Varying Degrees of Freedom
The Varying Degrees of Freedom lesson is one of the best integrated lessons I was able to do this semester. This was also the first Social Studies lesson I was able to integrate with dance. To help portray different degrees of freedom, I based my lesson off of the principles of bound and free flow in dance.
The lesson more specifically was focused on comparing the varying degrees of freedom held by different groups (e.g. American Indians, landowners, women, indentured servants, enslaved people.)
As a class, we discussed the degrees of freedom each group had in the colonial times and then assigned each degree of freedom a form of bound or free flow.
As we discussed and explored this sensitive topic as a class, our class built connection to each other through dance. Not only did we build connections, but we forged new neural pathways, connecting our minds to our bodies. I was able to truly see this through a little quiz I gave the class after this lesson. They did so well on the quiz and really challenged themselves in their movement. I felt that the Varying Degrees of Freedom lesson was one of the best lessons I taught to my class.
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