Delaware State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 12

DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.

1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 3, including some songs performed from memory.

1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.

1.D. Students will sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.

1.E. Students will demonstrate well developed ensemble skills, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 3-4, with most songs performed from memory.

DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.

2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.

2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.

2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.

2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 3-4.

DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.A. Students will improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, in a meter and tonality consistent to the style.

3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.

3.C. Students will improvise harmonizing parts in a given style.

DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

4.A. Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.

4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.

DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.

5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.

5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.

5.C. Students will follow a full instrumental or vocal score.

5.D. Students will use standard notation symbols to record their musical ideas and those of others.

5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music accurately, and expressively, with difficulty level of 2-3.

DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.

6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.

6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.

6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.

6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.

6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).

6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.G. Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work, compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.

DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.

7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.

7.C. Students will evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.

DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.

8.A. Students will explain and cite examples of how elements, artistic processes (e.g., imagination or craftsmanship), and organizational principles (e.g., unity, variety, repetition, contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various art forms.

8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.

8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.

8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creator, performer, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.

DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to history and diverse cultures.

9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.

9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.

9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and geographically significant.

9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and identify well known musicians associated with various genres and styles.

DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.

1.A. Students will analyze different types of media, techniques, and processes used create various art forms.

1.B. Students will analyze the relationship between various media, techniques, and processes and their effects used to communicate specific ideas in works of art.

1.C. Students will refine skills in the use of media, techniques, and processes to create various art forms.

1.D. Students will utilize the unique characteristics of media, techniques, and processes to enhance the communication of ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.

1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.

2.A. Students will analyze how the visual components of art and design applied through various media, techniques, and processes produce different effects.

2.B. Students will evaluate works of art in terms of the use of the organizational components of art and design, expressive features, and functions or purposes.

2.C. Students will formulate ideas, plan, and integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with subjects, themes, symbols, or ideas to improve communication of intended meaning in their works of art.

2.D. Students will create and use relationships among the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and functions or purposes to solve specific visual arts problems.

DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.

3.A. Students will determine the origin of possible subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas for use in creating works of art for an intended purpose.

3.B. Students will identify and integrate a variety of sources for subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas in works of art to make selections which best communicate an intended meaning.

DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.

4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).

4.B. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of works of art from a variety of cultures, times, and places.

4.C. Students will describe the function and explore the meaning of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.D. Students will analyze how factors of cultures, times, places, and the visual arts affect each other.

4.E. Students will identify and differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of functions and purposes of works of art.

DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.

5.A. Students will analyze different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for expressing ideas, actions, and emotions, evaluate their effective use for communication.

5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of art.

5.C. Students will determine the intentions of an artist in creating a particular work of art and evaluate the artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions or fulfilling a particular purpose.

5.D. Students will interpret possible meanings of works of art by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.

5.E. Students will analyze how various individual responses to the characteristics of a work of art can serve as means for interpreting that work.

DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.

6.A. Students will compare the use of technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines.

6.B. Students will analyze and compare the characteristics of the visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities, sciences, or other areas.

6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

1.A. Students will demonstrate how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc. ) comprise the structure of a play.

1.B. Students will analyze literature as a source for play writing.

1.C. Students will write an original one-act play with clearly developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.

1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration, analyze the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.

DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.

2.A. Students will dramatize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts.

2.B. Students will demonstrate acting skills to create and sustain a character in an ensemble.

2.C. Students will exhibit concentration and consistent believable behavior enacting a character from a written script.

2.D. Students will demonstrate different tactics a character might use to accomplish a specific objective.

DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.

3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).

3.B. Students will construct scenery and props based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.

3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.

3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup to create an appropriate environment for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.

DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.

4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of formal theatre presentations or theatre works.

4.C. Students will analyze character relationships and motivations in formal theatre presentations or theatre works.

4.D. Students will analyze narrative elements formal theatre presentations or theatre works.

4.E. Students will develop directorial vision or production concept.

DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.

5.A. Students will collaborate to coordinate backstage, on-stage, house, and front-of-house activities for informal and formal presentations.

5.B. Students will collaborate to develop and implement a marketing campaign for informal and informal presentations.

DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.

6.A. Students will compare how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.

6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in theatre works.

6.C. Students will compare electronic media presentations to live performances.

6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.7. Theatre: Students will assess the characteristics of theatre, evaluating productions and audience response.

7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating a presentation's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.

7.B. Students will analyze and explain how audience responses to a dramatic presentation can have an impact on that presentation.

DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.

8.A. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of the American drama.

8.B. Students will analyze and explain the function of theatre presentations in various contexts (e.g., Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, regional theatre, summer stock, and community and educational theatre).

8.C. Students will analyze dramatic works to understand various cultures, times, and places.

8.D. Students will evaluate criteria for effective communication in relation to lifelong achievement.

8.E. Students will research and describe the range of theatre vocations and avocations in the present.

8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.

DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.A. Students will demonstrate skeletal alignment, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from three different dance styles or traditions.

1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.

1.D. Students will create and perform movement phrases in a broad dynamic range.

1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.

1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform multiple dances.

1.G. Students will explain common dance injuries and strategies to prevent them.

1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.

2.B. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.

2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.

2.D. Students will demonstrate understanding of choreographic structures or forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief movement studies.

2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to direct a small group during the choreographic process.

DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.

3.A. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.

3.B. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic works.

3.C. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating their own work (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).

3.D. Students will describe specific choreographers' movement vocabularies and compositional techniques.

3.E. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating live performance (e.g., skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).

DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.

4.A. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of dance and dancers and compare those to images of dance and dancers in contemporary media.

4.B. Students will choose a culture and create a time line illustrating important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.

DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

5.A. Students will compare one choreographic work to one other art work from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic, cultural, historical concept.

5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other discipline outside the arts.

5.C. Students will create a written production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.

5.D. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of the video camera as part of the choreographic process.

DE.1. Music (Advanced): Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.

1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 4, including some songs performed from memory.

1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.

1.D. Students will sing music written in more than four parts.

1.E. Students will sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.

1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, with a difficulty level of 5, with most songs performed from memory.

DE.2. Music (Advanced): Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.

2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.

2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.

2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.

2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 5.

DE.3. Music (Advanced): Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniment.

3.A. Students will improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.

3.C. Students will improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles.

DE.4. Music (Advanced): Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

4.A. Students will compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in the principles of composition in a variety of styles, genres, forms.

4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.

4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.

DE.5. Music (Advanced): Students will read and notate music.

5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.

5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.

5.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a full instrumental or vocal score and explain all transpositions and clefs.

5.D. Students will interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.

5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight-read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 4.

DE.6. Music (Advanced): Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music and music performances.

6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.

6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.

6.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example.

6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.

6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally.

6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.G. Students will compare and contrast ways in which musical elements are used in given examples.

6.H. Students will analyze and describe the unique and expressive use of elements of music in a given work.

DE.7. Music (Advanced): Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.

7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.

7.C. Students will evaluate a performance composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.

DE.8. Music (Advanced): Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.

8.A. Students will cite representative examples

8.B. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures.

8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.

8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.

DE.9. Music (Advanced): Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.

9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.

9.B. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.

9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered exemplary.

9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well known musicians associated with them.

DE.1. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.

1.A. Students will research and compare types of media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art across cultures, times, and places.

1.B. Students will analyze, research, and demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.

1.C. Students will exhibit advanced skills in the use of a broad range of media, techniques, and processes to produce art works for portfolio presentation.

1.D. Students will initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.

1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

DE.2. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.

2.A. Students will form and support judgments about the use of the visual components of art and design in works produced for individual, commercial, economic, intellectual, or other purposes.

2.B. Students will select organizational components of art and design to create intended effects in their own works of art, make and defend their judgments regarding choices.

2.C. Students will plan, design, and execute multiple solutions to challenging visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between visual, spatial, and temporal concepts and artistic functions, defend their judgments regarding choices made throughout the creative process.

2.D. Students will propose multiple solutions to a visual arts problem through different approaches to the use of sensory qualities, organizational principles, and expressive features, and functions or purposes.

DE.3. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.

3.A. Students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subjects, themes, symbols, problems and ideas are used in the student's work and in works of others.

3.B. Students will research, analyze, and compare the development of recurring subjects, themes, symbols, or problems in their own works of art and the works of others.

DE.4. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.

4.A. Students will engage in research and visual arts experiences related to the roles of artists, art critics, art historians, art educators, and aestheticians in different contexts across cultures, times, and places.

4.B. Students will analyze, and interpret works of art and their relationships to cultures, times, and places.

4.C. Students will analyze, compare, and contrast the functions and meanings of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.D. Students will compare and contrast their own works of art and to works of others to determine how they are affected by cultures, times, and places.

4.E. Students will analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, and purposes.

DE.5. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.

5.A. Students will investigate and analyze contexts (e.g., individual, social, cultural, historical, political) in which the visual arts could serve more effectively than other means of communication to express ideas, actions, and emotions.

5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary throughout critical processes, justify vocabulary selections in relation to various contexts.

5.C. Students will compare and contrast the intentions of different artists, evaluate each artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions for a particular purpose.

5.D. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate how individual, historical, and cultural influences that have impacted their own works of art.

5.E. Students will analyze how individual and group responses to the characteristics of a work of art can influence the examination, interpretation, and evaluation of that work.

DE.6. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.

6.A. Students will interpret and evaluate the effective use of creative processes, principles, and techniques of the visual arts, and other arts disciplines.

6.B. Students will analyze, compare, and interpret recurring ideas, issues, or themes communicated by the visual arts, the humanities, sciences, or other areas.

6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.1. Theatre (Advanced): Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

1.A. Students will analyze and describe how the elements of the play contribute to the telling of a story.

1.B. Students will evaluate how different sources are reflected in plays.

1.C. Students will write an original theatre work with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.

1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.

1.E. Students will analyze and describe the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.

DE.2. Theatre (Advanced): Students will act in formal or informal presentations.

2.A. Students will analyze and synthesize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts to justify the creative choices of the actors.

2.B. Students will demonstrate the skills represented in accepted acting methods while creating and sustaining a believable character.

2.C. Students will create consistent characters from dramatic works of various genres across cultures, times, and places.

DE.3. Theatre (Advanced): Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.

3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).

3.B. Students will design and construct scenery based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.

3.C. Students will create sound and light designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.

3.D. Students will create costume and makeup designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.

DE.4. Theatre (Advanced): Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.

4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of theatre works from various periods and genres.

4.C. Students will define and explore character relationships of theatre works from various periods and genres.

4.D. Students will define and explore narrative elements of theatre works from various periods and genres.

4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.

DE.5. Theatre (Advanced): Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.

5.A. Students will collaborate to successfully create and implement all production schedules, stage management and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal presentations.

5.B. Students will describe and analyze the effects of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.

DE.6. Theatre (Advanced): Students will compare and integrate art forms.

6.A. Students will analyze how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.

6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in an original theatre work.

6.C. Students will create an electronic media presentation.

6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.7. Theatre (Advanced): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.

7.A. Students will compare the intentions of different formal and informal presentations and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.

7.B. Students will analyze how individual and audience response to the dramatic presentation can influence the assessment of that presentation.

DE.8. Theatre (Advanced): Students will understand theatre arts in relation to cultures, times, and places.

8.A. Students will analyze and interpret works of drama and their impact on cultures, times, and places.

8.B. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of specific theatre works within varied cultures, times, and places.

8.C. Students will compare and contrast how students' works in the theatre arts are affected by their own cultures, times, and places.

8.D. Students will analyze role playing, verbal and nonverbal expression, and body movement as tools for effective communication in various cultures.

8.E. Students will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue a theatre career.

DE.1. Dance (Advanced): Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.A. Students will demonstrate consistent execution of technical skills.

1.B. Students will perform technical skills with expressiveness, clarity, musicality, and authenticity of style and tradition.

1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.

1.D. Students will demonstrate performance presence while performing dance skills.

1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.

1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to reconstruct a dance.

1.G. Students will discuss challenges facing professional performers in maintaining physical well-being.

1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

DE.2. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.

2.B. Students will use improvisation in a dance performance.

2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.

2.D. Students will choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.E. Students will demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance.

DE.3. Dance (Advanced): Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.

3.A. Students will view professional dance presentations and describe how dance creates and conveys meaning through performance.

3.B. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost or gained by those decisions.

3.C. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic styles.

3.D. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating the work of others (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).

3.E. Students will describe how specific choreographers manipulate and develop movement to create a dance.

3.F. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or a cultural dance form, then create a dance and identify those styles and/or dance forms that influenced the work.

DE.4. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.

4.A. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social, historical, cultural, and political contexts.

4.B. Students will choose and research a culture, write an analysis of that culture's important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.

DE.5. Dance (Advanced): Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.

5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and two or more art forms.

5.C. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project using media technologies (e.g., video computer) that presents dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).

5.D. Students will create and implement a production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.

5.E. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of several video cameras as part of the choreographic process.