Colorado State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 11

CO.1. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance skills.

1.1. Defining and demonstrating more complex mechanical movement skills.

1.2. Identifying and demonstrating longer and more complex movement combinations in a broad dynamic range from different dance styles/traditions.

1.3. Demonstrating rhythmic accuracy.

1.4. Demonstrating performance skills.

CO.2. Dance: Students will understand and apply the principles of choreography.

2.1. Creating more complex movement phrases through improvisation.

2.2. Using a variety of sources to structure a complete dance showing and understanding of form and craft.

2.3. Contributing creative ideas to group choreography.

CO.3. Dance: Students will create, communicate, and problem solve through dance.

3.1. Establishing, applying, and evaluating artistic criteria in one's own work and that of others.

3.2. Discussing how personal experiences influence the creation and interpretation of dance.

3.3. Understanding how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance.

3.4. Observing and explaining how musical accompaniment, lighting, and costuming can affect and contribute to the meaning of a dance.

CO.4. Dance: Students will understand and relate the role of dance in culture and history.

4.1. Performing and discussing the tradition and techniques of dance.

4.2. Discussing the historical perspectives of dance and dancers in all historical periods.

4.3. Analyzing how dance is viewed throughout history.

CO.5. Dance: Students will understand the benefits of dance for lifelong fitness.

5.1. Comparing and contrasting the training of dancers and other athletes in fitness activities.

5.2. Evaluating strategies to increase fitness, improve dance skills, and prevent dance injuries.

5.3. Comparing and analyzing historical and cultural images of the body in dance as depicted in all media.

CO.6. Dance: Students will understand the relationships and connections between dance and other disciplines.

6.1. Creating an interdisciplinary project based on a theme using dance and other disciplines to create a desired solution.

6.2. Identifying commonalties between dance and other disciplines.

6.3. Demonstrating and discussing how technology can be used to impact a dance idea in an interdisciplinary project.

CO.1. Music: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.

1.1. Singing or playing, with appropriate technique, music written in multiple parts, improving blend, and matching dynamic levels.

1.2. Singing or playing an expanding repertoire of vocal and/or instrumental literature.

1.3. Responding to the conductor's cues of phrasing and expression while singing or playing music.

CO.2. Music: Students will read and notate music.

2.1. Identifying, defining, and reading standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, style, and tempo.

2.2. Reading advanced rhythmic and melodic notation.

2.3. Notating advanced rhythmic, melodic, and expressive musical ideas.

CO.3. Music: Students will create music.

3.1. Creating rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns or phrases.

3.2. Improvising/creating a melody (melodies) over a chord progression.

CO.4. Music: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.

4.1. Describing and comparing forms.

4.2. Describing and evaluating music performance using musical terminology.

4.3. Explaining characteristics that distinguish musical styles.

CO.5. Music: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.

5.1. Identifying and explaining the features of a given musical work in its historical or cultural context (for example: many African songs are constructed in the call and response forms because they originally functioned as work songs. It was not necessary to read musical notation to learn, sing or enjoy this type of music).

5.2. Comparing and evaluating the roles of musicians throughout history and in various cultures (for example: Haydn was able and willing to work under the system of royal patronage whereas Mozart would struggle with it and Beethoven would completely rebel against it due to the social influences exerted by the American and French revolutions).

CO.1. Theatre: Students develop interpersonal skills and problem-solving capabilities through group interaction and artistic collaboration.

1.1. Understanding and organizing the interrelated responsibilities involved in theatre.

1.2. Developing unified production concepts through research and collaboration among student directors, designers, and actors.

1.3. Understanding and applying group concepts such as cooperation, consensus, building ensemble, and risk-taking to theatre and daily life.

1.4. Evaluating constructively their own and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices.

CO.2. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of story telling, playwriting, acting, and directing.

2.1. Analyzing and interpreting the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters.

2.2. Using voice and movement for conscious communication of thought, feeling, and character with a specific audience.

2.3. Comparing and demonstrating classical and contemporary acting styles and techniques.

2.4. Using improvisation to interpret sub text of scripted materials and to create original scripts.

CO.3. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of design and technical production.

3.1. Analyzing, researching, selecting, and designing appropriate theatrical settings.

3.2. Understanding and applying the functions of scenery, properties, lighting, sound, makeup and costume.

3.3. Organizing and performing technical responsibilities according to established theatrical practice, standards of safety, and environmental guidelines.

CO.4. Theatre: Students understand and relate the role of theatre arts to culture and history.

4.1. Understanding and describing the functions, meanings, contributions, and significance of theatrical works within various cultures throughout history.

4.2. Analyzing and applying knowledge of social, political, and dramatic aspects of various cultures throughout history in the development of theatrical productions.

4.3. Researching, evaluating, and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

CO.5. Theatre: Students analyze and assess the characteristics, merits, and meanings of traditional and modem forms of dramatic expression.

5.1. Reading and analyzing dramatic literature in terms of structure, theme, character, imagery, symbolism, language, and style.

5.2. Reflecting and revising collaborative contributions and artistic choices.

5.3. Articulating, justifying, and applying personal criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and performances.

CO.6. Theatre: Students know and apply connections between theatre and other disciplines.

6.1. Combining knowledge and skills from other disciplines and from theatre in dramatic forms.

6.2. Analyzing and explaining common themes among theatre and other disciplines.

6.3. Synthesizing complex technologies to enhance theatrical productions.

CO.1. Visual Arts: Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.

1.1. Interpreting and distinguishing intended meanings of visual images, themes, and ideas in works of art.

1.2. Researching and synthesizing visual images, themes, and ideas to create works of art which reflect personal experiences and intended meanings.

1.3. Evaluating and defending the use of visual images, themes, and ideas to communicate intended meanings.

CO.2. Visual Arts: Students know and apply elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts.

2.1. Comparing and contrasting elements of art, principles of design, sensory and expressive features and functions of art.

2.2. Creating multiple solutions to visual arts problems by applying elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features.

2.3. Evaluating the use of elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features in developing and solving visual arts problems.

CO.3. Visual Arts: Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

3.1. Demonstrating skill with a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and processes resulting in the creation of works of art.

3.2. Evaluating the relationship between ideas and materials, tools, techniques, and processes used.

CO.4. Visual Arts: Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.

4.1. Describing the functions, meanings, and significance of works of art within various cultures.

4.2. Creating works of art based on comparison and evaluation of various historical and cultural contexts.

4.3. Evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting works of art as related to the history and culture of various people.

CO.5. Visual Arts: Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.

5.1. Interpreting meaning in works of art.

5.2. Evaluating works of art using critical analysis and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Demonstrating the ability to form and defend appropriate judgments.