Clark Baker's C3B Teaching Order

This is the schedule I used for teaching C3B in a week in 2002 in Plon, Germany. The corresponding schedule for C3A can be found here.

The teaching order has been chosen with great care. Each call has been given a number for teaching effort and a number related to the amount of practice time necessary to master the call. The sessions are approximately the same size based on this teaching and review load.

The 13 concepts have been distributed over the 12 sessions. Calls which have similar names, starting formations, dance actions, or are commonly confused with each other are separated in the teaching order. There are a number of "tagging" calls. These have been distributed over the initial teaching sessions, one per session. Most sessions contain a large, dancing call.

Some calls which require lots of dancing to master are placed early in the schedule. The end of the schedule contains a few simple calls which can be safely left to the end. We will still have two dance sessions to practice them.

More than a few calls have extensions and variations. Once we master the base call and seem to be doing well with it, I will introduce the variations. This may be several teach or dance sessions later.

I recommend A Ceder Chest of C3 by Vic Ceder as a source of definitions. Before each teaching session you should review the definitions of the calls which will be taught so that you won't be hearing about each call for the first time. I will teach each call, and offer some hints and observations.

June 2005: I just completed teaching C3B to a square with 7 new dancers in 2 weekends of five 2 1/2 hour sessions. I combined sessions 1 & 2 and 11 & 12. While the start was OK, it would have been nice to have had an extra session at which I taught session 12 and did lots of practice.

This group of learners had several comments about the teaching order. I will take these into account and update this teaching order before the next time I use it.

Move Reverse The Top away from the Swap The Top variations
Move Revolve To A Wave away from Change The Wave
Move Swing O Late away from Change The Centers (same start action)
Separate Ripoff from Good Show. Even though one is a 4-dancer call and the other is an 8-dancer call, they feel too similar
Separate Change Lanes and Change Your Image further. It was OK to do Change The Wave and Change The Centers together in session 3. Adding Change Your Image in session 8 was OK. Adding Change Lanes in session 9 got them all confused. Space the 3 "Change" calls evenly.
The 3 versions of Cross Cycle need extra care and should be separately listed in the teaching order.

When teaching Revolve To A Wave, we found the Leads U Turn Back to the Right and all Facing Recycle was the best. However, you must allow everyone to do it that way and give them enough time initially so they get good at it.

July 2009: I am revising this again as I head to Plon for another teach week.

September 2009: The teach week went well and the teaching order only had two minor glitches: Having done all the Swap The Top variations from the first session, and uaing them mainly from a Squared Set, when I finally encountered Reverse The Top on lesson 3, and called it from a Squared Set, dancers were confused.

I think Chuck A Luck on lesson 7 is too close to Scramble in lesson 8 as they are both done from lines back-to-back.

C3B Teaching Order

Session	Teach	Review	Call	Variation #1	Variation #2	Variation #3
	Effort	Effort
1	1	1	Central Concept
1	1	2	Mirror Concept
1	1	2	Reset
1	1	2	Swap the Top variations:	Mirror	Cross	Mirror Cross
1	2	2	Revolve to a Wave
1	1	2	Swing o Late
		18
2	2	2	1/4 Cast and Relay	1/2 and 3/4
2	1	2	Boomerang
2	1	2	Chase The Tag
2	1	1	Fan Concept
2	2	2	Interlocked Scoot and Counter
2	2	2	Reactivate	Cross	Any Tagging Call
		20
3	1	1	(Any Tagging Call) and Scatter
3	1	2	Change the Wave	Change The Centers
3	2	3	Diagonal Box Concept
3	1	2	Lickety Split
3	1	1	Reverse the Top
3	1	2	In Reverse Order Concept
		18
4	1	3	Cross Flip the Line
4	2	2	Flip Your Lid
4	1	2	Gee Whiz
4	2	3	Lift Off	Lift Off But
4	2	2	Twosome Concept
4	2	2	Rip Off
		24
5	1	2	Busy (Any Call)
5	1	2	Cross Cycle (2-Face Line)	Fractions	Facing Couples	Box
5	1	1	Explode the Diamond
5	2	2	Interlocked Scoot and Rally
5	1	2	Pitch (Direction)
5	2	3	Split Phantom Boxes	Diamonds	1/4 Tags
5	1	2	Track 0 \| 1 \| 3 \| 4
		23
6	1	2	Criss Cross the Deucey
6	1	2	Loop and Tag	Cross
6	2	2	Magic Lines/Waves Concept	Magic Diamonds
6	1	2	Reverse the Pass
6	1	3	Rotates (from Columns)	Single	Reverse	Reverse Single
6	1	2	Z Axle
		20
7	1	2	Chuck a Luck	Cross
7	1	2	Good Show
7	2	2	Reflected (Any Tagging Call)
7	2	2	Trapezoid Concept
7	1	2	Wave the (Anyone)
7	1	2	Tag the Top	Any Tagging Call
		20
8	1	2	By Golly
8	1	2	Change Your Image
8	2	2	Interlocked Scoot and Ramble
8	2	3	Nuclear Reaction	Cross	Any Tagging Call
8	1	2	Scramble
8	2	2	Triple Waves Working Forward	Lines	Backwards
		22
9	1	2	Bingo
9	2	2	Random (Any Concept) Concept
9	2	2	Reverse Checkpoint
9	2	3	Strut Right/Left	Single
9	1	2	Turn the Key	The Key
		19
10	1	1	Cross Lockit
10	2	2	Phantom Waves Concept	Lines	Columns
10	1	2	Shake and Rattle
10	1	2	Sidetrack	Split
10	1	2	Take N
10	1	2	Trade the Diamond
10	1	2	With Confidence
		21
11	1	2	Disband
11	2	2	Divide the Ocean/Sea
11	1	2	Line to Line
11	2	2	N Steps at a Time	Cross
11	2	2	Rotary Circulate
11	1	2	Z Concept (4 dancers only)
		21
12	2	2	Stimulate
12	1	2	Turnstyle
12	1	2	Two-Faced Concept
12	1	2	Change Lanes
		13

Revised: $Date: 2009/09/03 19:33:50 $