High School Fine Arts CA Core Standards

Synthesize content generated from stimulus materials to choreograph dance studies or dances using original or codified movement.

Apply personal movement preferences and strengths with the movement vocabulary of several dance styles or genres to choreograph an original dance study or dance that communicates an artistic intent. Compare personal choices to those made by well-known choreographers.

Demonstrate fluency and personal voice in designing and choreographing original dances. Justify choreographic choices and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement for an original dance study or dance. Discuss how the use of movement elements, choreographic devices and dance structures serve to communicate the artistic statement.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by refining choreographic devices and dance structures, collaboratively or independently using established artistic criteria, self-reflection and the feedback of others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Develop a strategy to record a dance using recognized systems of dance documentation (e.g., writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies).

Analyze a dance that is related to content learned in other subjects and research its context. Synthesize information learned and share new ideas about its impact on one’s perspective.

Use established research methods and techniques to investigate a topic. Collaborate with others to identify questions and solve movement problems that pertain to the topic. Create and perform a piece of choreography on this topic. Discuss orally or in writing the insights relating to knowledge gained through the research process, the synergy of collaboration, and the transfer of learning from this project to other learning situations.

Analyze dances from several genres or styles, historical time periods, and/or world dance forms. Discuss how dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the peoples from which the dances originate.

Dance alone and with others with spatial intention. Expand partner and ensemble skills to greater ranges and skill level. Execute complex floor and air sequences with others while maintaining and breaking relationships through focus and intentionality

Perform dance studies and compositions that use time and tempo in unpredictable ways. Use internal rhythms and kinetics as phrasing tools.

Initiate movement phrases by applying energy and dynamics. Vary energy and dynamics over the length of a phrase and transition smoothly out of one phrase and into the next phrase, paying close attention to its movement initiation and energy.

Refine technical dance skills to improve performance. Dance with sensibility toward and with other dancers while executing complex spatial, rhythmic and dynamic sequences to meet performance goals.

Apply anatomical principles and healthful practices to a range of technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement. Follow a personal nutrition plan that supports health for everyday life.

Plan and execute collaborative and independent practice and rehearsal processes with attention to technique and artistry informed by personal performance goals. Reflect on personal achievements.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (e.g., commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Implement performance practices to enhance projection. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology

Work collaboratively to produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works.

Analyze dance works and provide examples of recurring patterns of movement and their relationships that create structure and meaning in dance.

Analyze how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Analyze and discuss how the elements of dance, dance structure, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology

Compare and contrast two or more dances using evaluative criteria to critique artistic expression. Consider societal values and a range of perspectives. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Connecting

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Producing

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Responding

Creating

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating and refining choreographic devices, dance structures, and artistic criteria using self-reflection and feedback from others. Document choices made in the revision process and justify how the refinements support artistic intent.

Document a dance using recognized systems of dance documentation (e.g., writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies).

Synthesize content generated from stimulus material. Experiment and take risks to discover a personal voice to communicate artistic intent.

Expand personal movement preferences and strengths to discover unexpected solutions that communicate the artistic intent of an original dance. Analyze the unexpected solutions and explain why they were effective in expanding artistic intent.

Review original choreography developed over time with respect to its content and context and its relationship to personal perspectives. Reflect on and analyze the variables that contributed to changes in one’s personal growth.

Investigate various dance-related careers through a variety of research methods and techniques. Select those careers of most interest. Develop and implement a Capstone Project that reflects a possible career choice.

Analyze dances from several genres or styles, historical time periods, and/or world dance forms. Discuss how dance movement characteristics, techniques, and artistic criteria relate to the ideas and perspectives of the peoples from which the dances originate, and how the analysis has expanded one’s dance literacy.

Demonstrate fluency and personal voice in designing and choreographing original dances. Justify choreographic choices and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

Craft an artistic statement that communicates a personal, aesthetic, cultural, and artistic perspective in a collection of original work.

Modulate and use the broadest range of movement in space for artistic and expressive clarity. Use inward and outward focus to clarify movement and intent. Establish and break relationships with other dancers and audience as appropriate to the dance.

Modulate time factors for artistic interest and expressive acuity. Demonstrate time complexity in phrasing with and without musical accompaniment. Use multiple and complex rhythms (e.g., contrapuntal and/or polyrhythmic) at the same time. Work with and against rhythm of accompaniment or sound environments.

Modulate dynamics to clearly express intent while performing dance phrases and choreography. Perform movement sequences expressively using a broad dynamic range and employ dynamic skills to establish and maintain relationships with other dancers and project to the audience.

Apply mind-body principles to technical dance skills in complex choreography when performing solo, partnering, or dancing in ensemble works in a variety of dance genres and styles. Self-evaluate performances and discuss and analyze performance ability with others.

Research healthful and safe practices for dancers and modify personal practice based on findings. Discuss how research informs practice.

Initiate, plan, and direct rehearsals with attention to technical details and fulfilling artistic expression. Use a range of rehearsal strategies to achieve performance excellence.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (e.g., commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Enhance performance using a broad repertoire of strategies for dynamic projection. Develop a professional portfolio that documents the rehearsal and performance process with fluency in professional dance terminology and production terminology

Work collaboratively to produce dance concerts in a variety of venues and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works in each of the venues.

Analyze dance works from a variety of dance genres and styles and explain how recurring patterns of movement and their relationships create well-structured and meaningful choreography.

Analyze and compare the movement patterns and their relationships in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices and explain how their differences impact communication and intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Analyze and interpret how the elements of dance, dance structure, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression across different genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology

Define personal artistic preferences to critique dance. Consider societal and personal values, and a range of artistic expression. Discuss perspectives with peers and justify views.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Producing

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Responding

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Creating

Connecting

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Responding

Producing

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Creating

Connecting

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Explore a variety of stimuli for sourcing movement to develop an improvisational or choreographed dance study. Analyze the process and the relationship between the stimuli and the movement.

Experiment with the elements of dance to explore personal movement preferences and strengths, and select movements that challenge skills and build on strengths in an original dance study or dance.

Analyze a dance to determine the ideas expressed by the choreographer. Explain how the perspectives expressed by the choreographer may impact one’s own interpretation. Provide evidence to support one’s analysis.

Collaboratively identify a dance related question or problem. Conduct research through interview, research database, text, media, or movement. Analyze and apply information gathered by creating a group dance that answers the question posed. Discuss how the dance communicates new perspectives or realizations. Compare orally and in writing the process used in choreography to that of other creative, academic, or scientific procedures.

Analyze and discuss dances from selected genres or styles and/or historical time periods and formulate reasons for the similarities and differences between them in relation to the ideas and perspectives of the peoples from which the dances originate.

Collaborate to design a dance using choreographic devices and dance structures to support an artistic intent. Explain how the dance structures clarify the artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement for an original dance study or dance. Discuss how the use of movement elements, choreographic devices and dance structures serve to communicate the artistic statement.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating choreographic devices and dance structures based on established artistic criteria and feedback from others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Compare and use recognized systems to document a section of a dance (e.g., writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies).

Develop partner and ensemble skills that enable contrast while maintaining a sense of spatial design and relationship (e.g., through lifts, balance, or other means). Use space intentionally during phrases and through transitions between phrases. Establish and break relationships with others as appropriate to the choreography.

Use syncopation and accent movements related to different tempi. Take rhythmic cues from different aspects of accompaniment. Integrate breath phrasing with metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

Connect energy and dynamics to movements by applying them in and through all parts of the body. Develop total body awareness so that movement phrases demonstrate variances of energy and dynamics.

Embody technical dance skills (e.g., functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to retain and execute dance choreography.

Develop a plan for healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life, including nutrition and injury prevention. Discuss implementation of the plan and how it supports personal performance goals.

Collaborate with peers to establish and implement a rehearsal plan to meet performance goals. Use a variety of strategies to analyze and evaluate performances of self and others (e.g., use video recordings of practice to analyze the difference between the way movements look and how they feel to match performance with visual affect). Articulate performance goals and justify reasons for selecting particular practice strategies.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (e.g., commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Demonstrate performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology.

Evaluate possible designs for the production elements of a performance and select and execute the ideas that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the dances.

Analyze recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent.

Explain how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Select and compare different dances and discuss their intent and artistic expression. Explain how the relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, dance structure, and context enhance meaning and support intent using genre-specific dance terminology.

Analyze the artistic expression of a dance. Discuss insights using evaluative criteria and genre-specific dance terminology.

Synthesize internal and external resources, such as cultural connections, introspection, independent research, and exemplary works, to enhance the creation of compelling media artworks.

Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to synthesize new meaning and knowledge in addition to reflecting and forming cultural experiences, such as new connections between themes and ideas and personal influence.

Examine in depth and demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as markets, systems, propaganda, and truth.

Critically investigate and proactively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, digital identity, and artist/audience interactivity

Strategically utilize generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, and refine artistic goals to increase originality in media arts creation processes.

Apply a personal aesthetic in designing, testing, and refining original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production strategies for media arts productions, considering artistic intentions, constraints of resources, and presentation context.

Effectively implement production processes, artistically crafting and integrating content, technique, and stylistic conventions in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated aesthetic principles, such as consistency and juxtaposition.

Refine and elaborate aesthetic elements and technical components to intentionally form impactful expressions in media artworks for specific purposes, audiences, and contexts

Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transmedia productions, that retain thematic integrity and stylistic consistency.

Demonstrate effective command of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks.

Demonstrate creative and innovative abilities, such as resisting closure and responsive use of failure, to effectively address sophisticated challenges within and through media arts productions.

Design the effective presentation and promotion of media artworks for a variety of formats and contexts, such as local exhibits, mass markets and virtual channels.

Analyze and explain the qualities of and relationships between the components, form and content, aesthetics, intentions, and contexts of a variety of media artworks.

Analyze and explain how diverse media artworks manage audience experience and create intention and persuasion through multimodal perception.

Analyze the intent, meanings, and influence of a variety of media artworks, based on personal, societal, historical, and cultural contexts.

Form and apply defensible evaluations in the constructive and systematic critique of media artworks and production processes.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Producing

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Responding

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Creating

Connecting

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Independently and proactively access relevant and qualitative resources to inform the creation of cogent media artworks.

Demonstrate and expound on the use of media artworks to consummate new meaning, knowledge, and impactful cultural experiences.

Demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to personal and global contexts, purposes, and values, through relevant and impactful media artworks.

Critically investigate and strategically interact with legal, technological, systemic, cultural, and vocational contexts of media arts considering the impacts upon individuals and the community.

Integrate aesthetic principles with a variety of generative methods to fluently form original ideas, solutions, and innovations in media arts creation processes.

Integrate a sophisticated personal aesthetic and knowledge of systems processes in proposing, forming, and testing original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production frameworks, considering complex constraints of goals, time, resources, and personal limitations.

Synthesize content, processes, and components to express compelling purpose, story, emotion, or ideas in complex media arts productions, demonstrating mastery of associated aesthetic principles, such as hybridization.

Intentionally and consistently refine and elaborate elements and components to form impactful expressions in media artworks, directed at specific purposes, audiences, and contexts.

Synthesize various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions, such as transdisciplinary productions, that retain artistic fidelity across platforms.

Employ mastered artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks.

Demonstrate creative and innovative abilities, such as resisting closure and responsive use of failure, to effectively address sophisticated challenges within and through media arts productions.

Design the effective presentation and promotion of media artworks for a variety of formats and contexts, such as local exhibits, mass markets and virtual channels.

Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components and the audience impact in a variety of media artworks.

Examine diverse media artworks, analyzing methods for managing audience experience, creating intention and persuasion through multimodal perception, and systemic communications.

Analyze the intent, meanings and impacts of diverse media artworks, considering complex factors of context and bias.

Independently develop rigorous evaluations of, and strategically seek feedback for media artworks and production processes, considering complex goals and factors.

Responding

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Producing

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Connecting

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Creating

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Connecting

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Producing

Responding

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Creating

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Access, evaluate, and integrate personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural experiences, to inform the creation of original media artworks.

Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences, such as learning and sharing through local and global networks.

Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as social trends, power, equality, and personal/cultural identity.

Critically evaluate and effectively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering civic values, media literacy, social media, virtual environments, and digital identity

Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.

Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.

Implement production processes, making artistically deliberate choices in content, technique, and style in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated aesthetic principles, such as emphasis and tone.

Refine media artworks, honing aesthetic quality and stylistic elements towards intentional expression and purpose.

Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience and experiential design.

Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks.

Develop and refine a determined range of creative and innovative abilities, such as applications of tools, risk taking, and design thinking, in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.

Design the presentation of media artworks, considering the relationships of formats and contexts, and desired outcomes.

Analyze and describe the qualities of and relationships between the components, content, and intentions of various media artworks.

Analyze how a variety of media artworks manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception.

Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks, focusing on personal and cultural contexts.

Evaluate media artworks and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.

Synthesize personal interests, knowledge, skills, and contexts and how they relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Synthesize the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Identify and select specific passages, sections, or movements in musical works that express personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in simple forms (such as binary, ternary, or rondo) or moderately complex forms.

Analyze how the elements of music (including form) of selected works relate to the style, function, and context, and explain the implications for rehearsal and performance.

Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music, style, mood, function, and context, explaining and supporting how the interpretive choices reflect the creators’ intent.

Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, the repetition and variation within the form, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work.

Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works.

Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of varied works.

Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others’), and explain how the elements of music and compositional techniques are used to convey intent.

Explain how compositions are appropriate for both audience and context, and how this will shape future compositions.

Apply teacher-provided or personally developed criteria to select music that expresses personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in simple or moderately complex forms, and describe and defend the choices as models for composition.

Analyze aurally and/or by reading the scores of musical works the elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and procedures, relating them to style, mood, and context; and explain how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and listener.

Develop and support interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers’ intent by citing the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and the style/genre and context of each work.

Explain the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of music theory as well as compositional techniques and procedures.

Describe ways in which critiquing others’ work and receiving feedback from others have been specifically applied in the personal creative process.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Connecting

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Responding

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Creating

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Performing

Describe and demonstrate how sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent sonic events, memories, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines.

Assemble and organize multiple sounds or musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected sonic events, memories, images, concepts, texts, or storylines.

Describe and explain the development of sounds and musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of simple or moderately complex forms (such as binary, ternary, or rondo).

Identify, describe, and apply selected teacherprovided or personally developed criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Share music through the use of notation, solo or group performance, or technology, and demonstrate and describe how the elements of music and compositional techniques have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Describe the selected contexts and performance mediums for presenting personal works, and explain why they successfully impact the final composition and presentation.

Integrate and interrelate how personal interests, knowledge, skills, contexts, and audience expectations connect to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Integrate and interrelate the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Describe and demonstrate multiple ways in which sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas.

Assemble and organize multiple sounds or extended musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas.

Analyze and demonstrate the development of sounds and extended musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of moderately complex or complex forms.

Research, identify, explain, and apply personally developed criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Share music through the use of notation, solo or group performance, or technology, and demonstrate and explain how the elements of music, compositional techniques and processes have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Describe a variety of possible contexts and performance mediums for presenting personal works, and explain and compare how each could impact the success of the final composition and presentation.

Identify and select specific creators’ intent, movements, or entire works that express personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in moderately complex or complex forms.

Analyze how the elements of music (including form) and compositional techniques of selected works relate to the style, function, and context, and explain and support the analysis and its implications for rehearsal and performance.

Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, style, function, and context, explaining and justifying how the interpretive choices reflect the creators’ intent.

Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, the repetition and variation within the form, compositional techniques, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work.

Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances use compositional techniques and convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works.

Identify, compare, and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple contrasting works.

Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others’), and explain and/or demonstrate understanding of how the expressive intent of the music is conveyed.

Explain how compositions are appropriate for a variety of audiences and contexts, and how this will shape future compositions.

Apply researched or personally developed criteria to select music that expresses personal experiences and interests, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in moderately complex or complex forms, and describe and justify the choice as models for composition.

Analyze aurally and/or by reading the scores of musical works the elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and procedures, relating them to aesthetic effectiveness, style, mood, and context; and explain how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and listener.

Develop, justify and defend interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers’ intent by citing the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and the style/genre and context of each work.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of theoretical concepts and complex compositional techniques and procedures.

Describe and evaluate ways in which critiquing others’ work and receiving feedback from others have been specifically applied in the personal creative process.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Creating

Performing

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Responding

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Connecting

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Creating

Responding

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Performing

Connecting

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Connect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Describe how sounds and short musical ideas can be used to represent personal experiences, moods, visual images, and/or storylines.

Assemble and organize sounds or short musical ideas to create initial expressions of selected experiences, moods, images, or storylines.

Identify and describe the development of sounds or short musical ideas in drafts of music within simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, or binary).

Identify, describe, and apply teacher-provided criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Share music through the use of notation, performance, or technology, and demonstrate how the elements of music have been employed to realize expressive intent

Describe the given context and performance medium for presenting personal works, and how they impact the final composition and presentation.

Identify and select specific excerpts, passages, or sections in musical works that express a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, or binary).

Analyze how the elements of music (including form) of selected works relate to style and mood and explain the implications for rehearsal or performance.

Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music, style, and mood, explaining how the interpretive choices reflect the creators’ intent.

Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying repetition and variation within the form.

Using established criteria and feedback, identify the way(s) in which performances convey the elements of music, style, and mood.

Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple works.

Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others’) and explain how the elements of music are used to convey intent.

Identify how compositions are appropriate for an audience or context, and how this will shape future compositions.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to select music that expresses a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as onepart, cyclical, binary), and describe the choices as models for composition.

Analyze aurally the elements of music (including form) of musical works, relating them to style, mood, and context, and describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and listener

Develop and explain interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers’ intent by citing technical and expressive aspects as well as the style/genre of each work.

Describe the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of fundamentals of music theory.

Describe the way(s) in which critiquing others’ work and receiving feedback from others can be applied in the personal creative process.

Synthesize personal interests, knowledge, skills, and contexts and how they relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Synthesize the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Compose and improvise ideas for arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that reflect characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions through standard notation, and improvisations through audio or video recording

Evaluate and refine draft arrangements, sections, short compositions, and improvisations based on personally developed criteria, including the extent to which they address identified purposes.

Share personally developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions— individually or as an ensemble—that address identified purposes.

Develop and apply criteria to select a varied repertoire to study and perform based on an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics and expressive challenges in the music, the technical skill of the individual or ensemble, and the purpose and context of the performance.

Document and demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works may impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.

Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, and context of a varied repertoire of music influences prepared and improvised performances as well as performers’ technical skill to connect with the audience.

Develop and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success.

Demonstrate mastery of the technical demands and an understanding of expressive qualities of the music in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods.

Demonstrate an understanding of intent as a means for connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.

Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the music and the specified purpose and context.

Explain how the analysis of structures and contexts inform the response to music.

Support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and varied researched sources.

Evaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally and collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure and context.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Creating

Performing

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Responding

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Integrate and interrelate how personal interests, knowledge, skills, contexts, and audience expectations connect to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Integrate and interrelate the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Compose and improvise musical ideas for a variety of purposes and contexts.

Select and develop composed and improvised ideas into draft musical works organized for a variety of purposes and contexts.

Preserve draft musical works through standard notation and audio or video recording.

Evaluate and refine varied draft musical works based on appropriate criteria, including the extent to which they address identified purposes and contexts.

Share varied, personally developed musical works— individually or as an ensemble—that address identified purposes and contexts.

Develop and apply criteria to select varied programs to study and perform based on an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics and expressive challenges in the music, the technical skill of the individual or ensemble, and the purpose and context of the performance.

Examine, evaluate, and critique, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how the structure and context impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.

Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, and context of a varied repertoire of music informs prepared and improvised performances as well as performers’ technical skill to connect with the audience.

Develop, apply, and refine appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate an understanding and mastery of the technical demands and expressive qualities of the music through prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures,styles, genres, and historical periods in multiple types of ensembles.

Demonstrate an ability to connect with audience members before and during the process of engaging with and responding to them through prepared and improvised performances.

Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Demonstrate and justify how the analysis of structures, contexts, and performance decisions inform the response to music.

Justify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including reference to other art forms.

Develop and justify evaluations of music, programs of music, and performances based on criteria, personal decisionmaking, research, and understanding of contexts.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Responding

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Creating

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Connecting

Performing

Explain and demonstrate how personal interests and knowledge relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Explain the influence of societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Compose and improvise ideas for melodies and rhythmic passages based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop draft melodies and rhythmic passages that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and collaboratively developed criteria.

Share personally developed melodies and rhythmic passages—individually or as an ensemble—that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Select a varied repertoire to study based on music-reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of formal design in the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual and ensemble.

Demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how the setting and formal characteristics of musical works contribute to understanding the context of the music in prepared or improvised performances.

Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.

Develop strategies to address technical challenges in a varied repertoire of music and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures and styles.

Demonstrate an understanding of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.

Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Describe how understanding context and the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.

Identify and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence, the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Explain the influence of experiences, analysis, and context on interest in and evaluation of music.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Connecting

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Performing

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Responding

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Creating

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Responding

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Creating

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Performing

Connecting

Describe and demonstrate how personal interests relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Relate music to societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Compose and improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop draft melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and teacherprovided criteria.

Share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives—individually or as an ensemble—that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music-reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.

Demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances

Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.

Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.

Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.

Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.

Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe the effect of interest, experience, analysis, and context on the evaluation of music.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Connecting

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Creating

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Responding

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Performing

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Connect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding

Compose and improvise ideas for melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that reflect characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop draft melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions through standard notation and improvisations through audio recording.

Evaluate and refine draft melodies, rhythmic passages, arrangements, and improvisations based on established criteria, including the extent to which they address identified purposes.

Share personally developed melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements— individually or as an ensemble—that address identified purposes.

Explain the criteria used to select a varied repertoire to study based on an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics of the music, the technical skill of the individual or ensemble, and the purpose or context of the performance.

Demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theoretical and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.

Demonstrate an understanding of context in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.

Develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.

Demonstrate an understanding of expressive intent by connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.

Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Explain how the analysis of passages and understanding the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.

Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.

Evaluate works and performances based on personally or collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.

Synthesize personal interests, knowledge, skills, and contexts and how they relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Synthesize the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions, improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions, improvisations, and accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions, improvisations, and accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Perform final versions of compositions, improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Develop and apply criteria for selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual and small group performances that include melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, and historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Explain in interpretations the context (social, cultural, and historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Develop 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 styles, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform 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 styles, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, and historical).

Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of music and specified purpose and context (social, cultural, and historical).

Explain how the analysis of the structures and context (social, cultural, and historical) of contrasting music inform the response.

Explain 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 varied researched sources.

Apply personally developed and established criteria based on research, personal preference, analysis, interpretation, expressive intent, and musical qualities to evaluate contrasting individual and small group musical selections.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Performing

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Responding

Creating

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Connecting

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Integrate and interrelate how personal interests, knowledge, skills, contexts, and audience expectations connect to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Integrate and interrelate the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for a collection of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in a variety of styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Perform final versions of a collection of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Develop and apply criteria for selecting a varied repertoire for a program of music for individual and small group performances that include melodies, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, and historical) in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance programs that includes melodies, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Explain and present interpretations that demonstrate and describe the social, cultural, or historical contexts, and an understanding of the creators’ intent in repertoire for varied programs of music that include melodies, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Develop and apply criteria, including feedback from multiple sources, to critique varied programs of music repertoire selected for individual and small group performance, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire for programs of music that includes melodies, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, and historical).

Select, describe, and compare a variety of individual and small group musical programs from varied cultures, genres, and historical periods.

Demonstrate and justify how the structural characteristics function within a variety of musical selections, and distinguish how context and creative decisions inform the response.

Establish and justify possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including references to examples from other art forms.

Develop and justify evaluations of a variety of individual and small group musical selections based on personally developed and established criteria, personal decision making, and knowledge and understanding of context.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Performing

Responding

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Creating

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Connecting

Explain and demonstrate how personal interests and knowledge relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Explain the influence of societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for melodies created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms and two- to three-chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of melodies created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms and two- tothree-chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of melodies created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms and two- to three chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Share final versions of melodies created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms and two- to three- chord accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music-reading skills, technical skills and related challenges, and the context of the performances.

Identify prominent melodic, harmonic, and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, using standard notation.

Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and identify practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (such as social, cultural, or historical).

Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context (social, cultural, or historical).

Describe how elements of music are manipulated and knowledge of the context (social and cultural) informs the response.

Identify and support possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context, and (when applicable) the setting of the text.

Explain the influence of experiences and contexts (personal, social, or cultural) on interest in and the evaluation of a varied repertoire of music.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Responding

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Connecting

Performing

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Creating

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Creating

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Responding

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Performing

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Describe and demonstrate how personal interests relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Relate music to societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation or audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of simple melodies and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Share final versions of simple melodies and chordal accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music-reading skills, and technical skill, as well as the context of the performances.

Identify prominent melodic and harmonic characteristics in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, using standard notation.

Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and apply practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating understanding of the audience and the context.

Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Identify, citing evidence, the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts in musical selections, and how these and knowledge of the context (social or cultural) informs the response.

Identify possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, referring to the elements of music, context (personal or social), and (when applicable) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe how interest, experiences, and contexts (personal or social) affect the evaluation of music.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Responding

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Creating

Performing

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Connect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Select, 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.

Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions and three or more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Perform 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.

Explain 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.

Identify 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.

Describe 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.

Develop 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.

Perform 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).

Apply 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).

Compare passages in musical selections and explain how the elements of music and context (social, cultural, or historical) inform the response.

Explain 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.

Develop 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.

Synthesize personal interests, knowledge, skills, and contexts and how they relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Synthesize the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Develop and apply criteria to select a varied repertoire to study and perform based on interest, an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics of the music, and the performer’s technical skill using digital tools and resources.

Explain and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, context, and use of digital tools and resources in a varied repertoire of music influences prepared or improvised performances and performers’ ability to connect with audiences.

Develop and implement rehearsal strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in a varied repertoire of music.

Using digital tools and resources, demonstrate technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.

Demonstrate an understanding of the expressive intent when connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.

Select and critique contrasting musical works, defending opinions based on manipulations of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and the purpose and context of the works.

Explain how an analysis of the structure, context, and technological aspects of the music informs the response.

Connect the influence of the treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, context, purpose, and other art forms to the expressive intent of musical works.

Apply teacher-provided or personally developed criteria to evaluate music based on analysis, interpretation, artistic intent, digital, electronic, and analog features, and musical qualities.

Performing

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Connecting

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Responding

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Creating

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and improvisations using digital tools and digital resources.

Select melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity and variety using digital and analog tools.

Develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Share compositions and improvisations that demonstrate musical and technological craftsmanship, using teacher-provided or personally selected digital and analog tools and resources in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Integrate and interrelate how personal interests, knowledge, skills, contexts, and audience expectations connect to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Integrate and interrelate the connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and improvisations that incorporate digital tools, digital resources, and digital systems.

Select, develop, and organize multiple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity, variety, complexity, and coherence using digital and analog tools, resources, and systems.

Develop and implement varied strategies and apply appropriate criteria to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Share a portfolio of musical creations representing varied styles and genres that demonstrates musical and technological craftsmanship, using personally selected digital and analog tools, resources, and systems in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Develop and apply criteria to select varied programs to study and perform based on interest, an understanding of the theoretical and structural characteristics, as well as expressive challenges in the music, and the performer’s technical skill using digital tools, resources, and systems.

Examine, evaluate, and critique how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, context, and integration of digital technologies in a varied repertoire of music informs and influences prepared and improvised performances and their ability to connect with audiences.

Apply appropriate criteria as well as feedback from multiple sources and develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in varied programs of music.

Integrating digital and analog tools and resources, demonstrate an understanding and attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities of the music in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods.

Demonstrate an ability to connect with audience members before performances, and engaging with and responding to them during prepared and improvised performances.

Select, evaluate, and compare a variety of musical selections based on characteristics and knowledge of the music, understanding of digital and electronic aspects, and the purpose and context of the works.

Demonstrate and justify how an analysis of the structural characteristics, context, and technological and creative decisions informs interest in and response to the music.

Examine and cite research and multiple sources to connect the influence of the treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, context, purpose, and other art forms to the expressive intent of musical works.

Develop and justify the evaluation of a variety of music based on established and personally developed criteria, digital, electronic and analog features, and understanding of purpose and context.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Creating

Responding

Connecting

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Performing

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Responding

Performing

Connecting

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Creating

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Connect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions or improvisations using digital tools.

Select melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work using digital tools and digital resources.

Drawing on feedback from teachers and peers, develop and implement strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Share compositions or improvisations that demonstrate musical and technological craftsmanship, using teacher-provided digital tools and resources in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Develop and explain the criteria used for selecting a varied repertoire of music based on interest, music reading skills, and an understanding of the performer’s technical and technological skill.

Describe how context, structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform prepared and improvised performances.

Demonstrate how understanding the context, expressive challenges, and use of digital tools in a varied repertoire of music influence prepared or improvised performances.

Identify and implement rehearsal strategies to improve the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in a varied repertoire of music.

Using digital tools, demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate an understanding of the context of music through prepared and improvised performances.

Cite reasons for choosing music based on the use of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and connections to interest or purpose.

Explain how knowledge of the structure (repetition, similarities, contrasts), technological aspects, and purpose of the music informs the response.

Explain and support an interpretation of the expressive intent of musical selections based on treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, and purpose.

Evaluate music using teacher-provided criteria based on analysis, interpretation, digital and electronic features, and personal interests.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Choose and interpret a drama/theatre work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding.

Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.

Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a cross-cultural drama/theatre work.

Demonstrate the practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.

Formulate creative choices for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work based on research about the selected topic.

Investigate how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in drama/theatre work

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work.

Investigate historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to develop a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/ theatre work.

Understand and apply technical theatre elements to design solutions for a drama/ theatre work.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work.

Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a drama/theatre in western or non-western theatre traditions.

Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a drama/theatre work.

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Use the rehearsal process to analyze the dramatic concept and design elements of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Use research and script analysis to revise physical, vocal, and physiological choices impacting the believability and relevance of a drama/ theatre work.

Re-imagine and revise design choices using technical theatre elements during the course of a rehearsal process to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Discover how unique choices shape believable and sustainable drama/ theatre work.

Identify essential text information, research from various sources, and the director’s concept that influence character choices in a drama/theatre work.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable drama/ theatre performance.

Apply technical theatre elements and research to create a design that communicates the concept of a drama/ theatre production.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Present a drama/ theatre work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work. Demonstrate an understanding of multiple interpretations of artistic criteria and how each might be used to influence future artistic choices of a drama/theatre work.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work.

Develop detailed supporting evidence and criteria to reinforce artistic choices when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.

Apply concepts from a drama/theatre work for personal realization about cultural contexts and understanding.

Debate and distinguish multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of drama/ theatre work.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Analyze and assess a drama/theatre work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

Justify how a drama/theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience.

Construct meaning in a drama/theatre work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of technical theatre elements, while respecting others’ interpretations.

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Responding

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural contexts.

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Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.

Develop a drama/ theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems

Create a drama/ theatre work that appropriately observes ethical responsibility to oneself and others and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data from research.

Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research.

Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technical theatre elements to create the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/ theatre work.

Create a complete design for a drama/ theatre work that incorporates all technical theatre elements.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and western or non-western theatre traditions.

Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Refine, transform, and re-imagine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using the rehearsal process to invent or re-imagine style, genre, form, and theatrical conventions

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

Apply a high level of proficiency in design using technical theatre elements to the rehearsal process to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Apply reliable research to form unique choices for a directorial or designer concept in a drama/theatre work.

Apply a variety of researched acting techniques as an approach to character choices in a drama/ theatre work.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Use and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

Explain and justify the selection of technical theatre elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a drama/ theatre production.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Present a drama/ theatre production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturgy

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work. Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a drama/theatre work.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Use detailed supporting evidence and appropriate criteria to revise personal work and interpret the work of others when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.

Use new understandings of cultures and contexts to shape personal responses to drama/ theatre work.

Support and explain aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a drama/theatre work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/ theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choices.

Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.

Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of technical theatre elements for the same drama/theatre work.

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Creating

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Creating

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Investigate how cultural contexts, community ideas, and personal beliefs impact a drama/ theatre work

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work.

Practice ethical responsibility to oneself and others during the production process and when recording, posting, and sharing through the internet, social media, and other communication formats.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Use script analysis to generate ideas about a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/ theatre work.

Explore the impact of technical theatre elements on design choices in a drama/ theatre work.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work.

Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in drama/theatre works from western or non-western theatre traditions.

Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and their interdependent roles in a drama/theatre work.

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Rehearse and revise a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using theatrical conventions.

Explore physical, vocal, and physiological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

Refine design choices using technical theatre elements to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Examine how character relationships assist in telling the story of a drama/theatre work.

Shape character choices using given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Practice various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or drama/ theatre performance.

Use researched technical theatre elements to increase the impact of design for a drama/theatre production.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Perform a rehearsed, scripted short drama/ theatre work for a specific audience.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work. Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in multiple drama/theatre works.

Identify and compare cultural contexts and contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Understand how multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs shape participation in and observation of a drama/theatre work.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Examine a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

Formulate a deeper understanding and appreciation of a drama/theatre work by considering its specific purpose or intended audience.

Analyze and evaluate the aesthetics and effect of the technical theatre elements in a drama/theatre work.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding. Assess the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/ or empowers people’s lives

Refine and Complete Artistic Work. Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation.  Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation.  Investigate, compare, and contrast methods and processes for preserving, presenting, and protecting a variety of art works.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/ or political experiences.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.

Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work. Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work.  Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.

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Creating

Presenting

Connecting

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through artmaking.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding. Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary, local, and global contexts.

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on students’ existing artwork.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation. Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation. Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work. Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work. Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

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Responding

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Connecting

Document the process of idea development, form early-stage ideas to fully elaborated ideas.

Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.

Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of presentday life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan

Explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.

Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.

Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.

Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.

Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery

Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

Establish relevant criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

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Connecting

Creating

Responding

Presenting