Mrs. Condie's Class Visit 2: The Vain Peacock

The focus of this lesson was character traits. We started off the lesson by reading a short story called "The Vain Peacock" and by identifying different characteristic of the peacock. The list mostly consisted of words such as vain, prideful, and big headed. We then spent the rest of the lesson turning the book into a dance that explored the book's imagery and vocabulary. Since the focus of the lesson was on character traits the student's explored different ways they could move like the peacock. By asking questions such as "how would you hold your head if you were prideful?" or "how can you walk around or dance vainly?" By asking these questions the students were able to come up with movement that was rich in quality and displayed different character traits.

Mrs. Condie used this same story later in the week for a different assignment, and I think that by exploring it through dance first the students were able to have a deeper understanding of some of the story's vocabulary. Overall I think the students simply enjoyed telling the story through movement!

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