I did an assignment this week with dance I using the poem I Am Me by Virginia Satir. This poem is about understanding that you control your feelings and thoughts and no one else does. No one can provoke you into fighting or doing something you don't want to do. I always have headstrong freshmen in dance I so this is a great assignment for them. I had a few students really upset me with the assignment. After students read the poem I told them to journal about a time when they disappointed their family or themselves. Then they were expected to choreograph a three 8 count dance using some specific dance terminology in their dances. It wasn't so much their dances but their written journal that upset me. Some students wrote about their struggles with cutting or other types of destruction. Others just wrote that their parents are always dissapointed in them...they have never felt as though they did some thing their family was proud of. These realizations upset me as a parent and a teacher. I hope that I remember to let my children know everyday how much I love them and that I'm proud of them.
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