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.

 

 

 

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 5-6

 

Link to Standard 1.3 High School

 

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