Mississippi State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 6

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MS.1. Visual Arts: Creating/Performing (CP): Students will communicate ideas and feelings by creating and performing works of art through the visual arts.

1.1. Students will know and use fundamental skills related to media, techniques, and processes to create and study works of art

1.2. Students will apply with increasing skill and understanding the elements and principles of design in creating works of art that communicate feelings, ideas, and experiences

1.3. Students will apply knowledge of how the use of various media, techniques, and processes results in different effects in works of art

1.4. Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

MS.2. Visual Arts: Critical Analysis (CA): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the complex characteristics of the visual arts.

2.1. Students will develop perceptual skills and use increased visual arts vocabulary to make judgments while creating and studying works of art

2.2. Students will understand that there are various critical processes for examining the characteristics of works of art and design through reading, writing, and speaking

2.3. Students will recognize, identify, and read increasingly complex music notation and symbols

MS.3. Visual Arts: History/Culture (HC): Students will understand the roles and functions of artists and visual arts in cultures, times, and places.

3.1. Students will understand that roles, functions, and purposes of artists, works of art and visual arts careers vary across cultures, times, and places

3.2. Students will recognize subject matter, themes, and forms that recur in works of art and design across cultures, times, and places

MS.4. Visual Arts: Aesthetics (A): Students will perceive, understand, and appreciate the diverse meanings and value of the visual arts.

4.1. Students will understand different concepts about what constitutes art

4.2. Students will understand that multiple factors affect how people respect, value, and derive meaning from art

4.3. Students will evaluate and discuss from an individual perspective the great dance works, innovators and performers

4.4. Students will practice and advocate the patronage of dance and the arts

MS.5. Visual Arts: Connections (C): Students will make valid connections among the arts, others subject areas, and everyday life.

5.1. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other subject areas provides essential tools for everyday life

5.2. Students will understand ways that major concepts, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts relate to those in other subject areas - within and outside the arts

5.3. Students will know and examine dance careers

MS.1. Music: Creating/Performing (CP): Students will communicate ideas and feelings by improvising, composing, arranging, and performing works of music.

1.1. Students will sing and/or play a varied repertoire of music, alone and in large or small ensembles

1.2. Students will create and perform original music with simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns

MS.2. Music: Critical Analysis (CA): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the complex characteristics of music.

2.1. Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music from varied repertoire

2.2. Students will examine or develop criteria for evaluating the quality of music performances

2.3. Students will recognize, identify, and read increasingly complex music notation and symbols

MS.3. Music: History/Culture (HC): Students should understand the roles and functions of music and musicians in cultures, times, traditions, and places.

3.1. Students will demonstrate awareness of the role and function of music and musicians in cultures, times, and places.

MS.4. Music: Aesthetics (A): Students will perceive, understand, and appreciate the diverse meanings and value of music.

4.1. Students will develop awareness of aesthetic qualities in works of music

MS.5. Music: Connections (C): Students should make valid connections among the arts, others subject areas, and everyday life.

5.1. Students will recognize broad concepts that music, the other arts, and other subject areas share in common

5.2. Students will understand the role of music and musicians in everyday life

MS.1. Theatre: Creating/Performing (CP): Students will communicate ideas and feelings by creating and performing works of art through theatre.

1.1. Students will write scripts through the process of improvisation leading to scripted scenes based on personal experience, heritage, imagination, literature, and history

1.2. Students will develop acting skills to portray characters that interact in improvised and scripted scenes

1.3. Students will design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes

1.4. Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

MS.2. Theatre: Critical Analysis (CA): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the complex characteristics of theatre.

2.1. Students will understand that there are individual as well as universal meanings in classroom dramatizations, theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

2.2. Students will know how to apply discoveries from research to support classroom dramatizations

MS.3. Theatre: History/Culture (HC): Students will understand the roles and functions of artists and theatre in cultures, times, and places.

3.1. Students will recognize that theatre can communicate the artistic and social values and accomplishments of other cultures, times, and places

MS.4. Theatre: Aesthetics (A): Students will perceive, understand, and appreciate the diverse meanings and value of theatre.

4.1. Students will explore theatre and theatre artists in order to respond cognitively to creative products

MS.5. Theatre: Connections (C): Students will make valid connections among the arts, others subject areas, and everyday life.

5.1. Students will explore relationships between theatre, other arts, subject areas, and everyday life