Standard 1: Visual and Performing Arts

 

 

STANDARD 1.1 (AESTHETICS) ALL STUDENTS WILL USE AESTHETIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE CREATION OF AND IN RESPONSE TO DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER, AND VISUAL ART.

 

Descriptive Statement:  The arts strengthen our appreciation of the world, as well as our ability to be creative and inventive decision-makers.  The acquisition of knowledge and skills that contribute to aesthetic awareness of dance, music, theater, and visual art enhances these abilities.  Through experience in the arts, students develop the capacity to perceive and respond imaginatively to works of art.  These experiences result in knowledge of forms of artistic expression and in the ability to draw personal meaning from works of art.   

Key skills necessary to an understanding of aesthetics include the abilities to identify arts elements within a work to articulate informed emotional responses to works of art, to engage in cultural reflection, and to communicate through the use of metaphor and critical evaluation.  Aesthetics involves the following key understandings: appreciation and interpretation; stimulating imagination; the value and significance of the arts; art as object; the creation of art; developing a process of valuing; and acquaintance with aesthetic philosophies.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

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

 

A.   Knowledge

1.     Examine works of art that communicate significant cultural beliefs or set of values.

2.     Use domain specific vocabulary relating to symbolism, genre, and performance technique in all arts areas.

3.     Analyze how art is often defined by its originality.

 

B.   Skills

1.     Differentiate between the unique and common properties in all of the arts.

2.     Distinguish among artistic styles, trends, and movements in various art forms.

3.     Express how art is inspired by an individual’s imagination.

4.     Describe changes in meaning over time in the perception of a known work of art.

 

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.

 

Descriptive Statement: Through developing products and performances in the arts, students enhance their perceptual, physical, and technical skills and learn that pertinent techniques and technologies apply to the successful completion of the tasks.  The development of sensory acuity (perceptual skills) enables students to perceive and acknowledge various viewpoints.  Appropriate physical movements, dexterity, and rhythm pertain to such activities as brush strokes in painting, dance movement, and fingering of musical instruments.

 

Active participation in the arts is essential to deep understanding of the imaginative and creative processes of the arts as they relate to the self and others.  Involvement in the presentational aspects of art and art making also leads to awareness and understanding of arts-related careers.

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

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

 

A.   Dance

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

 

B.   Music

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.

 

AND/OR

 

C.     Theater

 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.  

        4.   Describe and analyze the components of theatrical design and production.

 

AND/OR

 

D.   Visual Art

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.

 

 

STANDARD 1.3 (ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER, AND VISUAL ART.

 

Descriptive Statement:  In order to understand the visual and performing arts, students must discover the elements and principles both unique and common to dance, music, theater, and the visual arts.  The elements, such as color, line, shape, form and rhythm, time, space and energy, are the basis for the creation of works of art.  An understanding of these elements and practice of the principles ensure the strengthening of interdisciplinary relationships with all content area curricula and their applications in daily life.   

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

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

 

A.   Dance

1.    Describe the principles of contrast and transition, the process of reordering and chance, and the structures of AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative.

2.    Observe and explain how different accompaniment such as sound, music, or spoken text can affect the meaning of a dance.

 

AND/OR

B.   Music

        1.   Analyze the application of the elements of music in a diversity of musical works.

2.    Examine how aspects of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions are organized and manipulated to establish unity and variety in musical compositions.

3.    Describe various roles that musicians perform and identify representative individuals and their achievements that have functioned in each role.

 

AND/OR

 

C.   Theater

  1.   Investigate the structural characteristic of plays.

        2.    Assess character motivations within the construct of scripted plays.

3.    Explain the interdependent relationship between the performance, technical design, and management functions of production.

4.    Analyze scenes with regard to thematic and artistic intent, situation, character and motivation.

 

AND/OR

 

D.   Visual Art

        1.   Define the elements of art and principles of design that are evident in everyday life.

2.   Apply the principles of design to interpret various masterworks of art.

3.   Compare and contrast works of art in various media that utilize the same arts elements and principles of design.

 

 

 

STANDARD 1.4     (CRITIQUE) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP, APPLY AND REFLECT UPON KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROCESS OF CRITIQUE.

 

Descriptive Statement:  Through the informed criticism of works of art, students will develop a process by which they will observe, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate artistic expression and quality in both their own artistic creation and in the work of others.  Through this critical process, students will arrive at informed judgments of the relative artistic and aesthetic merits of the work examined.

 

 

        Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

       

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

 

A.   Knowledge

1.    Explain the process of critique using the progression of description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.

2.    Compare artistic content among contrasting art works in the same domain.

 

B.   Skills

1.    Evaluate the judgment of others based on the process of critique.

2.    Compare and contrast the technical proficiency of artists.

 

 

STANDARD 1.5   (HISTORY/CULTURE) ALL STUDENTS WILL UNDERSTAND AND ANALYZE THE ROLE, DEVELOPMENT, AND CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF THE ARTS IN RELATION TO WORLD CULTURES, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY.

 

Descriptive Statement:  In order to become culturally literate, students need to understand the historical, societal, and multicultural aspects and implications of dance, music, theater, and visual art.   This includes understanding how the arts and cultures continue to influence each other.

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

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

 

A. Knowledge

1.    Analyze how technological changes have influenced the development of the arts.

2.    Examine how the social and political environment influences artists in various social/historical/political contexts.

 

B.   Skills

1.    Identify the common artistic elements that help define a given historical period.

2.    Discuss how cultural influences add to the understanding of works of art.