assignment blog; Zumbaaaaa

so this assignment blog is, according to the title, is; for our zumba routine! so if you don't know zumba is a type of dance that you're actually exercising while you're dancing. each period was assigned a song and we had to work with our period to make a zumba routine that we would later dance in front of the whole school, trying to attract people to dance along with us. period one chose the song 'timer' by Pitbull ft. Ke$ha, and their routine was pretty creative, I thought it was pretty cool. period 3 chose the song 'ice ice baby' by vanilla ice, and their routine was pretty cool too. I feel like our dance was the easiest, as in we had the slowest moves while everyone had fast moves that were cool. well anyways, period 5 (the fab 5) chose the song, 'get me bodied' by queen Beyoncé :). and the way were graded on this assignment was pretty interesting, the person who got the most people to participate got an 'A', the group next most participants was a 'B', and the least got a 'C'. and after everyone performed their zumba routine that they made, period 1 got a 'B' so the second most participants. period 3 got the 'C' so they got the least amount of participants. and us, period 5 got an 'A' because we got the most participants (19 people).

this assignment was a really fun assignment, I think me and my period had a lot of fun with it. I think one of the 'highlights' of this assignment would be making the dance. we had such a hard time creating the dance, we just pretty much did whatever and saw what we thought matched the song and what didn't. but also while making the dance we got to bong a whole lot, we got to see parts of each others personality that we haven't seen before, and learn more about each other. such as the fact that Tiana really likes to body-roll and Deriecka isn't good at reading directions, haha. but I guess I would say a low-light was when we performed it, it was kinda awkward because non of the other leadership students danced with us, it felt pretty awkward.

so in this we obviously used our 'GLOs' and heres some examples of how; GLO #1 is to be a self directed learner, each person in the group had their own part to dance and we all had the responsibility of learning the dance and remembering it. everyone in period five has done that including myself. GLO #2 is to be a community contributor, in order to make our group dance at all we would need to work together to decide which moves we should use and which we shouldn't so period 5 including myself used has accomplished that GLO. GLO #3 is to be a complex thinker, me along with everyone in period 5 had to think hard to decide what dance moves would appeal to the crowd of 12, 13, & 14 year olds. which we got the most participants so I would think we did pretty good with that GLO. GLO #4 is being a quality producer, meaning we would've produced a good zumba routine and again since we got the most participants i think we did pretty good with that GLO. GLO #5 is an effective communicator, me and everyone in period 5 have to communicate with each other and we had to communicate with our peers to teach them how our routine goes and to ask them to participate along with us and our zumba. GLO #6, the last GLO, was to be an ethical user of technology, almost everyone from period 5 had posted on social media outlets the dates that we would be having our dance routines, asking people to come participate with us, some people even posted for us to help spread the word, which was really nice.

in the first paragraph I explained how we were graded on this assignment, but i didn't explain if I agreed to how it was set up. I think it was actually a good way to grade our assignment, as well as being a good motivation, to make us want to get more people to participate in our zumba routine. Seeing that period 5 got an 'A' says that were hard working competitors and that makes me and probably the rest of period 5 proud and accomplished, just because of the way we were graded so it seems like a good idea, anndd it encourages you to try harder to beat the other periods, making you try harder.

period 5 dance routine in paragraph form;; First we're gonna be clapping to the beat. Next we will be doing high knees for two missions, then we will do shuffle claps, starting by stepping to the right. Next is the lazy monkey, we will be doing this for 16 counts. Then we will be doing swing lock, swing to the right first, for 16 counts. Next is the lipgloss dance, we will start with the right side. Next is high knees again. Then shuffle clap, then lazy monkey, then swing lock, and the lipgloss dance for two times though. We will now be doing stretches. First stretch is cross toe touches. Touching your right foot first. Then we will be doing touch the sky and touch your toes. Starting with touching your toes first. Then we will do shuffle clap again, then lazy monkey, then swing lock and strike a pose for the ending!