Chapter 8 Summary

The performing arts offer students the opportunities to use different kinds of creative abilities. Chapter 8 discusses the importance of integrating art into the other subject areas in order to provide students with enriching opportunities. Arts help promote esteem, develop empathy, and provide equity. Providing students to work with arts will allow students to actively engage in the material and deepen their connections while learning about other subjects. Chapter 8 discusses the importance of allowing students to express themselves. When students are able to freely express themselves then they are comfortable in their classroom. This helps support their esteem and build up their thoughts and feelings about who they are as a person. Chapter 8 includes activities that can be incorporated in order to help support the student’s esteem. Two activities are playing circle games and singing favorite songs. These activities allow all the students to participate and feel supported. Playing circle games allows all students to play well-known games that are typically easy. These games will support esteem because students will feel confident playing and learning alongside their classmates. Empathy must be developed in order to help students understand and share their feelings with one another. Performing arts offers …show more content…
Bringing different kinds of art into the classroom will open the students up to the different mediums of representation. Chapter 8 discusses how art provides equitable opportunities for the students and allows them to learn about equity. Some of the many different forms of art that are explained in chapter included stitchery, quilting, oil painting, cut paper, mixed media, and collages. Picture books are a great way to explain these different types of art forms. Students will experience a wide variety of art techniques that can apply to defining what art means to