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MIS Social Dance Etiquette: Respectful Dance Unit Plan

This unit plan focuses on teaching social dance etiquette and skills to Year 7 and 8 students at Matamata Intermediate School. It emphasizes personal hygiene, grooming, and respect for others during dance sessions. The plan includes instructions for boys and girls, etiquette guidelines for the dance hall, and resources such as instructional videos and music CDs. Students will learn dances like the Waltz and Fox Trot, promoting inclusivity and consideration for all classmates. The aim is to instill virtues like respect and confidence through dance.

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MIS Social Dance Etiquette: Respectful Dance Unit Plan

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  1. Social Dance Term 4 Matamata Intermediate School Years 7 and 8

  2. Unit Plan and Objectives VIRTUE = RESPECT

  3. Organisation of Lessons

  4. Personal Hygiene and Health(This saves embarrassment ) BOYS • Shower • Clean teeth • Clean nails • Deodorant (roll on only at school please.) • Combed and styled hair • Clean Clothes and polished shoes GIRLS • Shower (clean body and shampooed hair) • Clean teeth • Deodorant (roll on only at school please) • Clean nails • Brushed and combed hair, neatly tied back if long. • Clean Clothes and shoes • Small heel or flat shoes (they must be comfortable and easy to dance in)

  5. Etiquette for MIS Social Dance in the Hall • GENTLEMEN • Smile and use the 3 C’s. • Take time with your grooming to look and feel confident. • Offer your bent arm to a lady and ask her “May I please have this dance?” • After the dance, you lead the lady with her holding your bent arm, back to her seat and thank her for the dance. • It is both considerate and responsible to check that all ladies in your class have had a dance on the dance-floor (everybody must be included). • LADIES • Smile and use the 3C’s. • Take time with your grooming to look and feel confident. • When sitting, keep your knees together, rest you hands on your lap. • Always accept a dance that a gentleman has offered by saying, “Yes, you may.” • Rest your hand on forearm of the offered arm near his elbow. • When the gentleman has returned you back to your seat you say, “Thank you.” • Remember we do not own our friends and it is showing consideration when we check everyone in our class has been included.

  6. Resources • Unit Plan • Instructional Movie (Please do not put this on class wiki or internet.) • CD of music – Includes song titles and style of dance used with it. • This Power Point • Each Other

  7. The Dances (Movie)Time to hit the dance floor!  The group always moves around anticlockwise when looking at the stage (entrance is 6 and stage is 12 on the clock face). VIEW: “Come Dancing” MIS Dance Tutorial DVD • The 5 main dances • Waltz • Fox Trot • Gay Gordon • Maxina • Line Dance • Year 8’s • Auld Lang Syne • Wilbury Twist

  8. THANKS • Unit Plan = Mrs. Tami Ward • Filming and DVD production = Mr. Rob • Dance Instruction = Mr. Gerard O’Neil • Music CD and PowerPoint = Mrs. Robyn Wilson Thanks also to Mrs. Stiles for support with development of these resources. And thanks in advance to the teachers who will use these resources to teach a consistent Social Dance structure of skills to the students of MIS.

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