Standards
Conduct research using a variety of resources to find information about a social issue of great interest. Use the information to create a dance study that expresses a specific point of view on the topic. Discuss whether the experience of creating and sharing the dance reinforces personal views or offers new knowledge and perspectives.
Generate resourceObserve the movement characteristics or qualities observed in a specific dance genre. Describe differences and similarities about what was observed to one’s attitudes and movement preferences.
Generate resourceCONNECT:Â Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Generate resourceInterpret and show how the movement and qualities of a dance communicate its cultural, historical, and/or community purpose or meaning.
Generate resourceCONNECT: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceExplore various movement vocabularies to transfer ideas into choreography.
Generate resourceRelate similar or contrasting ideas to develop choreography using a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events).
Generate resourceDetermine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Based on the criteria, evaluate why some movements are more or less effective than others.
Generate resourceExplore choreographic devices and dance structures to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or purpose of the dance.
Generate resourceExplore or invent a system to record a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or a form of media technology
Generate resourceRevise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic intent.
Generate resourcec. expression. Distinguish between bound and free flowing movements and appropriately apply them to technique exercises and dance phrases.
Generate resourceUse combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the time and the dynamics of a phrase or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats in 3/4 and 4/4 meter
Generate resourceRefine partner and ensemble skills in the ability to judge distance and spatial design. Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space.
Generate resourceCollaborate as an ensemble to refine dances by identifying what works and does not work in executing complex patterns, sequences, and formations. Solve movement problems to dances by testing options and finding good results. Document self improvements over time.
Generate resourceApply basic anatomical knowledge, proprioceptive feedback, spatial awareness, and nutrition to promote safe and healthful strategies when warming up and dancing.
Generate resourceEmbody technical dance skills (for example, alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, levels, facings, pathways, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions.
Generate resourcePERFORM:Â Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast a variety of possible production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work. Select choices and explain reasons for the decisions made using production terminology.
Generate resourceRecognize needs and adapt movements to performance area. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Post performance, accept notes from choreographer and make corrections as needed and apply to future performances.
Generate resourceExplain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceDescribe or demonstrate recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance.
Generate resourceExplain how the artistic expression of a dance is achieved through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, dance structure, and context. Explain how these communicate the intent of the dance using genre specific dance terminology.
Generate resourcea. Discuss the characteristics and artistic intent of a dance from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice and develop artistic criteria to critique the dance using genre-specific dance terminology
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceSynthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Generate resourceCONNECT
Generate resourceApply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Generate resourceInterpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Generate resourcePerceive and analyze artistic work.
Generate resourceRESPOND
Generate resourceConvey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Generate resourceDevelop and refine artistic teachniques and work for presentation.
Generate resourceSelect, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Generate resourcePRESENT
Generate resourceRefine and complete artistic work.
Generate resourceOrganize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Generate resourceGenerate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Generate resourceCREATE
Generate resourceExplain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events
Generate resourceAccess, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to create media artworks, such as knowledge, experiences, interests, and research.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy.
Generate resourceResearch and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life, and social, community, and cultural situations, such as personal identity, history, and entertainment
Generate resourceFormulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes, such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming
Generate resourceOrganize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
Generate resourceAppraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
Generate resourceExperiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles, such as point of view and perspective.
Generate resourceValidate how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork, such as media, narratives, and performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.
Generate resourcePractice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceDevelop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks, such as invention, formal technique, production, selfinitiative, and problemsolving
Generate resourceAnalyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceDetermine and apply specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback.
Generate resourceGenerate simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within AB and ABA forms that convey expressive intent
Generate resourceSelect, organize, construct, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements and compositions within AB or ABA form that demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.
Generate resourceUse standard and/or iconic notation and/or audio/video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and two chord harmonic musical ideas
Generate resourceEvaluate their own work, applying teacher provided criteria such as application of selected elements of music, and use of sound sources
Generate resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher
Generate resourcePresent the final version of their documented personal composition or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent
Generate resourceApply teacher provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific purpose and/or context, and explain why each was chosen
Generate resourceExplain how understanding the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch, articulation, and dynamics
Generate resourceIdentify and apply teacher-provided criteria (such as correct interpretation of notation, technical accuracy, originality, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.
Generate resourceDemonstrate performance decorum (such as stage presence, attire, and behavior) and audience etiquette appropriate for venue and purpose
Generate resourceSelect or choose music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose
Generate resourceClassify and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces
Generate resourceIdentify and compare the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods
Generate resourceDescribe a personal interpretation of contrasting works and explain how creators' and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods, convey expressive intent
Generate resourceDemonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDemonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life
Generate resourceMaking Connections:Â Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceUnderstanding Connections:Â Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.
Generate resourceImagine - Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts:Â Compose and improvise ideas for melodies and rhythmic passages based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourcePreserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.
Generate resourceSelect and develop draft melodies and rhythmic passages that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceEvaluate and Refine:Â Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and collaboratively-developed criteria.
Generate resourcePresent: Share personally-developed melodies and rhythmic passages – individually or as an ensemble – that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceSelect:Â Select a varied repertoire to study based on music reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of formal design in the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual and ensemble.
Generate resourceAnalyze:Â Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the setting and formal characteristics of musical works contribute to understanding the context of the music in prepared or improvised performances.
Generate resourceInterpret:Â Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.
Generate resourceRehearse, Evaluate, & Refine:Â Develop strategies to address technical challenges in a varied repertoire of music and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.
Generate resourceDemonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures and styles.
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understanding of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.
Generate resourceSelect:Â Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.
Generate resourceAnalyze:Â Describe how understanding context and the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.
Generate resourceInterpret:Â Identify and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
Generate resourceEvaluate:Â Explain the influence of experiences, analysis, and context on interest in and evaluation of music.
Generate resourceResearch
Generate resourceInterrelate
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceEmpathize
Generate resourceSynthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Generate resourceCONNECT
Generate resourceEvaluate
Generate resourceApply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Generate resourceInterpret
Generate resourceInterpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Generate resourceReflect
Generate resourcePerceive and analyze artistic work.
Generate resourceRESPOND
Generate resourceShare, Present
Generate resourceConvey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Generate resourcePrepare
Generate resourceDevelop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Generate resourceSelect
Generate resourceSelect, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Generate resourcePERFORM
Generate resourceRehearse
Generate resourceRefine and complete artistic work.
Generate resourceDevelop
Generate resourceOrganize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Generate resourceEnvision/Conceptualize
Generate resourceGenerate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Generate resourceCREATE
Generate resourceIdentify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExplore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceUse critical analysis to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work
Generate resourceContribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceArticulate and examine choices to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work
Generate resourceExplore a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work
Generate resourceExplain how the actions and motivations of charactersin a drama/theatre work impact perspectives of a community or culture.
Generate resourceIdentify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceResearch and analyze two different versions of the same drama/theatre story to determine differences and similarities in the visual and aural world of each story
Generate resourceInvestigate the time period and place of a drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.
Generate resourceExplain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify cultural perspectives that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceApply the production elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices
Generate resourceIdentify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExperiment with various physical choices to communicate character in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceRecognize how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceArticulate how technical elements are integrated into a drama/ theatre work
Generate resourceDemonstrate appropriate audience ettiquette for the venue, purpose, and style.
Generate resourceConnect
Generate resourceRespond
Generate resourcePresent
Generate resourceCreate
Generate resourceGenerate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceAnalyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
Generate resourceCombine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
Generate resourceFormulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.
Generate resourceDemonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
Generate resourceExplain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools and equipment.
Generate resourceDesign or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
Generate resourceReflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.
Generate resourceAnalyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.
Generate resourceIndividually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.
Generate resourceAssess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community.
Generate resourceIdentify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
Generate resourceAnalyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
Generate resourceInterpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristic s of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
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