North Dakota State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 12

ND.1. Movement Elements: Students understand the role of movement elements and skills in dance.

12.1.1. Use appropriate technique in dance.

12.1.2. Know complex steps and patterns from various dance styles and traditions.

12.1.3. Understand the importance of using various complex time elements.

12.1.4. Understand the principles governing combinations and variations in a broad, dynamic range.

12.1.5. Understand why it is important to project in dance.

ND.2. Dance: Choreography: Students understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

12.2.1. Understand the importance of structures and forms of movement.

12.2.2. Understand the use of improvisation to generate movement.

ND.3. Dance: Dance and Meaning: Students understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

12.3.1. Understand how movement choices are used to relate to abstract ideas and themes in dance.

12.3.2. Understand how interpretation of dance can be influenced by personal experience.

ND.4. Dance: Dance and Thinking Skills: Students apply critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

12.4.1. Establish a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluation.

12.4.2. Formulate and answer aesthetic questions.

ND.5. Dance: Dance, History, and Culture: Students understand the historical development of dance and its relationship to various cultures.

12.5.1. Know the similarities and differences among various contemporary theatrical forms of dance.

12.5.2. Know dance pioneers as an index to the artistic and social values of civilization.

12.5.3. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

12.5.4. Know the traditions and techniques of classical dance forms.

ND.6. Dance: Dance and Personal Wellness: Students understand the connection between dance and personal wellness.

12.6.1. Know how lifestyle choices affect dancers.

12.6.2. Understand the significance of historical and cultural images of the body in dance.

ND.7. Dance: Dance and Other Disciplines: Students understand the connections between dance and other disciplines.

12.7.1. Know how dance is similar to and different from other disciplines.

12.7.2. Know how technology can be used to reinforce, enhance, or alter dances.

ND.1. Drama: Dramatic Literature: Students comprehend a wide variety of dramatic literature.

12.1.1. Know elements of dramatic literature.

12.1.2. Know and describe characteristics of a variety of dramatic genres by various playwrights.

12.1.3. Understand the impact of choice of medium.

ND.2. Drama: Acting: Students use fundamental acting skills.

12.2.1. Understand the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts from various genres and media.

12.2.2. Know various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

12.2.3. Know how characters as an ensemble communicate with audiences.

ND.3. Drama: Production: Students use fundamental production skills.

12.3.1. Use technical elements to design a production plan for a scene or play.

12.3.2. Perform publicity and house management duties.

12.3.3. Manage a technical element of a scene or play.

ND.4. Drama: Cultural Context of Drama: Students understand drama's role in cultural and human experiences.

12.4.1. Know the historical, social, and cultural factors that influence theatre.

12.4.2. Know characteristics of dramatic genres from a variety of cultures.

ND.5. Drama: Consumer of Theatre: Students understand how to be knowledgeable consumers of theatre.

12.5.1. Understand the relationship between production elements and the director's interpretation of the playwright's script.

12.5.2. Understand the relationship of background research for a production to the audience's comprehension and enjoyment of the production.

12.5.3. Use knowledge of production elements to respond to a theatrical event.

ND.6. Drama: Drama and Human Development: Students understand the role of drama in human development.

12.6.1. Understand how drama influences development of creative thinking skills, critical thinking skills, and social skills throughout one's life.

ND.7. Drama: Drama and Other Disciplines: Students understand the connections between drama and other disciplines.

12.7.1. Know how technical elements and production elements of drama are used in similar and distinctive ways in various arts.

12.7.2. Know the ways in which drama influences disciplines other than the arts.

12.7.3. Know the ways in which other disciplines influence drama.

ND.1. Music: Singing: Students sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

12.1.1. Sing with expression and technical accuracy.

12.1.2. Sing music written in four or more parts, with and without accompaniment.

12.1.3. Sing in small ensembles with one student per part.

ND.2. Music: Instrumental Performance: Students perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

12.2.1. Perform with expression and technical accuracy.

12.2.2. Perform in an ensemble.

12.2.3. Perform in small ensembles with one student on a part.

ND.3. Music: Improvisation: Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

12.3.1. Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts.

12.3.2. Improvise rhythmic and melodic variations.

12.3.3. Improvise original melodies over given chord progressions.

ND.4. Music: Composition: Students compose and arrange music with specified guidelines.

12.4.1. Compose music in several distinct styles.

12.4.2. Arrange pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.

ND.5. Music: Reading Music: Students read and notate music.

12.5.1. Know how to read a score of up to four staves.

ND.6. Music: Listening: Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

12.6.1. Know the uses of the elements of music in the analysis of compositions representing diverse genres and cultures.

12.6.2. Understand technical vocabulary of music.

ND.7. Music: Evaluating Music: Students evaluate music and music performances.

12.7.1. Develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations.

12.7.2. Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities.

ND.8. Music: Music and Other Disciplines: Students understand the relationship between music, the other arts, and other disciplines.

12.8.1. Know how artistic elements and processes are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

12.8.2. Understand the ways in which the principles and concepts of various disciplines outside the arts are related to those of music.

ND.9. Music: Music, History and Culture: Students understand music in relation to history and culture

12.9.1. Know representative examples of music from a variety of cultures and historical periods.

12.9.2. Know sources of American music, the evolution of these genres and musicians associated with them.

12.9.3. Know various roles that musicians perform and representative individuals who have functioned in each role.

ND.1. Visual Arts: Visual Art Media, Techniques, and Processes: Students understand and apply visual art media, techniques, and processes.

12.1.1. Use visual art media, techniques, and processes to accomplish a purpose in their own works of art.

12.1.2. Understand how to create works of visual art that communicate an idea in one or more visual art media.

12.1.3. Use visual art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

ND.2. Visual Arts: Structure and Function: Students understand how works of art are structured and how visual art has a variety of functions.

12.2.1. Understand how the visual structures and functions accomplish personal, commercial, societal, or other art intentions.

12.2.2. Understand what makes various visual art organizational structures effective or ineffective in the communication of ideas.

ND.3. Visual Arts: Subject Matter, Themes, Symbols, and Ideas in Visual Art: Students know a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

12.3.1. Understand how to interpret, integrate, and apply subjects, symbols, themes, and ideas into their work of art.

ND.4. Visual Arts: Visual Art History and Culture: Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

12.4.1. Understand works of art among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics, functions, and purposes of visual art.

12.4.2. Understand relationships among works of art in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture.

ND.5. Visual Arts: Merits of Works of Visual Art: Students understand the characteristics and merit of one's own work of art and the works of art of others.

12.5.1. Understand the possible intentions of those creating works of art.

12.5.2. Understand how specific works of art are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.

12.5.3. Understand how one's own work of art has purpose and meaning.

ND.6. Visual Arts: Connections: Students make connections between the visual arts and other disciplines.

12.6.1. Understand and compare the similarities between visual art and other art disciplines (performing arts, literature, practical arts) that share common themes, historical periods, and cultural context.

12.6.2. Understand and compare the relationship between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.