Tennessee State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 8

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate appropriate skeletal alignment, body part articulation, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movements.

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

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

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of wellness and physical education.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Disciplines - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone selected musical examples.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble selected musical examples.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate instrumental musical examples alone.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple pieces of music within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create simple arrangements within specified guidelines.

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, melody, and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of works of music.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

9.2. Examine the evolution of American musical genres and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

9.3. Compare the function music serves, roles of musicians, and conditions under which music is typically performed in several world cultures.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Continue developing the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley or a partner song.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

8.3. Explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of music.

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish selected choral literature by historical period and culture.

9.2. Examine the origins of various American music genres.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, drafting, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of scene writing.

1.2. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.3. Explore personal situations through the creation of scripted scenes.

1.4. Utilize language to express meaning and character.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - The students will develop basic acting skills by portraying characters in improvised and scripted scenes.

2.1. Use emotional recall to create a character.

2.2. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.3. Use characters to develop situations through individual and group work.

2.4. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.5. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - The students will design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

3.1. Explore the functions and interrelated nature of various technical elements such as visual elements and aural qualities.

3.2. Identify technical requirements for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.3. Work collaboratively and safely to create elements of scenery, properties, lighting and sound.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing improvised and scripted scenes.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by using cultural and historical information to support improvised and scripted scenes.

5.1. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society.

5.2. Examine historical elements in society.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - The students will compare and incorporate art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1. Explore various art forms.

6.2. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of other art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, evaluate and construct meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences.

7.2. Examine informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the community and in other cultures.

8.1. Explain how attitudes of various cultures are reflected by theatre, film, television and electronic media.

8.2. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge in select media, techniques and processes.

1.2. Compare and contrast the effective use of communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Reflect upon the effectiveness of a variety of media.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Develop an awareness of the elements of design and the principles of composition through their application.

2.2. Create and evaluate art works that exhibit various sensory and expressive qualities.

2.3. Develop an awareness of the function or intrinsic purposes of works of art.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills that lead to solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will chose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Evaluate subjects, themes and symbols and their origins.

3.2. Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meanings in artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

4.2. Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

4.3. Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

4.4. Recognize the role of artists in our community and society.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks, including mass media, through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

5.4. Investigate and design works of art that communicate sensitivity to the natural and manmade environment.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Recognize the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

6.2. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.