Week 1 we give a handout that has some information. However, this can be an informational overload. To supplement this, we should have a handout/ linked to in email a couple weeks in with some other information. Emailing this and doing it in a later week means that everyone will see it.
This should contain:
Graduation info - we want people to know what they need to do to graduate and how to do self assessments
Class should pair with club.
- Online resources (current list):
- Definitions for every week are available at:
http://www.mit.edu/~tech-squares/lessons/ - Callerlab (a professional organization that supports our activity)
also maintains "official" definitions on their website at:
http://www.callerlab.org/DancePrograms/AllProgramDocuments/tabid/610/Default.aspx - TAMinations (a great site with animations of individual square
dance calls): http://www.tamtwirlers.org/tamination/info/ (or new Android app) - And there's another page of animations here:
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~noriks/ENGLISH/English-Index2.html
- Definitions for every week are available at:
- Things you can do to prepare for the next class (Benji's suggestions?)
- Look at the list of definitions from the first class. For each call, decide whether you end up facing the same direction, turned 90 degrees (left or right?), or turned 180 degrees. Sometimes the right answer is "it depends"!
- Make flash cards for the calls you have learned so far: name of the call on one side, definition on the other. You can also include your answers to #1.
- Look at the definitions for week 2. When I was taking the class, I found it easier to learn the new calls each week if I'd read the definitions in advance.