Delaware State Standards for Arts Education:
Currently Perma-Bound only has suggested titles for grades K-8 in the Science and Social Studies areas. We are working on expanding this.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo.
1.B. Students will sing expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
1.C. Students will sing a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles of diverse cultures.
1.D. Students will sing partner songs, rounds, and songs with ostinatos.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics while maintaining a steady tempo.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles, echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.
2.D. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.E. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple meter.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch direction using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation, and interpret them correctly when performing.
5.D. Students will use symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will use movement and dialog to describe various styles of music.
6.D. Students will identify the elements of music by listening.
6.E. Students will identify simple music forms by listening.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will identify ways for evaluating compositions and performances.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various art forms.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times and places.
9.A. Students will listen to examples of music from various historical periods and diverse cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music of various cultures.
9.C. Students will describe the roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will know that different media, techniques, and processes are used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will understand that various media, techniques, and processes create different effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will experiment with and use a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will employ a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will recognize, name, and apply the visual components of art and design (i.e., line, color, value, shape and form, space, texture).
2.B. Students will recognize, name, and apply the organizational components of art and design (i.e., balance, unity, contrast, pattern, emphasis, movement, rhythm).
2.C. Students will understand that creating works of art involves the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will select and apply knowledge of the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and purposes of art and design in order to convey ideas in their own works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will explore and understand possible sources of subjects and ideas for creating works of art.
3.B. Students will select and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning in works of art.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will discover how the various roles of the visual arts are a part of daily life.
4.B. Students will recognize that the visual arts have a history.
4.C. Students will understand that characteristics of works of art identify them as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will know how cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will understand differences in purpose and distinguish between functional and nonfunctional works of art and design in various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will understand that the visual arts are forms of communication for the expression of ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing and describing works of art.
5.C. Students will recognize and explore various purposes for creating works of art.
5.D. Students will describe how individual experiences influence the creation of specific works of art.
5.E. Students will examine characteristics of works of art that evoke various responses from viewers.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will recognize similarities between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will recognize relationships between the characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will understand the structure of a play by viewing a performance.
1.B. Students will explore and understand possible sources for play making.
1.C. Students will make a play by improvising characters, environments, and situations.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify different types of plays (e.g., comedy, drama, musical theatre, opera).
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in informal or formal presentations.
2.A. Students will define and distinguish the vocal, physical, intellectual, and emotional traits of various characters.
2.B. Students will develop the skills of memory and sensory recall.
2.C. Students will imagine and enact characters and their relationships in given environments.
2.D. Students will learn how to pursue an objective using different tactics.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and communication facilitation.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent scenery and props for an environment.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting to communicate locale and mood for imagined environments.
3.D. Students will use costumes and makeup to communicate character and mood.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey meaning.
4.C. Students will explain character action and relationships.
4.D. Students will identify and explain narrative elements.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize space for an audience to experience informal presentations.
5.B. Students will promote an informal presentation.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will identify the basic characteristic elements of the various art forms.
6.B. Students will select movement, music, and/or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.
6.C. Students will discuss the dramatic art forms of theatre, film, and television.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will identify and describe the elements of dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will share individual responses to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will recognize that the theatre arts have a history.
8.B. Students will describe characteristics of theatre pieces which identify themes belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will explain how cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand that communication (e.g., verbal, nonverbal, written) is a part of daily life.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, stretch, swing) and basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling in a forward, backward, sideward, diagonal, and curved path.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from one style or tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of a simple movement sequence.
1.G. Students will demonstrate understanding of a basic physical warm up.
1.H. Students will make adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to discover and invent movement.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle and end.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on their own ideas.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will describe how everyday movement and feelings can be transformed through dance.
3.B. Students will create a solution to a movement problem and discuss their solutions.
3.C. Students will describe their reactions to a dance (seen both live and on film and/or video).
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different.
3.E. Students will begin to use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching dance performances.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical).
4.B. Students will understand the functions of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., in Colonial America, why and in what settings did people dance? What did the dances look like?).
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo.
1.B. Students will sing expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
1.C. Students will sing a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles of diverse cultures.
1.D. Students will sing partner songs, rounds, and songs with ostinatos.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics while maintaining a steady tempo.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles, echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.
2.D. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.E. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple meter.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch direction using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation, and interpret them correctly when performing.
5.D. Students will use symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will use movement and dialog to describe various styles of music.
6.D. Students will identify the elements of music by listening.
6.E. Students will identify simple music forms by listening.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will identify ways for evaluating compositions and performances.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various art forms.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times and places.
9.A. Students will listen to examples of music from various historical periods and diverse cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music of various cultures.
9.C. Students will describe the roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will know that different media, techniques, and processes are used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will understand that various media, techniques, and processes create different effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will experiment with and use a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will employ a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will recognize, name, and apply the visual components of art and design (i.e., line, color, value, shape and form, space, texture).
2.B. Students will recognize, name, and apply the organizational components of art and design (i.e., balance, unity, contrast, pattern, emphasis, movement, rhythm).
2.C. Students will understand that creating works of art involves the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will select and apply knowledge of the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and purposes of art and design in order to convey ideas in their own works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will explore and understand possible sources of subjects and ideas for creating works of art.
3.B. Students will select and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning in works of art.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will discover how the various roles of the visual arts are a part of daily life.
4.B. Students will recognize that the visual arts have a history.
4.C. Students will understand that characteristics of works of art identify them as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will know how cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will understand differences in purpose and distinguish between functional and nonfunctional works of art and design in various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will understand that the visual arts are forms of communication for the expression of ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing and describing works of art.
5.C. Students will recognize and explore various purposes for creating works of art.
5.D. Students will describe how individual experiences influence the creation of specific works of art.
5.E. Students will examine characteristics of works of art that evoke various responses from viewers.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will recognize similarities between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will recognize relationships between the characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will understand the structure of a play by viewing a performance.
1.B. Students will explore and understand possible sources for play making.
1.C. Students will make a play by improvising characters, environments, and situations.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify different types of plays (e.g., comedy, drama, musical theatre, opera).
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in informal or formal presentations.
2.A. Students will define and distinguish the vocal, physical, intellectual, and emotional traits of various characters.
2.B. Students will develop the skills of memory and sensory recall.
2.C. Students will imagine and enact characters and their relationships in given environments.
2.D. Students will learn how to pursue an objective using different tactics.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and communication facilitation.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent scenery and props for an environment.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting to communicate locale and mood for imagined environments.
3.D. Students will use costumes and makeup to communicate character and mood.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey meaning.
4.C. Students will explain character action and relationships.
4.D. Students will identify and explain narrative elements.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize space for an audience to experience informal presentations.
5.B. Students will promote an informal presentation.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will identify the basic characteristic elements of the various art forms.
6.B. Students will select movement, music, and/or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.
6.C. Students will discuss the dramatic art forms of theatre, film, and television.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will identify and describe the elements of dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will share individual responses to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will recognize that the theatre arts have a history.
8.B. Students will describe characteristics of theatre pieces which identify themes belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will explain how cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand that communication (e.g., verbal, nonverbal, written) is a part of daily life.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, stretch, swing) and basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling in a forward, backward, sideward, diagonal, and curved path.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from one style or tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of a simple movement sequence.
1.G. Students will demonstrate understanding of a basic physical warm up.
1.H. Students will make adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to discover and invent movement.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle and end.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on their own ideas.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will describe how everyday movement and feelings can be transformed through dance.
3.B. Students will create a solution to a movement problem and discuss their solutions.
3.C. Students will describe their reactions to a dance (seen both live and on film and/or video).
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different.
3.E. Students will begin to use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching dance performances.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical).
4.B. Students will understand the functions of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., in Colonial America, why and in what settings did people dance? What did the dances look like?).
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo.
1.B. Students will sing expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
1.C. Students will sing a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles of diverse cultures.
1.D. Students will sing partner songs, rounds, and songs with ostinatos.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics while maintaining a steady tempo.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles, echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.
2.D. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.E. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple meter.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch direction using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation, and interpret them correctly when performing.
5.D. Students will use symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will use movement and dialog to describe various styles of music.
6.D. Students will identify the elements of music by listening.
6.E. Students will identify simple music forms by listening.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will identify ways for evaluating compositions and performances.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various art forms.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times and places.
9.A. Students will listen to examples of music from various historical periods and diverse cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music of various cultures.
9.C. Students will describe the roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will know that different media, techniques, and processes are used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will understand that various media, techniques, and processes create different effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will experiment with and use a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will employ a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will recognize, name, and apply the visual components of art and design (i.e., line, color, value, shape and form, space, texture).
2.B. Students will recognize, name, and apply the organizational components of art and design (i.e., balance, unity, contrast, pattern, emphasis, movement, rhythm).
2.C. Students will understand that creating works of art involves the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will select and apply knowledge of the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and purposes of art and design in order to convey ideas in their own works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will explore and understand possible sources of subjects and ideas for creating works of art.
3.B. Students will select and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning in works of art.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will discover how the various roles of the visual arts are a part of daily life.
4.B. Students will recognize that the visual arts have a history.
4.C. Students will understand that characteristics of works of art identify them as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will know how cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will understand differences in purpose and distinguish between functional and nonfunctional works of art and design in various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will understand that the visual arts are forms of communication for the expression of ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing and describing works of art.
5.C. Students will recognize and explore various purposes for creating works of art.
5.D. Students will describe how individual experiences influence the creation of specific works of art.
5.E. Students will examine characteristics of works of art that evoke various responses from viewers.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will recognize similarities between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will recognize relationships between the characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will understand the structure of a play by viewing a performance.
1.B. Students will explore and understand possible sources for play making.
1.C. Students will make a play by improvising characters, environments, and situations.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify different types of plays (e.g., comedy, drama, musical theatre, opera).
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in informal or formal presentations.
2.A. Students will define and distinguish the vocal, physical, intellectual, and emotional traits of various characters.
2.B. Students will develop the skills of memory and sensory recall.
2.C. Students will imagine and enact characters and their relationships in given environments.
2.D. Students will learn how to pursue an objective using different tactics.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and communication facilitation.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent scenery and props for an environment.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting to communicate locale and mood for imagined environments.
3.D. Students will use costumes and makeup to communicate character and mood.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey meaning.
4.C. Students will explain character action and relationships.
4.D. Students will identify and explain narrative elements.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize space for an audience to experience informal presentations.
5.B. Students will promote an informal presentation.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will identify the basic characteristic elements of the various art forms.
6.B. Students will select movement, music, and/or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.
6.C. Students will discuss the dramatic art forms of theatre, film, and television.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will identify and describe the elements of dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will share individual responses to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will recognize that the theatre arts have a history.
8.B. Students will describe characteristics of theatre pieces which identify themes belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will explain how cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand that communication (e.g., verbal, nonverbal, written) is a part of daily life.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, stretch, swing) and basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling in a forward, backward, sideward, diagonal, and curved path.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from one style or tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of a simple movement sequence.
1.G. Students will demonstrate understanding of a basic physical warm up.
1.H. Students will make adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to discover and invent movement.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle and end.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on their own ideas.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will describe how everyday movement and feelings can be transformed through dance.
3.B. Students will create a solution to a movement problem and discuss their solutions.
3.C. Students will describe their reactions to a dance (seen both live and on film and/or video).
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different.
3.E. Students will begin to use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching dance performances.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical).
4.B. Students will understand the functions of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., in Colonial America, why and in what settings did people dance? What did the dances look like?).
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo.
1.B. Students will sing expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
1.C. Students will sing a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles of diverse cultures.
1.D. Students will sing partner songs, rounds, and songs with ostinatos.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics while maintaining a steady tempo.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles, echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.
2.D. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.E. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple meter.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch direction using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation, and interpret them correctly when performing.
5.D. Students will use symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will use movement and dialog to describe various styles of music.
6.D. Students will identify the elements of music by listening.
6.E. Students will identify simple music forms by listening.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will identify ways for evaluating compositions and performances.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various art forms.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times and places.
9.A. Students will listen to examples of music from various historical periods and diverse cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music of various cultures.
9.C. Students will describe the roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will know that different media, techniques, and processes are used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will understand that various media, techniques, and processes create different effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will experiment with and use a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will employ a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will recognize, name, and apply the visual components of art and design (i.e., line, color, value, shape and form, space, texture).
2.B. Students will recognize, name, and apply the organizational components of art and design (i.e., balance, unity, contrast, pattern, emphasis, movement, rhythm).
2.C. Students will understand that creating works of art involves the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will select and apply knowledge of the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and purposes of art and design in order to convey ideas in their own works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will explore and understand possible sources of subjects and ideas for creating works of art.
3.B. Students will select and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning in works of art.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will discover how the various roles of the visual arts are a part of daily life.
4.B. Students will recognize that the visual arts have a history.
4.C. Students will understand that characteristics of works of art identify them as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will know how cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will understand differences in purpose and distinguish between functional and nonfunctional works of art and design in various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will understand that the visual arts are forms of communication for the expression of ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing and describing works of art.
5.C. Students will recognize and explore various purposes for creating works of art.
5.D. Students will describe how individual experiences influence the creation of specific works of art.
5.E. Students will examine characteristics of works of art that evoke various responses from viewers.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will recognize similarities between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will recognize relationships between the characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will understand the structure of a play by viewing a performance.
1.B. Students will explore and understand possible sources for play making.
1.C. Students will make a play by improvising characters, environments, and situations.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify different types of plays (e.g., comedy, drama, musical theatre, opera).
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in informal or formal presentations.
2.A. Students will define and distinguish the vocal, physical, intellectual, and emotional traits of various characters.
2.B. Students will develop the skills of memory and sensory recall.
2.C. Students will imagine and enact characters and their relationships in given environments.
2.D. Students will learn how to pursue an objective using different tactics.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and communication facilitation.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent scenery and props for an environment.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting to communicate locale and mood for imagined environments.
3.D. Students will use costumes and makeup to communicate character and mood.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey meaning.
4.C. Students will explain character action and relationships.
4.D. Students will identify and explain narrative elements.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize space for an audience to experience informal presentations.
5.B. Students will promote an informal presentation.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will identify the basic characteristic elements of the various art forms.
6.B. Students will select movement, music, and/or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.
6.C. Students will discuss the dramatic art forms of theatre, film, and television.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will identify and describe the elements of dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will share individual responses to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will recognize that the theatre arts have a history.
8.B. Students will describe characteristics of theatre pieces which identify themes belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will explain how cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand that communication (e.g., verbal, nonverbal, written) is a part of daily life.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, stretch, swing) and basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling in a forward, backward, sideward, diagonal, and curved path.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from one style or tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of a simple movement sequence.
1.G. Students will demonstrate understanding of a basic physical warm up.
1.H. Students will make adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to discover and invent movement.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle and end.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on their own ideas.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will describe how everyday movement and feelings can be transformed through dance.
3.B. Students will create a solution to a movement problem and discuss their solutions.
3.C. Students will describe their reactions to a dance (seen both live and on film and/or video).
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different.
3.E. Students will begin to use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching dance performances.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical).
4.B. Students will understand the functions of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., in Colonial America, why and in what settings did people dance? What did the dances look like?).
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing alone with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 1, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression standard for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing ostinatos (repeated patterns), partner songs, and rounds.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch notation using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression and interpret them when performing.
5.D. Students will use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will identify specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in aural examples.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will describe music notation, instruments, voices, and performances using appropriate terminology.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will compare similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will identify the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will identify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music examples.
9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will identify various media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will describe how the effects created by two-dimensional media, techniques, and processes differ from those produced with three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.
1.C. Students will explore and apply the characteristics of a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will select and use the different characteristics of two and three dimensional art media, techniques, and processes in creating works of art to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will illustrate how the visual components of art and design work together to create expressive qualities in works of art.
2.B. Students will illustrate how the organizational components of art and design work together to communicate ideas.
2.C. Students will plan and create works of art that show the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will employ the relationships between visual and organizational components of art and design and expressive qualities or functions to improve communication of ideas in their own works.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will identify subjects, symbols, and ideas as possible sources for content in their own works of art.
3.B. Students will analyze and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will identify the roles of artists in society across cultures, times and places.
4.B. Students will examine the relationships of the visual arts to various cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will classify specific artists and works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will identify and illustrate ways that cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will compare various functions or purposes of works of art and design across various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will identify and describe how the visual arts are forms of communication that are used to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, and analyzing works of art.
5.C. Students will analyze works of art to determine why they were created.
5.D. Students will explore how experiences as an individual and as a member of groups influence the creation of works of art.
5.E. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to characteristics of the same works of art.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).
6.B. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios and/or plays.
1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a written format.
1.B. Students will understand how play making is based on personal and shared experience and imagination.
1.C. Students will record the improvised movement and/or dialogue of a play through writing, taping, or other means.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify, compare, and contrast different forms of plays.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will explore the dialogue and actions of characters in a dramatic text.
2.B. Students will develop the skill of concentration to enact a created character.
2.C. Students will use variations of movement, gesture, and vocal expression (e.g., pitch tempo, and tone) to create different characters.
2.D. Students will examine how characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will imagine, design, and construct environments to communicate locale and mood.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised scenes.
3.C. Students will select, organize, and invent appropriate costumes and makeup for scripted scenes.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey the meaning of improvised scenes.
4.C. Students will identify character relationships in scenes.
4.D. Students will identify elements of dialogue (e.g., dialect, regionalism, rhythm, meter, connotation) in scenes.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful house and front-of-house activities (e.g., tickets, programs, ushers, and sales) for informal or formal productions.
5.B. Students will investigate methods for advertising (e.g., print, electronic media, etc.) formal or informal productions.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will discuss how the characteristic elements of the various art forms express ideas and emotions.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual art forms in an informal presentation.
6.C. Students will identify the differences between a live performance of a play and an electronic presentation of it.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will explore how dramatic elements combine successfully to make a whole.
7.B. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will explore the specific relationships of theatre arts to various cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will classify specific theatre pieces as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will identify and illustrate ways cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand the importance of role playing in daily communication.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from two different styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a more complex musical beat (e.g., syncopation, polyrhythms).
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences.
1.G. Students will identify skeletal landmarks and explain how they are used in performing dance movements.
1.H. Students will make self adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create group shapes (e.g., geometric).
2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and end to a rhythmic accompaniment. Repeat it. Identify each of the parts of the sequence.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on concepts from various sources (e.g., paintings, books, poetry).
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: creating contrasting and complimentary shapes, taking and supporting weight.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement (e.g., sports, everyday gestures).
3.B. Students will explore solutions to a movement problem, choose their favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.
3.C. Students will discuss their interpretations of and reactions to a dance seen both live and on film and/or video.
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of space, time, or force/energy.
3.E. Students will use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will express their opinions about dances in a constructive way.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical); describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles.
4.B. Students will learn and share a dance or dance movements from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos); describe the cultural and/or historical context.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a movement study that reveals similarities and differences between dance and other art forms.
5.C. Students will observe, demonstrate and/or explain how lighting, costuming, spoken text, and music can affect the meaning of a dance.
5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by explaining how healthy/unhealthy practices affect the body.
5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and another discipline outside the arts.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing alone with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 1, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression standard for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing ostinatos (repeated patterns), partner songs, and rounds.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions.
3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will read and perform pitch notation using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.
5.C. Students will identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression and interpret them when performing.
5.D. Students will use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will identify specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in aural examples.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will describe music notation, instruments, voices, and performances using appropriate terminology.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will compare similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.
8.C. Students will identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will identify the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will identify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music examples.
9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will identify various media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art.
1.B. Students will describe how the effects created by two-dimensional media, techniques, and processes differ from those produced with three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.
1.C. Students will explore and apply the characteristics of a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media to develop manipulative skills.
1.D. Students will select and use the different characteristics of two and three dimensional art media, techniques, and processes in creating works of art to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will illustrate how the visual components of art and design work together to create expressive qualities in works of art.
2.B. Students will illustrate how the organizational components of art and design work together to communicate ideas.
2.C. Students will plan and create works of art that show the development of ideas across time.
2.D. Students will employ the relationships between visual and organizational components of art and design and expressive qualities or functions to improve communication of ideas in their own works.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will identify subjects, symbols, and ideas as possible sources for content in their own works of art.
3.B. Students will analyze and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will identify the roles of artists in society across cultures, times and places.
4.B. Students will examine the relationships of the visual arts to various cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will classify specific artists and works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will identify and illustrate ways that cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.
4.E. Students will compare various functions or purposes of works of art and design across various cultures, times, and places.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will identify and describe how the visual arts are forms of communication that are used to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, and analyzing works of art.
5.C. Students will analyze works of art to determine why they were created.
5.D. Students will explore how experiences as an individual and as a member of groups influence the creation of works of art.
5.E. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to characteristics of the same works of art.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).
6.B. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios and/or plays.
1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a written format.
1.B. Students will understand how play making is based on personal and shared experience and imagination.
1.C. Students will record the improvised movement and/or dialogue of a play through writing, taping, or other means.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will identify, compare, and contrast different forms of plays.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will explore the dialogue and actions of characters in a dramatic text.
2.B. Students will develop the skill of concentration to enact a created character.
2.C. Students will use variations of movement, gesture, and vocal expression (e.g., pitch tempo, and tone) to create different characters.
2.D. Students will examine how characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will imagine, design, and construct environments to communicate locale and mood.
3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised scenes.
3.C. Students will select, organize, and invent appropriate costumes and makeup for scripted scenes.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey the meaning of improvised scenes.
4.C. Students will identify character relationships in scenes.
4.D. Students will identify elements of dialogue (e.g., dialect, regionalism, rhythm, meter, connotation) in scenes.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful house and front-of-house activities (e.g., tickets, programs, ushers, and sales) for informal or formal productions.
5.B. Students will investigate methods for advertising (e.g., print, electronic media, etc.) formal or informal productions.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will discuss how the characteristic elements of the various art forms express ideas and emotions.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual art forms in an informal presentation.
6.C. Students will identify the differences between a live performance of a play and an electronic presentation of it.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will explore how dramatic elements combine successfully to make a whole.
7.B. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to dramatic presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will explore the specific relationships of theatre arts to various cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will classify specific theatre pieces as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will identify and illustrate ways cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.
8.D. Students will understand the importance of role playing in daily communication.
8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from two different styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a more complex musical beat (e.g., syncopation, polyrhythms).
1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space.
1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences.
1.G. Students will identify skeletal landmarks and explain how they are used in performing dance movements.
1.H. Students will make self adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create group shapes (e.g., geometric).
2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems.
2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and end to a rhythmic accompaniment. Repeat it. Identify each of the parts of the sequence.
2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on concepts from various sources (e.g., paintings, books, poetry).
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: creating contrasting and complimentary shapes, taking and supporting weight.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement (e.g., sports, everyday gestures).
3.B. Students will explore solutions to a movement problem, choose their favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.
3.C. Students will discuss their interpretations of and reactions to a dance seen both live and on film and/or video.
3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of space, time, or force/energy.
3.E. Students will use dance terminology to describe movement.
3.F. Students will express their opinions about dances in a constructive way.
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical); describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles.
4.B. Students will learn and share a dance or dance movements from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos); describe the cultural and/or historical context.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a movement study that reveals similarities and differences between dance and other art forms.
5.C. Students will observe, demonstrate and/or explain how lighting, costuming, spoken text, and music can affect the meaning of a dance.
5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by explaining how healthy/unhealthy practices affect the body.
5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and another discipline outside the arts.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 2, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in two and three parts.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 2-3, including some songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of instrumental literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodic embellishments and variations on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies over given rhythmic accompaniments with simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple harmonic accompaniment.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose short pieces demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance.
4.B. Students will arrange simple pieces using voices or instruments different from those for which the pieces were originally written.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically-produced sounds and computer resources when composing and arranging.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow an instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 1-2.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in listening examples.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will analyze music using the basic principles of meter, rhythm, form, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will compare in two or more art forms how the characteristics of each art (for example: sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interactions in theater) are used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more art forms within a particular historical period or style and cite examples form various cultures.
8.C. Students will illustrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school are related to those of music.
8.D. Students will illustrate how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from various cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and/or geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well-known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will compare and contrast different types of media, techniques, and processes used to create various two and three dimensional art forms.
1.B. Students will compare and contrast the different effects created by various two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.
1.C. Students will develop and demonstrate control with media, techniques, and processes to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.
1.D. Students will select effective media, techniques, and processes to create specific effects in order to communicate and intended meaning or function in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how visual components of art and design are used to create different effects in their own works of art and works of others.
2.B. Students will apply the knowledge of organizational components of art and design and analyze how they are used to communicate ideas.
2.C. Students will experiment with ideas, propose, and formulate solutions to organizational problems in creating works of art.
2.D. Students will plan, select, and purposefully use the visual and organizational components of art and design, symbols, and images to improve the communication of their own ideas in works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will analyze the use of subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to communicate meaning in their own works of art.
3.B. Students will describe the origins of specific subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of the visual arts in various cultures, times and places.
4.C. Students will describe and place a variety of artists and works of art in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how art and artists influence each other within and across cultures, time, and places.
4.E. Students will speculate on how factors of time and place (e.g., climate, resources, ideas, technology) give meaning or function to a work of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will compare and contrast different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for communicating ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, and interpreting works of art.
5.C. Students will analyze the various relationships between form, function, and purpose in works of art and design.
5.D. Students will analyze different ways that human experience is reflected in contemporary and historic works of art.
5.E. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks of others.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the characteristics of works in two or more arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).
6.B. Students will distinguish and differentiate ways in which common principles and subjects of other disciplines in the curriculum are interrelated to the visual arts.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a developed script.
1.B. Students will understand how play writing is based on cultures, times, and places.
1.C. Students will improvise or write a play using characters, environments, actions, and situations that create tension and suspense.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will compare and contrast different types of plays.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will synthesize dialogue and action to discover, explain, and justify the motivations and actions of the character.
2.B. Students will demonstrate various acting skills (e.g., memory and sensory recall, concentration, and motivation) to create believable characters.
2.C. Students will invent believable behavior based on diverse interactions, ethical choices, and emotional responses of characters described in a written script.
2.D. Students will analyze ways that characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will imagine, design, and/or construct environments to communicate locale and mood.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised or scripted scenes.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup based on setting and mood to create an appropriate environment for improvised or scripted scenes.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of scripted scenes.
4.C. Students will identify character relationships and explain motivations in scripted scenes.
4.D. Students will identify narrative elements in scripted scenes.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful rehearsal schedules and meet deadline responsibilities for informal or formal productions.
5.B. Students will collaborate to create a realistic marketing plan within a given budget for a production.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze the contributions of the various art forms within a theatrical production (e.g., scenery, lighting, music, dance costumes).
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes.
6.C. Students will compare two electronic media presentations of the same play.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will compare individuals' (e.g., students, guest lecturers/performers, teachers) responses to their own dramatic presentations and to other theatre presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of drama in various cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will discuss and place a variety of theatre works in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will analyze how factors of culture, time, place, and the theatre arts influence each other.
8.D. Students will investigate and analyze vocal and physical expression and their influence in communication.
8.E. Students will investigate the functions of the visual and performing arts in society.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions and patterns for dance from three different styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will transfer a rhythmic pattern from the aural to the kinesthetic.
1.D. Students will identify and demonstrate a range of dynamics or movement qualities.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space while dancing in a group.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform a dance.
1.G. Students will create a warm-up and discuss how that warm-up prepares the body and mind for dance.
1.H. Students will demonstrate increasing ability to make self-adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will transfer a spatial pattern into movement.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems with a group.
2.C. Students will create a movement phrase, repeat it, then vary it making changes in the time, space, and/or force/energy.
2.D. Students will demonstrate the choreographic structures or forms of dance (e.g., AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative).
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in a small group during a collaborative choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will demonstrate and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will explain how movement choices communicate abstract ideas.
3.B. Students will demonstrate understanding of how personal experiences influence the interpretation of a dance.
3.C. Students will choose a topic of personal choice and create a dance that communicates a particular interpretation or meaning.
3.D. Students will compare and contrast two dance compositions in terms of space, time, and force/energy.
3.E. Students will describe a choreographer's movement vocabulary.
3.F. Students will formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions (e.g., What is it that gives a particular dance its identity? How much can one change that dance before it becomes a different dance?)
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will describe the role of dance in at least two different cultures or time periods.
4.B. Students will learn from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos) a folk dance of a different culture or a social dance of a different time period and the cultural/historical context of that dance, share the dance and its context with their peers.
4.C. Students will compare and contrast historical and cultural images of the body in dance.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other art form.
5.C. Students will create a dance that includes music and/or sound, costumes, and either sets/visual art pieces/ props, explain how these elements affect the dance.
5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by analyzing how diet affects dance performance.
5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and other disciplines outside the arts.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 2, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in two and three parts.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 2-3, including some songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of instrumental literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodic embellishments and variations on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies over given rhythmic accompaniments with simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple harmonic accompaniment.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose short pieces demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance.
4.B. Students will arrange simple pieces using voices or instruments different from those for which the pieces were originally written.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically-produced sounds and computer resources when composing and arranging.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow an instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 1-2.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in listening examples.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will analyze music using the basic principles of meter, rhythm, form, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will compare in two or more art forms how the characteristics of each art (for example: sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interactions in theater) are used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more art forms within a particular historical period or style and cite examples form various cultures.
8.C. Students will illustrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school are related to those of music.
8.D. Students will illustrate how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from various cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and/or geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well-known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will compare and contrast different types of media, techniques, and processes used to create various two and three dimensional art forms.
1.B. Students will compare and contrast the different effects created by various two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.
1.C. Students will develop and demonstrate control with media, techniques, and processes to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.
1.D. Students will select effective media, techniques, and processes to create specific effects in order to communicate and intended meaning or function in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how visual components of art and design are used to create different effects in their own works of art and works of others.
2.B. Students will apply the knowledge of organizational components of art and design and analyze how they are used to communicate ideas.
2.C. Students will experiment with ideas, propose, and formulate solutions to organizational problems in creating works of art.
2.D. Students will plan, select, and purposefully use the visual and organizational components of art and design, symbols, and images to improve the communication of their own ideas in works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will analyze the use of subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to communicate meaning in their own works of art.
3.B. Students will describe the origins of specific subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of the visual arts in various cultures, times and places.
4.C. Students will describe and place a variety of artists and works of art in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how art and artists influence each other within and across cultures, time, and places.
4.E. Students will speculate on how factors of time and place (e.g., climate, resources, ideas, technology) give meaning or function to a work of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will compare and contrast different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for communicating ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, and interpreting works of art.
5.C. Students will analyze the various relationships between form, function, and purpose in works of art and design.
5.D. Students will analyze different ways that human experience is reflected in contemporary and historic works of art.
5.E. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks of others.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the characteristics of works in two or more arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).
6.B. Students will distinguish and differentiate ways in which common principles and subjects of other disciplines in the curriculum are interrelated to the visual arts.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a developed script.
1.B. Students will understand how play writing is based on cultures, times, and places.
1.C. Students will improvise or write a play using characters, environments, actions, and situations that create tension and suspense.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will compare and contrast different types of plays.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will synthesize dialogue and action to discover, explain, and justify the motivations and actions of the character.
2.B. Students will demonstrate various acting skills (e.g., memory and sensory recall, concentration, and motivation) to create believable characters.
2.C. Students will invent believable behavior based on diverse interactions, ethical choices, and emotional responses of characters described in a written script.
2.D. Students will analyze ways that characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will imagine, design, and/or construct environments to communicate locale and mood.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised or scripted scenes.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup based on setting and mood to create an appropriate environment for improvised or scripted scenes.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of scripted scenes.
4.C. Students will identify character relationships and explain motivations in scripted scenes.
4.D. Students will identify narrative elements in scripted scenes.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful rehearsal schedules and meet deadline responsibilities for informal or formal productions.
5.B. Students will collaborate to create a realistic marketing plan within a given budget for a production.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze the contributions of the various art forms within a theatrical production (e.g., scenery, lighting, music, dance costumes).
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes.
6.C. Students will compare two electronic media presentations of the same play.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will compare individuals' (e.g., students, guest lecturers/performers, teachers) responses to their own dramatic presentations and to other theatre presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of drama in various cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will discuss and place a variety of theatre works in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will analyze how factors of culture, time, place, and the theatre arts influence each other.
8.D. Students will investigate and analyze vocal and physical expression and their influence in communication.
8.E. Students will investigate the functions of the visual and performing arts in society.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions and patterns for dance from three different styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will transfer a rhythmic pattern from the aural to the kinesthetic.
1.D. Students will identify and demonstrate a range of dynamics or movement qualities.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space while dancing in a group.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform a dance.
1.G. Students will create a warm-up and discuss how that warm-up prepares the body and mind for dance.
1.H. Students will demonstrate increasing ability to make self-adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will transfer a spatial pattern into movement.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems with a group.
2.C. Students will create a movement phrase, repeat it, then vary it making changes in the time, space, and/or force/energy.
2.D. Students will demonstrate the choreographic structures or forms of dance (e.g., AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative).
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in a small group during a collaborative choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will demonstrate and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will explain how movement choices communicate abstract ideas.
3.B. Students will demonstrate understanding of how personal experiences influence the interpretation of a dance.
3.C. Students will choose a topic of personal choice and create a dance that communicates a particular interpretation or meaning.
3.D. Students will compare and contrast two dance compositions in terms of space, time, and force/energy.
3.E. Students will describe a choreographer's movement vocabulary.
3.F. Students will formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions (e.g., What is it that gives a particular dance its identity? How much can one change that dance before it becomes a different dance?)
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will describe the role of dance in at least two different cultures or time periods.
4.B. Students will learn from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos) a folk dance of a different culture or a social dance of a different time period and the cultural/historical context of that dance, share the dance and its context with their peers.
4.C. Students will compare and contrast historical and cultural images of the body in dance.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other art form.
5.C. Students will create a dance that includes music and/or sound, costumes, and either sets/visual art pieces/ props, explain how these elements affect the dance.
5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by analyzing how diet affects dance performance.
5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and other disciplines outside the arts.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 2, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in two and three parts.
1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 2-3, including some songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of instrumental literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise melodic embellishments and variations on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.B. Students will improvise short melodies over given rhythmic accompaniments with simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.
3.C. Students will improvise simple harmonic accompaniment.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose short pieces demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance.
4.B. Students will arrange simple pieces using voices or instruments different from those for which the pieces were originally written.
4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically-produced sounds and computer resources when composing and arranging.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow an instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 1-2.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in listening examples.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will analyze music using the basic principles of meter, rhythm, form, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will compare in two or more art forms how the characteristics of each art (for example: sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interactions in theater) are used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more art forms within a particular historical period or style and cite examples form various cultures.
8.C. Students will illustrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school are related to those of music.
8.D. Students will illustrate how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from various cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and/or geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well-known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will compare and contrast different types of media, techniques, and processes used to create various two and three dimensional art forms.
1.B. Students will compare and contrast the different effects created by various two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.
1.C. Students will develop and demonstrate control with media, techniques, and processes to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.
1.D. Students will select effective media, techniques, and processes to create specific effects in order to communicate and intended meaning or function in works of art.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how visual components of art and design are used to create different effects in their own works of art and works of others.
2.B. Students will apply the knowledge of organizational components of art and design and analyze how they are used to communicate ideas.
2.C. Students will experiment with ideas, propose, and formulate solutions to organizational problems in creating works of art.
2.D. Students will plan, select, and purposefully use the visual and organizational components of art and design, symbols, and images to improve the communication of their own ideas in works of art.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will analyze the use of subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to communicate meaning in their own works of art.
3.B. Students will describe the origins of specific subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of the visual arts in various cultures, times and places.
4.C. Students will describe and place a variety of artists and works of art in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how art and artists influence each other within and across cultures, time, and places.
4.E. Students will speculate on how factors of time and place (e.g., climate, resources, ideas, technology) give meaning or function to a work of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will compare and contrast different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for communicating ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, and interpreting works of art.
5.C. Students will analyze the various relationships between form, function, and purpose in works of art and design.
5.D. Students will analyze different ways that human experience is reflected in contemporary and historic works of art.
5.E. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks of others.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the characteristics of works in two or more arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).
6.B. Students will distinguish and differentiate ways in which common principles and subjects of other disciplines in the curriculum are interrelated to the visual arts.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a developed script.
1.B. Students will understand how play writing is based on cultures, times, and places.
1.C. Students will improvise or write a play using characters, environments, actions, and situations that create tension and suspense.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will compare and contrast different types of plays.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will synthesize dialogue and action to discover, explain, and justify the motivations and actions of the character.
2.B. Students will demonstrate various acting skills (e.g., memory and sensory recall, concentration, and motivation) to create believable characters.
2.C. Students will invent believable behavior based on diverse interactions, ethical choices, and emotional responses of characters described in a written script.
2.D. Students will analyze ways that characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will imagine, design, and/or construct environments to communicate locale and mood.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised or scripted scenes.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup based on setting and mood to create an appropriate environment for improvised or scripted scenes.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of scripted scenes.
4.C. Students will identify character relationships and explain motivations in scripted scenes.
4.D. Students will identify narrative elements in scripted scenes.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful rehearsal schedules and meet deadline responsibilities for informal or formal productions.
5.B. Students will collaborate to create a realistic marketing plan within a given budget for a production.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze the contributions of the various art forms within a theatrical production (e.g., scenery, lighting, music, dance costumes).
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes.
6.C. Students will compare two electronic media presentations of the same play.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating dramatic presentations.
7.B. Students will compare individuals' (e.g., students, guest lecturers/performers, teachers) responses to their own dramatic presentations and to other theatre presentations.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will examine and differentiate characteristics of drama in various cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will discuss and place a variety of theatre works in their contexts in cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will analyze how factors of culture, time, place, and the theatre arts influence each other.
8.D. Students will investigate and analyze vocal and physical expression and their influence in communication.
8.E. Students will investigate the functions of the visual and performing arts in society.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions and patterns for dance from three different styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will transfer a rhythmic pattern from the aural to the kinesthetic.
1.D. Students will identify and demonstrate a range of dynamics or movement qualities.
1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space while dancing in a group.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform a dance.
1.G. Students will create a warm-up and discuss how that warm-up prepares the body and mind for dance.
1.H. Students will demonstrate increasing ability to make self-adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will transfer a spatial pattern into movement.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems with a group.
2.C. Students will create a movement phrase, repeat it, then vary it making changes in the time, space, and/or force/energy.
2.D. Students will demonstrate the choreographic structures or forms of dance (e.g., AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative).
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in a small group during a collaborative choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will demonstrate and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will explain how movement choices communicate abstract ideas.
3.B. Students will demonstrate understanding of how personal experiences influence the interpretation of a dance.
3.C. Students will choose a topic of personal choice and create a dance that communicates a particular interpretation or meaning.
3.D. Students will compare and contrast two dance compositions in terms of space, time, and force/energy.
3.E. Students will describe a choreographer's movement vocabulary.
3.F. Students will formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions (e.g., What is it that gives a particular dance its identity? How much can one change that dance before it becomes a different dance?)
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will describe the role of dance in at least two different cultures or time periods.
4.B. Students will learn from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos) a folk dance of a different culture or a social dance of a different time period and the cultural/historical context of that dance, share the dance and its context with their peers.
4.C. Students will compare and contrast historical and cultural images of the body in dance.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other art form.
5.C. Students will create a dance that includes music and/or sound, costumes, and either sets/visual art pieces/ props, explain how these elements affect the dance.
5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by analyzing how diet affects dance performance.
5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and other disciplines outside the arts.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 3, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.
1.E. Students will demonstrate well developed ensemble skills, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 3-4, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 3-4.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, in a meter and tonality consistent to the style.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise harmonizing parts in a given style.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow a full instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation symbols to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music accurately, and expressively, with difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work, compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will explain and cite examples of how elements, artistic processes (e.g., imagination or craftsmanship), and organizational principles (e.g., unity, variety, repetition, contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various art forms.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creator, performer, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to history and diverse cultures.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and identify well known musicians associated with various genres and styles.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will analyze different types of media, techniques, and processes used create various art forms.
1.B. Students will analyze the relationship between various media, techniques, and processes and their effects used to communicate specific ideas in works of art.
1.C. Students will refine skills in the use of media, techniques, and processes to create various art forms.
1.D. Students will utilize the unique characteristics of media, techniques, and processes to enhance the communication of ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how the visual components of art and design applied through various media, techniques, and processes produce different effects.
2.B. Students will evaluate works of art in terms of the use of the organizational components of art and design, expressive features, and functions or purposes.
2.C. Students will formulate ideas, plan, and integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with subjects, themes, symbols, or ideas to improve communication of intended meaning in their works of art.
2.D. Students will create and use relationships among the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and functions or purposes to solve specific visual arts problems.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will determine the origin of possible subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas for use in creating works of art for an intended purpose.
3.B. Students will identify and integrate a variety of sources for subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas in works of art to make selections which best communicate an intended meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of works of art from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will describe the function and explore the meaning of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how factors of cultures, times, places, and the visual arts affect each other.
4.E. Students will identify and differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of functions and purposes of works of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will analyze different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for expressing ideas, actions, and emotions, evaluate their effective use for communication.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of art.
5.C. Students will determine the intentions of an artist in creating a particular work of art and evaluate the artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions or fulfilling a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will interpret possible meanings of works of art by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
5.E. Students will analyze how various individual responses to the characteristics of a work of art can serve as means for interpreting that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the use of technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze and compare the characteristics of the visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will demonstrate how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc. ) comprise the structure of a play.
1.B. Students will analyze literature as a source for play writing.
1.C. Students will write an original one-act play with clearly developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration, analyze the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will dramatize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts.
2.B. Students will demonstrate acting skills to create and sustain a character in an ensemble.
2.C. Students will exhibit concentration and consistent believable behavior enacting a character from a written script.
2.D. Students will demonstrate different tactics a character might use to accomplish a specific objective.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will construct scenery and props based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup to create an appropriate environment for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.C. Students will analyze character relationships and motivations in formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.D. Students will analyze narrative elements formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision or production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to coordinate backstage, on-stage, house, and front-of-house activities for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will collaborate to develop and implement a marketing campaign for informal and informal presentations.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will compare how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in theatre works.
6.C. Students will compare electronic media presentations to live performances.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will assess the characteristics of theatre, evaluating productions and audience response.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating a presentation's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze and explain how audience responses to a dramatic presentation can have an impact on that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of the American drama.
8.B. Students will analyze and explain the function of theatre presentations in various contexts (e.g., Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, regional theatre, summer stock, and community and educational theatre).
8.C. Students will analyze dramatic works to understand various cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will evaluate criteria for effective communication in relation to lifelong achievement.
8.E. Students will research and describe the range of theatre vocations and avocations in the present.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate skeletal alignment, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from three different dance styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will create and perform movement phrases in a broad dynamic range.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform multiple dances.
1.G. Students will explain common dance injuries and strategies to prevent them.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will demonstrate understanding of choreographic structures or forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief movement studies.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to direct a small group during the choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.
3.B. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic works.
3.C. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating their own work (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.D. Students will describe specific choreographers' movement vocabularies and compositional techniques.
3.E. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating live performance (e.g., skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of dance and dancers and compare those to images of dance and dancers in contemporary media.
4.B. Students will choose a culture and create a time line illustrating important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will compare one choreographic work to one other art work from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic, cultural, historical concept.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other discipline outside the arts.
5.C. Students will create a written production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.D. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of the video camera as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music (Advanced): Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 4, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in more than four parts.
1.E. Students will sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, with a difficulty level of 5, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music (Advanced): Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 5.
DE.3. Music (Advanced): Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniment.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles.
DE.4. Music (Advanced): Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in the principles of composition in a variety of styles, genres, forms.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music (Advanced): Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a full instrumental or vocal score and explain all transpositions and clefs.
5.D. Students will interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight-read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 4.
DE.6. Music (Advanced): Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally.
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will compare and contrast ways in which musical elements are used in given examples.
6.H. Students will analyze and describe the unique and expressive use of elements of music in a given work.
DE.7. Music (Advanced): Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music (Advanced): Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite representative examples
8.B. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music (Advanced): Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered exemplary.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will research and compare types of media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art across cultures, times, and places.
1.B. Students will analyze, research, and demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will exhibit advanced skills in the use of a broad range of media, techniques, and processes to produce art works for portfolio presentation.
1.D. Students will initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will form and support judgments about the use of the visual components of art and design in works produced for individual, commercial, economic, intellectual, or other purposes.
2.B. Students will select organizational components of art and design to create intended effects in their own works of art, make and defend their judgments regarding choices.
2.C. Students will plan, design, and execute multiple solutions to challenging visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between visual, spatial, and temporal concepts and artistic functions, defend their judgments regarding choices made throughout the creative process.
2.D. Students will propose multiple solutions to a visual arts problem through different approaches to the use of sensory qualities, organizational principles, and expressive features, and functions or purposes.
DE.3. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subjects, themes, symbols, problems and ideas are used in the student's work and in works of others.
3.B. Students will research, analyze, and compare the development of recurring subjects, themes, symbols, or problems in their own works of art and the works of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will engage in research and visual arts experiences related to the roles of artists, art critics, art historians, art educators, and aestheticians in different contexts across cultures, times, and places.
4.B. Students will analyze, and interpret works of art and their relationships to cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will analyze, compare, and contrast the functions and meanings of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will compare and contrast their own works of art and to works of others to determine how they are affected by cultures, times, and places.
4.E. Students will analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, and purposes.
DE.5. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will investigate and analyze contexts (e.g., individual, social, cultural, historical, political) in which the visual arts could serve more effectively than other means of communication to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary throughout critical processes, justify vocabulary selections in relation to various contexts.
5.C. Students will compare and contrast the intentions of different artists, evaluate each artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions for a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate how individual, historical, and cultural influences that have impacted their own works of art.
5.E. Students will analyze how individual and group responses to the characteristics of a work of art can influence the examination, interpretation, and evaluation of that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will interpret and evaluate the effective use of creative processes, principles, and techniques of the visual arts, and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze, compare, and interpret recurring ideas, issues, or themes communicated by the visual arts, the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre (Advanced): Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will analyze and describe how the elements of the play contribute to the telling of a story.
1.B. Students will evaluate how different sources are reflected in plays.
1.C. Students will write an original theatre work with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will analyze and describe the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre (Advanced): Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will analyze and synthesize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts to justify the creative choices of the actors.
2.B. Students will demonstrate the skills represented in accepted acting methods while creating and sustaining a believable character.
2.C. Students will create consistent characters from dramatic works of various genres across cultures, times, and places.
DE.3. Theatre (Advanced): Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will design and construct scenery based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will create sound and light designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.D. Students will create costume and makeup designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
DE.4. Theatre (Advanced): Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.C. Students will define and explore character relationships of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.D. Students will define and explore narrative elements of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre (Advanced): Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to successfully create and implement all production schedules, stage management and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will describe and analyze the effects of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.
DE.6. Theatre (Advanced): Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in an original theatre work.
6.C. Students will create an electronic media presentation.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre (Advanced): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will compare the intentions of different formal and informal presentations and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze how individual and audience response to the dramatic presentation can influence the assessment of that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre (Advanced): Students will understand theatre arts in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will analyze and interpret works of drama and their impact on cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of specific theatre works within varied cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will compare and contrast how students' works in the theatre arts are affected by their own cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will analyze role playing, verbal and nonverbal expression, and body movement as tools for effective communication in various cultures.
8.E. Students will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue a theatre career.
DE.1. Dance (Advanced): Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate consistent execution of technical skills.
1.B. Students will perform technical skills with expressiveness, clarity, musicality, and authenticity of style and tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will demonstrate performance presence while performing dance skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to reconstruct a dance.
1.G. Students will discuss challenges facing professional performers in maintaining physical well-being.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation in a dance performance.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.E. Students will demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance.
DE.3. Dance (Advanced): Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will view professional dance presentations and describe how dance creates and conveys meaning through performance.
3.B. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost or gained by those decisions.
3.C. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic styles.
3.D. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating the work of others (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.E. Students will describe how specific choreographers manipulate and develop movement to create a dance.
3.F. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or a cultural dance form, then create a dance and identify those styles and/or dance forms that influenced the work.
DE.4. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social, historical, cultural, and political contexts.
4.B. Students will choose and research a culture, write an analysis of that culture's important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance (Advanced): Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and two or more art forms.
5.C. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project using media technologies (e.g., video computer) that presents dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).
5.D. Students will create and implement a production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.E. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of several video cameras as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 3, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.
1.E. Students will demonstrate well developed ensemble skills, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 3-4, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 3-4.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, in a meter and tonality consistent to the style.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise harmonizing parts in a given style.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow a full instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation symbols to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music accurately, and expressively, with difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work, compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will explain and cite examples of how elements, artistic processes (e.g., imagination or craftsmanship), and organizational principles (e.g., unity, variety, repetition, contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various art forms.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creator, performer, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to history and diverse cultures.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and identify well known musicians associated with various genres and styles.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will analyze different types of media, techniques, and processes used create various art forms.
1.B. Students will analyze the relationship between various media, techniques, and processes and their effects used to communicate specific ideas in works of art.
1.C. Students will refine skills in the use of media, techniques, and processes to create various art forms.
1.D. Students will utilize the unique characteristics of media, techniques, and processes to enhance the communication of ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how the visual components of art and design applied through various media, techniques, and processes produce different effects.
2.B. Students will evaluate works of art in terms of the use of the organizational components of art and design, expressive features, and functions or purposes.
2.C. Students will formulate ideas, plan, and integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with subjects, themes, symbols, or ideas to improve communication of intended meaning in their works of art.
2.D. Students will create and use relationships among the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and functions or purposes to solve specific visual arts problems.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will determine the origin of possible subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas for use in creating works of art for an intended purpose.
3.B. Students will identify and integrate a variety of sources for subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas in works of art to make selections which best communicate an intended meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of works of art from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will describe the function and explore the meaning of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how factors of cultures, times, places, and the visual arts affect each other.
4.E. Students will identify and differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of functions and purposes of works of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will analyze different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for expressing ideas, actions, and emotions, evaluate their effective use for communication.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of art.
5.C. Students will determine the intentions of an artist in creating a particular work of art and evaluate the artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions or fulfilling a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will interpret possible meanings of works of art by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
5.E. Students will analyze how various individual responses to the characteristics of a work of art can serve as means for interpreting that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the use of technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze and compare the characteristics of the visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will demonstrate how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc. ) comprise the structure of a play.
1.B. Students will analyze literature as a source for play writing.
1.C. Students will write an original one-act play with clearly developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration, analyze the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will dramatize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts.
2.B. Students will demonstrate acting skills to create and sustain a character in an ensemble.
2.C. Students will exhibit concentration and consistent believable behavior enacting a character from a written script.
2.D. Students will demonstrate different tactics a character might use to accomplish a specific objective.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will construct scenery and props based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup to create an appropriate environment for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.C. Students will analyze character relationships and motivations in formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.D. Students will analyze narrative elements formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision or production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to coordinate backstage, on-stage, house, and front-of-house activities for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will collaborate to develop and implement a marketing campaign for informal and informal presentations.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will compare how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in theatre works.
6.C. Students will compare electronic media presentations to live performances.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will assess the characteristics of theatre, evaluating productions and audience response.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating a presentation's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze and explain how audience responses to a dramatic presentation can have an impact on that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of the American drama.
8.B. Students will analyze and explain the function of theatre presentations in various contexts (e.g., Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, regional theatre, summer stock, and community and educational theatre).
8.C. Students will analyze dramatic works to understand various cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will evaluate criteria for effective communication in relation to lifelong achievement.
8.E. Students will research and describe the range of theatre vocations and avocations in the present.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate skeletal alignment, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from three different dance styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will create and perform movement phrases in a broad dynamic range.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform multiple dances.
1.G. Students will explain common dance injuries and strategies to prevent them.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will demonstrate understanding of choreographic structures or forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief movement studies.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to direct a small group during the choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.
3.B. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic works.
3.C. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating their own work (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.D. Students will describe specific choreographers' movement vocabularies and compositional techniques.
3.E. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating live performance (e.g., skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of dance and dancers and compare those to images of dance and dancers in contemporary media.
4.B. Students will choose a culture and create a time line illustrating important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will compare one choreographic work to one other art work from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic, cultural, historical concept.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other discipline outside the arts.
5.C. Students will create a written production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.D. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of the video camera as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music (Advanced): Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 4, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in more than four parts.
1.E. Students will sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, with a difficulty level of 5, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music (Advanced): Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 5.
DE.3. Music (Advanced): Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniment.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles.
DE.4. Music (Advanced): Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in the principles of composition in a variety of styles, genres, forms.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music (Advanced): Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a full instrumental or vocal score and explain all transpositions and clefs.
5.D. Students will interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight-read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 4.
DE.6. Music (Advanced): Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally.
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will compare and contrast ways in which musical elements are used in given examples.
6.H. Students will analyze and describe the unique and expressive use of elements of music in a given work.
DE.7. Music (Advanced): Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music (Advanced): Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite representative examples
8.B. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music (Advanced): Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered exemplary.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will research and compare types of media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art across cultures, times, and places.
1.B. Students will analyze, research, and demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will exhibit advanced skills in the use of a broad range of media, techniques, and processes to produce art works for portfolio presentation.
1.D. Students will initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will form and support judgments about the use of the visual components of art and design in works produced for individual, commercial, economic, intellectual, or other purposes.
2.B. Students will select organizational components of art and design to create intended effects in their own works of art, make and defend their judgments regarding choices.
2.C. Students will plan, design, and execute multiple solutions to challenging visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between visual, spatial, and temporal concepts and artistic functions, defend their judgments regarding choices made throughout the creative process.
2.D. Students will propose multiple solutions to a visual arts problem through different approaches to the use of sensory qualities, organizational principles, and expressive features, and functions or purposes.
DE.3. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subjects, themes, symbols, problems and ideas are used in the student's work and in works of others.
3.B. Students will research, analyze, and compare the development of recurring subjects, themes, symbols, or problems in their own works of art and the works of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will engage in research and visual arts experiences related to the roles of artists, art critics, art historians, art educators, and aestheticians in different contexts across cultures, times, and places.
4.B. Students will analyze, and interpret works of art and their relationships to cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will analyze, compare, and contrast the functions and meanings of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will compare and contrast their own works of art and to works of others to determine how they are affected by cultures, times, and places.
4.E. Students will analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, and purposes.
DE.5. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will investigate and analyze contexts (e.g., individual, social, cultural, historical, political) in which the visual arts could serve more effectively than other means of communication to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary throughout critical processes, justify vocabulary selections in relation to various contexts.
5.C. Students will compare and contrast the intentions of different artists, evaluate each artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions for a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate how individual, historical, and cultural influences that have impacted their own works of art.
5.E. Students will analyze how individual and group responses to the characteristics of a work of art can influence the examination, interpretation, and evaluation of that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will interpret and evaluate the effective use of creative processes, principles, and techniques of the visual arts, and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze, compare, and interpret recurring ideas, issues, or themes communicated by the visual arts, the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre (Advanced): Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will analyze and describe how the elements of the play contribute to the telling of a story.
1.B. Students will evaluate how different sources are reflected in plays.
1.C. Students will write an original theatre work with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will analyze and describe the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre (Advanced): Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will analyze and synthesize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts to justify the creative choices of the actors.
2.B. Students will demonstrate the skills represented in accepted acting methods while creating and sustaining a believable character.
2.C. Students will create consistent characters from dramatic works of various genres across cultures, times, and places.
DE.3. Theatre (Advanced): Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will design and construct scenery based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will create sound and light designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.D. Students will create costume and makeup designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
DE.4. Theatre (Advanced): Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.C. Students will define and explore character relationships of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.D. Students will define and explore narrative elements of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre (Advanced): Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to successfully create and implement all production schedules, stage management and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will describe and analyze the effects of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.
DE.6. Theatre (Advanced): Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in an original theatre work.
6.C. Students will create an electronic media presentation.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre (Advanced): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will compare the intentions of different formal and informal presentations and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze how individual and audience response to the dramatic presentation can influence the assessment of that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre (Advanced): Students will understand theatre arts in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will analyze and interpret works of drama and their impact on cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of specific theatre works within varied cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will compare and contrast how students' works in the theatre arts are affected by their own cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will analyze role playing, verbal and nonverbal expression, and body movement as tools for effective communication in various cultures.
8.E. Students will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue a theatre career.
DE.1. Dance (Advanced): Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate consistent execution of technical skills.
1.B. Students will perform technical skills with expressiveness, clarity, musicality, and authenticity of style and tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will demonstrate performance presence while performing dance skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to reconstruct a dance.
1.G. Students will discuss challenges facing professional performers in maintaining physical well-being.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation in a dance performance.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.E. Students will demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance.
DE.3. Dance (Advanced): Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will view professional dance presentations and describe how dance creates and conveys meaning through performance.
3.B. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost or gained by those decisions.
3.C. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic styles.
3.D. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating the work of others (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.E. Students will describe how specific choreographers manipulate and develop movement to create a dance.
3.F. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or a cultural dance form, then create a dance and identify those styles and/or dance forms that influenced the work.
DE.4. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social, historical, cultural, and political contexts.
4.B. Students will choose and research a culture, write an analysis of that culture's important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance (Advanced): Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and two or more art forms.
5.C. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project using media technologies (e.g., video computer) that presents dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).
5.D. Students will create and implement a production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.E. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of several video cameras as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 3, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.
1.E. Students will demonstrate well developed ensemble skills, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 3-4, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 3-4.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, in a meter and tonality consistent to the style.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise harmonizing parts in a given style.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow a full instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation symbols to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music accurately, and expressively, with difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work, compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will explain and cite examples of how elements, artistic processes (e.g., imagination or craftsmanship), and organizational principles (e.g., unity, variety, repetition, contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various art forms.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creator, performer, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to history and diverse cultures.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and identify well known musicians associated with various genres and styles.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will analyze different types of media, techniques, and processes used create various art forms.
1.B. Students will analyze the relationship between various media, techniques, and processes and their effects used to communicate specific ideas in works of art.
1.C. Students will refine skills in the use of media, techniques, and processes to create various art forms.
1.D. Students will utilize the unique characteristics of media, techniques, and processes to enhance the communication of ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how the visual components of art and design applied through various media, techniques, and processes produce different effects.
2.B. Students will evaluate works of art in terms of the use of the organizational components of art and design, expressive features, and functions or purposes.
2.C. Students will formulate ideas, plan, and integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with subjects, themes, symbols, or ideas to improve communication of intended meaning in their works of art.
2.D. Students will create and use relationships among the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and functions or purposes to solve specific visual arts problems.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will determine the origin of possible subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas for use in creating works of art for an intended purpose.
3.B. Students will identify and integrate a variety of sources for subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas in works of art to make selections which best communicate an intended meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of works of art from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will describe the function and explore the meaning of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how factors of cultures, times, places, and the visual arts affect each other.
4.E. Students will identify and differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of functions and purposes of works of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will analyze different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for expressing ideas, actions, and emotions, evaluate their effective use for communication.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of art.
5.C. Students will determine the intentions of an artist in creating a particular work of art and evaluate the artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions or fulfilling a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will interpret possible meanings of works of art by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
5.E. Students will analyze how various individual responses to the characteristics of a work of art can serve as means for interpreting that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the use of technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze and compare the characteristics of the visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will demonstrate how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc. ) comprise the structure of a play.
1.B. Students will analyze literature as a source for play writing.
1.C. Students will write an original one-act play with clearly developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration, analyze the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will dramatize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts.
2.B. Students will demonstrate acting skills to create and sustain a character in an ensemble.
2.C. Students will exhibit concentration and consistent believable behavior enacting a character from a written script.
2.D. Students will demonstrate different tactics a character might use to accomplish a specific objective.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will construct scenery and props based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup to create an appropriate environment for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.C. Students will analyze character relationships and motivations in formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.D. Students will analyze narrative elements formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision or production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to coordinate backstage, on-stage, house, and front-of-house activities for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will collaborate to develop and implement a marketing campaign for informal and informal presentations.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will compare how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in theatre works.
6.C. Students will compare electronic media presentations to live performances.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will assess the characteristics of theatre, evaluating productions and audience response.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating a presentation's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze and explain how audience responses to a dramatic presentation can have an impact on that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of the American drama.
8.B. Students will analyze and explain the function of theatre presentations in various contexts (e.g., Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, regional theatre, summer stock, and community and educational theatre).
8.C. Students will analyze dramatic works to understand various cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will evaluate criteria for effective communication in relation to lifelong achievement.
8.E. Students will research and describe the range of theatre vocations and avocations in the present.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate skeletal alignment, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from three different dance styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will create and perform movement phrases in a broad dynamic range.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform multiple dances.
1.G. Students will explain common dance injuries and strategies to prevent them.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will demonstrate understanding of choreographic structures or forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief movement studies.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to direct a small group during the choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.
3.B. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic works.
3.C. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating their own work (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.D. Students will describe specific choreographers' movement vocabularies and compositional techniques.
3.E. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating live performance (e.g., skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of dance and dancers and compare those to images of dance and dancers in contemporary media.
4.B. Students will choose a culture and create a time line illustrating important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will compare one choreographic work to one other art work from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic, cultural, historical concept.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other discipline outside the arts.
5.C. Students will create a written production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.D. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of the video camera as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music (Advanced): Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 4, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in more than four parts.
1.E. Students will sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, with a difficulty level of 5, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music (Advanced): Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 5.
DE.3. Music (Advanced): Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniment.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles.
DE.4. Music (Advanced): Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in the principles of composition in a variety of styles, genres, forms.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music (Advanced): Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a full instrumental or vocal score and explain all transpositions and clefs.
5.D. Students will interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight-read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 4.
DE.6. Music (Advanced): Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally.
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will compare and contrast ways in which musical elements are used in given examples.
6.H. Students will analyze and describe the unique and expressive use of elements of music in a given work.
DE.7. Music (Advanced): Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music (Advanced): Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite representative examples
8.B. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music (Advanced): Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered exemplary.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will research and compare types of media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art across cultures, times, and places.
1.B. Students will analyze, research, and demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will exhibit advanced skills in the use of a broad range of media, techniques, and processes to produce art works for portfolio presentation.
1.D. Students will initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will form and support judgments about the use of the visual components of art and design in works produced for individual, commercial, economic, intellectual, or other purposes.
2.B. Students will select organizational components of art and design to create intended effects in their own works of art, make and defend their judgments regarding choices.
2.C. Students will plan, design, and execute multiple solutions to challenging visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between visual, spatial, and temporal concepts and artistic functions, defend their judgments regarding choices made throughout the creative process.
2.D. Students will propose multiple solutions to a visual arts problem through different approaches to the use of sensory qualities, organizational principles, and expressive features, and functions or purposes.
DE.3. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subjects, themes, symbols, problems and ideas are used in the student's work and in works of others.
3.B. Students will research, analyze, and compare the development of recurring subjects, themes, symbols, or problems in their own works of art and the works of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will engage in research and visual arts experiences related to the roles of artists, art critics, art historians, art educators, and aestheticians in different contexts across cultures, times, and places.
4.B. Students will analyze, and interpret works of art and their relationships to cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will analyze, compare, and contrast the functions and meanings of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will compare and contrast their own works of art and to works of others to determine how they are affected by cultures, times, and places.
4.E. Students will analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, and purposes.
DE.5. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will investigate and analyze contexts (e.g., individual, social, cultural, historical, political) in which the visual arts could serve more effectively than other means of communication to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary throughout critical processes, justify vocabulary selections in relation to various contexts.
5.C. Students will compare and contrast the intentions of different artists, evaluate each artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions for a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate how individual, historical, and cultural influences that have impacted their own works of art.
5.E. Students will analyze how individual and group responses to the characteristics of a work of art can influence the examination, interpretation, and evaluation of that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will interpret and evaluate the effective use of creative processes, principles, and techniques of the visual arts, and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze, compare, and interpret recurring ideas, issues, or themes communicated by the visual arts, the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre (Advanced): Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will analyze and describe how the elements of the play contribute to the telling of a story.
1.B. Students will evaluate how different sources are reflected in plays.
1.C. Students will write an original theatre work with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will analyze and describe the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre (Advanced): Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will analyze and synthesize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts to justify the creative choices of the actors.
2.B. Students will demonstrate the skills represented in accepted acting methods while creating and sustaining a believable character.
2.C. Students will create consistent characters from dramatic works of various genres across cultures, times, and places.
DE.3. Theatre (Advanced): Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will design and construct scenery based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will create sound and light designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.D. Students will create costume and makeup designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
DE.4. Theatre (Advanced): Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.C. Students will define and explore character relationships of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.D. Students will define and explore narrative elements of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre (Advanced): Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to successfully create and implement all production schedules, stage management and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will describe and analyze the effects of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.
DE.6. Theatre (Advanced): Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in an original theatre work.
6.C. Students will create an electronic media presentation.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre (Advanced): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will compare the intentions of different formal and informal presentations and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze how individual and audience response to the dramatic presentation can influence the assessment of that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre (Advanced): Students will understand theatre arts in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will analyze and interpret works of drama and their impact on cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of specific theatre works within varied cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will compare and contrast how students' works in the theatre arts are affected by their own cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will analyze role playing, verbal and nonverbal expression, and body movement as tools for effective communication in various cultures.
8.E. Students will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue a theatre career.
DE.1. Dance (Advanced): Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate consistent execution of technical skills.
1.B. Students will perform technical skills with expressiveness, clarity, musicality, and authenticity of style and tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will demonstrate performance presence while performing dance skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to reconstruct a dance.
1.G. Students will discuss challenges facing professional performers in maintaining physical well-being.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation in a dance performance.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.E. Students will demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance.
DE.3. Dance (Advanced): Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will view professional dance presentations and describe how dance creates and conveys meaning through performance.
3.B. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost or gained by those decisions.
3.C. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic styles.
3.D. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating the work of others (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.E. Students will describe how specific choreographers manipulate and develop movement to create a dance.
3.F. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or a cultural dance form, then create a dance and identify those styles and/or dance forms that influenced the work.
DE.4. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social, historical, cultural, and political contexts.
4.B. Students will choose and research a culture, write an analysis of that culture's important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance (Advanced): Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and two or more art forms.
5.C. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project using media technologies (e.g., video computer) that presents dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).
5.D. Students will create and implement a production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.E. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of several video cameras as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 3, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.
1.E. Students will demonstrate well developed ensemble skills, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, a difficulty level of 3-4, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 3-4.
DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, in a meter and tonality consistent to the style.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise harmonizing parts in a given style.
DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will follow a full instrumental or vocal score.
5.D. Students will use standard notation symbols to record their musical ideas and those of others.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight read music accurately, and expressively, with difficulty level of 2-3.
DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work, compare and contrast the use of those techniques between different compositions.
DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will explain and cite examples of how elements, artistic processes (e.g., imagination or craftsmanship), and organizational principles (e.g., unity, variety, repetition, contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various art forms.
8.B. Students will compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creator, performer, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to history and diverse cultures.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered culturally, historically, and geographically significant.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and identify well known musicians associated with various genres and styles.
DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will analyze different types of media, techniques, and processes used create various art forms.
1.B. Students will analyze the relationship between various media, techniques, and processes and their effects used to communicate specific ideas in works of art.
1.C. Students will refine skills in the use of media, techniques, and processes to create various art forms.
1.D. Students will utilize the unique characteristics of media, techniques, and processes to enhance the communication of ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will analyze how the visual components of art and design applied through various media, techniques, and processes produce different effects.
2.B. Students will evaluate works of art in terms of the use of the organizational components of art and design, expressive features, and functions or purposes.
2.C. Students will formulate ideas, plan, and integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with subjects, themes, symbols, or ideas to improve communication of intended meaning in their works of art.
2.D. Students will create and use relationships among the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and functions or purposes to solve specific visual arts problems.
DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will determine the origin of possible subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas for use in creating works of art for an intended purpose.
3.B. Students will identify and integrate a variety of sources for subjects, themes, symbols, problems, or ideas in works of art to make selections which best communicate an intended meaning.
DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will investigate the functions of the arts in society and ways the visual arts have an impact (e.g., social, political, economic, religious, individual).
4.B. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of works of art from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will describe the function and explore the meaning of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will analyze how factors of cultures, times, places, and the visual arts affect each other.
4.E. Students will identify and differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of functions and purposes of works of art.
DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will analyze different ways the visual arts provide unique modes for expressing ideas, actions, and emotions, evaluate their effective use for communication.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of art.
5.C. Students will determine the intentions of an artist in creating a particular work of art and evaluate the artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions or fulfilling a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will interpret possible meanings of works of art by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.
5.E. Students will analyze how various individual responses to the characteristics of a work of art can serve as means for interpreting that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will compare the use of technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze and compare the characteristics of the visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will demonstrate how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc. ) comprise the structure of a play.
1.B. Students will analyze literature as a source for play writing.
1.C. Students will write an original one-act play with clearly developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration, analyze the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will dramatize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts.
2.B. Students will demonstrate acting skills to create and sustain a character in an ensemble.
2.C. Students will exhibit concentration and consistent believable behavior enacting a character from a written script.
2.D. Students will demonstrate different tactics a character might use to accomplish a specific objective.
DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will construct scenery and props based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
3.D. Students will use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup to create an appropriate environment for a formal theatre presentation or theatre work.
DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.C. Students will analyze character relationships and motivations in formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.D. Students will analyze narrative elements formal theatre presentations or theatre works.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision or production concept.
DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to coordinate backstage, on-stage, house, and front-of-house activities for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will collaborate to develop and implement a marketing campaign for informal and informal presentations.
DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will compare how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in theatre works.
6.C. Students will compare electronic media presentations to live performances.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre: Students will assess the characteristics of theatre, evaluating productions and audience response.
7.A. Students will develop and use criteria for evaluating a presentation's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze and explain how audience responses to a dramatic presentation can have an impact on that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will compare and contrast characteristics and purposes of the American drama.
8.B. Students will analyze and explain the function of theatre presentations in various contexts (e.g., Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, regional theatre, summer stock, and community and educational theatre).
8.C. Students will analyze dramatic works to understand various cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will evaluate criteria for effective communication in relation to lifelong achievement.
8.E. Students will research and describe the range of theatre vocations and avocations in the present.
8.F. Students will investigate ways in which theatre arts have an economic impact in society.
DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate skeletal alignment, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.
1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from three different dance styles or traditions.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will create and perform movement phrases in a broad dynamic range.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform multiple dances.
1.G. Students will explain common dance injuries and strategies to prevent them.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will demonstrate understanding of choreographic structures or forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief movement studies.
2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to direct a small group during the choreographic process.
DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.
3.B. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic works.
3.C. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating their own work (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.D. Students will describe specific choreographers' movement vocabularies and compositional techniques.
3.E. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating live performance (e.g., skill of performers, originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of dance and dancers and compare those to images of dance and dancers in contemporary media.
4.B. Students will choose a culture and create a time line illustrating important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will compare one choreographic work to one other art work from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic, cultural, historical concept.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and one other discipline outside the arts.
5.C. Students will create a written production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.D. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of the video camera as part of the choreographic process.
DE.1. Music (Advanced): Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.A. Students will sing with accuracy (on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control, and within their singing ranges.
1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 4, including some songs performed from memory.
1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression appropriate for the work being performed, some in the original language.
1.D. Students will sing music written in more than four parts.
1.E. Students will sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.
1.F. For choral ensemble or class: Students will sing a repertoire of choral literature with expression and technical accuracy, with a difficulty level of 5, with most songs performed from memory.
DE.2. Music (Advanced): Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.
2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.
2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.
2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, style, and intonation, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.
2.F. Students will perform a designated part in an ensemble.
2.G. For instrumental ensemble or class: Students will perform a repertoire of literature with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument with a difficulty level of 5.
DE.3. Music (Advanced): Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniment.
3.A. Students will improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.
3.B. Students will improvise melodic embellishments on given melodies in various tonalities.
3.C. Students will improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles.
DE.4. Music (Advanced): Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.
4.A. Students will compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in the principles of composition in a variety of styles, genres, forms.
4.B. Students will arrange pieces using voices or instruments different than those for which the pieces were originally written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.
4.C. Students will compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.
DE.5. Music (Advanced): Students will read and notate music.
5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.
5.B. Students will sight read simple melodies in two or more clefs.
5.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to follow a full instrumental or vocal score and explain all transpositions and clefs.
5.D. Students will interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.
5.E. For choral or instrumental ensemble or class: Students will sight-read music, accurately and expressively, with a difficulty level of 4.
DE.6. Music (Advanced): Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music and music performances.
6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.
6.B. Students will identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.
6.C. Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant occurrences in a given aural example.
6.D. Students will analyze the elements and expressive devices of music in aural examples in a varied repertoire.
6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally.
6.F. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
6.G. Students will compare and contrast ways in which musical elements are used in given examples.
6.H. Students will analyze and describe the unique and expressive use of elements of music in a given work.
DE.7. Music (Advanced): Students will evaluate music and music performances.
7.A. Students will develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to their personal participation in music.
7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.
7.C. Students will evaluate a performance composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.
DE.8. Music (Advanced): Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.
8.A. Students will cite representative examples
8.B. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures.
8.C. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of other curricular areas are interrelated with those of music.
8.D. Students will compare how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another.
DE.9. Music (Advanced): Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.
9.A. Students will classify unfamiliar, representative aural examples of music by genre, style, and by historical periods or culture.
9.B. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
9.C. Students will identify and cite representative examples of various roles that musicians played in different historical periods.
9.D. Students will identify and explain the characteristics that cause a musical work to be considered exemplary.
9.E. Students will identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres and well known musicians associated with them.
DE.1. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.
1.A. Students will research and compare types of media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art across cultures, times, and places.
1.B. Students will analyze, research, and demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.
1.C. Students will exhibit advanced skills in the use of a broad range of media, techniques, and processes to produce art works for portfolio presentation.
1.D. Students will initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences in relation to intended meaning or function in various art forms.
1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
DE.2. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.
2.A. Students will form and support judgments about the use of the visual components of art and design in works produced for individual, commercial, economic, intellectual, or other purposes.
2.B. Students will select organizational components of art and design to create intended effects in their own works of art, make and defend their judgments regarding choices.
2.C. Students will plan, design, and execute multiple solutions to challenging visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between visual, spatial, and temporal concepts and artistic functions, defend their judgments regarding choices made throughout the creative process.
2.D. Students will propose multiple solutions to a visual arts problem through different approaches to the use of sensory qualities, organizational principles, and expressive features, and functions or purposes.
DE.3. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.
3.A. Students will evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subjects, themes, symbols, problems and ideas are used in the student's work and in works of others.
3.B. Students will research, analyze, and compare the development of recurring subjects, themes, symbols, or problems in their own works of art and the works of others.
DE.4. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.
4.A. Students will engage in research and visual arts experiences related to the roles of artists, art critics, art historians, art educators, and aestheticians in different contexts across cultures, times, and places.
4.B. Students will analyze, and interpret works of art and their relationships to cultures, times, and places.
4.C. Students will analyze, compare, and contrast the functions and meanings of specific works of art within varied cultures, times, and places.
4.D. Students will compare and contrast their own works of art and to works of others to determine how they are affected by cultures, times, and places.
4.E. Students will analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, and purposes.
DE.5. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.
5.A. Students will investigate and analyze contexts (e.g., individual, social, cultural, historical, political) in which the visual arts could serve more effectively than other means of communication to express ideas, actions, and emotions.
5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary throughout critical processes, justify vocabulary selections in relation to various contexts.
5.C. Students will compare and contrast the intentions of different artists, evaluate each artist's effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions for a particular purpose.
5.D. Students will identify, analyze, and evaluate how individual, historical, and cultural influences that have impacted their own works of art.
5.E. Students will analyze how individual and group responses to the characteristics of a work of art can influence the examination, interpretation, and evaluation of that work.
DE.6. Visual Arts (Advanced): Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.
6.A. Students will interpret and evaluate the effective use of creative processes, principles, and techniques of the visual arts, and other arts disciplines.
6.B. Students will analyze, compare, and interpret recurring ideas, issues, or themes communicated by the visual arts, the humanities, sciences, or other areas.
6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.1. Theatre (Advanced): Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
1.A. Students will analyze and describe how the elements of the play contribute to the telling of a story.
1.B. Students will evaluate how different sources are reflected in plays.
1.C. Students will write an original theatre work with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.
1.E. Students will analyze and describe the development of dramatic forms from antiquity to the present.
DE.2. Theatre (Advanced): Students will act in formal or informal presentations.
2.A. Students will analyze and synthesize the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts to justify the creative choices of the actors.
2.B. Students will demonstrate the skills represented in accepted acting methods while creating and sustaining a believable character.
2.C. Students will create consistent characters from dramatic works of various genres across cultures, times, and places.
DE.3. Theatre (Advanced): Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.
3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g., acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).
3.B. Students will design and construct scenery based on an analysis of plays from a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.C. Students will create sound and light designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
3.D. Students will create costume and makeup designs to represent or reflect a variety of cultures, times, and places.
DE.4. Theatre (Advanced): Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.
4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.
4.B. Students will make staging choices to convey the meaning of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.C. Students will define and explore character relationships of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.D. Students will define and explore narrative elements of theatre works from various periods and genres.
4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.
DE.5. Theatre (Advanced): Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.
5.A. Students will collaborate to successfully create and implement all production schedules, stage management and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal presentations.
5.B. Students will describe and analyze the effects of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.
DE.6. Theatre (Advanced): Students will compare and integrate art forms.
6.A. Students will analyze how the characteristic elements of the various art forms contribute to a specific production.
6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes in an original theatre work.
6.C. Students will create an electronic media presentation.
6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.
DE.7. Theatre (Advanced): Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.
7.A. Students will compare the intentions of different formal and informal presentations and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating ideas and emotions.
7.B. Students will analyze how individual and audience response to the dramatic presentation can influence the assessment of that presentation.
DE.8. Theatre (Advanced): Students will understand theatre arts in relation to cultures, times, and places.
8.A. Students will analyze and interpret works of drama and their impact on cultures, times, and places.
8.B. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of specific theatre works within varied cultures, times, and places.
8.C. Students will compare and contrast how students' works in the theatre arts are affected by their own cultures, times, and places.
8.D. Students will analyze role playing, verbal and nonverbal expression, and body movement as tools for effective communication in various cultures.
8.E. Students will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue a theatre career.
DE.1. Dance (Advanced): Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
1.A. Students will demonstrate consistent execution of technical skills.
1.B. Students will perform technical skills with expressiveness, clarity, musicality, and authenticity of style and tradition.
1.C. Students will demonstrate rhythmic acuity.
1.D. Students will demonstrate performance presence while performing dance skills.
1.E. Students will demonstrate awareness of fellow dancers in performance.
1.F. Students will demonstrate the ability to reconstruct a dance.
1.G. Students will discuss challenges facing professional performers in maintaining physical well-being.
1.H. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.
DE.2. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.A. Students will create spatial movement patterns.
2.B. Students will use improvisation in a dance performance.
2.C. Students will demonstrate the processes of reordering and chance.
2.D. Students will choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
2.E. Students will demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient skills to create a small group dance.
DE.3. Dance (Advanced): Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.
3.A. Students will view professional dance presentations and describe how dance creates and conveys meaning through performance.
3.B. Students will create a dance and revise it, tell the reasons for the artistic decisions and what was lost or gained by those decisions.
3.C. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two choreographic styles.
3.D. Students will establish and apply a set of aesthetic criteria for evaluating the work of others (e.g., originality, visual and/or emotional impact, variety and contrast).
3.E. Students will describe how specific choreographers manipulate and develop movement to create a dance.
3.F. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or a cultural dance form, then create a dance and identify those styles and/or dance forms that influenced the work.
DE.4. Dance (Advanced): Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.
4.A. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social, historical, cultural, and political contexts.
4.B. Students will choose and research a culture, write an analysis of that culture's important dance events, placing them in their social, historical, and political contexts.
DE.5. Dance (Advanced): Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.
5.B. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by students, including dance and two or more art forms.
5.C. Students will create a collaborative interdisciplinary project using media technologies (e.g., video computer) that presents dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).
5.D. Students will create and implement a production plan which includes timelines and budgets for all production areas.
5.E. Students will choreograph a dance specifically for video, use the perspective of several video cameras as part of the choreographic process.