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Companion Residencies

Arts for Learning Companion Residencies for Students

• A "residency" is a sequential series of workshop sessions that allow students to explore an art form and the related literacy skills with a professional teaching artist.
• Residencies can be presented in as little as 5-6 one-hour sessions.
• Each Residency culminates in an exhibition or performance to allow students to share their experience with parents and the community.
• A4L Residencies can accompany A4L Units or stand alone.
• Residencies also make great after school programs.

From the Page to the Stage

Working with a Young Audiences theatre artist, students build upon their understanding of tableau to translate stories into simple theatre productions while deepening their understanding of imaging, inference, synthesis, and determining importance.

Sessions: 5-6
Session Length: 55 minutes
Capacity: 30 Students
Complements Unit 1: Upside Down Fairy Tales, grades 4-8

Drawing Conclusions

Students work with a Young Audiences visual artist to explore the art form of the graphic novel. By writing and illustrating simple stories they learn about visualization, author’s choice, point of view and story elements.

Sessions: 5-6
Session Length: 55 minutes
Capacity: 30 Students
Complements Unit 2: Graphic Story Adventures, grades 3-8

A Hero's Journey

Working with a Young Audiences visual artist with storytelling expertise, students learn about the literary pattern known as the hero’s journey and use it to make predictions and inferences about the course of a story. In addition, they explore four qualities of a hero: courage, wisdom, compassion, and imagination through a collage process.

Sessions: 5-6
Session Length: 55 minutes
Capacity: 30 Students
Complements Unit 3: Everyday Heroes, grades 4-8

Sound Shapers

Students work with a Young Audiences musical artist to create a found sound and home-made instrument soundtrack for an imaginary movie trailer that demonstrates their understanding of a text as well as the literacy components of inference and character traits.

Sessions: 5-6
Session Length: 55 minutes
Capacity: 30 Students
Complements Unit 4: Planting a Community, grades 5-8

What's in the Words

A Young Audiences dance artist helps students translate poems into dance and spoken word performance pieces while exploring word meaning, prosody, nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.

Sessions: 5-6
Session Length: 55 minutes
Capacity: 30 Student
Complements Unit 5: Words in Motion, grades 3-8

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