Nevada State Standards for Arts Education:

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.3.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing a simple melody with accurate pitch.

1.3.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing simple ostinati and two-part rounds such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

1.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.3.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play classroom instruments using proper technique.

2.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Accompany simple folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.3.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise short melodic and rhythmic patterns.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.3.1. Creating: Create music to interpret stories, rhymes, and poetry.

4.3.2. Composing: Create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.3.3. Arranging: Organize pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.3.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes in duple meter.

5.3.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.3.3. Musical Symbols: Use simple music symbols (e.g. fermata, repeat signs, and double bar lines).

5.3.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns (e.g. icons, manipulatives).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.3.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Identify simple elements of music.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.3.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Use criteria to evaluate performances and compositions.

7.3.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using simple musical vocabulary (e.g. loud/soft; high/low).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.3.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify several styles of music from various cultures.

9.3.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Identify various uses for music in daily experience.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.3.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 3 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.3.1. Scriptwriting: Create a simple script based on personal experience, imagination, or the retelling of a story.

1.3.6. Set Design: Create simple sets and sound effects for a dramatized idea or story (e.g. tables become caves).

1.3.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble and use simple props, costumes, masks, or make-up for a dramatized idea or story.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.3.1. Character Analysis: Identify traits of a person, animal, or object (e.g. What does a dog do when it's happy? Wag its tail).

2.3.2. Acting Skills: Imitate the traits of a given person, animal, or object.

2.3.3. Characterization: Use voice and body to show different emotions while portraying a character in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.3.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Express personal reactions to a dramatized performance.

3.3.3. Genre Identification: Identify the differences between fantasy and reality.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.3.2. Human Relationships: Identify similarities and differences between dramatic characters and real people.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.3.3. Creation: Use different media, techniques, and processes to produce works of art.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.3.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Identify selected elements of design and principles of design in nature and in works of art.

2.3.4. Creation: Use elements and principles of design to create works of art.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.3.2. Creation: Create artwork that demonstrates choice of subject matter and symbols to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.3.2. Response: Identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, or places.

4.3.3. Creation: Create a work of art that is influenced by a particular historical period or culture.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.3.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Discuss possible meanings of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.3.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing a simple melody with accurate pitch.

1.3.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing simple ostinati and two-part rounds such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

1.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.3.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play classroom instruments using proper technique.

2.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Accompany simple folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.3.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise short melodic and rhythmic patterns.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.3.1. Creating: Create music to interpret stories, rhymes, and poetry.

4.3.2. Composing: Create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.3.3. Arranging: Organize pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.3.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes in duple meter.

5.3.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.3.3. Musical Symbols: Use simple music symbols (e.g. fermata, repeat signs, and double bar lines).

5.3.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns (e.g. icons, manipulatives).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.3.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Identify simple elements of music.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.3.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Use criteria to evaluate performances and compositions.

7.3.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using simple musical vocabulary (e.g. loud/soft; high/low).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.3.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify several styles of music from various cultures.

9.3.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Identify various uses for music in daily experience.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.3.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 3 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.3.1. Scriptwriting: Create a simple script based on personal experience, imagination, or the retelling of a story.

1.3.6. Set Design: Create simple sets and sound effects for a dramatized idea or story (e.g. tables become caves).

1.3.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble and use simple props, costumes, masks, or make-up for a dramatized idea or story.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.3.1. Character Analysis: Identify traits of a person, animal, or object (e.g. What does a dog do when it's happy? Wag its tail).

2.3.2. Acting Skills: Imitate the traits of a given person, animal, or object.

2.3.3. Characterization: Use voice and body to show different emotions while portraying a character in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.3.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Express personal reactions to a dramatized performance.

3.3.3. Genre Identification: Identify the differences between fantasy and reality.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.3.2. Human Relationships: Identify similarities and differences between dramatic characters and real people.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.3.3. Creation: Use different media, techniques, and processes to produce works of art.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.3.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Identify selected elements of design and principles of design in nature and in works of art.

2.3.4. Creation: Use elements and principles of design to create works of art.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.3.2. Creation: Create artwork that demonstrates choice of subject matter and symbols to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.3.2. Response: Identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, or places.

4.3.3. Creation: Create a work of art that is influenced by a particular historical period or culture.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.3.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Discuss possible meanings of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.3.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing a simple melody with accurate pitch.

1.3.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing simple ostinati and two-part rounds such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

1.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.3.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play classroom instruments using proper technique.

2.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Accompany simple folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.3.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise short melodic and rhythmic patterns.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.3.1. Creating: Create music to interpret stories, rhymes, and poetry.

4.3.2. Composing: Create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.3.3. Arranging: Organize pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.3.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes in duple meter.

5.3.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.3.3. Musical Symbols: Use simple music symbols (e.g. fermata, repeat signs, and double bar lines).

5.3.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns (e.g. icons, manipulatives).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.3.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Identify simple elements of music.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.3.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Use criteria to evaluate performances and compositions.

7.3.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using simple musical vocabulary (e.g. loud/soft; high/low).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.3.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify several styles of music from various cultures.

9.3.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Identify various uses for music in daily experience.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.3.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 3 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.3.1. Scriptwriting: Create a simple script based on personal experience, imagination, or the retelling of a story.

1.3.6. Set Design: Create simple sets and sound effects for a dramatized idea or story (e.g. tables become caves).

1.3.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble and use simple props, costumes, masks, or make-up for a dramatized idea or story.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.3.1. Character Analysis: Identify traits of a person, animal, or object (e.g. What does a dog do when it's happy? Wag its tail).

2.3.2. Acting Skills: Imitate the traits of a given person, animal, or object.

2.3.3. Characterization: Use voice and body to show different emotions while portraying a character in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.3.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Express personal reactions to a dramatized performance.

3.3.3. Genre Identification: Identify the differences between fantasy and reality.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.3.2. Human Relationships: Identify similarities and differences between dramatic characters and real people.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.3.3. Creation: Use different media, techniques, and processes to produce works of art.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.3.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Identify selected elements of design and principles of design in nature and in works of art.

2.3.4. Creation: Use elements and principles of design to create works of art.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.3.2. Creation: Create artwork that demonstrates choice of subject matter and symbols to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.3.2. Response: Identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, or places.

4.3.3. Creation: Create a work of art that is influenced by a particular historical period or culture.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.3.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Discuss possible meanings of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.3.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing a simple melody with accurate pitch.

1.3.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing simple ostinati and two-part rounds such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

1.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.3.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play classroom instruments using proper technique.

2.3.4. Variety of Repertoire: Accompany simple folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.3.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise short melodic and rhythmic patterns.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.3.1. Creating: Create music to interpret stories, rhymes, and poetry.

4.3.2. Composing: Create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.3.3. Arranging: Organize pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.3.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes in duple meter.

5.3.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.3.3. Musical Symbols: Use simple music symbols (e.g. fermata, repeat signs, and double bar lines).

5.3.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns (e.g. icons, manipulatives).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.3.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Identify simple elements of music.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.3.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Use criteria to evaluate performances and compositions.

7.3.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using simple musical vocabulary (e.g. loud/soft; high/low).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.3.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify several styles of music from various cultures.

9.3.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Identify various uses for music in daily experience.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.3.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 3 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.3.1. Scriptwriting: Create a simple script based on personal experience, imagination, or the retelling of a story.

1.3.6. Set Design: Create simple sets and sound effects for a dramatized idea or story (e.g. tables become caves).

1.3.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble and use simple props, costumes, masks, or make-up for a dramatized idea or story.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.3.1. Character Analysis: Identify traits of a person, animal, or object (e.g. What does a dog do when it's happy? Wag its tail).

2.3.2. Acting Skills: Imitate the traits of a given person, animal, or object.

2.3.3. Characterization: Use voice and body to show different emotions while portraying a character in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.3.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Express personal reactions to a dramatized performance.

3.3.3. Genre Identification: Identify the differences between fantasy and reality.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.3.2. Human Relationships: Identify similarities and differences between dramatic characters and real people.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.3.3. Creation: Use different media, techniques, and processes to produce works of art.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.3.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Identify selected elements of design and principles of design in nature and in works of art.

2.3.4. Creation: Use elements and principles of design to create works of art.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.3.2. Creation: Create artwork that demonstrates choice of subject matter and symbols to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.3.2. Response: Identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, or places.

4.3.3. Creation: Create a work of art that is influenced by a particular historical period or culture.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.3.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Discuss possible meanings of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.3.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 3

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.5.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing independently and expressively.

1.5.2. Choral Singing Technique: Sing in an ensemble while following a conductor.

1.5.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing descants, partner songs, and three-part rounds.

1.5.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing more complex patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.5.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns.

2.5.4. Variety of Repertoire: Play or accompany folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.5.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise melodic and rhythmic patterns within the context of a musical phrase.

3.5.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise introductions and codas, B sections, and changing parts of the rondo.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.5.1. Creating: Create music to interpret readings or dramatizations.

4.5.2. Composing: Create and perform songs and instrumental pieces.

4.5.3. Arranging: Organize and perform pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.5.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in duple and triple meter.

5.5.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns in the treble clef using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.5.3. Musical Symbols: Use complex music symbols (e.g. dynamics, tempo).

5.5.4. Sight Reading: Sight read rhythmic and melodic patterns.

5.5.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythm and melody using standard symbols.

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.5.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Compare and contrast simple elements of music when presented aurally.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.5.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Construct criteria using standard music vocabulary.

7.5.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using complex musical vocabulary (e.g. crescendo/decrescendo; rondo form).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.5.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify by style aural examples from various historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.5.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe the role of musicians in various settings and cultures (e.g. performers, educators, critics, composers).

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.5.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 5 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.5.1. Scriptwriting: Create a script with two or more characters; a beginning, middle and end; setting; and character descriptions.

1.5.2. Directing: Work together in a group to plan, rehearse, and present a dramatized idea or story.

1.5.6. Set Design: Draw and/or build model sets for a production (e.g. cardboard or diorama).

1.5.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble props and costumes for use in a dramatized event set in a specific time period and locale (e.g. Pilgrims or Romans).

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.5.1. Character Analysis: Identify and list a given character's traits by looking at the character's actions and dialogue.

2.5.2. Acting Skills: Demonstrate examples of character traits through movement, pantomime, improvisation, and/or voice. (e.g. How does a person move and speak at age 60? At age 6?).

2.5.3. Characterization: Portray a character's traits through movement, voice and/or dialogue in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.5.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Discuss performances of students and visiting artists.

3.5.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Describe emotional response to a performance and explain genre preference (e.g. romance, comedy, suspense, and action).

3.5.3. Genre Identification: Differentiate between comedy and tragedy.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.5.1. History and Culture: Explain how movies or television reveal information about other historical periods and cultures.

4.5.2. Human Relationships: Identify the conflict between characters in a dramatized event.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.5.1. Knowledge: Determine differences between media, techniques or processes in works of art (e.g. the transparency of watercolor vs. the opaqueness of tempera).

1.5.2. Response: Examine how different media, techniques, and processes cause different responses (e.g. Look at two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional works of art).

1.5.3. Creation: Create artworks using various media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.5.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Describe various visual characteristics of art (e.g. sensory, formal, technical, and expressive).

2.5.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Identify and describe possible purposes and/or functions of art (e.g. The purpose for a pot's decoration might be to tell a story while the pot's function might be storage).

2.5.3. Response: Explain how visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions of art may cause different responses.

2.5.4. Creation: Select and use specific visual characteristics to communicate.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.5.1. Visual Characteristics: Discuss how subject matter, symbols, and ideas produce meanings in works of art.

3.5.2. Creation: Produce a work of art that demonstrates the ability to convey meaning by integrating subject matter and symbols with ideas.

3.5.3. Response: Explain the way subject matter, symbols, and ideas are chosen to present meaning in student artwork.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.5.2. Response: Associate a variety of artworks with cultures, times, and places.

4.5.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate historical and cultural influence.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.5.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Compare and contrast characteristics of art.

5.5.2. Knowledge (Merits): Identify merits in artworks.

5.5.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Describe meanings of art.

5.5.4. Response: State preferences for characteristics, merits, and meanings in art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.5.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing independently and expressively.

1.5.2. Choral Singing Technique: Sing in an ensemble while following a conductor.

1.5.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing descants, partner songs, and three-part rounds.

1.5.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing more complex patriotic songs, folk songs, and multicultural selections.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.5.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns.

2.5.4. Variety of Repertoire: Play or accompany folk, traditional, and multicultural music.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.5.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise melodic and rhythmic patterns within the context of a musical phrase.

3.5.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise introductions and codas, B sections, and changing parts of the rondo.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.5.1. Creating: Create music to interpret readings or dramatizations.

4.5.2. Composing: Create and perform songs and instrumental pieces.

4.5.3. Arranging: Organize and perform pieces using a variety of sound sources.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.5.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in duple and triple meter.

5.5.2. Melodic Reading: Read melodic patterns in the treble clef using solfege, numbers and/or letters.

5.5.3. Musical Symbols: Use complex music symbols (e.g. dynamics, tempo).

5.5.4. Sight Reading: Sight read rhythmic and melodic patterns.

5.5.5. Notating: Notate simple rhythm and melody using standard symbols.

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.5.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Compare and contrast simple elements of music when presented aurally.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.5.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Construct criteria using standard music vocabulary.

7.5.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using complex musical vocabulary (e.g. crescendo/decrescendo; rondo form).

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.5.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Identify by style aural examples from various historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.5.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe the role of musicians in various settings and cultures (e.g. performers, educators, critics, composers).

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.5.1. Dance/Movement (See Physical Education Content Standard 3.0): Using Grade 5 standards adopted for Physical Education, demonstrate an understanding of the standards.

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.5.1. Scriptwriting: Create a script with two or more characters; a beginning, middle and end; setting; and character descriptions.

1.5.2. Directing: Work together in a group to plan, rehearse, and present a dramatized idea or story.

1.5.6. Set Design: Draw and/or build model sets for a production (e.g. cardboard or diorama).

1.5.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Assemble props and costumes for use in a dramatized event set in a specific time period and locale (e.g. Pilgrims or Romans).

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.5.1. Character Analysis: Identify and list a given character's traits by looking at the character's actions and dialogue.

2.5.2. Acting Skills: Demonstrate examples of character traits through movement, pantomime, improvisation, and/or voice. (e.g. How does a person move and speak at age 60? At age 6?).

2.5.3. Characterization: Portray a character's traits through movement, voice and/or dialogue in a dramatized idea or story.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.5.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Discuss performances of students and visiting artists.

3.5.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Describe emotional response to a performance and explain genre preference (e.g. romance, comedy, suspense, and action).

3.5.3. Genre Identification: Differentiate between comedy and tragedy.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.5.1. History and Culture: Explain how movies or television reveal information about other historical periods and cultures.

4.5.2. Human Relationships: Identify the conflict between characters in a dramatized event.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.5.1. Knowledge: Determine differences between media, techniques or processes in works of art (e.g. the transparency of watercolor vs. the opaqueness of tempera).

1.5.2. Response: Examine how different media, techniques, and processes cause different responses (e.g. Look at two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional works of art).

1.5.3. Creation: Create artworks using various media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.5.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Describe various visual characteristics of art (e.g. sensory, formal, technical, and expressive).

2.5.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Identify and describe possible purposes and/or functions of art (e.g. The purpose for a pot's decoration might be to tell a story while the pot's function might be storage).

2.5.3. Response: Explain how visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions of art may cause different responses.

2.5.4. Creation: Select and use specific visual characteristics to communicate.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.5.1. Visual Characteristics: Discuss how subject matter, symbols, and ideas produce meanings in works of art.

3.5.2. Creation: Produce a work of art that demonstrates the ability to convey meaning by integrating subject matter and symbols with ideas.

3.5.3. Response: Explain the way subject matter, symbols, and ideas are chosen to present meaning in student artwork.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.5.2. Response: Associate a variety of artworks with cultures, times, and places.

4.5.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate historical and cultural influence.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.5.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Compare and contrast characteristics of art.

5.5.2. Knowledge (Merits): Identify merits in artworks.

5.5.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Describe meanings of art.

5.5.4. Response: State preferences for characteristics, merits, and meanings in art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.5.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 5

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.8.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.8.2. Choral Singing Technique: Sing a repertoire of vocal literature in small and large ensembles with expression, technical accuracy, and breath control.

1.8.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing choral literature written in two and three parts with and without accompaniment.

1.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing music representing diverse genres and styles (e.g. Baroque, classical).

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.8.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.8.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in large ensembles demonstrating appropriate ensemble technique while following a conductor.

2.8.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform multiple-part ensemble literature.

2.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Play a varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.8.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise simple melodies.

3.8.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise simple harmonies in a given key.

3.8.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic embellishments on given pentatonic melodies.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.8.2. Composing: Compose short pieces using the elements of music.

4.8.3. Arranging: Arrange simple pieces for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.8.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes, and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures.

5.8.2. Melodic Reading: Read simple melodies in the student's appropriate clef.

5.8.3. Musical Symbols: Apply music symbols to the repertoire.

5.8.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in unison with technical accuracy and expression.

5.8.5. Notating: Notate simple musical phrases using standard symbols.

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.8.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Apply knowledge of the elements of music in aural examples.

6.8.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Describe the uses of the elements of music in aural examples representing diverse genres and cultures.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.8.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Develop musical criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of performances and compositions.

7.8.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Evaluate the quality of their own and others' performances and compositions, justifying their opinions.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.8.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes (e.g. motion, inspiration).

8.8.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Compare concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts that are interrelated with those of music (e.g. the Underground Railroad and the use of spirituals for coded escape messages).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.8.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative styles from a variety of historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.8.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Compare and contrast the roles of musicians and the conditions under which they perform in several world cultures.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.8.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 8

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.8.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script with appropriate format (i.e. acts, scenes), simple stage directions, cast of characters, and technical needs.

1.8.2. Directing: Direct actors or be directed by others using stage direction vocabulary.

1.8.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of stage production personnel.

1.8.4. Determining an Interpretation: Analyze and convey the playwright's intention.

1.8.5. Publicity: Design and produce publicity for a production (e.g. posters, flyers).

1.8.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and construct a box set for a production.

1.8.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Design and create props, costumes, and make-up for characters with attention to age, culture, and overall interpretation of a script.

1.8.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Identify appropriate sound and lighting effects for any dramatized event (e.g. interior, exterior).

1.8.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Create appropriate sound effects and suggest lighting for a dramatized event.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.8.1. Character Analysis: Analyze a character to determine actions, intentions, and biography.

2.8.2. Acting Skills: Demonstrate acting skills utilizing appropriate focus/concentration, breathing and vocal techniques, memory and sensory recall, and physical movement.

2.8.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a believable character for stage.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.8.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Evaluate the established elements of theater found in a dramatized performance.

3.8.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Analyze the emotional impact of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.8.3. Genre Identification: Identify examples of, high and low comedy and tragedy.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.8.1. History and Culture: Explain how theater reveals information about other historical periods and cultures.

4.8.2. Human Relationships: Identify the sources of conflict between characters in a dramatized event.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.8.1. Connection to Other Arts: Identify and explain how the choices of visual arts, dance, and music enhance the interpretation of a dramatic event.

5.8.2. Connection to History: Explain the roots of theater in Western civilization.

5.8.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Explain how advancements in the sciences have enhanced dramatized events (e.g. special effects, sound that surrounds the audience).

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.8.1. Knowledge: Compare and contrast the use of media, techniques, and processes in works of art.

1.8.2. Response: Analyze one's own selection and use of media, techniques, and processes to elicit intended responses.

1.8.3. Creation: Use and explain why various media, techniques, and processes are used to produce works of art that communicate ideas and experiences.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.8.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Analyze and evaluate the effects of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.8.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Analyze and evaluate a variety of artworks to determine purposes and/or functions.

2.8.3. Response: Discuss why visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions may be effective in works of art.

2.8.4. Creation: Explain how one's own artwork employs various visual characteristics to communicate.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.1. Visual Characteristics: Explain the origins of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.2. Creation: Plan and produce works of art that use a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas from varied times and places to communicate meaning.

3.8.3. Response: Analyze the degree to which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are successfully used to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.8.1. Knowledge: Categorize and discuss visual characteristics of selected works of art in relationship to a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

4.8.2. Response: Describe the purpose and discuss the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.8.3. Creation: Research a culture and create an artwork that demonstrates how historical and cultural factors influence visual characteristics.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.8.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Interpret artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.8.2. Knowledge (Merits): Differentiate among degrees of merit in various works of art.

5.8.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Analyze and generate new meaning of their artwork and the work of others.

5.8.4. Response: Develop and explain a personal position of aesthetic and critical analysis of an artwork.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.8.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Explain how the basic principles of art are similar to principles of other disciplines (e.g. contrast, balance, dominance).

6.8.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Research and analyze the relationships between the visual arts and other arts in terms of basic principles and subject matter (e.g. rhythm and movement).

6.8.3. Creation: Create works of art reflecting principles common to the arts and multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.8.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.8.2. Choral Singing Technique: Sing a repertoire of vocal literature in small and large ensembles with expression, technical accuracy, and breath control.

1.8.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing choral literature written in two and three parts with and without accompaniment.

1.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing music representing diverse genres and styles (e.g. Baroque, classical).

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.8.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.8.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in large ensembles demonstrating appropriate ensemble technique while following a conductor.

2.8.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform multiple-part ensemble literature.

2.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Play a varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.8.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise simple melodies.

3.8.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise simple harmonies in a given key.

3.8.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic embellishments on given pentatonic melodies.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.8.2. Composing: Compose short pieces using the elements of music.

4.8.3. Arranging: Arrange simple pieces for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.8.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes, and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures.

5.8.2. Melodic Reading: Read simple melodies in the student's appropriate clef.

5.8.3. Musical Symbols: Apply music symbols to the repertoire.

5.8.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in unison with technical accuracy and expression.

5.8.5. Notating: Notate simple musical phrases using standard symbols.

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.8.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Apply knowledge of the elements of music in aural examples.

6.8.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Describe the uses of the elements of music in aural examples representing diverse genres and cultures.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.8.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Develop musical criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of performances and compositions.

7.8.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Evaluate the quality of their own and others' performances and compositions, justifying their opinions.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.8.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes (e.g. motion, inspiration).

8.8.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Compare concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts that are interrelated with those of music (e.g. the Underground Railroad and the use of spirituals for coded escape messages).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.8.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative styles from a variety of historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.8.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Compare and contrast the roles of musicians and the conditions under which they perform in several world cultures.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.8.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 8

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.8.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script with appropriate format (i.e. acts, scenes), simple stage directions, cast of characters, and technical needs.

1.8.2. Directing: Direct actors or be directed by others using stage direction vocabulary.

1.8.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of stage production personnel.

1.8.4. Determining an Interpretation: Analyze and convey the playwright's intention.

1.8.5. Publicity: Design and produce publicity for a production (e.g. posters, flyers).

1.8.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and construct a box set for a production.

1.8.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Design and create props, costumes, and make-up for characters with attention to age, culture, and overall interpretation of a script.

1.8.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Identify appropriate sound and lighting effects for any dramatized event (e.g. interior, exterior).

1.8.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Create appropriate sound effects and suggest lighting for a dramatized event.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.8.1. Character Analysis: Analyze a character to determine actions, intentions, and biography.

2.8.2. Acting Skills: Demonstrate acting skills utilizing appropriate focus/concentration, breathing and vocal techniques, memory and sensory recall, and physical movement.

2.8.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a believable character for stage.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.8.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Evaluate the established elements of theater found in a dramatized performance.

3.8.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Analyze the emotional impact of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.8.3. Genre Identification: Identify examples of, high and low comedy and tragedy.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.8.1. History and Culture: Explain how theater reveals information about other historical periods and cultures.

4.8.2. Human Relationships: Identify the sources of conflict between characters in a dramatized event.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.8.1. Connection to Other Arts: Identify and explain how the choices of visual arts, dance, and music enhance the interpretation of a dramatic event.

5.8.2. Connection to History: Explain the roots of theater in Western civilization.

5.8.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Explain how advancements in the sciences have enhanced dramatized events (e.g. special effects, sound that surrounds the audience).

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.8.1. Knowledge: Compare and contrast the use of media, techniques, and processes in works of art.

1.8.2. Response: Analyze one's own selection and use of media, techniques, and processes to elicit intended responses.

1.8.3. Creation: Use and explain why various media, techniques, and processes are used to produce works of art that communicate ideas and experiences.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.8.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Analyze and evaluate the effects of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.8.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Analyze and evaluate a variety of artworks to determine purposes and/or functions.

2.8.3. Response: Discuss why visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions may be effective in works of art.

2.8.4. Creation: Explain how one's own artwork employs various visual characteristics to communicate.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.1. Visual Characteristics: Explain the origins of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.2. Creation: Plan and produce works of art that use a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas from varied times and places to communicate meaning.

3.8.3. Response: Analyze the degree to which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are successfully used to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.8.1. Knowledge: Categorize and discuss visual characteristics of selected works of art in relationship to a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

4.8.2. Response: Describe the purpose and discuss the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.8.3. Creation: Research a culture and create an artwork that demonstrates how historical and cultural factors influence visual characteristics.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.8.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Interpret artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.8.2. Knowledge (Merits): Differentiate among degrees of merit in various works of art.

5.8.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Analyze and generate new meaning of their artwork and the work of others.

5.8.4. Response: Develop and explain a personal position of aesthetic and critical analysis of an artwork.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.8.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Explain how the basic principles of art are similar to principles of other disciplines (e.g. contrast, balance, dominance).

6.8.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Research and analyze the relationships between the visual arts and other arts in terms of basic principles and subject matter (e.g. rhythm and movement).

6.8.3. Creation: Create works of art reflecting principles common to the arts and multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.8.1. Individual Singing Technique: Sing with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.8.2. Choral Singing Technique: Sing a repertoire of vocal literature in small and large ensembles with expression, technical accuracy, and breath control.

1.8.3. Independent Part Singing: Sing choral literature written in two and three parts with and without accompaniment.

1.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Sing music representing diverse genres and styles (e.g. Baroque, classical).

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.8.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Play with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.8.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in large ensembles demonstrating appropriate ensemble technique while following a conductor.

2.8.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform multiple-part ensemble literature.

2.8.4. Variety of Repertoire: Play a varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.8.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise simple melodies.

3.8.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise simple harmonies in a given key.

3.8.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic embellishments on given pentatonic melodies.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.8.2. Composing: Compose short pieces using the elements of music.

4.8.3. Arranging: Arrange simple pieces for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.8.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes, and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures.

5.8.2. Melodic Reading: Read simple melodies in the student's appropriate clef.

5.8.3. Musical Symbols: Apply music symbols to the repertoire.

5.8.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in unison with technical accuracy and expression.

5.8.5. Notating: Notate simple musical phrases using standard symbols.

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.8.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Apply knowledge of the elements of music in aural examples.

6.8.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Describe the uses of the elements of music in aural examples representing diverse genres and cultures.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.8.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Develop musical criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of performances and compositions.

7.8.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Evaluate the quality of their own and others' performances and compositions, justifying their opinions.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.8.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes (e.g. motion, inspiration).

8.8.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Compare concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts that are interrelated with those of music (e.g. the Underground Railroad and the use of spirituals for coded escape messages).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.8.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative styles from a variety of historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.8.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Compare and contrast the roles of musicians and the conditions under which they perform in several world cultures.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.8.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 8

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.8.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script with appropriate format (i.e. acts, scenes), simple stage directions, cast of characters, and technical needs.

1.8.2. Directing: Direct actors or be directed by others using stage direction vocabulary.

1.8.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of stage production personnel.

1.8.4. Determining an Interpretation: Analyze and convey the playwright's intention.

1.8.5. Publicity: Design and produce publicity for a production (e.g. posters, flyers).

1.8.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and construct a box set for a production.

1.8.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Design and create props, costumes, and make-up for characters with attention to age, culture, and overall interpretation of a script.

1.8.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Identify appropriate sound and lighting effects for any dramatized event (e.g. interior, exterior).

1.8.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Create appropriate sound effects and suggest lighting for a dramatized event.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.8.1. Character Analysis: Analyze a character to determine actions, intentions, and biography.

2.8.2. Acting Skills: Demonstrate acting skills utilizing appropriate focus/concentration, breathing and vocal techniques, memory and sensory recall, and physical movement.

2.8.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a believable character for stage.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.8.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Evaluate the established elements of theater found in a dramatized performance.

3.8.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Analyze the emotional impact of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.8.3. Genre Identification: Identify examples of, high and low comedy and tragedy.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.8.1. History and Culture: Explain how theater reveals information about other historical periods and cultures.

4.8.2. Human Relationships: Identify the sources of conflict between characters in a dramatized event.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.8.1. Connection to Other Arts: Identify and explain how the choices of visual arts, dance, and music enhance the interpretation of a dramatic event.

5.8.2. Connection to History: Explain the roots of theater in Western civilization.

5.8.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Explain how advancements in the sciences have enhanced dramatized events (e.g. special effects, sound that surrounds the audience).

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.8.1. Knowledge: Compare and contrast the use of media, techniques, and processes in works of art.

1.8.2. Response: Analyze one's own selection and use of media, techniques, and processes to elicit intended responses.

1.8.3. Creation: Use and explain why various media, techniques, and processes are used to produce works of art that communicate ideas and experiences.

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.8.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Analyze and evaluate the effects of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.8.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Analyze and evaluate a variety of artworks to determine purposes and/or functions.

2.8.3. Response: Discuss why visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions may be effective in works of art.

2.8.4. Creation: Explain how one's own artwork employs various visual characteristics to communicate.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.1. Visual Characteristics: Explain the origins of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.8.2. Creation: Plan and produce works of art that use a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas from varied times and places to communicate meaning.

3.8.3. Response: Analyze the degree to which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are successfully used to communicate meaning.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.8.1. Knowledge: Categorize and discuss visual characteristics of selected works of art in relationship to a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

4.8.2. Response: Describe the purpose and discuss the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.

4.8.3. Creation: Research a culture and create an artwork that demonstrates how historical and cultural factors influence visual characteristics.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.8.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Interpret artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.8.2. Knowledge (Merits): Differentiate among degrees of merit in various works of art.

5.8.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Analyze and generate new meaning of their artwork and the work of others.

5.8.4. Response: Develop and explain a personal position of aesthetic and critical analysis of an artwork.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.8.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Explain how the basic principles of art are similar to principles of other disciplines (e.g. contrast, balance, dominance).

6.8.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Research and analyze the relationships between the visual arts and other arts in terms of basic principles and subject matter (e.g. rhythm and movement).

6.8.3. Creation: Create works of art reflecting principles common to the arts and multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.12.1. Individual Singing Technique: Perform with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.12.2. Choral Singing Technique: Perform using correct intonation, diction, tone quality, and appropriate expressive qualities in small and large ensembles with and without a conductor.

1.12.3. Independent Part Singing: Perform choral literature written in three/four parts with and without accompaniment.

1.12.5. Variety of Repertoire: Perform music representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.12.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Perform with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.12.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in small and large ensembles demonstrating advanced ensemble technique.

2.12.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform contrapuntal ensemble literature

2.12.4. Variety of Repertoire: Perform a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.12.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise complex melodies in a given key.

3.12.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonies (e.g. 12-bar blues).

3.12.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.12.2. Composing: Compose music in several distinct styles using the elements of music.

4.12.3. Arranging: Arrange a two-part piece for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.12.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read complex rhythms in all meters within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.2. Melodic Reading: Read complex melodies within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.3. Musical Symbols: Apply standard and nonstandard music symbols within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in parts with technical accuracy and expression.

5.12.5. Notating: Notate musical phrases using standard and nonstandard symbols (e.g. used by some 20th century composers).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.12.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of the elements of music in analyzing aural examples.

6.12.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Analyze examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of the elements of music and expressive devices.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.12.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performance and compositions.

7.12.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria in evaluating their own music performances and those of similar or exemplary models.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.12.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes and cite examples (e.g. emotion, intensity).

8.12.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts (e.g. conflict resolution: English - 'Romeo and Juliet'; History - The Civil War; Science - chemical reactions; Music- tension and release).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.12.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Classify music examples by style, historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.12.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe various roles that musicians play and cite the achievements of representative individuals.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.12.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 12

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.12.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script in proper format for stage, television, film, or electronic media using historical or cultural research as a basis for the script.

1.12.2. Directing: Create a theatrical performance by conducting auditions, casting characters, directing scenes, and conducting production meetings.

1.12.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Explain and demonstrate knowledge of varied responsibilities of technical personnel involved in television, theater, film or electronic media production.

1.12.4. Determining an Interpretation: Develop an aesthetically unified production for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.5. Publicity: Create a variety of materials for a media campaign for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and/or construct a variety of scenic devices (e.g. scenic drops).

1.12.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Justify choices of costumes, make-up and props as they relate to the interpretation of a production.

1.12.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Describe and demonstrate different lighting and sound techniques and equipment for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

1.12.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Design and/or use a light and/or sound plot for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.12.1. Character Analysis: Analyze and describe the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of text.

2.12.2. Acting Skills: Identify, examine, and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

2.12.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a character within an ensemble for stage, film, television, or electronic media.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.12.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Critique the effectiveness of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.12.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing a dramatized performance.

3.12.3. Genre Identification: Compare and contrast classical and contemporary dramas and comedies in various media.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.12.1. History and Culture: Compare and contrast the ways in which universal themes and archetypes in dramatized events are expressed in another culture and another historical period.

4.12.2. Human Relationships: Analyze methods of conflict resolution among characters.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.12.1. Connection to Other Arts: Analyze the ways in which common themes or stories are interpreted in works from the four arts areas.

5.12.2. Connection to History: Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

5.12.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Evaluate different ways technology is used to enhance theater, film, and television.

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.12.1. Knowledge: Justify application of media, techniques, and processes in one's own work.

1.12.2. Response: Evaluate responses to one's own work and apply findings to subsequent works of art.

1.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes (e.g. traditional and emerging technologies).

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.12.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Defend an interpretation of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.12.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Defend interpretations of purposes and/or functions in art.

2.12.3. Response: Analyze the effectiveness of and relationships among visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions in works of art.

2.12.4. Creation: Create artworks that manipulate visual characteristics to convey complex ideas.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.12.1. Visual Characteristics: Evaluate the significance of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

3.12.2. Creation: Plan and produce a work of art that displays the ability to choose subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate intended meaning.

3.12.3. Response: Evaluate and defend the validity of sources and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used in artworks.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.12.1. Knowledge: Analyze and interpret artworks from various cultures and times regarding context and purposes.

4.12.2. Response: Analyze characteristics and interpret meaning of art from various times, cultures, and places.

4.12.3. Creation: Analyze their own artwork in relation to historical, aesthetic, and cultural influences.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.12.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Evaluate artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.12.2. Knowledge (Merits): Establish criteria and use them to assess merits of artwork.

5.12.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.

5.12.4. Response: Develop a personal aesthetic position and defend its degree of success when applied to works of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.12.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Analyze how ideas, issues, and themes of a particular period manifest themselves in the visual arts and make parallel connections with other disciplines.

6.12.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Compare the use of materials, techniques, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other art disciplines.

6.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that reflect the research of multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.12.1. Individual Singing Technique: Perform with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.12.2. Choral Singing Technique: Perform using correct intonation, diction, tone quality, and appropriate expressive qualities in small and large ensembles with and without a conductor.

1.12.3. Independent Part Singing: Perform choral literature written in three/four parts with and without accompaniment.

1.12.5. Variety of Repertoire: Perform music representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.12.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Perform with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.12.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in small and large ensembles demonstrating advanced ensemble technique.

2.12.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform contrapuntal ensemble literature

2.12.4. Variety of Repertoire: Perform a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.12.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise complex melodies in a given key.

3.12.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonies (e.g. 12-bar blues).

3.12.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.12.2. Composing: Compose music in several distinct styles using the elements of music.

4.12.3. Arranging: Arrange a two-part piece for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.12.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read complex rhythms in all meters within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.2. Melodic Reading: Read complex melodies within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.3. Musical Symbols: Apply standard and nonstandard music symbols within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in parts with technical accuracy and expression.

5.12.5. Notating: Notate musical phrases using standard and nonstandard symbols (e.g. used by some 20th century composers).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.12.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of the elements of music in analyzing aural examples.

6.12.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Analyze examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of the elements of music and expressive devices.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.12.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performance and compositions.

7.12.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria in evaluating their own music performances and those of similar or exemplary models.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.12.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes and cite examples (e.g. emotion, intensity).

8.12.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts (e.g. conflict resolution: English - 'Romeo and Juliet'; History - The Civil War; Science - chemical reactions; Music- tension and release).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.12.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Classify music examples by style, historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.12.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe various roles that musicians play and cite the achievements of representative individuals.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.12.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 12

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.12.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script in proper format for stage, television, film, or electronic media using historical or cultural research as a basis for the script.

1.12.2. Directing: Create a theatrical performance by conducting auditions, casting characters, directing scenes, and conducting production meetings.

1.12.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Explain and demonstrate knowledge of varied responsibilities of technical personnel involved in television, theater, film or electronic media production.

1.12.4. Determining an Interpretation: Develop an aesthetically unified production for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.5. Publicity: Create a variety of materials for a media campaign for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and/or construct a variety of scenic devices (e.g. scenic drops).

1.12.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Justify choices of costumes, make-up and props as they relate to the interpretation of a production.

1.12.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Describe and demonstrate different lighting and sound techniques and equipment for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

1.12.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Design and/or use a light and/or sound plot for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.12.1. Character Analysis: Analyze and describe the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of text.

2.12.2. Acting Skills: Identify, examine, and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

2.12.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a character within an ensemble for stage, film, television, or electronic media.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.12.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Critique the effectiveness of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.12.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing a dramatized performance.

3.12.3. Genre Identification: Compare and contrast classical and contemporary dramas and comedies in various media.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.12.1. History and Culture: Compare and contrast the ways in which universal themes and archetypes in dramatized events are expressed in another culture and another historical period.

4.12.2. Human Relationships: Analyze methods of conflict resolution among characters.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.12.1. Connection to Other Arts: Analyze the ways in which common themes or stories are interpreted in works from the four arts areas.

5.12.2. Connection to History: Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

5.12.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Evaluate different ways technology is used to enhance theater, film, and television.

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.12.1. Knowledge: Justify application of media, techniques, and processes in one's own work.

1.12.2. Response: Evaluate responses to one's own work and apply findings to subsequent works of art.

1.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes (e.g. traditional and emerging technologies).

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.12.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Defend an interpretation of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.12.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Defend interpretations of purposes and/or functions in art.

2.12.3. Response: Analyze the effectiveness of and relationships among visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions in works of art.

2.12.4. Creation: Create artworks that manipulate visual characteristics to convey complex ideas.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.12.1. Visual Characteristics: Evaluate the significance of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

3.12.2. Creation: Plan and produce a work of art that displays the ability to choose subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate intended meaning.

3.12.3. Response: Evaluate and defend the validity of sources and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used in artworks.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.12.1. Knowledge: Analyze and interpret artworks from various cultures and times regarding context and purposes.

4.12.2. Response: Analyze characteristics and interpret meaning of art from various times, cultures, and places.

4.12.3. Creation: Analyze their own artwork in relation to historical, aesthetic, and cultural influences.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.12.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Evaluate artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.12.2. Knowledge (Merits): Establish criteria and use them to assess merits of artwork.

5.12.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.

5.12.4. Response: Develop a personal aesthetic position and defend its degree of success when applied to works of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.12.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Analyze how ideas, issues, and themes of a particular period manifest themselves in the visual arts and make parallel connections with other disciplines.

6.12.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Compare the use of materials, techniques, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other art disciplines.

6.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that reflect the research of multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.12.1. Individual Singing Technique: Perform with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.12.2. Choral Singing Technique: Perform using correct intonation, diction, tone quality, and appropriate expressive qualities in small and large ensembles with and without a conductor.

1.12.3. Independent Part Singing: Perform choral literature written in three/four parts with and without accompaniment.

1.12.5. Variety of Repertoire: Perform music representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.12.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Perform with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.12.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in small and large ensembles demonstrating advanced ensemble technique.

2.12.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform contrapuntal ensemble literature

2.12.4. Variety of Repertoire: Perform a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.12.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise complex melodies in a given key.

3.12.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonies (e.g. 12-bar blues).

3.12.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.12.2. Composing: Compose music in several distinct styles using the elements of music.

4.12.3. Arranging: Arrange a two-part piece for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.12.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read complex rhythms in all meters within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.2. Melodic Reading: Read complex melodies within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.3. Musical Symbols: Apply standard and nonstandard music symbols within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in parts with technical accuracy and expression.

5.12.5. Notating: Notate musical phrases using standard and nonstandard symbols (e.g. used by some 20th century composers).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.12.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of the elements of music in analyzing aural examples.

6.12.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Analyze examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of the elements of music and expressive devices.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.12.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performance and compositions.

7.12.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria in evaluating their own music performances and those of similar or exemplary models.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.12.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes and cite examples (e.g. emotion, intensity).

8.12.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts (e.g. conflict resolution: English - 'Romeo and Juliet'; History - The Civil War; Science - chemical reactions; Music- tension and release).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.12.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Classify music examples by style, historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.12.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe various roles that musicians play and cite the achievements of representative individuals.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.12.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 12

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.12.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script in proper format for stage, television, film, or electronic media using historical or cultural research as a basis for the script.

1.12.2. Directing: Create a theatrical performance by conducting auditions, casting characters, directing scenes, and conducting production meetings.

1.12.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Explain and demonstrate knowledge of varied responsibilities of technical personnel involved in television, theater, film or electronic media production.

1.12.4. Determining an Interpretation: Develop an aesthetically unified production for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.5. Publicity: Create a variety of materials for a media campaign for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and/or construct a variety of scenic devices (e.g. scenic drops).

1.12.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Justify choices of costumes, make-up and props as they relate to the interpretation of a production.

1.12.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Describe and demonstrate different lighting and sound techniques and equipment for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

1.12.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Design and/or use a light and/or sound plot for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.12.1. Character Analysis: Analyze and describe the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of text.

2.12.2. Acting Skills: Identify, examine, and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

2.12.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a character within an ensemble for stage, film, television, or electronic media.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.12.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Critique the effectiveness of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.12.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing a dramatized performance.

3.12.3. Genre Identification: Compare and contrast classical and contemporary dramas and comedies in various media.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.12.1. History and Culture: Compare and contrast the ways in which universal themes and archetypes in dramatized events are expressed in another culture and another historical period.

4.12.2. Human Relationships: Analyze methods of conflict resolution among characters.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.12.1. Connection to Other Arts: Analyze the ways in which common themes or stories are interpreted in works from the four arts areas.

5.12.2. Connection to History: Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

5.12.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Evaluate different ways technology is used to enhance theater, film, and television.

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.12.1. Knowledge: Justify application of media, techniques, and processes in one's own work.

1.12.2. Response: Evaluate responses to one's own work and apply findings to subsequent works of art.

1.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes (e.g. traditional and emerging technologies).

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.12.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Defend an interpretation of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.12.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Defend interpretations of purposes and/or functions in art.

2.12.3. Response: Analyze the effectiveness of and relationships among visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions in works of art.

2.12.4. Creation: Create artworks that manipulate visual characteristics to convey complex ideas.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.12.1. Visual Characteristics: Evaluate the significance of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

3.12.2. Creation: Plan and produce a work of art that displays the ability to choose subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate intended meaning.

3.12.3. Response: Evaluate and defend the validity of sources and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used in artworks.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.12.1. Knowledge: Analyze and interpret artworks from various cultures and times regarding context and purposes.

4.12.2. Response: Analyze characteristics and interpret meaning of art from various times, cultures, and places.

4.12.3. Creation: Analyze their own artwork in relation to historical, aesthetic, and cultural influences.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.12.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Evaluate artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.12.2. Knowledge (Merits): Establish criteria and use them to assess merits of artwork.

5.12.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.

5.12.4. Response: Develop a personal aesthetic position and defend its degree of success when applied to works of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.12.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Analyze how ideas, issues, and themes of a particular period manifest themselves in the visual arts and make parallel connections with other disciplines.

6.12.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Compare the use of materials, techniques, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other art disciplines.

6.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that reflect the research of multiple disciplines.

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.12.1. Individual Singing Technique: Perform with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.12.2. Choral Singing Technique: Perform using correct intonation, diction, tone quality, and appropriate expressive qualities in small and large ensembles with and without a conductor.

1.12.3. Independent Part Singing: Perform choral literature written in three/four parts with and without accompaniment.

1.12.5. Variety of Repertoire: Perform music representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.12.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Perform with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.12.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in small and large ensembles demonstrating advanced ensemble technique.

2.12.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform contrapuntal ensemble literature

2.12.4. Variety of Repertoire: Perform a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.12.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise complex melodies in a given key.

3.12.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonies (e.g. 12-bar blues).

3.12.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.12.2. Composing: Compose music in several distinct styles using the elements of music.

4.12.3. Arranging: Arrange a two-part piece for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.12.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read complex rhythms in all meters within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.2. Melodic Reading: Read complex melodies within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.3. Musical Symbols: Apply standard and nonstandard music symbols within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in parts with technical accuracy and expression.

5.12.5. Notating: Notate musical phrases using standard and nonstandard symbols (e.g. used by some 20th century composers).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.12.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of the elements of music in analyzing aural examples.

6.12.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Analyze examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of the elements of music and expressive devices.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.12.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performance and compositions.

7.12.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria in evaluating their own music performances and those of similar or exemplary models.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.12.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes and cite examples (e.g. emotion, intensity).

8.12.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts (e.g. conflict resolution: English - 'Romeo and Juliet'; History - The Civil War; Science - chemical reactions; Music- tension and release).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.12.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Classify music examples by style, historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.12.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe various roles that musicians play and cite the achievements of representative individuals.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.12.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 12

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.12.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script in proper format for stage, television, film, or electronic media using historical or cultural research as a basis for the script.

1.12.2. Directing: Create a theatrical performance by conducting auditions, casting characters, directing scenes, and conducting production meetings.

1.12.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Explain and demonstrate knowledge of varied responsibilities of technical personnel involved in television, theater, film or electronic media production.

1.12.4. Determining an Interpretation: Develop an aesthetically unified production for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.5. Publicity: Create a variety of materials for a media campaign for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and/or construct a variety of scenic devices (e.g. scenic drops).

1.12.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Justify choices of costumes, make-up and props as they relate to the interpretation of a production.

1.12.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Describe and demonstrate different lighting and sound techniques and equipment for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

1.12.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Design and/or use a light and/or sound plot for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.12.1. Character Analysis: Analyze and describe the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of text.

2.12.2. Acting Skills: Identify, examine, and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

2.12.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a character within an ensemble for stage, film, television, or electronic media.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.12.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Critique the effectiveness of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.12.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing a dramatized performance.

3.12.3. Genre Identification: Compare and contrast classical and contemporary dramas and comedies in various media.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.12.1. History and Culture: Compare and contrast the ways in which universal themes and archetypes in dramatized events are expressed in another culture and another historical period.

4.12.2. Human Relationships: Analyze methods of conflict resolution among characters.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.12.1. Connection to Other Arts: Analyze the ways in which common themes or stories are interpreted in works from the four arts areas.

5.12.2. Connection to History: Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

5.12.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Evaluate different ways technology is used to enhance theater, film, and television.

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.12.1. Knowledge: Justify application of media, techniques, and processes in one's own work.

1.12.2. Response: Evaluate responses to one's own work and apply findings to subsequent works of art.

1.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes (e.g. traditional and emerging technologies).

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.12.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Defend an interpretation of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.12.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Defend interpretations of purposes and/or functions in art.

2.12.3. Response: Analyze the effectiveness of and relationships among visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions in works of art.

2.12.4. Creation: Create artworks that manipulate visual characteristics to convey complex ideas.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.12.1. Visual Characteristics: Evaluate the significance of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

3.12.2. Creation: Plan and produce a work of art that displays the ability to choose subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate intended meaning.

3.12.3. Response: Evaluate and defend the validity of sources and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used in artworks.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.12.1. Knowledge: Analyze and interpret artworks from various cultures and times regarding context and purposes.

4.12.2. Response: Analyze characteristics and interpret meaning of art from various times, cultures, and places.

4.12.3. Creation: Analyze their own artwork in relation to historical, aesthetic, and cultural influences.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.12.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Evaluate artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.12.2. Knowledge (Merits): Establish criteria and use them to assess merits of artwork.

5.12.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.

5.12.4. Response: Develop a personal aesthetic position and defend its degree of success when applied to works of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.12.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Analyze how ideas, issues, and themes of a particular period manifest themselves in the visual arts and make parallel connections with other disciplines.

6.12.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Compare the use of materials, techniques, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other art disciplines.

6.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that reflect the research of multiple disciplines.