UNIT 2: THE ARTS

Watch the video and answer the following question: How can the Arts be theraputic to students in school? How does it then become helpful to them in school? Give specific eamples and details to support your answer. 120-150 words.

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  1. School is a little model of modern society and all of you have to admit that sometimes it can be really difficult to survive there even for adults not talking about children.No doubts that students can have a problem with communicating,self-confidence,school performance and so on..From my point of view The Art solves almost all of these problems.First of all The Art unites students,secondly it develops academical skills and when you are knowledgeable and not alone ,you become more self-assured.When I studied at school ,we had a school theatre ,and about 7 pupils from my class including me spent 7 years taking a part in it. To tell the truth it was the most memorable time I had at school.We still keep in touch with each other and sometimes we recollect all days and nights that we spent writing scripts,moments when we were appearing before the footlights.So writing a script developed skills such as creativity,logicality and sense of humor .Due to appearing before the footlights we became more self-confident ,so that is how The Art has affected on me and my classmates when I studied at school.

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    1. WOW! Great work. I am really impressed by how writing a script develops skills such as creativity, logicality and a sense of humor. :)

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  2. The Arts can be therapeutic for students in school because it helps them to survive. Studying is not always a pleasure, but the Arts can help students to pass the school live. People involved in Arts can score better on exams. One boy in the video mentioned, that he made poor choices and was on the way to nowhere. The Arts gave him a perspective and helped him to find back on the right way. Students work together in teams and get the feeling that they are an important part of the community. In this case the Arts are therapeutic for unhappy kids because they get to know how it is when somebody takes care of them. One girl said that she is always happy after her music class even when she had a bad day. So music helps her to overcome sadness. That is fantastic! Furthermore the Arts help students to see their abilities in studying math or history. Creative thinking and problem solving skills can help overall academic performances. The children are more likely to graduate and get successful. The Arts also help people to look at the world in more than one way. Kids get the opportunity to process themselves and that is part of their development. They are able to discover their talent, to settle a goal, to make experiences and in the end to celebrate themselves for what they achieved. The Arts include dancing, playing theater, speaking, debating, playing music, painting etc. There are many ways to express yourself. To sum it up the Arts play an important role in children’s lives and it is necessary that they get the possibility to go into Arts projects.

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  3. School is called a second home by many people and that's a good way to define it, in that place you don't only learn abut writing and math, you also learn manners and how to behave. The Arts are very important because it helps children to express themselves when they have adapting problems, low self-steem, or just feel they don't enjoy school at all. One of the girls of the video talks about how poetry helped her being more confident and feeling better about herself.Standing up in the classroom presenting her lines and having feedback at the end by her mates motivates her to stay focus on good things and feel special.

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  4. Basically, the arts help studuents to improve a lot of skill because The arts sometimes connect with our daily lives and it makes them more comfotable to study. We have many opotunities of arts including music, opera, dancing and etc. In addition, those lead us to help our works. For example, this video says about musical. In musical we need not only various expressions but formula. And these skills supports to come up with ideas and to expand out sensitivities. So it can be usuful on business when we have presentaitons about some topics. And the arts also make comunication between sutudents. To make their works better, they would discuss with their theacher or other students. And this act cause to improve their skill of solving problems. These days, japanese government forcuses on the importance of solving problem in education. They think it allows to make children more creative and to get their self-esteem. So the gorvernment considers about the importance of the art class, music class and P.E class.

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    1. Ok. Good job. Next time I want a more specific example of the Arts. Maybe you could name a program that the Government supports.

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  5. I don't know anybody that doesn't like arts because you can enjoy it without practicing. Even if you just apreciate the Art you can get a lot of good things, you can improve your abillities like concentration, comunication, logical, patience, etc. For exemple, I love to listen music, watch movies but I don't like to play or act anything. However I can improve my skills to be more relaxed and concentred. These all things could help me at school with my exams and homework because they open mind and help to see things, for exemple math questions, in a different way so I will be better to understand the subjects. This is one of the most important reasons that the schools must include Art in their curriculum. In the school you need to learn more than subjects you need to improve your imagination and your behaviour. Art help you in many different ways so if you don't like to practice, you need to find a way just to enjoy.

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    1. Ana, this is a little empty in content. Next time use an example from the video.
      Best!!!!

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  6. I guess the Arts can be therapeutic in various field. The most contributing thing is making people pleasure. For example, when I was in junior high school, I didn't like to learn soiciety and English and Japanese, so I always thought I didn't want to take these school, but I always was looking forward to taking art and sports class. Because there were a lot of way of expression when I made my performance. I mean art isn't one answer, a lot of answer in art. And color have power that make people change, for example blue makes relax, red makes burn with fighting spirit and etc. If these make use of therapeutic, I think it's good. What I want to say is that people can express with art. People can forget about bad things when they draw and make art by theirselves. I think I cannot live without the Art. It might saves the world.

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    1. Kimi, good job. Next time a little more detail sir!

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  7. Arts are therapeutic for students, especially for those who are bullyed and attract little classmate's atte tion to in school, because arts gives them opprtunitied to finf their talents and have confidence. A girl in the video who is bullyed at school has changed since she met poem. In the poem class, she noticed that she had an ability of creating poems for the first time. Until then may be she had been feeling that she had nothing special skill or inferior to others, however noe she conquered the negative emotions. She prouds of herself, because she has a strong point and people around her recognize her and her talent. Like her case,arts help students to find the place which they beling to. Arts avoid them from nonattending at school because of problems like bullying and taking behind from classes. As the girl said, even if students who feel uncomfortable at school, they come to school, because their places which they belong to and perform rhemselves are there.
    Arts build the foundation of critical and logical thinking and the ability to express oneself in academic situations. Various kinds of emotions such as hapiness, anger and jealousy are represented in art works.For example, a man in the video said poem is also the way to express emotions. Students think about what makes them angry sad etc, and the reason why they feel like that. They meet themselves as they are and organize their own feeling. Sometimes they learn creative expressions from poems and gain fertile ability of expression. this is a effective way to practice logical and critical thinking, and expressing themselves.

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    1. Awesome job Kanae! I can tell you watched the video. Thanks.

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  8. The Arts are therapeutic for students, they can help to those students who have problems with a subject (as math, chemistry,etc.), problems at home, or wherever they have, if the student is in a Arts class (could be theater, music, either in the school band) it could help to the development of the student in the subject where they have the problem.
    As one of the student said, The Arts could give a feeling of self-reliance, because he/her is doing something by himself, and it give a feeling of satisfaction, because you are doing what you love.
    In addition to my idea, I could give a familiar example, I have a special uncle (he is a Down person) and my family had him into a Artscenter where he could sings, dance, and makes some theater performances, and it was so cool, because when I saw his face after he had been in the Artscenter it was amazing, see him so happy and comfortable with himself because he was doing what he loved.
    So in conclusion, For me, The Arts could be really therapeutic and important in the live of the students, for me, The Arts have to be an important subject into the schedule of the students.

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    1. Great work! Remember what I told you in class. No commas before becasue. Great story about your Uncle!!!

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  9. For every man on earth arts mean something different. Everyone has different interests and strong points, so even every kind of arts have variable effects in each of us.
    The arts in school have in my opinion the most huge effects on the students particulary in the ages between 4 and 12, because the kids are situated in the perfect time of education and arts contribute to a positive human resource development.
    For instance as the music-teacher said, she doesn't want to make the kids feeling happy, she only wants to teach them that music is able to make them happy. I absolutely endorse this statement! My experiences in this topic demonstrate me that this is really possible. Music makes me feel better!

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  10. Arts is something most of the people don´t like. But the reason why they don´t is to not realice how skillful you become when you are close to any kind of art. Like dance, theater, etc. All over the video it could be Heard expressions like “Arts makes me want to do something for myself”, “People do better in national exams”, “There is a correlation among time studying arts and how much higher your scores willl be”, “Kids can express themselves.Can become writers,thinkers”,etc. In line with the last statements, it could be seen how important is art to invigorate our learning process and how it leads people to feel confidence in theirselves. For instance, one of the deepest testimony was given by Serenity, who says “it wasn´t highs school as highschool you didn´t really look forward to it”. However after getting involved with arts not only she wanted to continue studying, but she feels more confident on what she does. Finally the video show us how arts can be applied in bussiness too. When someone is involved in architectural issues one of the principal skills is to be creative. To sum up, arts can be really useful if you know how to approach it in the different fields of life.

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