High School Fine Arts Missouri Standards

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 historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Understand and apply technology to design solutions for a drama/theatre work

Use personal experiences and knowledge to develop a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work.

Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a drama/theatre work.

Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a drama/theatre work.

Use the rehearsal process to analyze the dramatic concept and technical design elements of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Use research and script analysis to revise physical, vocal, and physiological choices impacting the believability and relevance of a drama/ theatre work.

Re-imagine and revise technical design choices during the course of a rehearsal process to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Choose and interpret a drama/theatre work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a crosscultural drama/theatre work.

Formulate creative choices for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work based on theatre research about the selected topic.

Explore how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in drama/theatre work.

Demonstrate an understanding of multiple interpretations of artistic criteria and how each might be used to influence future artistic choices of a drama/theatre work.

Develop detailed supporting evidence and criteria to reinforce artistic choices, when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Apply concepts from a drama/theatre work for personal realization about cultural perspectives and understanding.

Debate and distinguish multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of drama/theatre work.

Analyze and assess a drama/theatre work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

Construct meaning in a drama/theatre work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of production elements while respecting others’ interpretations.

Verify how a drama/theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience.

Discover how unique choices shape believable and sustainable drama/ theatre work.

Identify essential text information, research from various sources, and the director’s concept that influence character choices in a drama/theatre work.

Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable drama/theatre performance.

Apply technical elements and research to create a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

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

Present a drama/theatre work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

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

Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies to create the visual composition of a drama/ theatre work.

Create a complete design for a drama/theatre work that incorporates all elements of technology.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic, in a drama/theatre work

Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and western or nonwestern theatre traditions.

Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work

Refine, transform, and re-imagine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using the rehearsal process to invent or reimagine style, genre, form, and conventions.

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

Apply a high level of technical proficiencies to the rehearsal process to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

Develop a drama/theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic beliefsystems.

Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data from theatre research.

Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research.

Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a drama/theatre work. R

Use detailed supporting evidence and appropriate criteria to revise personal work and interpret the work of others when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.

Use new understandings of cultures and contexts to shape personal responses to drama/theatre work

Support and explain aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a drama/theatre work.

Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choices.

Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for the same drama/theatre work.

Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.

Apply reliable research of directors’ styles to form unique choices for a directorial concept in a drama/theatre work.

Apply a variety of researched acting techniques as an approach to character choices in a drama/theatre work

Use and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

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

Present a drama/theatre production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in the creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturg.

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

Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Explore the impact of technology on design choices in a drama/theatre work.

Use script analysis to generate ideas about a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work.

Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in a drama/theatre work.

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

Practice and revise a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using theatrical staging conventions.

Explore physical, vocal and physiological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

Refine technical design choices to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/ theatre work

Investigate how cultural perspectives, community ideas and personal beliefs impact a drama/theatre work.

Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work.

Research how other theatre artists apply creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, using theatre research methods.

Use basic theatre research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a drama/theatre work.

Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in multiple drama/theatre works.

Identify and compare cultural perspectives and contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Justify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of a drama/theatre work.

Examine a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

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

Formulate a deeper understanding and appreciation of a drama/ theatre work by considering its specific purpose or intended audience.

Examine how character relationships assist in telling the story of a drama/theatre work

Shape character choices using given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Practice various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

Use researched technical elements to increase the impact of design for a drama/theatre production.

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

Perform a scripted drama/theatre work for a specific audience.

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through artmaking.

Synthesize

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

Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary and local contexts.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student's existing artwork.

Play & Ideation

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Through experimentation, practice and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Skill Acquisition

Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.

Safety & Ethics

Redesign a object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Evaluate, select and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Perceive

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings and behaviors of specific audiences.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Evaluate

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with artmaking approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.

Synthesize

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

Appraise the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Play & Ideation

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Skill Acquisition

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

Safety & Ethics

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Investigate, compare, and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.

Perceive

Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Analyze differing interpretation s of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.

Evaluate

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

Synthesize

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

Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Play & Ideation

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.

Engage in making a work of art or design without having preconceived plan.

Skill Acquisition

Explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools and equipment.

Safety & Ethics

Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Perceive

Analyze how one's understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Evaluate