with a Coyote tale.
  2. Exploring the riparian zone of the watershed with a Beaver tale.
  3. Exploring the flood plains, wetlands with a Salmon tale.
Key words:
  • Aquafer: water table, underground stream systems, kept full by interaction of sky and land
  • Biomass: moss, roots, duffar
  • Flood plains: marshes, wetlands, greatest recharging of aquafer occurs.
  • Riparian zone: stream side, mixture of soft and hard woods, greatest diversity of vegetation, microorganisms, and bugs
  • Upland or Headwater: headland, ridges, mist accumulation, large old trees

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills:

Materials and Resources:
Artist involvement is a cornerstone of the YEA! Day curriculum.

Adaptations:
(Changes in the task to meet individual student needs without altering the standards or rigor of the task.)

Teacher Comments/Recommendations:
Be sure to choose three examples that are clearly different in age, function, and firing technique.

Attachment(s):
Example Focus: Exploring the flood plains & wetlands.

Task Developer: Louisa Lindsay-Sprouse, Young Writers Association, 541-485-2259

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Products & Performances to Be Assessed
Student Work
to Be Scored		 Scoring Guides Describe a Successful Performance
(Check the Curriculum Framework/Guidelines)
Each student explores dance, drama, visual arts, creative writing, and music with professional artists. Create, Present and Perform After the artists have brainstormed and developed curriculum on a given theme and with a particular story, the program is ready to bring into the school. The day begins with an opening storytelling performance to provide inspiration and an introduction to the day's activities. Then students simultaneously rotate through four 50-minute workshops until at the end of the school day.

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Young Escapades in the Arts!
. . . exploring the arts through story

A Young Writers' Association (YWA)
and Lane Arts Council's AIE Collaboration

YEA! Young Escapades in the Arts is a literature-based integrated arts program designed for the public school setting. YEA! artists are a team of up to eight artists coordinated by writer, performance poet, and storyteller Louisa Lindsay-Sprouse.

Four artists (click here for a list of artists), one from each arts discipline:

. . . start with a theme (click here for a list of themes), then a story is selected that touches on that theme. The artists brainstorm curricula that use strands from the story, the theme, and each other's inspirations to develop age-appropriate artist workshops in their unique disciplines to bring to the school. The artists are guided by state mandates and national standards for arts education to ensure that their work with the students compliments and enriches the ongoing work of the classroom teacher.

After the artists have brainstormed and developed curriculum on a given theme and with a particular story, the program is ready to bring into the school. The day begins with an opening storytelling performance to provide inspiration and an introduction to the day's activities. Then students simultaneously rotate through four 50-minute workshops. At the end of the school day, each student will have explored dance/drama, visual arts, creative writing, and music with professional artists.

Click here for a full description of a YEA! Day.
Click here for more Escapade options and Fees.

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