Delaware State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 7

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.