Arts Toolkit: Dance Handout

Exit Slip Answer Key

Dance and Community Values

1. during slavery times
   


2. African Americans who were slaves
   


3. Any of the following, in the student’s own words:
   
   • Honesty—Showing the blanket and folding it represents that you are doing what you say you are doing.
   • Care for others’ feelings—handing the blanket to another in a way that shows respect
   • Honoring those who have died—The buzzard lope showed that the people were providing a proper burial for the deceased and not allowing the buzzards to get his or her remains.
   • Playfulness and self-confidence—showing off a “motion” with full energy
   • Respect—copying another’s “motion” as exactly as possible
   • Community—the importance of the community being together in a circle, and of the circle of the community supporting the individuals dancing in the center. The community always supports the individual’s efforts.

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