Grade 8 Fine Arts Missouri Standards

Investigate two contrasting topics using a variety of research methods. Identify and organize ideas to create representative movement phrases. Create a dance study exploring the contrasting ideas. Discuss how the research informed the choreographic process and deepens understanding of the topics.

Relate connections found between different dances and discuss the relevance of the connections to the development of one’s personal perspectives.

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

Analyze and discuss, how dances from a variety of cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities reveal the ideas and perspectives of the people.

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

Identify and select personal preferences to create an original dance study or dance. Use genre specific dance terminology to articulate and justify choices made in movement development to communicate intent

Implement movement from a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events) to develop dance content for an original dance study or dance

CREATE: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Define and apply artistic criteria to choreograph a dance that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Discuss how the criteria clarify or intensify the meaning of the dance.

Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures to choreograph an original dance study or dance with a clear artistic intent. Articulate the group process for making movement and structural choices.

CREATE: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Experiment with aspects of a recognized system to document a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

Revise choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others. Articulate the reasons for choices and revisions and explain how they clarify and enhance the artistic intent.

CREATE: Refine and complete artistic work.

Direct energy and dynamics in such a way that movement is textured. Incorporate energy and dynamics to technique exercises and dance performance. Use energy and dynamics to enhance and project movements.

Analyze and select metric, kinetic, and breath phrasing and apply appropriately to dance phrases. Perform dance phrases of different lengths that use various timings within the same section. Use different tempi in different body parts at the same time

Sculpt the body in space and design body shapes in relation to other dancers, objects, and environment. Use focus of eyes during complex floor and air patterns or direct and indirect pathway

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

Collaborate with peers to discover strategies for achieving performance accuracy, clarity, and expressiveness. Articulate personal performance goals and practice to reach goals. Document personal improvement over time (for example, journaling, portfolio, or timeline).

Evaluate personal healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life including nutrition and injury prevention. Discuss choices made, the effects experienced, and methods for improvement.

Embody technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to replicate, recall, and execute spatial designs and musical or rhythmic

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

Collaborate to design and execute production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performed on a stage, in a different venue, or for different audiences. Explain reasons for choices using production terminology.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Document efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements. Post performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.

PERFORM: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Describe, demonstrate and discuss patterns of movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent.

RESPOND: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Select a dance and explain how artistic expression is achieved through relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique and context. Cite evidence in the dance to support your interpretation using genre specific dance terminology.

RESPOND: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Use artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective performance. Consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use 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 demonstrate how media artworks expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences, such as local and global events.

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

Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools, environments, legal, and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, and virtual worlds.

Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as democracy, environment, and connecting people and places.

Generate ideas, goals, and solutions for original media artworks through application of focused creative processes, such as divergent thinking and experimenting

Structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.

Refine and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and place.

Implement production processes to integrate content and stylistic conventions for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles, such as theme and unity.

Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey specific themes or ideas, such as interdisciplina ry projects, or multimedia theatre.

Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.

Demonstrate a defined range of creative and adaptive innovation abilities, such as divergent solutions and bending conventions, in developing new solutions for identified problems within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate a defined range of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, through performing specified roles in producing media artworks, such as strategizing and collaborative communication

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

Design the presentation and distribution of media artworks through multiple formats and/or contexts.

Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.

Compare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and style in media artworks.

Analyze the intent and meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.

Evaluate media art works and production processes with developed criteria, considering context and artistic goals.

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 harmonic accompaniments within expanded forms (including introductions, transitions, and codas) that conveys expressive intent.

Select, organize, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements, songs, and compositions within expanded forms that demonstrate tension and release , unity and variety, balance, and convey expressive intent.

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

Evaluate their own work by selecting and applying criteria including appropriate application of compositional techniques, style, form, and use of sound sources.

Describe the rationale for refining works by explaining the choices, based on evaluation criteria.

Present the final version of their documented personal composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate the application of compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release , and balance to convey expressive intent.

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

Compare the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance, explaining how the elements of music are used in each.

When analyzing selected music, sightread in treble or bass clef simple rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic notation.

Identity how cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different musical effects.

Perform contrasting pieces of music , demonstrating as well as explaining how the music’s intent is conveyed by their interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/styl e, and phrasing).

Identify and apply personally 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, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator’s intent.

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

Select programs of music (such as a CD mix or live performances) and demonstrate the connections to an interest or experience for a specific purpose.

Compare how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure within programs of music.

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

Support personal interpretation of contrasting programs of music and explain how creators’ or performers’ apply the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods to convey expressive intent.

Apply appropriate personally developed 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

Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems in a drama/ theatre work.

Imagine and explore solutions to design challenges of a performance space in a drama/theatre work

Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character’s inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a drama/theatre work.

Articulate and apply critical analysis, background knowledge, research, and historical and cultural context to the development of original ideas for a drama/theatre work.

Share leadership and responsibilities to develop collaborative goals when preparing or devising drama/theatre work

Use repetition and analysis in order to revise devised or scripted drama/theatre work

Refine effective physical, vocal, and physiological traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work.

Implement and refine a planned technical design using simple technology during the rehearsal process for devised or scripted drama/ theatre work

Examine a community issue through multiple perspectives in a drama/theatre work.

Use different forms of drama/theatre work to examine contemporary social, cultural, or global issues.

Research the story elements of a staged drama/theatre work and compare them to another production of the same work.

Identify and use artifacts from a time period and place to develop performance and design choices in a drama/theatre work.

Apply criteria to the evaluation of artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Recognize and share artistic choices when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Analyze how cultural perspectives influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Apply personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to evaluate a drama/theatre work.

Respond to a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.

Apply the production elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices.

Assess the impact of a drama/theatre work on a specific audience.

Explore different pacing to better communicate the story in a drama/theatre work.

Use various character objectives and tactics in a drama/theatre work to overcome an obstacle

Use a variety of acting techniques to increase skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

Use a variety of technical elements to create a design for a rehearsal or drama/theatre production.

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

Perform a rehearsed drama/theatre work for an audience.

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.

Synthesize

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

Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Play & Ideation

Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

Skill Acquisition

Demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation , fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Safety & Ethics

Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.

Perceive

Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristic s of form and structure, use of media, artmaking approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understandin g messages or ideas and mood conveyed.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.

Evaluate