Standards
Identify ideas for choreography generated from a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences).
Generate resourceDevelop a movement problem and manipulate the elements of dance as tools to find a solution.
Generate resourceManipulate or modify choreographic devices to expand movement possibilities and create a variety of movement patterns and structures. Discuss movement choices.
Generate resourceDevelop a dance study that expresses and communicates a main idea. Discuss the reasons and effectiveness of the movement choices.
Generate resourceRevise movement based on peer feedback and selfreflection to improve communication of artistic intent in a short dance study. Explain and document choices made in the process.
Generate resourceRelate the main idea or content in a dance to other experiences. Explain how the main idea of a dance is similar to or different from one’s own experiences, relationships, ideas, or perspectives.
Generate resourceDevelop and research a question relating to a topic of study in school using multiple sources of references. Select key aspects about the topic and choreograph movements that communicate the information. Discuss what was learned from creating the dance and describe how the topic might be communicated using another form of expression.
Generate resourceSelect and describe movements in a specific genre or style and explain how the movements relate to the culture, society, historical period, or community from which the dance originated.
Generate resourceMake static and dynamic shapes with positive and negative space. Perform three-dimensional movement sequences alone and with others, establishing relationships with intentionality and focus.
Generate resourceRespond in movement to even and uneven rhythm in both metric and kinesthetic phrasings. Recognize and respond to tempo changes as they occur in dance and music.
Generate resourceAnalyze and refine phrases by incorporating a greater range of energy and dynamic changes to heighten the effect of their intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate technical dance skills (e.g., alignment, coordination, balance, core support) and movement characteristics when replicating and recalling patterns and sequences of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
Generate resourceExecute techniques that extend movement range, build strength, and develop endurance. Explain the relationship between execution of technique, safe body-use, and healthful nutrition.
Generate resourceCoordinate phrases and timing with other dancers by cueing off each other and responding to stimuli cues (e.g., music, text, or lighting). Reflect on feedback from others to inform personal dance performance goals.
Generate resourceConsider how to establish a formal performance space from an informal setting (e.g., gymnasium or grassy area).
Generate resourceIdentify, explore, and experiment with a variety of production elements to heighten the artistic intent and audience experience.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how dance styles differ within a genre or within a cultural movement practice.
Generate resourceRelate movements, ideas, and context to decipher meaning in a dance using basic dance terminology.
Generate resourceDefine and discuss the characteristics that make a dance artistic and apply those characteristics to dances observed or performed in a specific genre, style, or cultural movement practice. Use basic dance terminology
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceExamine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceExamine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.
Generate resourceExplain, verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas, such as fantasy and reality and technology use, relate to everyday life and culture.
Generate resourceExamine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.
Generate resourceConceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of generative methods, such as brainstorming and modeling.
Generate resourceDiscuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and/or models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.
Generate resourceStructure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated aesthetic principles, such as balance and contrast.
Generate resourceDemonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.
Generate resourceDemonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.
Generate resourceEnact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, and collaboration, in media arts productions.
Generate resourcePractice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking and novel use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExplain the presentation conditions, audience response, and improvements for presenting.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceDetermine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context
Generate resourceIdentify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering 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 resourceDescribe and demonstrate how personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge 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 resourceDescribe 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, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).
Generate resourceGenerate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.
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, context, and technical skill.
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 and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.
Generate resourceExplain how context (such as personal, social, and cultural) informs a performance.
Generate resourcePerformers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).
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 and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.
Generate resourceRehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address 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 with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.
Generate resourceDemonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.
Generate resourceIndividuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.
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 explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal, social, and cultural).
Generate resourceThrough their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain 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 explain 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 resourceImagine and identify the ways drama/ theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.
Generate resourceRespond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceUse responsible practices for creating and adapting drama/ theatre works.
Generate resourceInvestigate crosscultural approaches to storytelling in drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceCompare the drama/theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.
Generate resourceArticulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceImagine how a character might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceVisualize and design technical theatre elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceCollaborate to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work by asking questions about characters and plots.
Generate resourceMake and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work to peers.
Generate resourceRevise and refine an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work through rehearsal and collaborative review.
Generate resourceDevelop physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceCollaborate on solutions to design and technical theatre element problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceAdapt the dialogue and action to change the story in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourcePractice selected exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourcePresent a drama/ theatre work to peers as audience and reflect on performance.
Generate resourceIdentify artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the qualities of characters in a drama/theatre work through physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural contexts.
Generate resourceIdentify and discuss physiological changes connected to emotions in drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceAnalyze and evaluate a character’s choice in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.
Generate resourceExplore how technical theatre elements may support a theme or idea in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceThrough observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceBrainstorm individual and collaborative approaches to a creative art or design problem.
Generate resourceCollaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.
Generate resourceWhen making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.
Generate resourceRevise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.
Generate resourceExplore how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.
Generate resourceAnalyze the various considerations for presenting and protecting art in various locations, indoor or outdoor settings, in temporary or permanent forms, and in physical or digital formats.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.
Generate resourceCompare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.
Generate resourceInterpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.
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