Standards
Identify and select production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work and explain reasons for the decisions made using production terminology. Explore possibilities of producing dance in a variety of venues or for different audiences. Provide evidence of how the production elements would be handled in different situations.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceRefine partner and ensemble skills through the development of kinesthetic awareness while performing diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space. Convert inward focus to outward focus for projecting out to far space.
Generate resourceExplore choreographic elements, structures and processes to develop a dance study. Explain the choreographic intent of the movement.
Generate resourceDemonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Document efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements. Post performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.
Generate resourceApply movement principles such as movement initiation, and use of imagery, while performing dance sequences and movement studies.
Generate resourceInvestigate the dance literacy skills of dance observation, writing, and critique, understanding cultural influences, engaging in dialogue, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.
Generate resourceRevise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic intent.
Generate resourceApply technical dance skills (for example, alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions within dance sequences.
Generate resourceUse combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the time and the dynamics of a sequence or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats in 3/4 and 4/4 meter. Use timing accents to add rhythmic interest to movement.
Generate resourceIncorporate energy/effort and dynamics to technique exercises and dance performance. Use energy and dynamics to enhance and project movements.
Generate resourceUse artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective dance work. Utilize criteria to evaluate a specific dance work and consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceAnalyze and compare various movement sources (ex: personal, cross-cultural, styles and genres of movement) and their dance elements. Interpret the movement observed in regards to the development of one's attitudes, knowledge, experiences, and/or personal movement preferences.
Generate resourceExplain and compare how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use genre specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceConstruct and solve multiple movement problems to develop choreographic content.
Generate resourceExplore or invent a system to record a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or a form of media technology (e.g. Laban motif symbols, creative writing, etc.).
Generate resourceExplore relationships of movement components and concepts through creative processes by investigating various improvisational approaches.
Generate resourceDescribe, demonstrate and compare dance sequences within a dance in context of their artistic intent.
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate healthful practices including nutrition and basic anatomical knowledge that promote safe and healthful strategies when warming up, dancing, and in everyday life.
Generate resourceCreate movement from a variety of stimuli (for example music/sound, observed dance, literary forms, natural phenomena, current news or social events, personal experience) that expands movement vocabulary and develops artistic expression. Use movement to create an original dance study.
Generate resourceResearch an aspect or contrasting aspects from the cultural, social or historical development of a dance genre or style, and/or the dance elements. Share the findings and discuss how these reinforced or changed personal views and understandings. Document the process of investigation.
Generate resourceInterpret and provide evidence on how artistic expression of dance is achieved through the relationships among the components of dance using genre-specific dance terminology.
Generate resourceIdentify examples of how music helps to create a sense of identity, community, and solidarity.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and document selected and developed ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions (e.g. with unity and variety).
Generate resourceClassify and describe expressive attributes and context and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.
Generate resourceExplain how interpretation is connected to expressive intent in various musics.
Generate resourceWith an appropriate level of independence rehearse to refine technique, expression, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceSelect music to perform using teacher-provided criteria and explain reasons for choices.
Generate resourceApply collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of their documented personally or collectively created music to others and explain their creative process and intent.
Generate resourceClassify and explain, citing evidence, how musical concepts, design, and contexts affect responses to music (e.g. personal and social).
Generate resourceUse notation to document personal or collective rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within a specified form (e.g. AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, etc).
Generate resourceGenerate coherent musical ideas (e.g. rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes within a specified form.
Generate resourceApply collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.
Generate resourceSynthesize relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Generate resourceReflect on and discuss the roles and impact various musics plays in one's life and the lives of others.
Generate resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from others (teacher and peers).
Generate resourceExplain and show how media artworks form new meanings and knowledge, situations, and cultural experiences (such as learning, and new information).
Generate resourceAccess, evaluate and use internal and external resources to inform the creation of media artworks (such as experiences, interests, research, and exemplary works).
Generate resourceDescribe, compare, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components in media artworks.
Generate resourceEvaluate the results of and improvements for presenting media artworks, considering impacts on personal growth.
Generate resourceExhibit an increasing set of creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as exploratory processes) for developing solutions within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExhibit an increasing set of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as creative problem-solving and organizing) through performing various roles in producing media artworks.
Generate resourceResearch and demonstrate how media artworks and ideas relate to various purposes, values, cultures, and contexts (such as community, vocations, and social media).
Generate resourceDescribe, compare, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks interact with personal preferences in influencing audience experience.
Generate resourceDesign, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering expressive intent and resources.
Generate resourceAnalyze the intent and message of a variety of media artworks, using selfdeveloped criteria.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceCoordinate production processes to integrate content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles (such as narrative structures and composition).
Generate resourceIntegrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey consistent perspectives and narratives, such as an interactive video game.
Generate resourceAnalyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy, social media, virtual worlds, and digital identity.
Generate resourceEvaluate various presentation formats in order to fulfill various tasks and teacher-defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.
Generate resourceDemonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways to achieve an assigned purpose in constructing media artworks.
Generate resourceImprove and refine media artworks by intentionally emphasizing particular expressive elements to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, or place.
Generate resourceFormulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes (such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming).
Generate resourceInterpret and discuss how personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs are used in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceResearch and discuss how a playwright might have intended a theatrical work to be produced.
Generate resourceExamine artifacts from a time period and geographic location to better understand performance and design choices in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceResearch multiple technical design elements for a devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).
Generate resourcePerform in a group guided theatrical experience and present it informally to an audience.
Generate resourceExplain how the actions and motivations of characters in a theatrical work impact perspectives of a community or culture.
Generate resourceExamine and justify original ideas and artistic choices in a theatrical work based on critical analysis, background knowledge and historical and cultural context.
Generate resourceDemonstrate mutual respect for self and others and their roles in preparing or devising a theatrical work.
Generate resourceIdentify how the intended purpose of a theatrical work appeals to a specific audience.
Generate resourceAnalyze and refine artistic choices in a devised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceEnvision and describe a scripted or improvised character's inner thoughts and objectives in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceExplain preferences, using supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDemonstrate effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceInvestigate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse one or more production elements in a theatrical work to assess aesthetic choices.
Generate resourceCompare recorded personal and peer reactions to artistic choices in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceParticipate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied for a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse different forms of theatrical work to examine contemporary social, cultural, or global issues.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceReflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format (such as essay, story, poem).
Generate resourceCompare how technologies have changed the way artwork is presented and experienced (such as audio tours, interactive screens, digital projections, virtual tours).
Generate resourceAnalyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences (flags at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, athletic logos at sporting events, costumes at a scifi convention).
Generate resourceBased on criteria (such as visual similarities, media, unity of subject matter) analyze and evaluate methods for preparing and presenting artworks in an exhibition (such as a collection of postcard reproductions, student artwork, objects of visual culture).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceAnalyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, (such as American folk portraits made for everyday people available before photography, Stonehenge built with massive stones from far away) and cultural uses (such as expressing religious concerns, promoting political points of view, showcasing economic status, celebrating scientific discoveries).
Generate resourceDevelop criteria (such as identifying the desired qualities of the final artwork) to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
Generate resourceCompare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on articulated personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of criteria established by art specialists (curators, art historians, critics, reviewers, and other artists).
Generate resourceApply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
Generate resourceDemonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art) in creating works of art or design.
Generate resourceApply strategies to overcome creative blocks (such as redefine, view from different perspective, take a break and look at classmates' work).
Generate resourceExplain how the location of artworks/artifacts (such as katsinas in museums or in ceremonial sites) influence how they are perceived and valued.
Generate resourceApply standards of craftsmanship with tools, materials and processes and demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the Internet, social media, and other communication formats.
Generate resourceAnalyze how preservation and security measures can affect viewing and experiencing art.
Generate resourceCite specific evidence from an artwork (such as subject matter, media, elements and principles of modern art, artistic norms of diverse cultures, social issues in contemporary art) and relevant evidence from the context (artist's life and times) to support an interpretation of the mood, message or meaning of that artwork.
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