Florida State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 10

FL.DA.A.1.4. Dance: Skills and Techniques: The student identifies and demonstrates movement elements in performing dance.

DA.A.1.4.1. The student uses correct body alignment, strength, flexibility, and coordination in the performance of technical movements.

DA.A.1.4.2. The student performs technical dance skills with artistic expression (e.g., musicality, clarity, and stylistic nuance).

DA.A.1.4.3. The student uses improvisation to solve movement problems and adjusts choices based on the movement responses of other dancers.

DA.A.1.4.4. The student performs extended movement sequences and rhythmic patterns.

FL.DA.A.2.4. Dance: Skills and Techniques: The student understands choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

DA.A.2.4.1. The student uses both traditional and invented movements to manipulate choreographic principles.

DA.A.2.4.2. The student knows how improvisation is used to create movement for choreography.

DA.A.2.4.3. The student creates a dance that displays choreographic intent.

FL.DA.B.1.4. Dance: Creation and Communication: The student understands dance is a way to create meaning.

DA.B.1.4.1. The student understands similarities and differences in the communicated meaning of dance performances from various perspectives (e.g., self, others, cultures, and dance traditions).

DA.B.1.4.2. The student understands how meaning is communicated with respect to one's own choreographic work.

DA.B.1.4.3. The student creates a dance that effectively communicates or comments on contemporary, social, or political themes.

FL.DA.C.1.4. Dance: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student demonstrates and the student understands dance in various cultures and historical periods.

DA.C.1.4.1. The student knows significant historical events that have occurred in the development of dance.

DA.C.1.4.2. The student understands similarities and differences between various forms of dance.

DA.C.1.4.3. The student understands the impact society and history have on choreographic styles and trends.

DA.C.1.4.4. The student understands the changing role of commercial and artistic forms of dance in American culture.

FL.DA.D.1.4. Dance: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student applies and demonstrates critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

DA.D.1.4.1. The student understands that dance is created and revised according to artistic decisions.

DA.D.1.4.2. The student understands the process of observation and analysis in developing a critique of a finished work.

DA.D.1.4.3. The student understands issues of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, age and/or physical condition in relation to dance.

FL.DA.E.1.4. Dance: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between dance and healthful living.

DA.E.1.4.1. The student understands and applies healthy lifestyle choices that positively affect dancers.

DA.E.1.4.2. The student understands the challenges that face professional performers in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

FL.DA.E.2.4. Dance: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between dance and other disciplines.

DA.E.2.4.1. The student uses technology to enhance a movement study.

DA.E.2.4.2. The student uses dance as a means of expressing ideas from other subject areas (e.g., patterns or cycles of nature or important historical events).

DA.E.2.4.3. The student understands how various science disciplines (e.g., anatomy, kinesiology, exercise physiology, and somatics) are applied to dance.

DA.E.2.4.4. The student understands historical and cultural images of the body in dance in comparison to images of the body in contemporary media.

FL.MU.A.1.4. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student sings, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

MU.A.1.4.1. The student sings accurately, with and without accompaniment, standard choral repertoire (e.g., music written in four-, five-, or six-part madrigal or double choir) with appropriate vocal technique.

MU.A.1.4.2. The student uses appropriate vocal styles and techniques of various musical literature (e.g., jazz, Baroque, gospel, and swing).

MU.A.1.4.3. The student uses ensemble skills (e.g., balance, intonation, and rhythmic unity) in both formal and informal set-tings with choral groups of various sizes and styles (e.g., concert choir, show choir, barbershop quartet, octet, madrigal).

FL.MU.A.2.4. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student performs on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

MU.A.2.4.1. The student performs on at least one instrument, alone and in groups, with proper playing techniques (e.g., embouchure, posture, or bow control) and attends to melodic phrasing, rhythmic accuracy, and articulation.

MU.A.2.4.2. The student performs music of moderate to advanced difficulty of diverse genres and styles on at least one instrument (e.g., keyboard, wind, percussion, or string instruments).

MU.A.2.4.3. The student performs in large and small instrumental groups with proper ensemble skills (e.g., blend, balance, and intonation).

MU.A.2.4.4. The student performs melodic phrases accurately, after hearing only once.

FL.MU.A.3.4. Music: Skills and Techniques: The student reads and notates music.

MU.A.3.4.1. The student sight reads one's part in a four-part vocal or instrumental score.

MU.A.3.4.2. The student describes how traditional and nontraditional notation and symbols of a written score provide information to the performer (e.g., repeats, key and meter changes, themes, and motifs).

MU.A.3.4.3. The student writes the notation for a simple harmonic progression performed by someone else.

FL.MU.B.1.4. Music: Creation and Communication: The student improvises melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

MU.B.1.4.1. The student improvises harmonic accompaniments in pentatonic, major, and minor modes.

MU.B.1.4.2. The student improvises melodies over a given chord progression with appropriate notes and rhythm.

FL.MU.B.2.4. Music: Creation and Communication: The student composes and arranges music within specific guidelines.

MU.B.2.4.1. The student uses basic principles to create compositions in distinct styles and in different media to express an idea or feeling.

MU.B.2.4.2. The student arranges familiar music for voices or instruments for a specific event or function.

FL.MU.C.1.4. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands music in relation to culture and history.

MU.C.1.4.1. The student describes and classifies unfamiliar music according to style, period, composer, culture, or performer.

MU.C.1.4.2. The student understands the development of American music (e.g., country, blues, folk, stage or film, and gospel).

MU.C.1.4.3. The student understands the influence of significant composers and performers on musical styles, traditions, and performance practices.

FL.MU.D.1.4. Music: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student listens to, analyzes, and describes music.

MU.D.1.4.1. The student perceives and remembers significant music events within a composition.

MU.D.1.4.2. The student analyzes music events within a composition using appropriate music principles and technical vocabulary.

MU.D.1.4.3. The student understands the musical elements and expressive techniques (e.g., tension and release, tempo, dynamics, and harmonic and melodic movement) that generate aesthetic responses.

FL.MU.D.2.4. Music: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student evaluates music and music performance.

MU.D.2.4.1. The student establishes a strategy for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and/or the effectiveness of a performance.

MU.D.2.4.2. The student understands the criteria used in the critical evaluation of one's own and others' performances, arrangements, and improvisations.

FL.MU.E.1.4. Music: Applications to Life: The student understands the relationship between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

MU.E.1.4.1. The student understands how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in distinctive ways and provide connections between music and other subjects.

MU.E.1.4.2. The student understands how the uniqueness of a given work of music serves to define its artistic tradition and its cultural context.

FL.MU.E.2.4. Music: Applications to Life: The student understands the relationship between music and the world beyond the school setting.

MU.E.2.4.1. The student knows characteristics that make music suitable for specific occasions and purposes and responds appropriately within various musical settings.

MU.E.2.4.2. The student uses informed consumer choices concerning music based on personal criteria (e.g., rationalizes and defends musical preferences).

MU.E.2.4.3. The student knows the various roles that musicians perform (e.g., entertainer, teacher, or transmitter of cultural tradition), representative individuals who have functioned in these roles, and their achievements.

FL.TH.A.1.4. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student acts by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisation and formal or informal productions.

TH.A.1.4.1. The student uses classical, contemporary, and vocal acting techniques and methods to portray the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters from various genres and media.

FL.TH.A.2.4. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student directs by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for formal and informal productions.

TH.A.2.4.1. The student uses unified production concepts and techniques (e.g., auditioning, directing, producing, and scheduling) for various media (e.g., theatre, film, television, and electronic media).

FL.TH.A.3.4. Theatre: Skills and Techniques: The student designs, conceptualizes, and interprets formal and informal productions.

TH.A.3.4.1. The student uses scientific and technological advances to develop visual and aural staging elements that complement the interpretation of a text.

TH.A.3.4.2. The student understands the technical (physical and chemical) aspects of theatre production to safely create properties, sound, costumes, and makeup.

TH.A.3.4.3. The student designs, implements, and integrates all sound effects into the production concept.

TH.A.3.4.4. The student understands all technical elements used to influence the meaning of the drama.

FL.TH.B.1.4. Theatre: Creation and Communication: The student improvises, writes, and refines scripts based on heritage, imagination, literature, history, and personal experiences.

TH.B.1.4.1. The student understands how actors, directors, and designers create and refine dialogue and stage directions that convey the playwright's intent.

FL.TH.C.1.4. Theatre: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and present.

TH.C.1.4.1. The student understands cultural and historical influences on dramatic forms (e.g., theatre, film, and television).

TH.C.1.4.2. The student understands how the development of theatrical forms and production practices are used to discover symbolic clues in dramatic texts.

FL.TH.D.1.4. Theatre: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student analyzes, criticizes, and constructs meaning from formal and informal theatre, film, television, and electronic media.

TH.D.1.4.1. The student compares the artistic content as described by playwrights, actors, designers, and/or directors with the final artistic product.

TH.D.1.4.2. The student understands allegoric and symbolic references in plays.

TH.D.1.4.3. The student understands theatrical performances from the perspective of current personal, national, and international issues, through the evaluation of artistic choices in film, television, and electronic media (e.g., different depictions of the story of Aladdin).

FL.TH.E.1.4 Theatre: Applications to Life: The student understands applications of the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in everyday life.

TH.E.1.4.1. The student understands how to use various arts media to enhance communication in theatrical productions.

TH.E.1.4.2. The student understands the reasons for personal and audience reactions to theatre from various cultures and time periods (e.g., French farce, Greek tragedy, and Japanese Noh).

TH.E.1.4.3. The student understands the pertinent skills necessary to pursue theatre careers and avocational opportunities in theatre (e.g., production skills for managing, administering, organizing, publishing, accounting, and marketing).

TH.E.1.4.4. The student understands the necessity of goal-setting, self-discipline, punctuality, meeting deadlines, and fulfilling responsibilities when mounting a theatrical production.

TH.E.1.4.5. The student recognizes the significant works and major contributions of major playwrights, performers, designers, directors, and producers in American theatre.

FL.VA.A.1.4. Visual Arts: Skills and Techniques: The student understands and applies media, techniques, and processes.

VA.A.1.4.1. The student uses two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, tools, and processes to communicate an idea or concept based on research, environment, personal experience, observation, or imagination.

VA.A.1.4.2. The student uses tools, media, processes, and techniques proficiently, knowledgeably, and in a safe and responsible manner.

VA.A.1.4.3. The student knows how the elements of art and the principles of design can be used to solve specific art problems.

VA.A.1.4.4. The student uses effective control of media, techniques, and tools when communicating an idea in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.

FL.VA.B.1.4. Visual Arts: Creation and Communication: The student creates and the student communicates a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas using knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts.

VA.B.1.4.1. The student applies various subjects, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

VA.B.1.4.2. The student understands that works of art can communicate an idea and elicit a variety of responses through the use of selected media, techniques, and processes.

VA.B.1.4.3. The student understands some of the implications of intentions and purposes in particular works of art.

VA.B.1.4.4. The student knows how the elements of art and the principles of design can be used and solves specific visual-art problems at a proficient level.

FL.VA.C.1.4. Visual Arts: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

VA.C.1.4.1. The student understands how social, cultural, ecological, economic, religious, and political conditions influence the function, meaning, and execution of works of art.

VA.C.1.4.2. The student understands how recognized artists recorded, affected, or influenced change in a historical, cultural, or religious context.

FL.VA.D.1.4. Visual Arts: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student assesses, evaluates, and responds to the characteristics of works of art.

VA.D.1.4.1. The student understands and determines the differences between the artist's intent and public interpretation through valuative criteria and judgment.

VA.D.1.4.2. The student understands critical and aesthetic statements in terms of historical reference while researching works of art.

VA.D.1.4.3. The student knows the difference between the intentions of artists in the creation of original works and the intentions of those who appropriate and parody those works.

FL.VA.E.1.4. Visual Arts: Applications to Life: The student makes connections between the visual arts, other disciplines, and the real world.

VA.E.1.4.1. The student knows and participates in community-based art experiences as an artist or observer.

VA.E.1.4.2. The student understands and identifies the skills that artists use in various careers to promote creativity, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration within the arts and across life.

VA.E.1.4.3. The student knows how to communicate with the public, the consumer, and the artistic community about aesthetic questions, entertainment, resources, and choices in education.