Standards
Build content for choreography using several stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences, literary forms, natural phenomena, current news, social events).
Generate resourceConstruct and solve multiple movement problems to develop choreographic content.
Generate resourceManipulate or modify a variety of choreographic devices to expand choreographic possibilities and develop a main idea. Explain reasons for movement choices.
Generate resourceDevelop a dance study by selecting a specific movement vocabulary to communicate a main idea. Discuss how the dance communicates nonverbally.
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 resourceCompare two dances with contrasting themes. Discuss feelings and ideas evoked by each. Describe how the themes and movements relate to points of view and experiences.
Generate resourceChoose a topic, concept, or content from another discipline of study and research how other art forms have expressed the topic. Create a dance study that expresses the idea. Explain how the dance study expressed the idea and discuss how this learning process is similar to, or different from, other learning situations.
Generate resourceDescribe how the movement characteristics and qualities of a dance in a specific genre or style communicate the ideas and perspectives of the culture, historical period, or community from which the genre or style originated.
Generate resourceIntegrate static and dynamic shapes as well as floor and air pathways into dance sequences. Establish relationships with other dancers with intentionality and focus. Convert inward focus to outward focus.
Generate resourceDance to a variety of rhythms generated from internal and external sources. Perform movement phrases that show the ability to respond to changes in time.
Generate resourceContrast bound and free flowing movements. Initiate movements from a variety of points of the body. Analyze the relationship between initiation and energy.
Generate resourceRecall and execute a series of dance phrases using technical dance skills (e.g., alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement).
Generate resourceDemonstrate safe body-use practices during technical exercises and movement combinations. Discuss how these practices, along with healthful eating habits, promote strength, flexibility, endurance, and injury prevention.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peer ensemble members to repeat sequences, synchronize actions, and refine spatial relationships to improve performance quality. Apply feedback from others to establish personal performance goals.
Generate resourceDemonstrate the ability to adapt dance to alternative performance venues by modifying spacing and movements to the performance space.
Generate resourceIdentify, explore, and select production elements that heighten and intensify the artistic intent of a dance and are adaptable for various performance spaces.
Generate resourceFind meaning or artistic intent from the patterns of movement in a dance work.
Generate resourceDescribe, using basic dance terminology, the qualities and characteristics of style used in a dance from one’s own cultural movement practice. Compare them to the qualities and characteristics of style found in a different dance genre, style, or cultural movement practice.
Generate resourceInterpret meaning in a dance based on its movements. Explain how the movements communicate the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and discuss the characteristics of dance that make a dance artistic and meaningful. Relate them to the elements of dance in genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use basic dance terminology to describe characteristics of the dance.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceAccess and use internal and external resources, such as interests, knowledge, and experiences, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceExamine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as news and events.
Generate resourceResearch and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social, and community life, such as exploring commercial and information purposes, history, and ethics.
Generate resourceExamine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and media literacy.
Generate resourceEnvision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and the work of others.
Generate resourceDevelop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and/or proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.
Generate resourceCreate content and combine components to convey expression, purpose, and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated aesthetic principles, such as emphasis and exaggeration.
Generate resourceDetermine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.
Generate resourceCreate media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.
Generate resourceEnact various roles to practice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique and collaboration, in media arts productions.
Generate resourcePractice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions and experimental use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceCompare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, associated processes, results, and improvements for presentation of media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how messages and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate 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 resourceExplain 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 resourceExplain 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, cultural, and historical).
Generate resourceGenerate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.
Generate resourceMusicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate selected and developed musical ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.
Generate resourceUse standard and/or iconic notation and/ or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and two-chord harmonic 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 music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback, and explain rationale for changes.
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 that demonstrates craftsmanship and explain 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, and context, as well as their personal and others’ 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, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation.
Generate resourceExplain how context (such as personal, social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.
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, timbre, and articulation/style).
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 established criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.
Generate resourceRehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities to address challenges and show improvement over time.
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, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.
Generate resourceDemonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, genre, and style.
Generate resourceIndividuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain, citing evidence, 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, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal, social, cultural, and historical).
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, timbre, and articulation) 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, citing evidence from the elements of music.
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 resourceInvestigate historical, global, and social issues expressed in drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceExplore the ethical responsibilities to oneself and others when observing and performing.
Generate resourceAnalyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in preparation for a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify historical sources that explain drama/theatre terminology and conventions.
Generate resourceIdentify physical qualities that might reveal a character’s inner traits in the imagined world of a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceImagine how a character’s inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourcePropose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceDevise original ideas for a drama/ theatre work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their given circumstances.
Generate resourceParticipate in defined responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience.
Generate resourceRevise and refine an improvised or scripted drama/ theatre work through rehearsal, collaborative review, and reflection.
Generate resourceUse physical and vocal exploration for character development in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceCreate innovative solutions to design and technical theatre element problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceDescribe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceDemonstrate the use of technical theatre elements in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExplain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.
Generate resourceJustify responses based on personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceExplain responses to characters based on cultural contexts when participating in or observing drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceInvestigate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceAnalyze and evaluate a character’s circumstances in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.
Generate resourceAssess how technical theatre elements represent the theme of a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceApply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through artmaking.
Generate resourceIdentify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
Generate resourceExperiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.
Generate resourceDemonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.
Generate resourceUse art vocabulary to describe personal choices in artmaking and in creating artist statements.
Generate resourceDefine the roles and responsibilities of a curator, explaining the skills and knowledge needed in preserving, maintaining, and presenting objects, artifacts, and artwork.
Generate resourceDevelop a logical argument for safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork.
Generate resourceCite evidence about how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.
Generate resourceCompare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
Generate resourceInterpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
Generate resourceRecognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.
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