Michigan State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 11

MI.1. Dance (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

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

1.2. Identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from two different dance styles/traditions.

1.3. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity.

1.4. Demonstrate projection while performing dance skills.

1.5. Demonstrate the ability to remember extended movement sequences.

MI.2. Dance (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Create and perform combinations and variations in a broad dynamic range.

2.2. Use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.

2.3. Demonstrate understanding of structures or forms (such as palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms selected by the student) through brief dance studies.

2.4. Choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.5. Create a dance that effectively communicates a contemporary social theme.

2.6. Create a dance and revise it over time using multi-media equipment (slides, camera, video, computers) articulating the reasons for their artistic decisions and what was lost and gained by those decisions.

MI.3. Dance (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Formulate and answer questions about how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance.

3.2. Create a dance and revise it over time, articulating the reasons for their artistic decisions, and what was lost and gained by those decisions.

3.3. Establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own work and that of others.

3.4. Formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions (e.g., What is it that makes a particular dance that dance? How much can one change that dance before it becomes a different dance?).

MI.4. Dance (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Explain how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance.

4.2. Perform and describe similarities and differences between two contemporary theatrical forms of dance.

4.3. Perform or discuss the traditions and techniques of a classical dance form.

4.4. Analyze the role of dance and dancers prior to the twentieth century.

4.5. Analyze how dance and dancers are portrayed in multi-media technology.

MI.5. Dance (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Demonstrate understanding of how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance.

5.2. Effectively communicate how lifestyle choices affect the dancer.

5.3. Create an interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by the student, including dance and two other disciplines (history, science, multimedia, etc.).

5.4. Clearly identify commonalities and differences between dance and other disciplines with regard to fundamental concepts such as materials, elements, and ways to communicate meaning.

5.5. Demonstrate/discuss how technology can be used to reinforce, enhance, or alter the dance idea in an interdisciplinary project.

5.6. Reflect upon personal progress and growth during one's own study in each of the arts disciplines.

5.7. Continue development of portfolio for senior exit.

MI.1. Music (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Sing and play with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal and instrumental literature with a moderate level of difficulty, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.

1.3. Perform an appropriate part in large and small ensembles, demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.

1.4. Perform artistically on electronic instruments.

1.5. Read an instrumental or vocal score of at least four staffs.

1.6. Sight read, accurately and expressively, music with a moderate level of difficulty.

MI.2. Music (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts.

2.2. Improvise rhythmic and melodic variations given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

2.3. Improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

2.4. Compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

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

2.6. Compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges, and traditional usages of the sound sources.

2.7. Create or adapt music to integrate with other media.

MI.3. Music (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures, by describing the uses of elements of music and expressive devices.

3.2. Identify and explain compositional devices and techniques and their purposes giving examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques.

3.3. Evaluate the use of music in mixed media environments.

3.4. Make informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations applying specific criteria.

3.5. Evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

MI.4. Music (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Classify by genre or style and by historical period or culture unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain the reasoning behind their classifications.

4.2. Identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements.

4.3. Analyze the impact of electronic music in society and culture.

MI.5. Music (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Explain how elements, artistic processes and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts and cite examples.

5.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.

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

5.4. Identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements.

5.5. Analyze and consider the use of music and media for the future.

MI.1. Theatre (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Use the basic physical and chemical properties of the technical aspects of theatre (such as light, color, electricity, paint, and makeup).

1.2. Communicate directorial choices to a small ensemble for improvised or scripted scenes.

MI.2. Theatre (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Construct imaginative scripts and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.

2.2. Individually and in ensemble, create and sustain characters that communicate with audiences.

2.3. Develop designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that support text.

2.4. Apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively create functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

2.5. Design stage management, promotional and business plans.

MI.3. Theatre (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Analyze improvised and scripted scenes for technical requirements.

3.2. Compare and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

3.3. Analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.

3.4. Develop multiple interpretations and visual, aural, and multi-media production choices for scripts and production ideas and choose those that are most interesting.

3.5. Justify selections of text, interpretation, and visual, aural, and electronic artistic choices.

3.6. Articulate and justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and events that compare perceived artistic intent with the final aesthetic achievement.

3.7. Identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts and evaluate the validity and practicality of the information to assist in making partistic choices for informal and formal productions.

3.8. Analyze and critique the whole and the parts of dramatic performances, taking into account the context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices including visual and aural components influenced by the use of technology.

3.9. Evaluate personal and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices in informal and formal productions.

MI.4. Theatre (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Construct social meanings from informal and formal productions and from dramatic performances from a variety of cultures and historical periods, and relate to current personal, national, and international issues.

4.2. Compare how similar themes are treated in drama from various cultures and historical periods, illustrate with informal performances, and discuss how theatre can reveal universal concepts.

4.3. Identify and compare the lives, works, and influence of representative theatrical artists in various cultures and historical periods.

4.4. Identify cultural and historical sources of American theatre and musical theatre.

4.5. Analyze the effect of personal cultural experiences on their dramatic work.

MI.5. Theatre (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Describe and compare the basic nature, materials, elements and means of communicating in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance, music, multi-media, and the visual arts.

5.2. Determine how the nondramatic art forms are modified to enhance the expression of ideas and emotions in theatre.

5.3. Integrate several arts media in informal presentations.

MI.1. Visual Arts (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Apply materials, techniques, media technology, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.

1.2. Intentionally use art material and tools effectively to communicate ideas.

1.3. Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

1.4. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

MI.2. Visual Arts (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Apply materials, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.

2.2. Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

2.3. Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others.

2.4. Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life.

2.5. Demonstrate an improved ability to integrate structures, characteristics and principles to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art.

2.6. Create media productions that demonstrate knowledge, contexts, values, and aesthetics.

MI.3. Visual Arts (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Analyze the effectiveness of selections in communicating ideas and reflect upon the effectiveness of choices.

3.2. Identify intentions of artists, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify analyses of purposes in particular works.

3.3. Describe how expressive features and organizational principles cause responses.

3.4. Reflect upon the characteristics and assess the merits of one's personal artwork.

3.5. Reflect and analyze the personal experiences that influence the development of personal artwork.

MI.4. Visual Arts (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Reflect on how the subjects, ideas, and symbols of artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally with respect to history and culture.

4.2. Describe the functions and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.3. Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using conclusions to inform personal artwork.

MI.5. Visual Arts (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Speculate and analyze how future technologies may impact art in everyday life.

5.2. Describe the characteristics of a variety of visual arts careers.

5.3. Compare the materials, technologies, techniques, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creating and types of analysis.

5.4. Compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences.