Visual & Performing Arts Cumulative Progress Indicators (CPIs) for the end of the designated grade span

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STANDARD 1.2 (CREATION AND PERFORMANCE) ALL STUDENTS WILL UTILIZE THOSE SKILLS, MEDIA, METHODS, AND TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIATE TO EACH ART FORM IN THE CREATION, PERFORMANCE, AND PRESENTATION OF DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER, AND VISUAL ART.

A.    Dance

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

1.    Perform planned and improvised dance sequences using the elements of time, space/shape, and energy.

2.    Communicate through the creation and performance of planned and improvised sequences in response to meter, rhythm, and variations in tempo.

3.    Create and perform using objects and other art forms as creative stimuli for dance.

4.    Perform such movements as bending, twisting, stretching, and swinging, using various levels in space.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:

1.     Perform planned and improvised dance sequences with and without musical accompaniment, demonstrating aspects of time, space/shape, and energy with the intent to communicate meaning.

2.     Present planned and improvised dance sequences on a variety of themes using curved and straight pathways and levels in space and discuss their meanings.

3.     Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and basic anatomical principles of concentration and focus in performing dance movement.

4.     Utilize arts media and technology in the creation and/or performance of short phrases and compositions.

5.     Create and perform the eight locomotor movements of walking, running, hopping, jumping, leaping, galloping, sliding, and skipping in a dance context.

6.     Define and maintain personal space.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:

1.    Perform planned and improvised sequences demonstrating aspects of time, space/shape, and energy accurately transferring a rhythmic pattern from the auditory to the kinesthetic.

2.     Choreograph and perform dances that communicate meaning on a variety of themes, demonstrating the ability to work in small groups in the choreographic process.

3.     Develop dance technique that uses strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination appropriate to age and physical development.

4.     Accurately identify and demonstrate basic sequences of movement from at least two different styles or traditions, demonstrating awareness of movement principles in dance (e.g., alignment, balance, initiation of movement, directing of focus).

5.     Investigate arts related careers.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:

1.    Demonstrate a broad range of dynamics and movement qualities by manipulating aspects of time, space, and energy.

2.    Choreograph and perform dance works based on social themes, using elements and production values that serve the selected theme.

3.     Develop and perform movement sequences and dance phrases that demonstrate rhythmic acuity, and employ such choreographic structures as AB, ABA, canon, call and response, or use of narratives.

4.     Design a dance work that incorporates at least two other art forms to enhance the central idea.

AND/OR - see 8th grade CPIs for Music, Theater, &/or Visual Art

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

1.     Demonstrate technical proficiency and artistic application of anatomical and kinesthetic principles in performance.

2.     Craft dances with themes that have unity of form and content that demonstrate the ability to work alone and in small groups to create dances with coherence and aesthetic unity.

3.     Collaborate in the design and production of a dance work.

4.     Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in dance.

AND/OR - see 12th grade CPIs for Music, Theater, &/or Visual Art

  B.    Music

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

1.    Clap, sing or play from simple notation that includes pitch, rhythm, dynamics and tempo.

2.     Vocalize the “home tone” of familiar and unfamiliar songs, and demonstrate appropriate posture and breathing technique while performing songs, rounds, or canons in unison and with a partner

3.     Improvise short tonal and rhythmic patterns.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:

1.     Clap, sing on pitch, or play from progressively complex notation while maintaining a steady tempo.

2.     Recognize and vocalize the tonal triad (do, mi, sol) after being given the “home tone.”

3.     Sing or play simple melodies or rhythmic accompaniments in AB and ABA forms independently and in groups, while blending both unison and/or harmonic parts and vocal and/or instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels and responding to cues of a conductor.

4.     Modify elements of music within a piece to create different expressive ideas.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:

1.    Read music from progressively complex notation, including mixed meters, compound meters, and the grand staff.

2.     Sing independently and in groups, both melodic and harmonizing parts, adjusting to the range and timbre of the developing voice.

3.     Perform simple melodies and rhythmic accompaniments in expanded binary, ternary, and rondo form independently and in groups.

4.     Improvise simple harmonic accompaniment, melodic embellishments, and simple melodies.

5.     Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance in composition.

6.     Investigate arts related careers.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:

1.    Perform compositions containing progressively complex notation and use standard notation to record musical ideas.

2.     Perform independently and in groups a repertoire of diverse genres and cultures with appropriate expressive qualities.

3.     Improvise original melodies and/or rhythms over given chordal progressions or rhythmic accompaniments in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

4.     Identify careers and lifelong opportunities for making music.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

1.    Sing or play musical works from different genres with expression and technical accuracy.

2.    Analyze original or prepared musical scores and demonstrate how the elements of music are manipulated.

3.    Improvise or compose melodies, stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts and rhythmic accompaniments using a chosen system of notation.

4.    Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments using a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media.

5.    Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in music.

 C.   Theater

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

1.    Portray characters and describe basic plots and themes in creative drama.

2.    Experiment with the use of voice and movement in creative drama and storytelling.

3.    Employ theatrical elements to create and express stories in various cultural settings.

4.    Show how different uses of and approaches to theater can communicate experiences.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:

1.     Demonstrate clarity of intent, character, and logical story sequence through classroom dramatizations.

2.    Use movement as a medium for storytelling and as a means of projecting creative decisions regarding character.

3.     Assume the roles of theater participants (e.g., director, actor, playwright, designer), and collaborate to enact classroom dramatizations using available materials that suggest scenery, properties, sound, costumes, and makeup.

4.     Project an understanding of the intent of dialogue by performing from a script.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:

1.     Discuss and demonstrate the connection between body, movement, and voice in theatrical expression.

2.     Create characterizations in context through manipulation of vocal and physical qualities and circumstances.

3.     Collaboratively plan and execute group scenes stemming from improvisation.

4.     Analyze classroom dramatizations from different perspectives (e.g., playwright, actor, director, designer) and suggest alternatives for creating and interpreting roles, arranging environments, and developing situations.

5.    Differentiate among vocal rate, pitch, and volume as they affect articulation, meaning and character.

6.     Investigate arts related careers.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:

1.        Analyze descriptions, dialogue, and actions to discover, articulate, and create and portray character behaviors and justify character motivation.

2.        Participate in theatrical presentations individually and in ensemble, interacting as invented characters across a spectrum of social/historical contexts.

 3.        Create dramatic action within the context of a given situation, using acting skills that generate a sense of truth, focus, character, personal or emotional ownership, ensemble relationship, physical control, and vocal clarity.  

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

1.     Create original interpretations of scripted roles demonstrating a range of appropriate acting styles and methods.

2.     Interpret a script by creating a production concept with informed, supported, and sustained directorial choices.

3.     Collaborate in the design and production of a theatrical work.

4.     Plan and rehearse improvised and scripted scenes.

5.     Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in theater.

D.   Visual Art

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

1.     Create works of art using the basic elements of color, line, shape, form, texture, and space for a variety of subjects and basic media.

2.     Cite basic visual art vocabulary used to describe works of art.

3.     Present completed works of art in exhibition areas inside and outside the classroom.

4.     Recognize how art is part of everyday life.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:

1.     Apply the basic principles of balance, harmony, unity, emphasis, proportion, and rhythm/movement to a work of art.

2.     Explore the use of paint, clay, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, markers, printing inks and select appropriate tools in the production of works of art.

3.     Generate works of art based on selected themes.

4.     Investigate careers in the world of visual arts.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:

1.    Individually or collaboratively create two and three-dimensional works of art employing the elements and principles of art.

2.    Distinguish drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, textiles and computer imaging by physical properties.

3.     Recognize and use various media and materials to create different works of art.

4.    Employ appropriate vocabulary for such categories as realistic, abstract, nonobjective, and conceptual.

5.     Investigate arts related careers.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:

1.    Incorporate various art elements and principles in the creation of works of art.

2.    Explore various media, technologies and processes in the production of two and three-dimensional art.

3.    Identify form, function, craftsmanship, and originality when creating a work of art.

4.    Identify careers and lifelong opportunities for making art.

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

1.    Interpret themes using symbolism, allegory or irony through the production of two or three-dimensional art.

2.     Perform various methods and techniques used in the production of works of art.

3.     Produce an original body of work in one or more mediums that demonstrates mastery of methods and techniques.

4.     Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in the visual arts.