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Lesson Plan December 19, 2018

Documenting Stories of Resilience: Ballet in Brazil’s Favelas

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Warm Up: Reflecting on our hobbies, and how our daily lives would be impacted if we were no longer able to leave our homes.

Film Screening and Analysis: "Ballet and Bullets: Dancing Out of the Favela" from VICE News

Discussion and Reflection: Analyzing the film's structure and brainstorming local connections to the story

Extension Activities:

1. Drawing and Collage: Visualize a dance studio for the ballerinas

2. Communicating Through Dance

3.  Researching Violence in the Favelas

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