This Unit at a Glance:

Grade Band:

Grades K-4
 

Integrated Subjects:
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Targeted Standards:

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Theater (K-4)
Standard 3: Designing by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations

Visual Arts (K-4)
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Visual Arts (K-4)
Standard 6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

 

Other National Standards:

Grades K-4 History II (3-4) Standard 7: Understands selected attributes and historical developments of societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe

Historical Understanding II (3-5) Standard 1: Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 3: Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 5: Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Language Arts II (3-5) Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Mathematics II (3-5) Standard 5: Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of geometry

 

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The Emperor's New Clothes Unit

 
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Unit Overview:

Students explore the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Emperor's New Clothes-and the Kennedy Center production of the same name-through tableau, photography, costuming, and drama activities.

 

Lesson Overviews:

Picture This

Students will pose for a Polaroid portrait as a member or royalty from history, and then recreate the costume by drawing it onto the photograph.

 

Creating Costumes

Students will conduct research on the attire of monarchs, then sketch and create a costume model for an emperor to wear.

 

Set It to Music

Students listen to opera performed by children, then use the opera of The Emperor’s New Clothes to inspire them to create recitative scenes for a small opera.

 

Freeze Frame

Designed to extend the experience of the opera The Emperor’s New Clothes, this lesson uses specific references to various Hans Christian Andersen resources to frame student-created tableaus.

 

Cut It Out

Students will use symmetry to create paper cuttings depicting scenes from The Emperor's New Clothes.

 
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