New Hampshire State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 12

NH.D.1. Dance: Identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D.1.1. Students will be able to refine appropriate body alignment, body-part articulation, strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination in locomotor and axial movements.

D.1.2. Students will be able to identify and demonstrate longer and more complex movement.

D.1.3. Students will be able to demonstrate rhythmic acuity.

D.1.4. Students will be able to improve performance of movement and technical skills by using a broad dynamic range.

D.1.5. Students will be able to improve dance technique through self-evaluation and correction.

D.1.6. Students will be able to demonstrate a high level of consistency and reliability in performing technical skills.

NH.D.2. Dance: Identify choreographic principles.

D.2.1. Students will be able to use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.

D.2.2. Students will be able to explore choreographic structure by creating a movement phrase that can be rearranged according to various compositional forms.

D.2.3. Students will be able to create a movement study focusing on dynamic change and transitions.

D.2.4. Students will be able to create a movement study for two or more dancers.

D.2.5. Students will be able to describe how a choreographer developed and organized the basic movement content in a particular dance.

D.2.6. Students will be able to demonstrate further development and refinement of the proficient achievement standards to create a small group dance with coherence and aesthetic unity.

D.2.7. Students will be able to create a movement study focusing on dance phrases that use complex rhythmic and musical elements.

NH.D.3. Dance: Recognize dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D.3.1. Students will be able to discuss and evaluate how movement choices communicate ideas in dance.

D.3.2. Students will be able to examine ways that a dance conveys various meanings from a variety of perspectives.

D.3.3. Students will be able to analyze and discuss a performer's ability to communicate meaning to an audience.

D.3.4. Students will be able to compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in two of their own choreographic works.

D.3.5. Students will be able to create and/or critique a dance that explores a contemporary social theme, analyzing how the work accomplishes or does not accomplish its intentions.

NH.D.4. Dance: Apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D.4.1. Students will be able to create a dance and revise it over time, articulating the reasons for their artistic decisions, considering what was lost and gained by those decisions.

D.4.2. Students will be able to establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own choreography and that of others.

D.4.3. Students will be able to analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, social/economic class, age, and/or physical condition in relation dance

D.4.4. Students will be able to analyze the style of a choreographer or cultural dance form; identify characteristics of the style or dance form which make it distinctive from other styles and dance forms; then create a movement study in that style.

NH.D.5. Dance: Recognize and demonstrate dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D.5.1. Students will be able to perform or discuss the traditions and techniques of a classical dance form.

D.5.2. Students will be able to perform and describe similarities and differences among a broad spectrum of folk, social, and/or theatrical dances or dance forms from the 20 th century.

D.5.3. Students will be able to perform or discuss the traditions and techniques of folk forms, such as Morris dance, Irish step dance or American Hopi Indian dance, placing each in an historical or cultural context.

D.5.4 Students will be able to compare the role and significance of dance and dancers in North America with other cultures, considering the historical period and social/political contexts.

NH.D.6. Dance: Make connections between dance and healthful living.

D.6.1. Students will be able to reflect upon their own progress and personal growth during their study of dance; examine how fluency in dance can support success and confidence in other areas.

D.6.2. Students will be able to communicate how lifestyle choices, such as smoking, drug use or diet, affect the dancer.

D.6.3. Students will be able to analyze and discuss historical and cultural images of the body and compare these images to presentation of the body in contemporary media.

D.6.4. Students will be able to analyze challenges facing professional performers in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

NH.D.7. Dance: Make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D.7.1. Students will be able to create a project the reveals similarities between dance and other disciplines.

D.7.2. Students will be able to explore/discuss how other forms of communication, such as, visual art, spoken word, music or video can enhance or alter the ideas conveyed in a dance, drawing on examples from their own dances and those of others.

D.7.3. Students will be able to create an interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by the student.

D.7.4. Students will be able to compare choreographic works to other artwork from the same culture and time period.

D.7.5. Students will be able to create a project using media technologies, such as video and computers, that present dance in a new or enhanced form.

NH.D.8. Dance: Identify the range of careers in the field of dance.

D.8.1. Students will be able to describe ways in which dance influences everyday life.

D.8.2. Students will be able to create an extensive list of dance-related careers.

D.8.3. Students will be able to identify and discuss a variety of employment and financial opportunities for people who choose a career in dance.

D.8.4. Students will be able to discuss how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of life skills.

D.8.5. Students will be able to compose a list of questions to identify specific skills and knowledge needed to enter a particular dance-related career and seek answers from a variety of community sources.

NH.M.1. Music: Sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

M.1.1. Choral Performance: Students will be able to sing with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature in more than one language with a difficulty level of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

M.1.2. Choral Performance: Students will be able to sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment, demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.

M.1.3. Choral Performance: Students will be able to sing with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a difficulty level of 5 on a scale of 1 to 6.

M.1.4. Choral Performance: Students will be able to sing music written in more than four parts.

M.1.5. Choral Performance: Students will be able to sing in small ensembles with one student on each part.

NH.M.2. Music: Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

M.2.1. Instrumental Performance: Students will be able to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a difficulty level of 4, on a scale of 1 to 6.

M.2.2. Instrumental Performance: Students will be able to perform an appropriate part in an ensemble, demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.

M.2.3. Instrumental Performance: Students will be able to perform in small ensembles with one student on a part.

M.2.4. Instrumental Performance: Students will be able to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a difficulty level of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.

NH.M.3. Music: Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

M.3.1. Students will be able to improvise stylistically appropriate harmonization/homophonic parts.

M.3.2. Students will be able to improvise rhythmic and melodic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

M.3.3. Students will be able to improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

M.3.4. Students will be able to improvise stylistically appropriate harmonization/ homophonic parts in a variety of styles.

M.3.5. Students will be able to improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

NH.M.4. Music: Compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

M.4.1. Students will be able to compose music in several distinct styles, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

M.4.2. Students will be able to arrange pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written in ways that preserve or enhance the expressive effect of the music.

M.4.3. Students will be able to compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage of the sound sources.

M.4.4. Students will be able to compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in applying the principles of composition.

NH.M.5. Music: Read and notate music.

M.5.1. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to read an instrumental or vocal score of up to four staves by describing how the elements of music are used.

M.5.2. Students will be able to (for choral/instrumental ensemble/class) sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a difficulty level of 3 on a scale of 1 to 6.

M.5.3. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to read a full instrumental or vocal score by describing how the elements of music are used and explaining all transpositions and clefs.

M.5.4. Students will be able to interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by twentieth-century composers.

M.5.5. Students will be able to (for choral/instrumental students) sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a difficulty level of 4, on a scale of 1 to 6.

NH.M.6. Music: Listen to, analyze, and describe music.

M.6.1. Students will be able to analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures, by describing the uses of elements of music and expressive devices.

M.6.2. Students will be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

M.6.3. Students will be able to identify and explain composition devices and techniques used to provide unity, variety, and tension and release in a musical work, and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques.

M.6.4. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events.

M.6.5. Students will be able to compare ways in which musical materials are used in a given example relative to ways in which they are used in other works of the same genre or style.

M.6.6. Students will be able to analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive.

NH.M.7. Music: Evaluate music and music performances.

M.7.1. Students will be able to develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, then apply the criteria in their personal participation in music.

M.7.2. Students will be able to evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

M.7.3. Students will be able to evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical devices it uses to evoke feelings and emotions.

NH.M.8. Music: Understand relationships among music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

M.8.1. Students will be able to explain how elements, artistic processes and organizational principals, such as unity or variety, are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts .

M.8.2. Students will be able to compare characteristics of the arts within a particular period, style, or culture.

M.8.3. Students will be able to explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of music.

M.8.4. Students will be able to compare how creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the various arts are similar to and different from one another.

NH.M.9. Music: Understand music in relation to history and culture.

M.9.1. Students will be able to classify by genre or style and by historical period or culture unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain the reasoning behind their classifications.

M.9.2. Students will be able to identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

M.9.3. Students will be able to identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements.

M.9.4. Students will be able to identify and explain the stylistic features of a given music work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

M.9.5. Students will be able to identify and describe music genres or styles that show the influence of two or more cultural traditions, identify the cultural source of each influence, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis of influences.

NH.M.10. Music: Identify the range of careers in the field of music.

M.10.1. Students will be able to recognize that some people are hired to sing or play varied styles of music in various media.

M.10.2. Students will be able to identify professions in which people compose and/or arrange music in diverse styles for various media.

M.10.3. Students will be able to recognize that careers and work opportunities exist in the fields of music evaluation.

M.10.4. Students will be able to recognize that professions exist in the study of music history, such as ethnomusicology.

M.10.5. Students will be able to research and identify careers in the music field utilizing resources such as individual professionals and reference materials including the internet, as well as local, state, national, and professional organizations.

NH.T.1. Theatre: Students will create theatre through improvising, writing and refining scripts.

T.1.1. Students will be able to construct imaginative scripts using different playwriting forms and techniques.

T.1.2. Students will be able to collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.

T.1.3. Students will be able to write theatre, film, television, or electronic media scripts containing original characters with dialogue that motivates the action in both traditional and new forms.

NH.T.2. Theatre: Students will act by developing, improvising, communicating and sustaining characters.

T.2.1. Students will be able to analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in the dramatic texts from various genres and media.

T.2.2. Students will be able to compare and demonstrate classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

T.2.3. Students will be able to demonstrate artistic discipline in rehearsal and performance.

T.2.4. Students will be able to create and sustain characters in monologues and ensembles, using different acting styles and techniques.

T.2.5. Students will be able to create consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic, and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.

NH.T.3. Theatre: Students will design and produce the technical elements of theatre through artistic interpretation and execution.

T.3.1. Students will be able to explain the basic physical and chemical properties of technical theatre, such as light, color, textures, materials, electricity, paint, sound, and make-up.

T.3.2. Students will be able to analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.

T.3.3. Students will be able to design visual and aural elements to convey environments that clearly support the text.

T.3.4. Students will be able to apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively and safely create functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and make-up.

T.3.5. Students will be able to design coherent stage management, promotional and business plans.

T.3.6. Students will be able to explain how scientific and technological advances have affected set, lighting, sound, and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

T.3.7. Students will be able to collaborate with directors to develop production concepts that create a unified performance experience.

T.3.8. Students will be able to safely construct and efficiently operate technical aspects of theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

T.3.9. Students will be able to create and implement production schedules, stage management plans, promotional ideas, and business and house procedures for dramatic productions.

NH.T.4. Theatre: Students will direct by planning or interpreting works of theatre by organizing and conducting rehearsals.

T.4.1. Students will be able to develop multiple script and design interpretations and justify those that are most appropriate.

T.4.2. Students will be able to communicate directorial choices for improvised or scripted scenes to an ensemble.

T.4.3. Students will be able to use techniques of staging and blocking to achieve different effects and to convey meaning.

T.4.4. Students will be able to conduct auditions, cast actors, direct scenes, and organize and lead production meetings to achieve production goals.

NH.T.5. Theatre: Students will research, evaluate and apply cultural and historical information to make artistic choices.

T.5.1. Students will be able to identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts evaluate the validity and practicality of information to assist in making artistic choices for formal and informal productions.

T.5.2. Students will be able to research and describe appropriate historical production designs, techniques, and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for formal and informal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

NH.T.6. Theatre: Students will make curriculum connections among theatre, the arts, and other disciplines.

T.6.1. Students will be able to describe and compare the basic nature, materials, elements, and means of communicating in theatre, dramatic media (story telling), musical theatre, dance, music, and the visual arts.

T.6.2. Students will be able to determine how the other arts are modified to enhance the expression of ideas and emotions achieved in theatre.

T.6.3. Students will be able to illustrate the integration of varied arts media in formal and informal presentations.

T.6.4. Students will be able to create and solve interdisciplinary problems using theatre.

T.6.5. Students will be able to compare the unique interpretive and expressive natures and aesthetic qualities of traditional art forms from various cultures and historical periods with contemporary new art forms, such as performance art, videodisks, and virtual reality.

T.6.6. Students will be able to integrate several art forms and/or media in theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.

NH.T.7. Theatre: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from works of theatre.

T.7.1. Students will be able to construct social meanings from informal and formal productions, and dramatic performances from various cultures and historical periods, and relate these to current personal, national, and international issues.

T.7.2. Students will be able to articulate and justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and events by comparing artistic intent with the final performance.

T.7.3. Students will be able to analyze and critique dramatic performances, considering context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices.

T.7.4. Students will be able to constructively evaluate their own and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices in informal and formal productions.

T.7.5. Students will be able to develop an understanding of the dramatic/artistic intentions and actions, based on their social and personal significance, from nontraditional dramatic performances.

T.7.6. Students will be able to analyze, compare, and evaluate differing critiques of the same dramatic texts and performances.

T.7.7. Students will be able to critique several dramatic works in terms of other aesthetic philosophies (such as the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism, Shakespeare, Indian classical drama, Japanese kabuki, etc.) as they may relate to time and place.

T.7.8. Students will be able to analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work explaining which points are most appropriate to inform further development of the work.

NH.T.8. Theatre: Students will demonstrate an understanding of context by analyzing and comparing theatre in various cultures, historical periods and everyday life.

T.8.1. Students will be able to compare how similar themes are treated in drama from various cultures and historical periods.

T.8.2. Students will be able to illustrate with formal and informal performances, and discuss how theatre can reveal universal concepts.

T.8.3. Students will be able to identify and compare the lives, works, and influence of representative theatre artists in various cultures and historical periods.

T.8.4. Students will be able to identify cultural and historical sources of American theatre and musical theatre.

T.8.5. Students will be able to analyze the effect of their own cultural experiences on their dramatic work.

T.8.6. Students will be able to analyze the social and aesthetic impact of theatre and film artists from underrepresented groups.

T.8.7. Students will be able to analyze the relationships among cultural values, freedom of artistic expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.

T.8.8. Students will be able to analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods, and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

NH.T.9. Theatre: Understand the range of careers in the field of theatre arts and identify careers associated with this field.

T.9.1. Students will be able to identify locally, nationally, and internationally recognized individuals or groups in the field of theatre arts.

T.9.2. Students will be able to explore career opportunities in theatre and theatre-related fields.

T.9.3. Students will be able to research and describe career options as they relate to performance, production, and communication.

T.9.4. Students will be able to identify and interview professionals in the field of theatre.

NH.V.1. Visual Arts: Apply appropriate media, techniques, and processes.

V.1.1. Students will be able to apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity in ways that reflect their intentions.

V.1.2. Students will be able to create works of visual art that demonstrate a connection between personal expression and the intentional use of art materials, techniques, and processes.

V.1.3. Students will be able to use complex art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

V.1.4. Students will be able to communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium.

V.1.5. Students will be able to initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

NH.V.2. Visual Arts: Identify and apply the elements of visual art and principles of design.

V.2.1. Students will be able to demonstrate a more complex understanding of the elements of art and principles of design to accomplish commercial, personal, communal or other purposes of art.

V.2.2. Students will be able to create works that use the elements of art and principles of design to solve specific visual arts problems.

V.2.3. Students will be able to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and defend personal evaluations of these perspectives.

V.2.4. Students will be able to design to generate multiple solutions to a variety of visual art problems.

V.2.5. Students will be able to describe the elements of art and principles of design found in origins of specific images and ideas.

NH.V.3. Visual Arts: Select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.

V.3.1. Students will be able to reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, and functionally.

V.3.2. Students will be able to use subject matter, symbols, ideas, and themes that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics.

V.3.3. Students will be able to describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain their significance.

V.3.4. Students will be able to evaluate the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used in the students' work and the work of others.

NH.V.4. Visual Arts: Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

V.4.1. Students will be able to differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.

V.4.2. Students will be able to analyze relationships among works of art in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, using their observations to inform their own art making.

V.4.3. Students will be able to identify and visit New Hampshire arts exhibitions and report their findings.

V.4.4. Students will be able to understand various critical models of interpreting works from several historical periods and cultures.

V.4.5. Students will be able to analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning.

NH.V.5. Visual Arts: Analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' artwork.

V.5.1. Students will be able to research and analyze historic meaning and purpose in various works of art.

V.5.2. Students will be able to defend personal interpretations to better understand specific works of art.

V.5.3. Students will be able to apply critical and aesthetic criteria in order to improve their own works of art.

V.5.4. Students will be able to reflect critically on various interpretations to better understand specific works of art.

V.5.5. Students will be able to analyze and interpret art works identifying relationships among form, context and purposes.

NH.V.6. Visual Arts: Students will make connections among the visual arts, other disciplines, and daily life.

V.6.1. Students will be able to compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other disciplines.

V.6.2. Students will be able to compare the creative processes used in the visual arts with the creative processes used in the other arts and non-arts disciplines.

V.6.3. Students will be able to create and solve interdisciplinary problems through multimedia solutions, using advancements in technology and principles of design when applicable.

V.6.4. Students will be able to use knowledge of other subject matter to enhance their art work.

V.6.5. Students will be able to evaluate how other disciplines influence an individual's work, style and process.

NH.V.7. Visual Arts: Understand the range of careers in the field of visual arts and identify careers associated with this field.

V.7.1. Students will be able to recognize that a portfolio is a tool for professional artists and personal documentation, as well as a requirement for college admission.

V.7.2. Students will be able to prepare a portfolio for use in application to institutions of higher education or for the workplace.

V.7.3. Students will be able to prepare an exhibition, demonstrating an understanding of presentation.

V.7.4. Students will be able to investigate career opportunities and professional options related to one's own strengths.