Montana State Standards for Arts Education:

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will identify their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences

1.2. Students will use a variety of materials and sources to experiment with an art form.

1.3. Students will present their own work and works of others.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others in the creative process.

1.5. Students will describe how a variety of materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dance phrases.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character and setting.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will identify and apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will identify and apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will identify and apply techniques to develop scenarios, direct and act.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will identify and apply the techniques common to drawing, painting, sculpture, design, printmaking, and indigenous/ traditional arts.

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform in ensemble (e.g., live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will identify and perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will show dance composition with peers, emphasizing focus and concentration.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will participate in performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will demonstrate storytelling and creative dramatics.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create general responses.

3.2. Students will communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter.

3.3. Students will explore potential solutions to a given problem through the Arts.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing and play music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will create works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities.

3.5.a. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Music-Students will use standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics.

3.5.c. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Theatre-Students will recognize and use stage direction.

3.5.d. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Visual Arts-Students will recognize and use symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will use vocabulary of the discipline to describe a variety of works of art.

4.2. Students will describe personal works to others.

4.3. Students will devise criteria for evaluation.

4.4. Students will recognize a variety of different responses to specific works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will recognize ways in which the Arts have both a historical and distinctive relationship to various cultures (e.g., American Indian) and media of expression.

5.2. Students will identify and describe specific works of art belonging to particular cultures, times and places.

5.3. Students will recognize various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will recognize common emotions, experiences, and expressions in art.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will explore their own culture as reflected through the Arts.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms/elements used in the various Arts.

6.2. Students will identify interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will identify the role of the Arts in the world of work.

6.4. Students will identify how art reflects life.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will identify their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences

1.2. Students will use a variety of materials and sources to experiment with an art form.

1.3. Students will present their own work and works of others.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others in the creative process.

1.5. Students will describe how a variety of materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dance phrases.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character and setting.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will identify and apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will identify and apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will identify and apply techniques to develop scenarios, direct and act.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will identify and apply the techniques common to drawing, painting, sculpture, design, printmaking, and indigenous/ traditional arts.

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform in ensemble (e.g., live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will identify and perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will show dance composition with peers, emphasizing focus and concentration.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will participate in performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will demonstrate storytelling and creative dramatics.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create general responses.

3.2. Students will communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter.

3.3. Students will explore potential solutions to a given problem through the Arts.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing and play music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will create works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities.

3.5.a. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Music-Students will use standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics.

3.5.c. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Theatre-Students will recognize and use stage direction.

3.5.d. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Visual Arts-Students will recognize and use symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will use vocabulary of the discipline to describe a variety of works of art.

4.2. Students will describe personal works to others.

4.3. Students will devise criteria for evaluation.

4.4. Students will recognize a variety of different responses to specific works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will recognize ways in which the Arts have both a historical and distinctive relationship to various cultures (e.g., American Indian) and media of expression.

5.2. Students will identify and describe specific works of art belonging to particular cultures, times and places.

5.3. Students will recognize various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will recognize common emotions, experiences, and expressions in art.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will explore their own culture as reflected through the Arts.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms/elements used in the various Arts.

6.2. Students will identify interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will identify the role of the Arts in the world of work.

6.4. Students will identify how art reflects life.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will identify their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences

1.2. Students will use a variety of materials and sources to experiment with an art form.

1.3. Students will present their own work and works of others.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others in the creative process.

1.5. Students will describe how a variety of materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dance phrases.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character and setting.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will identify and apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will identify and apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will identify and apply techniques to develop scenarios, direct and act.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will identify and apply the techniques common to drawing, painting, sculpture, design, printmaking, and indigenous/ traditional arts.

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform in ensemble (e.g., live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will identify and perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will show dance composition with peers, emphasizing focus and concentration.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will participate in performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will demonstrate storytelling and creative dramatics.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create general responses.

3.2. Students will communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter.

3.3. Students will explore potential solutions to a given problem through the Arts.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing and play music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will create works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities.

3.5.a. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Music-Students will use standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics.

3.5.c. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Theatre-Students will recognize and use stage direction.

3.5.d. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Visual Arts-Students will recognize and use symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will use vocabulary of the discipline to describe a variety of works of art.

4.2. Students will describe personal works to others.

4.3. Students will devise criteria for evaluation.

4.4. Students will recognize a variety of different responses to specific works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will recognize ways in which the Arts have both a historical and distinctive relationship to various cultures (e.g., American Indian) and media of expression.

5.2. Students will identify and describe specific works of art belonging to particular cultures, times and places.

5.3. Students will recognize various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will recognize common emotions, experiences, and expressions in art.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will explore their own culture as reflected through the Arts.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms/elements used in the various Arts.

6.2. Students will identify interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will identify the role of the Arts in the world of work.

6.4. Students will identify how art reflects life.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will identify their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences

1.2. Students will use a variety of materials and sources to experiment with an art form.

1.3. Students will present their own work and works of others.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others in the creative process.

1.5. Students will describe how a variety of materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dance phrases.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character and setting.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will identify and apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will identify and apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will identify and apply techniques to develop scenarios, direct and act.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will identify and apply the techniques common to drawing, painting, sculpture, design, printmaking, and indigenous/ traditional arts.

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform in ensemble (e.g., live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will identify and perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will show dance composition with peers, emphasizing focus and concentration.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will participate in performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will demonstrate storytelling and creative dramatics.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create general responses.

3.2. Students will communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter.

3.3. Students will explore potential solutions to a given problem through the Arts.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing and play music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will create works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities.

3.5.a. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Music-Students will use standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics.

3.5.c. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Theatre-Students will recognize and use stage direction.

3.5.d. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Visual Arts-Students will recognize and use symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will use vocabulary of the discipline to describe a variety of works of art.

4.2. Students will describe personal works to others.

4.3. Students will devise criteria for evaluation.

4.4. Students will recognize a variety of different responses to specific works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will recognize ways in which the Arts have both a historical and distinctive relationship to various cultures (e.g., American Indian) and media of expression.

5.2. Students will identify and describe specific works of art belonging to particular cultures, times and places.

5.3. Students will recognize various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will recognize common emotions, experiences, and expressions in art.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will explore their own culture as reflected through the Arts.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms/elements used in the various Arts.

6.2. Students will identify interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will identify the role of the Arts in the world of work.

6.4. Students will identify how art reflects life.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will identify their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences

1.2. Students will use a variety of materials and sources to experiment with an art form.

1.3. Students will present their own work and works of others.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others in the creative process.

1.5. Students will describe how a variety of materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dance phrases.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character and setting.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will identify and apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will identify and apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will identify and apply techniques to develop scenarios, direct and act.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will identify and apply the techniques common to drawing, painting, sculpture, design, printmaking, and indigenous/ traditional arts.

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform in ensemble (e.g., live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will identify examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will identify and perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will identify examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will show dance composition with peers, emphasizing focus and concentration.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will participate in performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will demonstrate storytelling and creative dramatics.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create general responses.

3.2. Students will communicate meaning through the art forms from selected subject matter.

3.3. Students will explore potential solutions to a given problem through the Arts.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing and play music using dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use mind, voice, and body to create characters and tell stories.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will create works of art with content that is consistent with media possibilities.

3.5.a. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Music-Students will use standard symbols to identify meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics.

3.5.c. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Theatre-Students will recognize and use stage direction.

3.5.d. Students will identify and use an appropriate symbol system. Visual Arts-Students will recognize and use symbol language appropriate to media used to create works of art.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will use vocabulary of the discipline to describe a variety of works of art.

4.2. Students will describe personal works to others.

4.3. Students will devise criteria for evaluation.

4.4. Students will recognize a variety of different responses to specific works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will recognize ways in which the Arts have both a historical and distinctive relationship to various cultures (e.g., American Indian) and media of expression.

5.2. Students will identify and describe specific works of art belonging to particular cultures, times and places.

5.3. Students will recognize various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will recognize common emotions, experiences, and expressions in art.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will explore their own culture as reflected through the Arts.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms/elements used in the various Arts.

6.2. Students will identify interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will identify the role of the Arts in the world of work.

6.4. Students will identify how art reflects life.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will create a work from their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences.

1.2. Students will select a variety of materials and sources to demonstrate a specific art form.

1.3. Students will prepare and/or revise works for presentation.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others to make artistic choices.

1.5. Students will describe and analyze artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character, setting and mood.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, and design.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply knowledge of techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama, plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique storytelling and improvisation.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific responses.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to determine solutions.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with control and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will use accepted performance and expressive techniques (e.g., breath control, posture) while singing and playing music in small and large ensembles.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, and make-up to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will experiment and practice with a variety of media to achieve clarity of expression.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Music-Students will identify and define standard notation symbols including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

3.5.c. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Theatre-Students will understand and apply stage direction and ground plans.

3.5.d. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Visual Arts-Students will examine the breadth and depth of possible responses presented by media and media techniques.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and other art works by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

4.2. Students will describe the influence of personal experience on the interpretation of works of art.

4.3. Students will develop and apply criteria for evaluating quality and effectiveness of the work of art.

4.4. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will demonstrate how history/culture and the Arts influence each other.

5.2. Students will identify, describe, and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will compare various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will describe how people's emotions and experiences influence the development of specific art works.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will determine the connection of a work of art to societal and cultural change or preservation, including American Indian culture and art.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will compare and explain how the characteristic materials of each art (e.g., sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interrelationships in theatre) correlate to similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas.

6.2. Students will utilize interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will explore vocational and avocational opportunities in the Arts.

6.4. Students will identify how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will create a work from their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences.

1.2. Students will select a variety of materials and sources to demonstrate a specific art form.

1.3. Students will prepare and/or revise works for presentation.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others to make artistic choices.

1.5. Students will describe and analyze artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character, setting and mood.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, and design.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply knowledge of techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama, plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique storytelling and improvisation.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific responses.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to determine solutions.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with control and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will use accepted performance and expressive techniques (e.g., breath control, posture) while singing and playing music in small and large ensembles.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, and make-up to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will experiment and practice with a variety of media to achieve clarity of expression.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Music-Students will identify and define standard notation symbols including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

3.5.c. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Theatre-Students will understand and apply stage direction and ground plans.

3.5.d. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Visual Arts-Students will examine the breadth and depth of possible responses presented by media and media techniques.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and other art works by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

4.2. Students will describe the influence of personal experience on the interpretation of works of art.

4.3. Students will develop and apply criteria for evaluating quality and effectiveness of the work of art.

4.4. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will demonstrate how history/culture and the Arts influence each other.

5.2. Students will identify, describe, and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will compare various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will describe how people's emotions and experiences influence the development of specific art works.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will determine the connection of a work of art to societal and cultural change or preservation, including American Indian culture and art.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will compare and explain how the characteristic materials of each art (e.g., sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interrelationships in theatre) correlate to similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas.

6.2. Students will utilize interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will explore vocational and avocational opportunities in the Arts.

6.4. Students will identify how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will create a work from their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences.

1.2. Students will select a variety of materials and sources to demonstrate a specific art form.

1.3. Students will prepare and/or revise works for presentation.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others to make artistic choices.

1.5. Students will describe and analyze artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character, setting and mood.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, and design.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply knowledge of techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama, plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique storytelling and improvisation.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific responses.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to determine solutions.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with control and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will use accepted performance and expressive techniques (e.g., breath control, posture) while singing and playing music in small and large ensembles.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, and make-up to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will experiment and practice with a variety of media to achieve clarity of expression.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Music-Students will identify and define standard notation symbols including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

3.5.c. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Theatre-Students will understand and apply stage direction and ground plans.

3.5.d. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Visual Arts-Students will examine the breadth and depth of possible responses presented by media and media techniques.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and other art works by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

4.2. Students will describe the influence of personal experience on the interpretation of works of art.

4.3. Students will develop and apply criteria for evaluating quality and effectiveness of the work of art.

4.4. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will demonstrate how history/culture and the Arts influence each other.

5.2. Students will identify, describe, and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will compare various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will describe how people's emotions and experiences influence the development of specific art works.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will determine the connection of a work of art to societal and cultural change or preservation, including American Indian culture and art.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will compare and explain how the characteristic materials of each art (e.g., sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interrelationships in theatre) correlate to similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas.

6.2. Students will utilize interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will explore vocational and avocational opportunities in the Arts.

6.4. Students will identify how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will create a work from their own ideas and images based on themes, symbols, events and personal experiences.

1.2. Students will select a variety of materials and sources to demonstrate a specific art form.

1.3. Students will prepare and/or revise works for presentation.

1.4. Students will collaborate with others to make artistic choices.

1.5. Students will describe and analyze artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of plot, character, setting and mood.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, and design.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply knowledge of techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts) and the three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, melodrama, plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique storytelling and improvisation.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific responses.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to determine solutions.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with control and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will use accepted performance and expressive techniques (e.g., breath control, posture) while singing and playing music in small and large ensembles.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, and make-up to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will experiment and practice with a variety of media to achieve clarity of expression.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

3.5.b. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Music-Students will identify and define standard notation symbols including pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

3.5.c. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Theatre-Students will understand and apply stage direction and ground plans.

3.5.d. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Visual Arts-Students will examine the breadth and depth of possible responses presented by media and media techniques.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and other art works by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

4.2. Students will describe the influence of personal experience on the interpretation of works of art.

4.3. Students will develop and apply criteria for evaluating quality and effectiveness of the work of art.

4.4. Students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will demonstrate how history/culture and the Arts influence each other.

5.2. Students will identify, describe, and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will compare various reasons for creating works of art.

5.4. Students will describe how people's emotions and experiences influence the development of specific art works.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will determine the connection of a work of art to societal and cultural change or preservation, including American Indian culture and art.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will compare and explain how the characteristic materials of each art (e.g., sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interrelationships in theatre) correlate to similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas.

6.2. Students will utilize interrelated elements among the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will explore vocational and avocational opportunities in the Arts.

6.4. Students will identify how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will conceive and create works of art.

1.2. Students will demonstrate imagination and technical skill in a minimum of one art form using traditional and nontraditional resources.

1.3. Students will select or adapt the elements of a presentational style.

1.4. Students will apply artistic discipline (e.g., concentration and focus) to complete a collaborative work.

1.5. Students will articulate meaning by describing and analyzing artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of character and plot as exposition, action, climax, and resolution.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, design and produce.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design) and three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform and compare examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/ productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, tragedy, melodrama plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique improvisation and performances.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific products and responses to ideas.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning through the interpretation of a subject.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to predict potential solutions to problems and pose new problems.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with appropriate range of dynamics and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing or play music with expression and technical accuracy exhibiting a large and varied repertoire of vocal or instrumental literature.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, make-up, and lighting to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will explore and practice skills to enhance communication with consistency.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate an art work by comparing and contrasting it to similar or exemplary works of art.

4.2. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two or more of the students' own works and/or works of others.

4.3. Students will refine specific criteria for making informed critical evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of a work of art.

4.4. Students will analyze various interpretations as a means for understanding/evaluating works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will identify and describe the role of the artist in cultures and societies.

5.2. Students will identify, describe and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes and justify analysis.

5.4. Students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings and emotions in specific art works through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will investigate a variety of artworks from resources in the community and analyze and communicate cultural and historical context.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will explain how elements, processes (e.g., imagination, craftsmanship) and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways.

6.2. Students will connect and analyze interrelated elements of the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will experience the elements of art careers in a professional setting.

6.4. Students will analyze how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will conceive and create works of art.

1.2. Students will demonstrate imagination and technical skill in a minimum of one art form using traditional and nontraditional resources.

1.3. Students will select or adapt the elements of a presentational style.

1.4. Students will apply artistic discipline (e.g., concentration and focus) to complete a collaborative work.

1.5. Students will articulate meaning by describing and analyzing artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of character and plot as exposition, action, climax, and resolution.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, design and produce.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design) and three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform and compare examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/ productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, tragedy, melodrama plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique improvisation and performances.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific products and responses to ideas.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning through the interpretation of a subject.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to predict potential solutions to problems and pose new problems.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with appropriate range of dynamics and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing or play music with expression and technical accuracy exhibiting a large and varied repertoire of vocal or instrumental literature.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, make-up, and lighting to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will explore and practice skills to enhance communication with consistency.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate an art work by comparing and contrasting it to similar or exemplary works of art.

4.2. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two or more of the students' own works and/or works of others.

4.3. Students will refine specific criteria for making informed critical evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of a work of art.

4.4. Students will analyze various interpretations as a means for understanding/evaluating works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will identify and describe the role of the artist in cultures and societies.

5.2. Students will identify, describe and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes and justify analysis.

5.4. Students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings and emotions in specific art works through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will investigate a variety of artworks from resources in the community and analyze and communicate cultural and historical context.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will explain how elements, processes (e.g., imagination, craftsmanship) and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways.

6.2. Students will connect and analyze interrelated elements of the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will experience the elements of art careers in a professional setting.

6.4. Students will analyze how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will conceive and create works of art.

1.2. Students will demonstrate imagination and technical skill in a minimum of one art form using traditional and nontraditional resources.

1.3. Students will select or adapt the elements of a presentational style.

1.4. Students will apply artistic discipline (e.g., concentration and focus) to complete a collaborative work.

1.5. Students will articulate meaning by describing and analyzing artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of character and plot as exposition, action, climax, and resolution.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, design and produce.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design) and three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform and compare examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/ productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, tragedy, melodrama plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique improvisation and performances.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific products and responses to ideas.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning through the interpretation of a subject.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to predict potential solutions to problems and pose new problems.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with appropriate range of dynamics and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing or play music with expression and technical accuracy exhibiting a large and varied repertoire of vocal or instrumental literature.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, make-up, and lighting to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will explore and practice skills to enhance communication with consistency.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate an art work by comparing and contrasting it to similar or exemplary works of art.

4.2. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two or more of the students' own works and/or works of others.

4.3. Students will refine specific criteria for making informed critical evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of a work of art.

4.4. Students will analyze various interpretations as a means for understanding/evaluating works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will identify and describe the role of the artist in cultures and societies.

5.2. Students will identify, describe and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes and justify analysis.

5.4. Students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings and emotions in specific art works through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will investigate a variety of artworks from resources in the community and analyze and communicate cultural and historical context.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will explain how elements, processes (e.g., imagination, craftsmanship) and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways.

6.2. Students will connect and analyze interrelated elements of the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will experience the elements of art careers in a professional setting.

6.4. Students will analyze how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.

MT.1. Students create, perform/exhibit, and respond in the Arts. Apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

1.1. Students will conceive and create works of art.

1.2. Students will demonstrate imagination and technical skill in a minimum of one art form using traditional and nontraditional resources.

1.3. Students will select or adapt the elements of a presentational style.

1.4. Students will apply artistic discipline (e.g., concentration and focus) to complete a collaborative work.

1.5. Students will articulate meaning by describing and analyzing artistic choices in their own work and works of others.

MT.2. Students apply and describe the concepts, structures, and processes in the Arts.

2.1.a. Composition: Dance: Student will apply the elements of space (shape, level, path in space, pattern, form), time (duration, rhythm), and energy (movement quality) to compose dances.

2.1.b. Composition: Music: Student will apply the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre/tone color, and form.

2.1.c. Composition: Theatre: Student will apply the elements of character and plot as exposition, action, climax, and resolution.

2.1.d. Composition: Visual Arts: Student will apply the elements of line, shape, form, color, space, value, and texture to compose works of art and the principals of design-pattern, balance, contrast, rhythm, proportion, economy, movement, dominance.

2.2.a. Techniques: Dance: Student will apply the techniques of body awareness (e.g., control, flexibility, dynamics, expression, musicality) in class and performance.

2.2.b. Techniques: Music: Student will apply the techniques of expressive devices, dynamics, tempo, phrasing, accompaniment, interpretation, and improvisation.

2.2.c. Techniques: Theatre: Student will apply techniques to write, direct, act, design and produce.

2.2.d. Techniques: Visual Arts: Student will apply techniques to create works (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design, sculpture, and indigenous/traditional arts).

2.3.a. Medium: Dance: Student will demonstrate the human body in motion.

2.3.b. Medium: Music: Student will perform vocal and/or instrumental solos, or in ensembles.

2.3.c. Medium: Theatre: Student will perform solo and in ensemble (e.g., mime, live, film, video productions).

2.3.d. Medium: Visual Arts: Student will select a course of action using two-dimensional processes (e.g., painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer arts, graphic design) and three-dimensional processes (e.g., sculpture, indigenous/ traditional arts).

2.4.a. Function: Dance: Student will identify examples of social, theatrical, and traditional dance.

2.4.b. Function: Music: Student will perform and compare examples of music (e.g., ceremonial, celebration, concerts, theatre, dance, film, social, community, entertainment).

2.4.c. Function: Theatre: Student will perform in classroom or school programs/ productions.

2.4.d. Function: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate and compare examples of cultural, political, communication, expressive, commercial, and environmental visual arts.

2.5.a. Style: Dance: Student will identify examples of folk, popular, historical, and contemporary (e.g., ballet, jazz, modern, tap) dance.

2.5.b. Style: Music: Student will perform examples of music (e.g., folk, jazz, ethnic, popular, classical, time period).

2.5.c. Style: Theatre: Student will perform examples of theatre (e.g., comedy, tragedy, melodrama plays from historical periods).

2.5.d. Style: Visual Arts: Student will demonstrate examples of historical, contemporary, and traditional visual arts, including American Indian art.

2.6.a. Presentation: Dance: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique dance.

2.6.b. Presentation: Music: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique musical performances.

2.6.c. Presentation: Theatre: Student will rehearse, perform, and critique improvisation and performances.

2.6.d. Presentation: Visual Arts: Student will exhibit craftsmanship, completion, and develop a body of work.

MT.3. Students develop and refine arts skills and techniques to express ideas, pose and solve problems, and discover meaning.

3.1. Students will use art materials, techniques, technologies, and processes to create specific products and responses to ideas.

3.2. Students will communicate intended meaning through the interpretation of a subject.

3.3. Students will use improvisation/experimentation to predict potential solutions to problems and pose new problems.

3.4.a. Students will use technical skills. Dance-Students will perform movements and rhythm patterns with appropriate range of dynamics and expression.

3.4.b. Students will use technical skills. Music-Students will sing or play music with expression and technical accuracy exhibiting a large and varied repertoire of vocal or instrumental literature.

3.4.c. Students will use technical skills. Theatre-Students will use scenery, properties, sound, costume, make-up, and lighting to communicate locale and mood.

3.4.d. Students will use technical skills. Visual Arts-Students will explore and practice skills to enhance communication with consistency.

3.5.a. Students will understand and use symbol systems. Dance-Students will use dance elements (space, time, energy) to discuss movement and produce movements demonstrated and/ or described in words.

MT.4. Students analyze characteristics and merits of the student's work and the work of others.

4.1. Students will evaluate an art work by comparing and contrasting it to similar or exemplary works of art.

4.2. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two or more of the students' own works and/or works of others.

4.3. Students will refine specific criteria for making informed critical evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of a work of art.

4.4. Students will analyze various interpretations as a means for understanding/evaluating works of art.

MT.5. Students understand the role of the Arts in society, diverse cultures, and historical periods.

5.1. Students will identify and describe the role of the artist in cultures and societies.

5.2. Students will identify, describe and analyze specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places in the context in which they were created.

5.3. Students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes and justify analysis.

5.4. Students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings and emotions in specific art works through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.5. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of art presented.

5.6. Students will investigate a variety of artworks from resources in the community and analyze and communicate cultural and historical context.

MT.6. Students make connections among the Arts, other subject areas, life, and work.

6.1. Students will explain how elements, processes (e.g., imagination, craftsmanship) and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways.

6.2. Students will connect and analyze interrelated elements of the Arts and other subject areas.

6.3. Students will experience the elements of art careers in a professional setting.

6.4. Students will analyze how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.