Meet Your Electives Teachers

Margarita Davidson

  • margarita.davidson@svps.k12.az.us

  • margarita.davidson.staff@svusd68.org

Gina Bruce

  • gina.bruce@svps.k12.az.us

  • gina.bruce.staff@svusd68.org

Mark Cruz

  • mark.cruz@svps.k12.az.us

  • mark.cruz.staff@svusd68.org

Nick Katzfey

  • nick.katzfey@svps.k12.az.us

  • nick.katzfey.staff@svusd68.org

Lynn Klabough

  • lynn.klabough@svps.k12.az.us

  • lynn.klabough.staff@svps.k12.az.us

The school offers the following electives:

  • Band

  • Physical Education

  • Technology Foundations

  • Culinary Arts

  •  Art (3D/2D)

  • Music

  • ​Choir

  • Spanish

Charlene Stigers

  • charlene.stigers@svps.k12.az.us

  • charlene.stigers.staff@svusd68.org

Dawn Wolslagel

  • dawn.wolslagel@svps.k12.az.us

  • dawn.wolslagel.staff@svusd68.org

Kirsten Zamora, Team Leader

  • kirsten.zamora@svps.k12.az.us

  • kirsten.zamora.staff@svusd68.org

What's Happening in Electives?

Monthly Standards

Tech Foundations

Art Exploration

  • Conduct research and evaluate and communicate findings to answer questions or solve problems.

Coyote Band

  • identifying and playing individually and with others the following note and rest values while maintaining a steady beat: whole, half, quarter, eighth, dotted half, dotted quarter.

  • playing the Concert Bb, F, and Eb major scales one octave on wind and mallet percussion instruments.

  • identifying and playing articulations and symbols as they occur in the repertoire.

  • playing, on pitch, in rhythm, with appropriate articulation, dynamics, and tempo.

Theater

  • Demonstrate respect for others' opinions by respectfully listening while ideas are articulated.

  • Work cooperatively and follow established safety rules.

  • Describe and/or document the setting/environment of a story to be dramatized (e.g., through words, drawings, technical elements).

  • Establish a playing space and an audience space.

Symphonic Band

  • identifying and playing individually and with others the following note and rest values while maintaining a steady beat: whole, half, quarter, eighth, dotted half, dotted quarter.

  • identifying and playing articulations and symbols as they occur in the repertoire.

  • demonstrating the basic embouchure, posture, and hand/stick/mallet position appropriate for characteristic tone production on their instrument.

Music

  • Demonstrate respect for others' opinions by respectfully listening while ideas are articulated.

  • Imagine and describe characters, their relationships, what they want and why (e.g., through variations of movement and gesture, vocal pitch, volume, and tempo).

  • Sustain a scene using appropriate language or movement with the teacher role-playing or giving clues (e.g., from literature or students' personal experiences).

  • As a character, play out her/his wants by interacting with others, maintaining concentration, and contributing to the action of classroom improvisations (e.g., scenes based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history).

  • Establish a playing space and an audience space.

Choir

  • Follow established theatre safety rules.

  • Demonstrate respect for others' opinions by respectfully listening while ideas are articulated.

  • Imagine and describe characters, their relationships, what they want and why (e.g., through variations of movement and gesture, vocal pitch, volume, and tempo).

  • Work cooperatively and follow established safety rules.

Culinary

3D Art

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