Grade 7 Fine Arts Missouri Standards

Research the historical development of a dance genre or style. Use knowledge gained from the research to create a dance study that evokes the essence of the style or genre. Share the study with peers as part of a lecture demonstration that tells the story of the historical journey of the chosen genre or style. Document the process of research and application.

Compare and contrast the movement characteristics or qualities found in a variety of dance genres. Discuss how the movement characteristics or qualities differ from one’s own movement characteristics or qualities and how different perspectives are communicated.

CONNECT: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Compare, contrast, and discuss dancesperformed bypeople in variouslocalities or communities.Formulate possible reasons whysimilarities and differencesdeveloped in relation to the ideas and perspectivesimportant to each social group.

CONNECT: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Explore various movement vocabularies to express an artistic intent in choreography. Explain and discuss the choices made using genre-specific dance terminology.

Compare a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events) and make selections to expand movement vocabulary and artistic expression.

CREATE: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Determine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Articulate how the artistic criteria serve to communicate the meaning of the dance.

Use a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures to develop a dance study with a clear artistic intent. Articulate reasons for movement and structural choices.

CREATE: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Investigate a recognized system to document a dance sequence by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

Evaluate possible revisions of dance compositions and, if necessary, consider revisions of artistic criteria based on self-reflection and feedback of others. Explain reasons for choices and how they clarify artistic intent

CREATE: Refine and complete artistic work.

Compare and contrast movement characteristics from a variety of dance genres or styles. Discuss specific characteristics and use adverbs and adjectives to describe them. Determine what dancers must do to perform them clearly.

Vary durational approach in dance phrasing by using timing accents and variations within a phrase to add interest kinesthetically, rhythmically, and visually.

Expand movement vocabulary of floor and air pattern designs. Incorporate and modify body designs from different dance genres and styles for the purpose of expanding movement vocabulary to include differently designed shapes and movements for interest and contrast.

PERFORM: Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Collaborate with peers to practice and refine dances. Develop group performance expectations through observation and analyses (for example, view live or recorded professional dancers and collaboratively develop group performance expectations based on information gained from observations).

Utilize healthful practices and sound nutrition in dance activities and everyday life. Discuss benefits of practices and how choices enhance performance.

Apply body-use strategies to accommodate physical maturational development to technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion).

PERFORM: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Explore possibilities of producing dance in a variety of venues or for different audiences and, using production terminology, explain how the production elements would be handled in different situations.

Recommend changes to and adapt movements to performance area. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Maintain journal documenting these efforts. Post-performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances

PERFORM: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Compare and contrast how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Compare, contrast, and discuss patterns of movement and their relationships in dance.

RESPOND: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Compare the meaning of different dances. Explain how the artistic expression of each dance is achieved through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and context. Use genre specific dance terminology.

RESPOND: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Compare artistic intent, content and context from dances to examine the characteristics of genre, style, or cultural movement practice. Based on the comparison, refine artistic criteria using genre specific dance terminology.

PERFORM: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

CONNECT

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

RESPOND

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic teachniques and work for presentation.

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

PRESENT

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

CREATE

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings and knowledge, situations, and cultural experiences, such as learning, and new information.

Access, evaluate and use internal and external resources to inform the creation of media artworks, such as experiences, interests, research, and exemplary works.

Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy, and social media.

Research and demonstrate how media artworks and ideas relate to various situations, purposes and values, such as community, vocations, and social media.

Produce a variety of ideas and solutions for media artworks through application of chosen inventive processes, such as concept modeling and prototyping.

Design, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering expressive intent and resources.

Improve and refine media artworks by intentionally emphasizing particular expressive elements to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, or place.

Coordinate production processes to integrate content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles, such as narrative structures and composition.

Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey consistent perspectives and narratives, such as an interactive video game.

Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways to achieve an assigned purpose in constructing media artworks.

Exhibit an increasing set of creative and adaptive innovation abilities, such as exploratory processes, in developing solutions within and through media arts productions

Exhibit an increasing set of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing various roles in producing media artworks, such as creative problemsolving and organizing.

Evaluate the results of and improvements for presenting media artworks, considering impacts on personal growth.

Evaluate various presentation formats in order to fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Describe, compare, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks interact with personal preferences in influencing audience experience.

Describe, compare, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components in media artworks.

Analyze the intent and meaning of a variety of media artworks, using selfdeveloped criteria.

Develop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.

Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.

Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Generate rhythmic, melodic and harmonic phrases and variations over harmonic accompaniments within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that convey expressive intent.

Select, organize, develop and document personal musical ideas for arrangements, songs, and compositions within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that demonstrate unity and variety and convey expressive intent.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or audio/ video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.

Evaluate their own work, applying selected criteria such as appropriate application of elements of music including style, form, and use of sound sources.

Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from others (teacher and peers).

Present the final version of their documented personal composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate unity and variety, and convey expressive intent.

Apply collaboratively developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program with a specific purpose and/or context and, after discussion, identify expressive qualities, technical challenges and reasons for choices.

Explain and demonstrate the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance and how elements of music are used.

When analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbolsfor rhythm, pitch articulation, dynamics, tempo, and form.

Identify how cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different music interpretations.

Perform contrasting pieces of music demonstrating their interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/styl e, and phrasing) convey intent.

Identify and apply collaboratively developed criteria (such as demonstrating correct interpretation of notation, technical skill of performer, originality, emotional impact, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.

Perform the music with technical accuracy and stylistic expression to convey the creator’s intent.

Demonstrate performance decorum (such as stage presence, attire, and behavior) and audience etiquette appropriate for venue, purpose, and context .

Select or choose contrasting music to listen to and compare the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

Classify and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces.

Identify and compare the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

Describe 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.

Select from teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

Connect

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Making Connections: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Understanding Connections: Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Imagine - Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts: Compose and improvise ideas for melodies and rhythmic passages based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Plan and Make

Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Select and develop draft melodies and rhythmic passages that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Refine and complete artistic work

Evaluate and Refine: Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and collaboratively-developed criteria.

Present: Share personally-developed melodies and rhythmic passages – individually or as an ensemble – that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Select: 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.

Analyze: 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.

Interpret: Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Rehearse, Evaluate, & Refine: 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.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Present

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures and styles.

Demonstrate an understanding of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.

Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Select: Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Analyze: Describe how understanding context and the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Interpret: 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.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Evaluate: Explain the influence of experiences, analysis, and context on interest in and evaluation of music.

Research

Interrelate

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Empathize

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

CONNECT

Evaluate

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Reflect

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

RESPOND

Share, Present

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Prepare

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

PERFORM

Rehearse

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Envision/Conceptualize

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

CREATE

Investigate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Explain and present solutions to design challenges in a drama/ theatre work.

Envision and describe a scripted or improvised character’s inner thoughts and objectives in a drama/theatre work.

Examine and justify original ideas and artistic choices in a drama/theatre work based on critical analysis, background knowledge, and historical and cultural context.

Demonstrate mutual respect for self and others and their roles in preparing or devising drama/theatre work.

Demonstrate focus and concentration in the rehearsal process to analyze and refine choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Develop effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work

Consider multiple planned technical design elements during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Incorporate multiple perspectives and diverse community ideas in a drama/theatre work.

Incorporate music, dance, art, and/or media to strengthen the meaning and conflict in a drama/theatre work with a particular cultural, global, or historic context.

Research and discuss how a playwright might have intended a drama/theatre work to be produced.

Examine artifacts from a time period and geographic location to better understand performance and design choices in a drama/theatre work.

Compare recorded personal and peerreactions to artistic choices in a drama/ theatre work.

Identify the artistic choices made based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

Describe how cultural perspectives can influence the evaluation of drama/theatre work.

Interpret how the use of personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs can be used to discuss drama/theatre work

Explain preferences, using supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Consider the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience.

Consider various staging choices to enhance the story in a drama/theatre work.

Use various character objectives in a drama/theatre work

Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

Choose a variety of technical elements that can be applied to a design in a drama/theatre work.

Demonstrate appropriate audience ettiquette for the venue, purpose, and style.

Participate in rehearsals for a drama/theatre work that will be shared with an audience.

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Individually or collaboratively create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in the community.

Synthesize

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Analyze how response to art is influenced by understandin g the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

Play & Ideation

Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrative persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

Skill Acquisition

Demonstrative awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.

Safety & Ethics

Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicate s information or ideas.

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Compare and contrast how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented and experienced.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Based on criteria, analyze and evaluate methods for preparing and presenting art.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Compare and contrast viewing and experiencing collections and exhibitions in different venues.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.

Perceive

Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristic s of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.

Evaluate