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

 

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

 

  A.    Dance

        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.

 

  B.    Music

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.

 

 C.   Theater

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.

 

D.   Visual Art

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.

 

 

Link to Standard 1.2 Grade 3-4

 

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