Standards
Relate similar or contrasting ideas to develop choreography using a variety of stimuli (e.g., music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news or social events).
Generate resourceExplore various movement vocabularies to transfer ideas into choreography.
Generate resourceExplore choreographic devices and dance structures to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or purpose of the dance.
Generate resourceDetermine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Based on the criteria, evaluate why some movements are more or less effective than others.
Generate resourceRevise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Document the revisions. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic criteria.
Generate resourceObserve the movement characteristics or qualities observed in a specific dance genre. Describe differences and similarities about what was observed to one’s attitudes and movement preferences.
Generate resourceConduct research using a variety of resources to find information about a social issue of great interest. Use the information to create a dance study that expresses a specific point of view on the topic. Discuss whether the experience of creating and sharing the dance reinforces personal views or offers new knowledge and perspectives.
Generate resourceInterpret and show how the movement and qualities of a dance communicate its cultural, historical, and/ or community purpose or meaning.
Generate resourceRefine partner and ensemble skills in the ability to determine distance and spatial design. Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space.
Generate resourceUse combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the time and the dynamics of a phrase or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats in a variety of meters.
Generate resourceUse the internal body force created by varying tension within one’s musculature for movement initiation and dynamic expression. Distinguish between bound and free flowing movements and appropriately apply them to dance phrases.
Generate resourceEmbody technical dance skills (e.g., alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, levels, facings, pathways, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions.
Generate resourceApply basic anatomical knowledge, proprioceptive feedback, spatial awareness, and nutrition to promote safe and healthful strategies when warming up and dancing.
Generate resourceCollaborate as an ensemble to refine dances by identifying what works and does not work in executing complex patterns, sequences, and formations. Solve movement problems to dances by testing options and finding good results. Document self-improvements over time.
Generate resourceRecognize needs and adapt movements to performance area. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and make corrections as needed and apply to future performances.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast a variety of possible production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work. Select choices and explain reasons for the decisions made using production terminology.
Generate resourceDescribe or demonstrate recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in a dance.
Generate resourceExplain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology
Generate resourceExplain how the artistic expression of a dance is achieved through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, dance structure, and context. Explain how these communicate the intent of the dance using genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceDiscuss the characteristics and artistic intent of a dance from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice and develop artistic criteria to critique the dance using genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceAccess, evaluate, and use internal and external resources, such as knowledge, interests, and research, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceExplain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events.
Generate resourceResearch and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life, and social, community, and cultural situations, such as personal identity, history, and entertainment.
Generate resourceAnalyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy and social media.
Generate resourceEnvision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others.
Generate resourceOrganize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and/or production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
Generate resourceExperiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated aesthetic principles, such as point of view and perspective.
Generate resourceAppraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and rationalize how integrating multiple contents and forms, such as media, narratives and performance, can support a central idea in a media artwork.
Generate resourceDevelop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as invention, formal technique, production, self-initiative, and problem-solving, through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.
Generate resourceDevelop a variety of creative and innovative abilities, such as testing constraints in tool usage, in developing solutions within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceAnalyze various presentation formats, defined processes, and results to improve the presentation of media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceDetermine and apply specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceThe creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Generate resourceGenerate simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within AB and ABA forms that convey expressive intent.
Generate resourceMusicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Generate resourceSelect, organize, construct, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements and compositions within AB or ABA form that demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.
Generate resourceUse standard and/or iconic notation and/ or audio/video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, 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 personal work, applying teacher-provided criteria, such as application of selected elements of music and use of sound sources.
Generate resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of documented personal composition or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.
Generate resourceMusicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceExplain and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and ideas relate to choices and intent when 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 when creating, performing, and responding.
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 resourceApply teacher-provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific purpose and/or context and explain why each was chosen.
Generate resourceAnalyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Generate resourceExplain how understanding the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch, articulation, and dynamics.
Generate resourceIdentify how personal, social, cultural, and historical context inform performances.
Generate resourcePerformers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Generate resourcePerform a selected piece of music demonstrating how interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities (such as articulation/style and phrasing) convey intent.
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 resourceIdentify and apply teacher-provided criteria (such as correct interpretation of notation, technical accuracy, originality, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.
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 the music, alone or with others, with technical accuracy to convey the creator’s intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for venue and purpose.
Generate resourceIndividuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Generate resourceSelect music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.
Generate resourceResponse to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Generate resourceDescribe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces.
Generate resourceIdentify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.
Generate resourceThrough their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Generate resourceDescribe a personal interpretation of how creators’ and performers’ application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.
Generate resourceThe personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Generate resourceSelect from teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.
Generate resourceMusicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
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 resourceExplain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama/ theatre work impact perspectives of a community or culture.
Generate resourceIdentify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExplore the ethical responsibilities to oneself and others when recording, posting, and sharing through the internet, social media, and other communication formats.
Generate resourceResearch and analyze two different versions of the same drama/theatre story to determine differences and similarities in the visual and aural world of each story.
Generate resourceInvestigate the time period and place of a drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.
Generate resourceIdentify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceExplore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceUse critical analysis to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceContribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceReceive and incorporate feedback to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExplore planned designs during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExperiment with various physical choices to communicate character in a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceRecognize how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceArticulate how technical theatre elements are integrated into a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceDescribe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceExplain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify cultural contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama/ theatre work.
Generate resourceIdentify the technical theatre elements used in a drama/theatre work to justify aesthetic choices.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceSynthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in artmaking.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceCombine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
Generate resourceFormulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.
Generate resourceDemonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
Generate resourceExplain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of arts materials, tools, and equipment.
Generate resourceDesign or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
Generate resourceRefine and Complete Artistic Work. Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly
Generate resourceAnalyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.
Generate resourceIndividually or collaboratively, develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.
Generate resourceAssess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community and/or culture.
Generate resourceInterpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work. Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
Generate resourceApply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work. Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.
Generate resourceIdentify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
Generate resourceAnalyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
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