Standards
Experiment with a variety of selfidentified stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences) for movement.
Generate resourceIdentify and experiment with choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns and dance structures.
Generate resourceDevelop a dance phrase that expresses and communicates an idea or feeling. Discuss the effect of the movement choices.
Generate resourceRevise movement choices in response to feedback to improve a short dance study. Describe and document the differences the changes made in the movements.
Generate resourceCompare the relationships expressed in a dance to relationships with others. Explain how they are the same or different.
Generate resourceAsk and research a question about a key aspect of a dance that communicates a perspective about an issue or event. Explore the key aspect through movement. Share movements and describe how the movements help to remember or discover new qualities in these key aspects.
Generate resourceFind a relationship between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived. Explain what the movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or community.
Generate resourceJudge spaces as distance traveled and use space three-dimensionally. Demonstrate shapes with positive and negative space. Perform movement sequences in and through space with intentionality and focus.
Generate resourceFulfill specified duration of time with improvised locomotor and nonlocomotor movements. Differentiate between “in time” and “out of time” to music. Perform movements that are the same or of a different time orientation to accompaniment. Use metric and kinesthetic phrasing.
Generate resourceChange use of energy and dynamics by modifying movements and applying specific characteristics to heighten the effect of their intent.
Generate resourceReplicate body shapes, movement characteristics, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment and core support.
Generate resourceAdjust body-use to coordinate with a partner or other dancers to safely change levels, directions, and pathway designs.
Generate resourceRecall movement sequences with a partner or in group dance activities. Apply constructive feedback from teacher and selfcheck to improve dance skills.
Generate resourceIdentify the main areas of a performance space using production terminology (e.g., stage right, stage left, center stage, upstage, and downstage).
Generate resourceExplore production elements for a dance performed for an audience in a designated specific performance space.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how one dance genre is similar to and different from another, or how one cultural movement practice is similar to and different from another.
Generate resourceSelect specific context cues from movement. Explain how they relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology
Generate resourceSelect dance movements from specific genres, styles, or cultures. Identify characteristic movements from these dances and describe in basic dance terminology ways in which they are similar and different.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceUse personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/ or culture, such as popular media.
Generate resourceIdentify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life and culture and can influence values and online behavior.
Generate resourceExamine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
Generate resourceDevelop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.
Generate resourceForm, share, and test ideas, plans, and/or models to prepare for media arts productions.
Generate resourceConstruct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of aesthetic principles, such as movement and force.
Generate resourcePractice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.
Generate resourcePractice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content, such as animation, music, and dance, into unified media artworks.
Generate resourceExhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, and organizational roles, such as making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and group planning, in media arts productions.
Generate resourceExhibit basic creative skills, such as standard use of tools, to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the presentation conditions, audience, and results of presenting media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceDetermine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context.
Generate resourceIdentify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks and production processes, considering possible improvements and their context.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceMusicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate how personal interests, experiences, and ideas relate to creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceMusicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts.
Generate resourceThe creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic and melodic ideas and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).
Generate resourceGenerate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/ or meter.
Generate resourceMusicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.
Generate resourceUse standard and/or iconic notation and/ or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.
Generate resourceMusicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Generate resourceEvaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback.
Generate resourceMusicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of personal created music to others and describe connection to expressive intent.
Generate resourcePerformers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.
Generate resourceAnalyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected from a variety of cultures for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation.
Generate resourceDescribe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.
Generate resourcePerformers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo).
Generate resourceTo express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.
Generate resourceRehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceMusicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Generate resourcePerform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy
Generate resourceDemonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.
Generate resourceIndividuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.
Generate resourceResponse to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal and social).
Generate resourceThrough their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe how expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers’ personal interpretations to reflect creators’ expressive intent.
Generate resourceThe personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Generate resourceEvaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceConnect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceConnect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceGenerate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceSelect, develop, and use standard notation and audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions and three or more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourcePerform final versions of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.
Generate resourceExplain the criteria used when selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual or small group performances that include melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDescribe in interpretations the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.
Generate resourcePerform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).
Generate resourceApply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context (social, cultural, and historical).
Generate resourceCompare passages in musical selections and explain how the elements of music and context (social, cultural, or historical) inform the response.
Generate resourceExplain and support possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context (personal, social, and cultural), (when applicable) the setting of the text, and outside sources.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply teacher provided and established criteria based on personal preference, analysis, and context (personal, social, and cultural) to evaluate individual and small group musical selections.
Generate resourceUse personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify connections to community, social issues, and other content areas in drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify responsible practices for creating and adapting drama/ theatre works.
Generate resourceExplore how stories are adapted from literature to drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExamine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama/ theatre conventions.
Generate resourceCreate roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceCollaborate to determine how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceImagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceParticipate in methods of investigation to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceCompare ideas with peers and make revisions that will enhance and deepen group drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceParticipate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceRefine design choices and technical theatre elements to support a devised or scripted drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceApply the elements of dramatic structure to a story and create a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceParticipate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify the basic technical theatre elements that can be used in drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceUnderstand and discuss why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceConsider multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceConsider multiple ways to develop a character using physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural contexts in drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceExamine how connections are made between oneself and a character’s emotions in drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceEvaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.
Generate resourceConsider and analyze technical theatre elements from multiple drama/theatre works.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceRecognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceApply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
Generate resourceCreate personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
Generate resourceIndividually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.
Generate resourceDiscuss, reflect, and add details to enhance an artwork’s emerging meaning.
Generate resourceInvestigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.
Generate resourceIdentify exhibit space and prepare works of art, including artists’ statements, for presentation.
Generate resourceInvestigate and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.
Generate resourceInterpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form, and mood.
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