Tennessee State Standards for Arts Education:

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate non-locomotor movements (such as bend, twist, stretch, and swing).

1.2. Demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide and skip) traveling forward, backward, sideward, and turning.

1.3. Practice movement in personal and general space.

1.4. Explore personal space (far-reach, mid-reach and near-reach).

1.5. Create a variety of body shapes (straight, angular, curved, and twisted) at low, middle and high levels.

1.6. Demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways.

1.7. Identify selected individual body parts.

1.8. Explore selected qualities of energy in movement (smooth, sharp, vibratory and swinging).

1.9. Move to a steady beat.

1.10. Demonstrate a basic understanding of spatial relationships between body parts (i.e., beside, between, over, under, together and apart).

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Recognize the beginning, middle, and ending of a movement sequence.

2.2. Demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, leading and following.

2.3. Respond in movement to stories and music.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Observe how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports or everyday gestures).

3.2. Create and share one's own dances (short movement studies) with peers.

3.3. Recognize appropriate audience behavior for informal classroom dance performances.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Explore a solution to a given movement problem.

4.2. Observe and describe dances.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Participate in a folk dance from a given culture.

5.2. Recognize and explore how people use dance as a part of ceremonies.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss healthy practices.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Explore ways in which the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form.

7.2. Explore the connection between dance and one other academic discipline.

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

1.1. Develop skill in singing simple songs.

1.2. Reproduce high and low pitches.

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

2.1. Develop skill in reproducing steady beat.

2.2. Perform long and short sounds.

2.3. Play high and low sounds.

2.4. Echo short rhythmic patterns.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise vocally short song fragments in answer to simple musical questions.

TN.4.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

4.1. Interpret iconic representation of simple rhythmic patterns.

4.2. Interpret iconic representation of simple melodic direction.

TN.5.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

5.1. Recognize same and different in simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.

5.2. Recognize the differences in tone color of voices and classroom instruments.

5.3. Recognize long and short sounds.

5.4. Recognize high and low sounds.

5.5. Recognize fast and slow tempos.

5.6. Recognize loud and soft dynamics.

TN.6.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.1. Experience relationships between music and dance.

TN.7.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

7.1. Experience folk songs and folk games from various cultures.

7.2. Recognize the difference between familiar lullabies and marches.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level I)

1.1. Sensory perception - Identify and respond to various sensory stimuli

1.2. Emotional expression - Identify and respond to feelings resulting from various stimuli

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination in guided dramatic play

1.4. Movement - Use movement to react to a variety of stimuli

1.5. Language - Develop language through social interaction

1.6. Voice - Develop awareness of voice as means of expression

1.7. Artistic discipline - Develop responsibility through guided dramatic play

1.8. Concentration - Demonstrate focused behavior in guided dramatic play

1.9. Self-concept - Develop positive self-image through guided dramatic play

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Develop ability to join with and respond to others in guided dramatic play

1.11. Problem solving - Explore a variety of ways to solve problems

1.12. Improvisation - Participate in guided dramatic play

1.13. Acting - Explore a variety of roles in life and fantasy situations through guided dramatic play

1.14. Directing - Observe the role of leaders in group activities

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Explore life experiences and develop imaginary situations through guided dramatic play

1.16. Technical elements - Recognize elements of the environment during guided dramatic play

1.17. Theatre management - Recognize selected elements of theatre house management through theatre attendance

1.18. Dramatic literature - Use literature as a basis for guided dramatic play

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Explore similarities and differences between life and theatre

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Develop awareness of real and fantasy situations from many cultures through guided dramatic play

1.21. Roles and careers - Develop awareness of a variety of community roles through guided dramatic play

1.22. Elements of drama - Explore the five W's through guided dramatic play

1.23. Audience - Experience live theatre

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Experience various art forms

1.25. Aesthetic response - Respond affectively to dramatic activities

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Use selected tools and materials in a safe manner to create a work of art.

1.2. Apply a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect personal experiences, imagination, and observations.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Identify elements of art (e.g., line, shape, color, texture).

2.2. Identify principles of art (e.g., pattern, repetition).

2.3. Demonstrate an understanding that anyone can express themselves visually.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Demonstrate an understanding that subject matter can be real or imaginary.

3.2. Demonstrate an understanding that symbols are used to convey meaning.

3.3. Know that pictures tell a story.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Identify selected artworks from different cultures.

4.2. Identify selected artworks from different periods in history.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflecting and Assessing - The student will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Understand that there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate non-locomotor movements such as bend, twist, stretch, and swing.

1.2. Demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide and skip) traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning.

1.3. Explore movement in personal and general space.

1.4. Explore personal space (far-reach, mid-reach and near-reach).

1.5. Create a variety of body shapes (straight, angular, curved, twisted) at low, middle and high levels.

1.6. Demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways.

1.7. Identify and move individual body parts.

1.8. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in stillness and movement.

1.9. Explore the qualities of energy through movement (smooth, sharp, free, bound, strong, light, vibratory and swinging).

1.10. Demonstrate moving to a steady beat and explore responding to changes in tempo.

1.11. Demonstrate a basic understanding of spatial relationships (body part to body part and individual to individual); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together and apart.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use improvisation to explore and invent a sequence showing a beginning, middle, and end.

2.2. Demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, and mirroring.

2.3. Show the ability to respond in movement to stories, poems, artworks and music.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Explain how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports or everyday gestures).

3.2. Present one's dance to peers and explain its meaning.

3.3. Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for dance performances.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem.

4.2. Observe dances and identify similarities and differences.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Demonstrate a folk dance from a culture.

5.2. Identify one way in which people have used dance throughout history as a part of a ceremony.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Identify the basic parts of the skeleton.

6.2. Identify healthy practices (such as nutrition and safety) that enhance the ability to dance.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Demonstrate how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form.

7.2. Explore the connections between dance and a minimum of two other academic disciplines.

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

1.1. Develop skill in singing a variety of children's songs.

1.2. Reproduce upward and downward direction vocally.

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

2.1. Reproduce and maintain steady beat.

2.2. Develop skill in playing simple accompaniment patterns with melodies and poems.

2.3. Reproduce upward and downward direction of melodies.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations and accompaniments.

3.1. Create musical sounds to accompany stories.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short melodies using limited pitches.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate an understanding of symbols which represent beat and rhythmic patterns.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Recognize recurring rhythmic patterns in music.

6.2. Recognize same and different sections in familiar pieces of music.

6.3. Recognize the differences in mood of various contrasting familiar pieces of music.

6.4. Recognize, aurally, the difference between one voice or instrument and many voices or instruments (e.g., thick and thin texture).

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Interpret emotions that are associated with selected musical examples.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Understand similarities between music and language arts.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Recognize familiar songs of different cultures.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level II)

1.1. Sensory perception - Focus on details of sense awareness and sensory recall

1.2. Emotional expression - Focus on details of emotional and empathetic experiences

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to react to imaginary objects, environments, and perception in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Develop descriptive language through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice to communicate thought, feeling, and role in dramatic activities

1.7. Artistic discipline - Develop responsibility through dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Develop techniques to focus and sustain attention in dramatic activities

1.9. Self-concept - Discover personal uniqueness and develop respect for individual differences

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Cooperate and interact during dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Explore problem solving and risk taking in dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Participate in improvised dramatic activities

1.13. Acting - Explore a variety of roles in life and fantasy situations through dramatic activities

1.14. Directing - Develop leadership skills through dramatic activities

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Apply observations of people, life and story elements in dramatic activities

1.16. Technical elements - Recognize technical theatre elements used in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre Management - Examine elements of theatre management through theatre attendance

1.18. Dramatic literature - Use literature to create dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Develop awareness of theatre heritage

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore real and fantasy situations from many cultures through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Develop awareness of a variety of roles and occupations through dramatic activities

1.22. Elements of drama - Explore the elements of drama in dramatic activities

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's role

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore various art forms and relate to drama/theatre

1.25. Aesthetic response - Recognize and respond to unique qualities of drama/theatre

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of how to use selected tools and materials to create a work of art.

1.3. Explore a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect personal experiences, imagination, and observations.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Identify and use elements of art (e.g., line, shape, color, texture).

2.2. Identity and use principles of art (e.g., pattern, repetition).

2.3. Demonstrate an understanding that anyone can express ideas and feelings in original works of art.

2.4. Recognize and create art that is an important part of daily life.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Know that subject matter can be real or imaginary.

3.2. Know that symbols are used to convey meaning.

3.3. Know that pictures tell a story.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Identify specific artwork from different cultures.

4.2. Identify specific artwork from different periods in history.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Identify various purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Express personal preferences after viewing specific works of art.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Gain an awareness of connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate non-locomotor movements using more refined motor skills such as flick, dab, wring, dodge, and carve.

1.2. Demonstrate and compare eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip) traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning.

1.3. Demonstrate the difference between personal and general space.

1.4. Compare far-reach, mid-reach and near-reach in personal space.

1.5. Create and perform a variety of body shapes (straight, angular, curved, and twisted) at low, middle and high levels.

1.6. Create movements in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

1.7. Create movement using individual body parts.

1.8. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration and focus in stillness and movement.

1.9. Create and perform movement showing the qualities of energy (smooth, sharp, free, bound, strong, light, vibratory, and swinging).

1.10. Execute movement to different meters and changing tempos.

1.11. Demonstrate spatial relationships (body part to body part, individual to individual and individual to group); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together, and apart.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and ending.

2.2. Compare and demonstrate the following partner skills: leading, following, shadowing, and mirroring.

2.3. Show the ability to respond in movement to stories, poems, artworks, music, world cultures, natural science, and math concepts.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Demonstrate how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports and everyday gestures).

3.2. Present one's dance to peers and discuss its meaning.

3.3. Model and explain appropriate audience behavior for informal and formal dance performances.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Create and perform multiple solutions to a given movement problem.

4.2. Observe dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of specific elements of dance.

4.3. Discuss opinions about dances with peers in a supportive and constructive manner.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Demonstrate and compare folk dances from various cultures.

5.2. Describe ways in which people used dance throughout history as a part of rituals, ceremonies, and entertainment, and as a means of social expression.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Identify and name the parts of the skeleton relevant to dance.

6.2. Describe healthy practices that enhance the ability to dance.

6.3. Identify ways dance can improve one's general health and wellness.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Demonstrate and explain how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form.

7.2. Explore and demonstrate the connections between dance and three or more other academic disciplines.

TN.1.0. Music: Singing - The students will sing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Develop skill in singing songs in major, minor, and pentatonic tonalities.

1.2. Use smooth and detached articulation accurately when singing.

1.3. Develop skill in singing simple ostinati to produce harmony.

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

2.1. Perform duple and triple meter.

2.2. Play using smooth and detached articulation.

2.3. Interpret symbols for simple rhythmic patterns.

2.4. Perform steps, skips, and repeated tones on classroom melody instruments.

2.5. Play simple ostinati to accompany the class singing a song.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise using word rhythms.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing and Arranging - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short melodies using pitches from the pentatonic scale.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating Music - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Recognize symbols which represent rhythmic patterns.

5.2. Recognize symbols which represent melodic patterns.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, same and different sections in music.

6.2. Recognize, aurally, musical instruments and classify into families.

6.3. Describe the tempo and dynamics of musical selections.

6.4. Differentiate between smooth and detached articulation.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - The students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate musical performances based on given criteria.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Understanding relationships between music, the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Connect music and language arts through children's literature.

8.2. Illustrate the science of sound through the use of musical instruments.

TN.9.0. Music: Music in History and Culture - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify music of contrasting time periods and cultures.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level II)

1.1. Sensory perception - Focus on details of sense awareness and sensory recall

1.2. Emotional expression - Focus on details of emotional and empathetic experiences

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to react to imaginary objects, environments, and perception in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Develop descriptive language through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice to communicate thought, feeling, and role in dramatic activities

1.7. Artistic discipline - Develop responsibility through dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Develop techniques to focus and sustain attention in dramatic activities

1.9. Self-concept - Discover personal uniqueness and develop respect for individual differences

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Cooperate and interact during dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Explore problem solving and risk taking in dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Participate in improvised dramatic activities

1.13. Acting - Explore a variety of roles in life and fantasy situations through dramatic activities

1.14. Directing - Develop leadership skills through dramatic activities

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Apply observations of people, life and story elements in dramatic activities

1.16. Technical elements - Recognize technical theatre elements used in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre Management - Examine elements of theatre management through theatre attendance

1.18. Dramatic literature - Use literature to create dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Develop awareness of theatre heritage

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore real and fantasy situations from many cultures through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Develop awareness of a variety of roles and occupations through dramatic activities

1.22. Elements of drama - Explore the elements of drama in dramatic activities

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's role

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore various art forms and relate to drama/theatre

1.25. Aesthetic response - Recognize and respond to unique qualities of drama/theatre

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Consistently use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of how to use selected tools and materials to create a work of art.

1.3. Explore a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect personal experiences, imagination, and observations.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Identify and use a combination of elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.2. Identify and create functional works of art and describe how they contribute to the quality of daily life.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Use visual symbols to communicate meaning in works of art.

3.2. Create works of art using a variety of themes.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate characteristics of specific artwork from different cultures.

4.2. Explain how history influenced art.

4.3. Explain how cultures influenced art.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Recognize that artwork is created for a variety of reasons.

5.2. Express personal preferences after talking about his/her own works of art and the works of others.

5.3. Describe influences on his/her own artwork.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Demonstrate an understanding of similarities and differences between visual arts and other disciplines.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Identify the following underlying principles of movement: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.

1.2. Demonstrate simple combinations of non-locomotor and locomotor movements (e.g., twisty walk, bursting leap, or floating run).

1.3. Transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic.

1.4. Develop simple rhythmic patterns and transfer to the kinesthetic.

1.5. Demonstrate a range of energy/movement qualities.

1.6. Design and perform a variety of spatial relationships (body part to body part and individual to individual); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together, and apart.

1.7. Memorize and reproduce given short movement sequences.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate a smooth transition from beginning to middle to ending.

2.2. Demonstrate the following partner skills: contrasting and complementary shapes.

2.3. Identify and describe the choreographic elements of space, time, and energy.

2.4. Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB and ABA.

2.5. Recognize the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Recognize the difference between pantomiming and abstract dance movement.

3.2. Create a dance that successfully communicates a given theme.

3.3. Differentiate between appropriate audience behavior for formal and informal dance performances.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Compare multiple solutions to a given movement problem.

4.2. Observe dances and compare them in terms of the elements of dance (space, time, and energy).

4.3. Compare individual opinions about dances in a supportive and constructive way.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Perform folk and social dances from various cultures and periods.

5.2. Describe the basic evolution of a dance form and how it reflects its culture.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Identify the parts of the skeleton and explain how these parts work relevant to dance.

6.2. Explain and compare how healthy practices enhance the ability to dance.

6.3. Describe how dance can improve one's general health and wellness.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Examine how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in other art forms.

7.2. Demonstrate and explain the connections between dance and other academic disciplines.

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

1.1. Develop skill in singing melodies expressively.

1.2. Develop skill for singing in harmony.

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

2.1. Play simple rhythmic patterns alone and with others.

2.2. Play simple melodic patterns alone and with others.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a melody using a pentatonic scale.

3.2. Improvise a variation on a familiar melody.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple instrumental introductions.

4.2. Compose a simple instrumental coda.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Recognize symbols which represent rhythm and melody.

5.2. Use symbols to notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, same and different sections.

6.2. Describe the characteristics of a musical selection using appropriate vocabulary.

6.3. Recognize, aurally, introductions in vocal and instrumental music.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Devise criteria for evaluating music.

7.2. Devise criteria for evaluating music performances.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more art forms.

8.2. Examine ways in which the principles of other disciplines interrelate with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify and discuss music in relation to history.

9.2. Identify and discuss music in relation to various cultures.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level II)

1.1. Sensory perception - Focus on details of sense awareness and sensory recall

1.2. Emotional expression - Focus on details of emotional and empathetic experiences

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to react to imaginary objects, environments, and perception in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Develop descriptive language through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice to communicate thought, feeling, and role in dramatic activities

1.7. Artistic discipline - Develop responsibility through dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Develop techniques to focus and sustain attention in dramatic activities

1.9. Self-concept - Discover personal uniqueness and develop respect for individual differences

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Cooperate and interact during dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Explore problem solving and risk taking in dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Participate in improvised dramatic activities

1.13. Acting - Explore a variety of roles in life and fantasy situations through dramatic activities

1.14. Directing - Develop leadership skills through dramatic activities

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Apply observations of people, life and story elements in dramatic activities

1.16. Technical elements - Recognize technical theatre elements used in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre Management - Examine elements of theatre management through theatre attendance

1.18. Dramatic literature - Use literature to create dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Develop awareness of theatre heritage

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore real and fantasy situations from many cultures through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Develop awareness of a variety of roles and occupations through dramatic activities

1.22. Elements of drama - Explore the elements of drama in dramatic activities

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's role

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore various art forms and relate to drama/theatre

1.25. Aesthetic response - Recognize and respond to unique qualities of drama/theatre

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Use a variety of tools and materials to create a work of art.

1.2. Use a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect personal experiences, imagination, and observations.

1.3. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Recognize and identify elements and principles of art.

2.2. Use the elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.3. Develop an awareness of the function of art in their environment.

2.4. Create art with a specific function.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Explore and understand content in works of art by others.

3.2. Select subject matter and content in their own artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate works of art to different times, civilizations and places.

4.2. Discuss how art, history, and culture influence each other.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Recognize that artists create work for a variety of purposes.

5.2. Discuss the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.3. Understand that viewers have different responses to artworks.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Experience similarities and differences between the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.2. Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate and describe the following underlying principles of movement: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.

1.2. Demonstrate a combination of non-locomotor and locomotor skills in short movement patterns.

1.3. Transfer spatial patterns from the visual to the kinesthetic when working with a partner.

1.4. Develop a variety of rhythmic patterns and transfer to the kinesthetic.

1.5. Design and perform a variety of individual to group spatial relationships.

1.6. Memorize, reproduce and perform short dances.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate repetition.

2.2. Demonstrate the following partner skills: giving and taking weight.

2.3. Categorize and compare the choreographic elements of space, time and energy.

2.4. Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, and call and response.

2.5. Describe and reproduce the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Demonstrate the difference between pantomiming and creating abstract meaning through dance movement.

3.2. Create a dance that successfully communicates a chosen theme and teach to another dance student.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Establish and utilize aesthetic criteria for evaluation of dance.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Perform and compare folk and social dances from various cultures and historical periods.

5.2. Explain how dance is a reflection of its culture.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Describe how muscles relate to dance.

6.2. Design a health plan that will enhance one's ability to dance.

6.3. Explain how dance has improved one's personal health and wellness.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Demonstrate how dance and other art forms share the same themes and concepts.

7.2. Examine the connections between dance and other academic disciplines.

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

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone and in unison.

1.2. Sing expressively using proper vocal technique.

1.3. Sing simple harmonies.

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

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to play simple rhythmic patterns.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to play simple melodic patterns.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody and variation.

3.2. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Create simple binary and ternary forms.

4.2. Create a simple arrangement of a familiar song.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Read selected melodic and rhythmic notation.

5.2. Write rhythmic and melodic patterns using traditional and non-traditional notation.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, simple binary, ternary, and rondo forms.

6.2. Recognize, aurally, introductions, interludes, and codas.

6.3. Recognize, aurally, the sounds of a variety of instruments, including voices.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Apply specific criteria in evaluating music and music performances.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Examine ways in which the principles of other art forms relate to those of music.

8.2. Examine ways in which the principles of other disciplines relate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various cultures.

9.2. Discuss the correlation of events, composers and music from various historical periods.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level III)

1.1. Sensory perception - Use the senses to interpret experiences as actor and viewer

1.2. Emotional expression - Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to interact cooperatively with others in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to express thought, feeling, and character from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Use language to discover relationships with others through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice for conscious communication of thought, feeling, and character

1.7. Artistic discipline - Demonstrate self-discipline in dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Utilize concentration in the creation of drama

1.9. Self-concept - Discover self as effective in imagining, interacting, and reflecting in drama

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Develop skills of cooperation and interaction through dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Devise alternative resolutions to problems in a dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Explore improvisation through action and dialogue

1.13. Acting - Explore characterization in life and fantasy situations

1.14. Directing - Recognize the function of a group leader as a director

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Participate in playmaking by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems

1.16. Technical elements - Explore the effect of selected elements of technical theatre in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre management - Demonstrate knowledge of the functions of theatre management

1.18. Dramatic literature - Understand the relationship between dramatic literature and dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Explore theatre heritage and history

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore multicultural concepts through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Explore a variety of roles and occupations including theatre and other arts

1.22. Elements of drama - Identify and use elements of drama

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's responsibility

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore relationships between drama/theatre and other arts

1.25. Aesthetic response - Explore drama/theatre in order to understand and appreciate the creative process

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Use a variety of tools and materials to create a work of art.

1.2. Use a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect ideas, concepts, symbols and themes.

1.3. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.4. Demonstrate levels of craftsmanship.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Consistently recognize and identify elements and principles of art.

2.2. Use the elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.3. Discuss the functions of art in different environments.

2.4. Create art works to meet various functions.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Discuss subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art by others.

3.2. Utilize subject matter, symbols, and ideas in their own artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate works of art to different times, civilizations and places.

4.2. Demonstrate how art, history, and culture influence each other.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Understand that artists create work for a variety of purposes.

5.2. Discuss the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.3. Interpret different responses to art works.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine characteristics of visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.2. Practice making connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Apply the following underlying principles of movement in the execution of a dance sequence: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.

1.2. Perform combinations of non-locomotor and locomotor skills of increasing length and complexity.

1.3. Utilize the full range of personal space in movement.

1.4. Transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic in trios or small groups.

1.5. Transfer multiple rhythmic patterns from sound to the kinesthetic.

1.6. Design and perform a variety of group to group spatial relationships.

1.7. Identify the technical vocabulary for given dance movements.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate contrast.

2.2. Demonstrate the partner skills of balance and counter balance.

2.3. Compose dances using the choreographic elements of space, time, and energy.

2.4. Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, call and response, theme and variation, and narrative.

2.5. Analyze the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD and support that position.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Experiment with transforming pantomime to abstract movement.

3.2. Create a dance that successfully communicates multiple themes, teach the dance to another student and perform.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Present and support a personal critique of a dance.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Research and perform a folk or social dance from a chosen culture.

5.2. Compare dances from two different cultures and explain how each is reflective of its culture.

5.3. Discuss the basic evolution of a dance form.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how the skeleton and muscles work together.

6.2. Implement an effective health plan through review and revision.

6.3. Improve one's personal health and wellness through dance.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Analyze how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in other art forms.

7.2. Examine the connections between dance and three or more other academic disciplines.

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

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone and in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing expressively using proper vocal technique.

1.3. Demonstrate the ability to sing in parts.

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

2.1. Play syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms.

2.2. Play question and answer phrases.

2.3. Demonstrate skill in playing simple harmonies.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise upon a simple melody vocally and/or instrumentally.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation vocally and/or instrumentally.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose a simple piece within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create a simple arrangement of a composition.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting musical notation including rhythm, melody and harmony.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating music including rhythm, melody, and harmony.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, music with theme and variations.

6.2. Recognize, aurally, major and minor tonalities in music.

6.3. Recognize, aurally, music from different genres.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Examine and evaluate, aurally and visually, selected music examples.

7.2. Evaluate the quality of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles of other disciplines relate with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify and discuss music from different historical periods.

9.2. Identify and discuss music from different genres and cultures.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level III)

1.1. Sensory perception - Use the senses to interpret experiences as actor and viewer

1.2. Emotional expression - Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to interact cooperatively with others in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to express thought, feeling, and character from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Use language to discover relationships with others through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice for conscious communication of thought, feeling, and character

1.7. Artistic discipline - Demonstrate self-discipline in dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Utilize concentration in the creation of drama

1.9. Self-concept - Discover self as effective in imagining, interacting, and reflecting in drama

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Develop skills of cooperation and interaction through dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Devise alternative resolutions to problems in a dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Explore improvisation through action and dialogue

1.13. Acting - Explore characterization in life and fantasy situations

1.14. Directing - Recognize the function of a group leader as a director

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Participate in playmaking by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems

1.16. Technical elements - Explore the effect of selected elements of technical theatre in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre management - Demonstrate knowledge of the functions of theatre management

1.18. Dramatic literature - Understand the relationship between dramatic literature and dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Explore theatre heritage and history

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore multicultural concepts through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Explore a variety of roles and occupations including theatre and other arts

1.22. Elements of drama - Identify and use elements of drama

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's responsibility

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore relationships between drama/theatre and other arts

1.25. Aesthetic response - Explore drama/theatre in order to understand and appreciate the creative process

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of tools and materials used to create a work of art.

1.2. Develop skills in a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect ideas, concepts, symbols and themes.

1.3. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.4. Demonstrate levels of craftsmanship.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Use the elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.2. Discuss and analyze the functions of art in different environments.

2.3. Create artworks to meet various functions.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Discuss artistic intent by evaluating subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art by others.

3.2. Experiment with subject matter, symbols, and ideas to create meaning in their own artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate works of art to different times, civilizations and places.

4.2. Demonstrate how art, history, and cultures influence each other.

4.3. Recognize how artists are influenced by cultures, history and movements in art.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Appraise the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.3. Examine different responses to artworks.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Find relationships between the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.2. Examine ways in which other disciplines are interrelated with the visual arts.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of wellness and physical education.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Disciplines - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone selected musical examples.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble selected musical examples.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate instrumental musical examples alone.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple pieces of music within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create simple arrangements within specified guidelines.

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, melody, and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of works of music.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

9.2. Examine the evolution of American musical genres and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

9.3. Compare the function music serves, roles of musicians, and conditions under which music is typically performed in several world cultures.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Continue developing the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley or a partner song.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish selected choral literature by historical period and culture.

9.2. Examine the origins of various American music genres.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, drafting, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of scene writing.

1.2. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.3. Explore personal situations through the creation of scripted scenes.

1.4. Utilize language to express meaning and character.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - The students will develop basic acting skills by portraying characters in improvised and scripted scenes.

2.1. Use emotional recall to create a character.

2.2. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.3. Use characters to develop situations through individual and group work.

2.4. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.5. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - The students will design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

3.1. Explore the functions and interrelated nature of various technical elements such as visual elements and aural qualities.

3.2. Identify technical requirements for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.3. Work collaboratively and safely to create elements of scenery, properties, lighting and sound.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing improvised and scripted scenes.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by using cultural and historical information to support improvised and scripted scenes.

5.1. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society.

5.2. Examine historical elements in society.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - The students will compare and incorporate art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1. Explore various art forms.

6.2. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of other art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, evaluate and construct meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences.

7.2. Examine informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the community and in other cultures.

8.1. Explain how attitudes of various cultures are reflected by theatre, film, television and electronic media.

8.2. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge in select media, techniques and processes.

1.2. Compare and contrast the effective use of communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Reflect upon the effectiveness of a variety of media.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Develop an awareness of the elements of design and the principles of composition through their application.

2.2. Create and evaluate art works that exhibit various sensory and expressive qualities.

2.3. Develop an awareness of the function or intrinsic purposes of works of art.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills that lead to solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will chose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Evaluate subjects, themes and symbols and their origins.

3.2. Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meanings in artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

4.2. Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

4.3. Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

4.4. Recognize the role of artists in our community and society.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks, including mass media, through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

5.4. Investigate and design works of art that communicate sensitivity to the natural and manmade environment.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Recognize the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

6.2. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of wellness and physical education.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Disciplines - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone selected musical examples.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble selected musical examples.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate instrumental musical examples alone.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple pieces of music within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create simple arrangements within specified guidelines.

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, melody, and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of works of music.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

9.2. Examine the evolution of American musical genres and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

9.3. Compare the function music serves, roles of musicians, and conditions under which music is typically performed in several world cultures.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Continue developing the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley or a partner song.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish selected choral literature by historical period and culture.

9.2. Examine the origins of various American music genres.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, drafting, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of scene writing.

1.2. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.3. Explore personal situations through the creation of scripted scenes.

1.4. Utilize language to express meaning and character.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - The students will develop basic acting skills by portraying characters in improvised and scripted scenes.

2.1. Use emotional recall to create a character.

2.2. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.3. Use characters to develop situations through individual and group work.

2.4. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.5. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - The students will design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

3.1. Explore the functions and interrelated nature of various technical elements such as visual elements and aural qualities.

3.2. Identify technical requirements for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.3. Work collaboratively and safely to create elements of scenery, properties, lighting and sound.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing improvised and scripted scenes.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by using cultural and historical information to support improvised and scripted scenes.

5.1. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society.

5.2. Examine historical elements in society.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - The students will compare and incorporate art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1. Explore various art forms.

6.2. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of other art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, evaluate and construct meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences.

7.2. Examine informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the community and in other cultures.

8.1. Explain how attitudes of various cultures are reflected by theatre, film, television and electronic media.

8.2. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge in select media, techniques and processes.

1.2. Compare and contrast the effective use of communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Reflect upon the effectiveness of a variety of media.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Develop an awareness of the elements of design and the principles of composition through their application.

2.2. Create and evaluate art works that exhibit various sensory and expressive qualities.

2.3. Develop an awareness of the function or intrinsic purposes of works of art.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills that lead to solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will chose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Evaluate subjects, themes and symbols and their origins.

3.2. Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meanings in artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

4.2. Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

4.3. Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

4.4. Recognize the role of artists in our community and society.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks, including mass media, through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

5.4. Investigate and design works of art that communicate sensitivity to the natural and manmade environment.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Recognize the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

6.2. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of wellness and physical education.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Disciplines - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone selected musical examples.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble selected musical examples.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate instrumental musical examples alone.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple pieces of music within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create simple arrangements within specified guidelines.

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, melody, and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of works of music.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

9.2. Examine the evolution of American musical genres and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

9.3. Compare the function music serves, roles of musicians, and conditions under which music is typically performed in several world cultures.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Continue developing the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley or a partner song.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish selected choral literature by historical period and culture.

9.2. Examine the origins of various American music genres.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, drafting, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of scene writing.

1.2. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.3. Explore personal situations through the creation of scripted scenes.

1.4. Utilize language to express meaning and character.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - The students will develop basic acting skills by portraying characters in improvised and scripted scenes.

2.1. Use emotional recall to create a character.

2.2. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.3. Use characters to develop situations through individual and group work.

2.4. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.5. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - The students will design by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

3.1. Explore the functions and interrelated nature of various technical elements such as visual elements and aural qualities.

3.2. Identify technical requirements for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.3. Work collaboratively and safely to create elements of scenery, properties, lighting and sound.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing improvised and scripted scenes.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by using cultural and historical information to support improvised and scripted scenes.

5.1. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society.

5.2. Examine historical elements in society.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - The students will compare and incorporate art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1. Explore various art forms.

6.2. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of other art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, evaluate and construct meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences.

7.2. Examine informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the community and in other cultures.

8.1. Explain how attitudes of various cultures are reflected by theatre, film, television and electronic media.

8.2. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge in select media, techniques and processes.

1.2. Compare and contrast the effective use of communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Reflect upon the effectiveness of a variety of media.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Develop an awareness of the elements of design and the principles of composition through their application.

2.2. Create and evaluate art works that exhibit various sensory and expressive qualities.

2.3. Develop an awareness of the function or intrinsic purposes of works of art.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills that lead to solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will chose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Evaluate subjects, themes and symbols and their origins.

3.2. Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meanings in artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

4.2. Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

4.3. Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

4.4. Recognize the role of artists in our community and society.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks, including mass media, through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

5.4. Investigate and design works of art that communicate sensitivity to the natural and manmade environment.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Recognize the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

6.2. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural/political contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone with expression and technical accuracy.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble with expression and technical accuracy.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform instrumental music alone with expression and technical accuracy.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise melodies.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise accompaniments.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in composition.

4.2. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in arranging music

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

6.3. Compare compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release between two similar musical works.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music compositions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period, and style.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences and uses of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods.

9.2. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

9.3. Examine the evolution of American musical genres.

TN.1.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music through singing selected musical examples, rhythmic patterns, tuning notes in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of harmony through singing chorales and selected examples up to four (4) parts in complexity.

TN.2.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate that tone production includes the continuing development and understanding of the characteristic qualities of sound, and is able to measure the mastery level for the maturity and control of the characteristic sound.

2.2. Employ the techniques of sight-reading and performance on musical works from many compositional periods, such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, and the 20th century, with characteristic interpretive elements.

2.3. Demonstrate that technique includes the proper development and understanding of correct posture, hand position, fingering, wind articulation and percussion sticking as well as demonstrate facility in all scales and rudiments.

2.4. Employ the symbols of dynamic control and demonstrate the nuances of phrase shaping; assess appropriate ways to interpret the expressive qualities of music, developing these nuances through dynamic control, tempo variation, and phrase shaping.

2.5. Differentiate between correct and incorrect pitch and distinguish the listening responsibilities within an ensemble as an individual performer, employing these responsibilities to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature that encompasses all levels of difficulty on a scale of 1-6.

TN.3.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Through a traditional ensemble, create a rhythmic or melodic improvised solo over a given chord progression.

3.2. Through the medium of jazz, create an improvised stylistically correct solo on original melodies over a given chord progression, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

TN.4.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose music demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

4.2. Arrange music for his/her performing medium.

TN.5.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Apply and evaluate notated musical concepts in order to sight-read accurately and expressively, music encompassing all difficulty levels on a scale of 1-6.

5.2. Analyze and perform nonstandard notational symbols used by some 20th century composers.

TN.6.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Explain, analyze, and describe the use of compositional devices and techniques in a given work that make it unique, interesting and expressive, and give examples of other works that make similar use of those devices and techniques.

TN.7.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Develop criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions, and assess and appraise the aesthetic qualities of various musical genres, explaining the musical means and devices these works use to evoke feelings and emotions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

TN.8.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in similar and distinctive ways in various arts and distinguish how these elements are utilized throughout different historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast various music genres and their historical backgrounds, and appraise the historical contribution or significance of a given musical work.

9.2. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and assess the cultural significance of that composition.

TN.1.0. Music (Music History): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

1.2. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.2.0. Music (Music History): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

2.2. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.3.0. Music (Music History): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate vocal improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

3.2. Demonstrate instrumental improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

TN.4.0. Music (Music History): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

4.2. Arrange simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

TN.5.0. Music (Music History): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate basic skill in reading standard and non-standard notation in selected musical examples from ancient to modern times.

5.2. Demonstrate basic skill in notating music to include standard and non-standard notation.

TN.6.0. Music (Music History): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze musical examples from various historical periods.

6.2. Distinguish through aural techniques the appropriate historical period for a given musical excerpt.

TN.7.0. Music (Music History): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate musical works based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

7.2. Evaluate musical performances based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

TN.8.0. Music (Music History): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in the arts within various historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Assess the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.4. Examine the role of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Music History): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and historical periods or cultures.

9.2. Appraise the historical and /or cultural significance of a given musical work.

TN.1.0. Music (Music Theory): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Sing diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

1.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.2.0. Music (Music Theory): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Play diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

2.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.3.0. Music (Music Theory): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise original melodies over I - IV - V chord progressions.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations in a variety of styles.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise harmonizing parts and rhythmic variations for melodies based on pentatonic, major or minor scales.

TN.4.0. Music (Music Theory): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate their knowledge of the expressive effect of the elements of music through composing and arranging.

4.2. Demonstrate knowledge of practical vocal and instrumental ranges through composing and arranging.

4.3. Demonstrate the aural and notational acuity necessary to write compositions and arrangements.

TN.5.0. Music (Music Theory): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read standard notation in all clefs.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze music using Roman numeral analysis employing triads and tetrads in all inversions.

5.3. Demonstrate knowledge of major and minor mode.

5.4. Demonstrate the ability to interpret the use of the elements of music in instrumental and vocal scores.

5.5. Demonstrate the ability to transcribe simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns from sound.

TN.6.0. Music (Music Theory): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of compositional devices and techniques used in a given aural example of music by describing specific events such as ostinato, imitation, or modulation.

6.2. Demonstrate the ability to classify works of the same genre or style that use the same or differing compositional techniques.

6.3. Demonstrate the principles of voice leading, chord voicing and doubling, non-harmonic tone use in melody, and figured bass analysis in the 18th century style of four-part writing.

TN.7.0. Music (Music Theory): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate musical works and performances in terms of their aesthetic qualities.

7.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish the musical means used to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Music Theory): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate the similarities and distinctive characteristics of various arts from different historical periods or cultures.

8.2. Examine the roles of the people involved in the various arts.

8.3. Appraise the role and importance of music and the other arts in fully developing the mind and completing one's education.

TN.9.0. Music (Music Theory): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish music genres or styles influenced by more than one culture, identify the cultural influences, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis.

9.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish stylistic features that define the aesthetic tradition and historical or cultural context of a musical work.

9.3. Examine the importance of music in the cultural development of a people.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 6 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Demonstrate the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 4 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

5.5. Interpret non-standard notation in choral music.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices and compositional techniques.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, movement, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Classify selected choral literature by genre or style and historical period or culture.

9.2. Contrast various American music genres and their origins.

9.3. Distinguish the stylistic features of a given choral work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

TN.1.0. Music (Class Piano): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of vocal technique by echoing rhythmic and melodic patterns, singing chord root movements, and singing major/minor chords and scales in a prepared plan to improve reading, improvising, and composing skills.

1.2. Employ proper vocal technique to sing familiar songs at the keyboard with accompaniment patterns learned for general use.

TN.2.0. Music (Class Piano): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Utilizing correct posture, hand position and appropriate fingering choices the student will:

2.1. Demonstrate with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of piano literature on a scale of 1 to 6 with some pieces performed from memory.

2.2. Demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills by playing in large and small ensembles, both one on a part and with others.

TN.3.0. Music (Class Piano): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate improvisation skills by performing an improvised solo using tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant chords; and in a variety of styles.

3.2. Improvise a keyboard solo utilizing rhythmic and/or melodic variations based on both pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

TN.4.0. Music (Class Piano): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short keyboard pieces.

4.2. Employ technology, where possible, to diminish notational limitations and expand the creative possibilities for composition.

4.3. Arrange selected vocal or instrumental work for keyboard.

TN.5.0. Music (Class Piano): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read a piano score by identifying and defining standard notational symbols.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to sight-read by accurately performing selected music, hands together for a variety of music.

5.3. Employ standard notation to record musical ideas.

TN.6.0. Music (Class Piano): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe keyboard music.

6.1. Analyze a varied repertoire of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and twentieth-century music by describing the uses of the elements of music and the formal design.

6.2. Analyze and evaluate the uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, significant, interesting, and expressive.

TN.7.0. Music (Class Piano): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Employ specific student/teacher evolved criteria to critically evaluate compositions, arrangements, performances of others, and personal performances.

7.2. Evaluate performance of others and personal performances in terms of aesthetic qualities, and explain the musical means these performances utilize to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Class Piano): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Appraise and evaluate how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in the various arts.

8.2. Compare and contrast the ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts interrelate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Class Piano): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Organize aural examples of keyboard music by genre, style, historical period, and/or culture.

9.2. Distinguish keyboard genres, their origins, and the pianists/composers associated with them.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of script writing.

1.2. Examine life experiences and develop imaginary situations.

1.3. Demonstrate understanding of people, life, and story elements.

1.4. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.5. Explore dramatic situations through the creation of scripts.

1.6. Utilize language to express meaning, character, and subtext.

1.7. Utilize technical theatre elements in script writing.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

2.1. Use sensory perception to enact multi-faceted characters, recognizing individual differences.

2.2. Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer, recognizing individual differences.

2.3. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.4. Use characters to develop situations and environments through individual and ensemble work.

2.5. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.6. Develop skills of analysis in acting.

2.7. Identify and use vocal techniques to portray thought, feeling, and character as an integral element of theatre production.

2.8. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

2.9. Explore characterization through the use of various styles of acting.

2.10. Examine technical theatre elements to enhance characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.1. Understand processes, techniques, terminology and materials of technical theatre and theatre management.

3.2. Develop a positive sense of self through theatrical collaboration.

3.3. Understand and analyze theatre management positions.

3.4. Understand and analyze theatre design positions.

3.5. Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a profession and as an avocation.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing formal and informal productions.

4.3. Explore solutions to acting, technical theatre, and theatre production problems and evaluate consequences and implications.

4.4. Understand the principles of stage movement as an integral element of theatre production.

4.5. Analyze a dramatic text to determine appropriate production values.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

5.1. Understand, compare, and contrast various genres and periods of dramatic literature.

5.2. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society in the development of theatre.

5.3. Examine historical motifs and themes of theatre.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.1. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.2. Integrate the knowledge of other traditional arts into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of non-traditional new and emerging technological art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.4. Understand elements of various arts forms.

6.5. Explore technical theatre as a means of integrating traditional and non-traditional art forms.

6.6. Achieve ensemble in performance works.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, critique, and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences as an effort to interpret, intensify and ennoble human experience.

7.2. Expand the depth and scope of aesthetic judgment by experiencing informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions and theatre of diverse styles, periods, and genres.

7.3. Understand the role of the audience in creating a theatrical experience.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.

8.1. Understand dramatic conventions and theatre genres throughout history.

8.2. Discover and explore historical motifs and themes.

8.3. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media on society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium.

1.2. Produce visual art that exhibits a communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Analyze, synthesize and evaluate the application of media, techniques and processes used to solve visual art problems.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and design principles.

2.2. Analyze and critique organizational components and expressive qualities of artworks.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection of content in works of art.

3.2. Evaluate meaningful images that reflect personal experiences and environments.

3.3. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.4. Research and create a series of related works in a particular subject matter.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of how historical and contemporary works of art reflect and influence societies and cultures.

4.2. Interpret the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures.

4.3. Demonstrate how history and culture influence the production of art

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Assess visual artworks and their meanings by using a variety of criteria and techniques.

5.2. Reflect on and evaluate artworks in order to understand various interpretations.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Integrate ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts with other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Visual Art History: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the unique properties and potential of art materials and media.

1.2. Research types of media, techniques, and processes used in select works and/or by select artists.

TN.2.0. Visual Art History: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and principles of design.

2.2. Investigate how the function and the materials of a form influence its structure, shape or appearance.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

TN.3.0. Visual Art History: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.2. Research the choices of subject, themes, and symbols used by artists.

TN.4.0. Visual Art History: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which history and culture influence the production of art.

4.2. Research, analyze, and explain how visual art reflects and influences societies and cultures.

TN.5.0. Visual Art History: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Research and critique visual artworks and their meanings by using an art criticism model such as description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.

5.2. Reflect analytically on various interpretations for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.

TN.6.0. Visual Art History: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Examine ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts and other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural/political contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone with expression and technical accuracy.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble with expression and technical accuracy.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform instrumental music alone with expression and technical accuracy.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise melodies.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise accompaniments.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in composition.

4.2. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in arranging music

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

6.3. Compare compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release between two similar musical works.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music compositions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period, and style.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences and uses of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods.

9.2. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

9.3. Examine the evolution of American musical genres.

TN.1.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music through singing selected musical examples, rhythmic patterns, tuning notes in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of harmony through singing chorales and selected examples up to four (4) parts in complexity.

TN.2.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate that tone production includes the continuing development and understanding of the characteristic qualities of sound, and is able to measure the mastery level for the maturity and control of the characteristic sound.

2.2. Employ the techniques of sight-reading and performance on musical works from many compositional periods, such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, and the 20th century, with characteristic interpretive elements.

2.3. Demonstrate that technique includes the proper development and understanding of correct posture, hand position, fingering, wind articulation and percussion sticking as well as demonstrate facility in all scales and rudiments.

2.4. Employ the symbols of dynamic control and demonstrate the nuances of phrase shaping; assess appropriate ways to interpret the expressive qualities of music, developing these nuances through dynamic control, tempo variation, and phrase shaping.

2.5. Differentiate between correct and incorrect pitch and distinguish the listening responsibilities within an ensemble as an individual performer, employing these responsibilities to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature that encompasses all levels of difficulty on a scale of 1-6.

TN.3.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Through a traditional ensemble, create a rhythmic or melodic improvised solo over a given chord progression.

3.2. Through the medium of jazz, create an improvised stylistically correct solo on original melodies over a given chord progression, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

TN.4.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose music demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

4.2. Arrange music for his/her performing medium.

TN.5.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Apply and evaluate notated musical concepts in order to sight-read accurately and expressively, music encompassing all difficulty levels on a scale of 1-6.

5.2. Analyze and perform nonstandard notational symbols used by some 20th century composers.

TN.6.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Explain, analyze, and describe the use of compositional devices and techniques in a given work that make it unique, interesting and expressive, and give examples of other works that make similar use of those devices and techniques.

TN.7.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Develop criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions, and assess and appraise the aesthetic qualities of various musical genres, explaining the musical means and devices these works use to evoke feelings and emotions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

TN.8.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in similar and distinctive ways in various arts and distinguish how these elements are utilized throughout different historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast various music genres and their historical backgrounds, and appraise the historical contribution or significance of a given musical work.

9.2. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and assess the cultural significance of that composition.

TN.1.0. Music (Music History): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

1.2. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.2.0. Music (Music History): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

2.2. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.3.0. Music (Music History): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate vocal improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

3.2. Demonstrate instrumental improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

TN.4.0. Music (Music History): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

4.2. Arrange simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

TN.5.0. Music (Music History): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate basic skill in reading standard and non-standard notation in selected musical examples from ancient to modern times.

5.2. Demonstrate basic skill in notating music to include standard and non-standard notation.

TN.6.0. Music (Music History): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze musical examples from various historical periods.

6.2. Distinguish through aural techniques the appropriate historical period for a given musical excerpt.

TN.7.0. Music (Music History): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate musical works based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

7.2. Evaluate musical performances based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

TN.8.0. Music (Music History): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in the arts within various historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Assess the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.4. Examine the role of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Music History): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and historical periods or cultures.

9.2. Appraise the historical and /or cultural significance of a given musical work.

TN.1.0. Music (Music Theory): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Sing diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

1.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.2.0. Music (Music Theory): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Play diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

2.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.3.0. Music (Music Theory): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise original melodies over I - IV - V chord progressions.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations in a variety of styles.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise harmonizing parts and rhythmic variations for melodies based on pentatonic, major or minor scales.

TN.4.0. Music (Music Theory): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate their knowledge of the expressive effect of the elements of music through composing and arranging.

4.2. Demonstrate knowledge of practical vocal and instrumental ranges through composing and arranging.

4.3. Demonstrate the aural and notational acuity necessary to write compositions and arrangements.

TN.5.0. Music (Music Theory): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read standard notation in all clefs.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze music using Roman numeral analysis employing triads and tetrads in all inversions.

5.3. Demonstrate knowledge of major and minor mode.

5.4. Demonstrate the ability to interpret the use of the elements of music in instrumental and vocal scores.

5.5. Demonstrate the ability to transcribe simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns from sound.

TN.6.0. Music (Music Theory): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of compositional devices and techniques used in a given aural example of music by describing specific events such as ostinato, imitation, or modulation.

6.2. Demonstrate the ability to classify works of the same genre or style that use the same or differing compositional techniques.

6.3. Demonstrate the principles of voice leading, chord voicing and doubling, non-harmonic tone use in melody, and figured bass analysis in the 18th century style of four-part writing.

TN.7.0. Music (Music Theory): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate musical works and performances in terms of their aesthetic qualities.

7.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish the musical means used to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Music Theory): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate the similarities and distinctive characteristics of various arts from different historical periods or cultures.

8.2. Examine the roles of the people involved in the various arts.

8.3. Appraise the role and importance of music and the other arts in fully developing the mind and completing one's education.

TN.9.0. Music (Music Theory): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish music genres or styles influenced by more than one culture, identify the cultural influences, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis.

9.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish stylistic features that define the aesthetic tradition and historical or cultural context of a musical work.

9.3. Examine the importance of music in the cultural development of a people.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 6 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Demonstrate the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 4 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

5.5. Interpret non-standard notation in choral music.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices and compositional techniques.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, movement, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Classify selected choral literature by genre or style and historical period or culture.

9.2. Contrast various American music genres and their origins.

9.3. Distinguish the stylistic features of a given choral work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

TN.1.0. Music (Class Piano): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of vocal technique by echoing rhythmic and melodic patterns, singing chord root movements, and singing major/minor chords and scales in a prepared plan to improve reading, improvising, and composing skills.

1.2. Employ proper vocal technique to sing familiar songs at the keyboard with accompaniment patterns learned for general use.

TN.2.0. Music (Class Piano): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Utilizing correct posture, hand position and appropriate fingering choices the student will:

2.1. Demonstrate with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of piano literature on a scale of 1 to 6 with some pieces performed from memory.

2.2. Demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills by playing in large and small ensembles, both one on a part and with others.

TN.3.0. Music (Class Piano): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate improvisation skills by performing an improvised solo using tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant chords; and in a variety of styles.

3.2. Improvise a keyboard solo utilizing rhythmic and/or melodic variations based on both pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

TN.4.0. Music (Class Piano): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short keyboard pieces.

4.2. Employ technology, where possible, to diminish notational limitations and expand the creative possibilities for composition.

4.3. Arrange selected vocal or instrumental work for keyboard.

TN.5.0. Music (Class Piano): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read a piano score by identifying and defining standard notational symbols.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to sight-read by accurately performing selected music, hands together for a variety of music.

5.3. Employ standard notation to record musical ideas.

TN.6.0. Music (Class Piano): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe keyboard music.

6.1. Analyze a varied repertoire of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and twentieth-century music by describing the uses of the elements of music and the formal design.

6.2. Analyze and evaluate the uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, significant, interesting, and expressive.

TN.7.0. Music (Class Piano): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Employ specific student/teacher evolved criteria to critically evaluate compositions, arrangements, performances of others, and personal performances.

7.2. Evaluate performance of others and personal performances in terms of aesthetic qualities, and explain the musical means these performances utilize to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Class Piano): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Appraise and evaluate how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in the various arts.

8.2. Compare and contrast the ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts interrelate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Class Piano): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Organize aural examples of keyboard music by genre, style, historical period, and/or culture.

9.2. Distinguish keyboard genres, their origins, and the pianists/composers associated with them.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of script writing.

1.2. Examine life experiences and develop imaginary situations.

1.3. Demonstrate understanding of people, life, and story elements.

1.4. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.5. Explore dramatic situations through the creation of scripts.

1.6. Utilize language to express meaning, character, and subtext.

1.7. Utilize technical theatre elements in script writing.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

2.1. Use sensory perception to enact multi-faceted characters, recognizing individual differences.

2.2. Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer, recognizing individual differences.

2.3. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.4. Use characters to develop situations and environments through individual and ensemble work.

2.5. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.6. Develop skills of analysis in acting.

2.7. Identify and use vocal techniques to portray thought, feeling, and character as an integral element of theatre production.

2.8. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

2.9. Explore characterization through the use of various styles of acting.

2.10. Examine technical theatre elements to enhance characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.1. Understand processes, techniques, terminology and materials of technical theatre and theatre management.

3.2. Develop a positive sense of self through theatrical collaboration.

3.3. Understand and analyze theatre management positions.

3.4. Understand and analyze theatre design positions.

3.5. Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a profession and as an avocation.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing formal and informal productions.

4.3. Explore solutions to acting, technical theatre, and theatre production problems and evaluate consequences and implications.

4.4. Understand the principles of stage movement as an integral element of theatre production.

4.5. Analyze a dramatic text to determine appropriate production values.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

5.1. Understand, compare, and contrast various genres and periods of dramatic literature.

5.2. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society in the development of theatre.

5.3. Examine historical motifs and themes of theatre.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.1. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.2. Integrate the knowledge of other traditional arts into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of non-traditional new and emerging technological art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.4. Understand elements of various arts forms.

6.5. Explore technical theatre as a means of integrating traditional and non-traditional art forms.

6.6. Achieve ensemble in performance works.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, critique, and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences as an effort to interpret, intensify and ennoble human experience.

7.2. Expand the depth and scope of aesthetic judgment by experiencing informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions and theatre of diverse styles, periods, and genres.

7.3. Understand the role of the audience in creating a theatrical experience.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.

8.1. Understand dramatic conventions and theatre genres throughout history.

8.2. Discover and explore historical motifs and themes.

8.3. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media on society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium.

1.2. Produce visual art that exhibits a communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Analyze, synthesize and evaluate the application of media, techniques and processes used to solve visual art problems.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and design principles.

2.2. Analyze and critique organizational components and expressive qualities of artworks.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection of content in works of art.

3.2. Evaluate meaningful images that reflect personal experiences and environments.

3.3. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.4. Research and create a series of related works in a particular subject matter.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of how historical and contemporary works of art reflect and influence societies and cultures.

4.2. Interpret the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures.

4.3. Demonstrate how history and culture influence the production of art

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Assess visual artworks and their meanings by using a variety of criteria and techniques.

5.2. Reflect on and evaluate artworks in order to understand various interpretations.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Integrate ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts with other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Visual Art History: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the unique properties and potential of art materials and media.

1.2. Research types of media, techniques, and processes used in select works and/or by select artists.

TN.2.0. Visual Art History: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and principles of design.

2.2. Investigate how the function and the materials of a form influence its structure, shape or appearance.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

TN.3.0. Visual Art History: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.2. Research the choices of subject, themes, and symbols used by artists.

TN.4.0. Visual Art History: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which history and culture influence the production of art.

4.2. Research, analyze, and explain how visual art reflects and influences societies and cultures.

TN.5.0. Visual Art History: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Research and critique visual artworks and their meanings by using an art criticism model such as description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.

5.2. Reflect analytically on various interpretations for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.

TN.6.0. Visual Art History: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Examine ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts and other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural/political contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone with expression and technical accuracy.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble with expression and technical accuracy.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform instrumental music alone with expression and technical accuracy.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise melodies.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise accompaniments.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in composition.

4.2. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in arranging music

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

6.3. Compare compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release between two similar musical works.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music compositions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period, and style.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences and uses of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods.

9.2. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

9.3. Examine the evolution of American musical genres.

TN.1.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music through singing selected musical examples, rhythmic patterns, tuning notes in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of harmony through singing chorales and selected examples up to four (4) parts in complexity.

TN.2.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate that tone production includes the continuing development and understanding of the characteristic qualities of sound, and is able to measure the mastery level for the maturity and control of the characteristic sound.

2.2. Employ the techniques of sight-reading and performance on musical works from many compositional periods, such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, and the 20th century, with characteristic interpretive elements.

2.3. Demonstrate that technique includes the proper development and understanding of correct posture, hand position, fingering, wind articulation and percussion sticking as well as demonstrate facility in all scales and rudiments.

2.4. Employ the symbols of dynamic control and demonstrate the nuances of phrase shaping; assess appropriate ways to interpret the expressive qualities of music, developing these nuances through dynamic control, tempo variation, and phrase shaping.

2.5. Differentiate between correct and incorrect pitch and distinguish the listening responsibilities within an ensemble as an individual performer, employing these responsibilities to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature that encompasses all levels of difficulty on a scale of 1-6.

TN.3.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Through a traditional ensemble, create a rhythmic or melodic improvised solo over a given chord progression.

3.2. Through the medium of jazz, create an improvised stylistically correct solo on original melodies over a given chord progression, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

TN.4.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose music demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

4.2. Arrange music for his/her performing medium.

TN.5.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Apply and evaluate notated musical concepts in order to sight-read accurately and expressively, music encompassing all difficulty levels on a scale of 1-6.

5.2. Analyze and perform nonstandard notational symbols used by some 20th century composers.

TN.6.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Explain, analyze, and describe the use of compositional devices and techniques in a given work that make it unique, interesting and expressive, and give examples of other works that make similar use of those devices and techniques.

TN.7.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Develop criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions, and assess and appraise the aesthetic qualities of various musical genres, explaining the musical means and devices these works use to evoke feelings and emotions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

TN.8.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in similar and distinctive ways in various arts and distinguish how these elements are utilized throughout different historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast various music genres and their historical backgrounds, and appraise the historical contribution or significance of a given musical work.

9.2. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and assess the cultural significance of that composition.

TN.1.0. Music (Music History): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

1.2. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.2.0. Music (Music History): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

2.2. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.3.0. Music (Music History): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate vocal improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

3.2. Demonstrate instrumental improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

TN.4.0. Music (Music History): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

4.2. Arrange simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

TN.5.0. Music (Music History): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate basic skill in reading standard and non-standard notation in selected musical examples from ancient to modern times.

5.2. Demonstrate basic skill in notating music to include standard and non-standard notation.

TN.6.0. Music (Music History): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze musical examples from various historical periods.

6.2. Distinguish through aural techniques the appropriate historical period for a given musical excerpt.

TN.7.0. Music (Music History): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate musical works based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

7.2. Evaluate musical performances based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

TN.8.0. Music (Music History): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in the arts within various historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Assess the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.4. Examine the role of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Music History): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and historical periods or cultures.

9.2. Appraise the historical and /or cultural significance of a given musical work.

TN.1.0. Music (Music Theory): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Sing diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

1.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.2.0. Music (Music Theory): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Play diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

2.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.3.0. Music (Music Theory): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise original melodies over I - IV - V chord progressions.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations in a variety of styles.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise harmonizing parts and rhythmic variations for melodies based on pentatonic, major or minor scales.

TN.4.0. Music (Music Theory): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate their knowledge of the expressive effect of the elements of music through composing and arranging.

4.2. Demonstrate knowledge of practical vocal and instrumental ranges through composing and arranging.

4.3. Demonstrate the aural and notational acuity necessary to write compositions and arrangements.

TN.5.0. Music (Music Theory): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read standard notation in all clefs.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze music using Roman numeral analysis employing triads and tetrads in all inversions.

5.3. Demonstrate knowledge of major and minor mode.

5.4. Demonstrate the ability to interpret the use of the elements of music in instrumental and vocal scores.

5.5. Demonstrate the ability to transcribe simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns from sound.

TN.6.0. Music (Music Theory): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of compositional devices and techniques used in a given aural example of music by describing specific events such as ostinato, imitation, or modulation.

6.2. Demonstrate the ability to classify works of the same genre or style that use the same or differing compositional techniques.

6.3. Demonstrate the principles of voice leading, chord voicing and doubling, non-harmonic tone use in melody, and figured bass analysis in the 18th century style of four-part writing.

TN.7.0. Music (Music Theory): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate musical works and performances in terms of their aesthetic qualities.

7.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish the musical means used to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Music Theory): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate the similarities and distinctive characteristics of various arts from different historical periods or cultures.

8.2. Examine the roles of the people involved in the various arts.

8.3. Appraise the role and importance of music and the other arts in fully developing the mind and completing one's education.

TN.9.0. Music (Music Theory): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish music genres or styles influenced by more than one culture, identify the cultural influences, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis.

9.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish stylistic features that define the aesthetic tradition and historical or cultural context of a musical work.

9.3. Examine the importance of music in the cultural development of a people.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 6 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Demonstrate the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 4 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

5.5. Interpret non-standard notation in choral music.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices and compositional techniques.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, movement, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Classify selected choral literature by genre or style and historical period or culture.

9.2. Contrast various American music genres and their origins.

9.3. Distinguish the stylistic features of a given choral work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

TN.1.0. Music (Class Piano): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of vocal technique by echoing rhythmic and melodic patterns, singing chord root movements, and singing major/minor chords and scales in a prepared plan to improve reading, improvising, and composing skills.

1.2. Employ proper vocal technique to sing familiar songs at the keyboard with accompaniment patterns learned for general use.

TN.2.0. Music (Class Piano): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Utilizing correct posture, hand position and appropriate fingering choices the student will:

2.1. Demonstrate with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of piano literature on a scale of 1 to 6 with some pieces performed from memory.

2.2. Demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills by playing in large and small ensembles, both one on a part and with others.

TN.3.0. Music (Class Piano): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate improvisation skills by performing an improvised solo using tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant chords; and in a variety of styles.

3.2. Improvise a keyboard solo utilizing rhythmic and/or melodic variations based on both pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

TN.4.0. Music (Class Piano): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short keyboard pieces.

4.2. Employ technology, where possible, to diminish notational limitations and expand the creative possibilities for composition.

4.3. Arrange selected vocal or instrumental work for keyboard.

TN.5.0. Music (Class Piano): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read a piano score by identifying and defining standard notational symbols.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to sight-read by accurately performing selected music, hands together for a variety of music.

5.3. Employ standard notation to record musical ideas.

TN.6.0. Music (Class Piano): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe keyboard music.

6.1. Analyze a varied repertoire of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and twentieth-century music by describing the uses of the elements of music and the formal design.

6.2. Analyze and evaluate the uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, significant, interesting, and expressive.

TN.7.0. Music (Class Piano): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Employ specific student/teacher evolved criteria to critically evaluate compositions, arrangements, performances of others, and personal performances.

7.2. Evaluate performance of others and personal performances in terms of aesthetic qualities, and explain the musical means these performances utilize to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Class Piano): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Appraise and evaluate how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in the various arts.

8.2. Compare and contrast the ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts interrelate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Class Piano): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Organize aural examples of keyboard music by genre, style, historical period, and/or culture.

9.2. Distinguish keyboard genres, their origins, and the pianists/composers associated with them.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of script writing.

1.2. Examine life experiences and develop imaginary situations.

1.3. Demonstrate understanding of people, life, and story elements.

1.4. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.5. Explore dramatic situations through the creation of scripts.

1.6. Utilize language to express meaning, character, and subtext.

1.7. Utilize technical theatre elements in script writing.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

2.1. Use sensory perception to enact multi-faceted characters, recognizing individual differences.

2.2. Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer, recognizing individual differences.

2.3. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.4. Use characters to develop situations and environments through individual and ensemble work.

2.5. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.6. Develop skills of analysis in acting.

2.7. Identify and use vocal techniques to portray thought, feeling, and character as an integral element of theatre production.

2.8. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

2.9. Explore characterization through the use of various styles of acting.

2.10. Examine technical theatre elements to enhance characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.1. Understand processes, techniques, terminology and materials of technical theatre and theatre management.

3.2. Develop a positive sense of self through theatrical collaboration.

3.3. Understand and analyze theatre management positions.

3.4. Understand and analyze theatre design positions.

3.5. Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a profession and as an avocation.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing formal and informal productions.

4.3. Explore solutions to acting, technical theatre, and theatre production problems and evaluate consequences and implications.

4.4. Understand the principles of stage movement as an integral element of theatre production.

4.5. Analyze a dramatic text to determine appropriate production values.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

5.1. Understand, compare, and contrast various genres and periods of dramatic literature.

5.2. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society in the development of theatre.

5.3. Examine historical motifs and themes of theatre.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.1. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.2. Integrate the knowledge of other traditional arts into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of non-traditional new and emerging technological art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.4. Understand elements of various arts forms.

6.5. Explore technical theatre as a means of integrating traditional and non-traditional art forms.

6.6. Achieve ensemble in performance works.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, critique, and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences as an effort to interpret, intensify and ennoble human experience.

7.2. Expand the depth and scope of aesthetic judgment by experiencing informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions and theatre of diverse styles, periods, and genres.

7.3. Understand the role of the audience in creating a theatrical experience.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.

8.1. Understand dramatic conventions and theatre genres throughout history.

8.2. Discover and explore historical motifs and themes.

8.3. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media on society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium.

1.2. Produce visual art that exhibits a communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Analyze, synthesize and evaluate the application of media, techniques and processes used to solve visual art problems.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and design principles.

2.2. Analyze and critique organizational components and expressive qualities of artworks.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection of content in works of art.

3.2. Evaluate meaningful images that reflect personal experiences and environments.

3.3. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.4. Research and create a series of related works in a particular subject matter.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of how historical and contemporary works of art reflect and influence societies and cultures.

4.2. Interpret the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures.

4.3. Demonstrate how history and culture influence the production of art

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Assess visual artworks and their meanings by using a variety of criteria and techniques.

5.2. Reflect on and evaluate artworks in order to understand various interpretations.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Integrate ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts with other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Visual Art History: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the unique properties and potential of art materials and media.

1.2. Research types of media, techniques, and processes used in select works and/or by select artists.

TN.2.0. Visual Art History: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and principles of design.

2.2. Investigate how the function and the materials of a form influence its structure, shape or appearance.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

TN.3.0. Visual Art History: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.2. Research the choices of subject, themes, and symbols used by artists.

TN.4.0. Visual Art History: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which history and culture influence the production of art.

4.2. Research, analyze, and explain how visual art reflects and influences societies and cultures.

TN.5.0. Visual Art History: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Research and critique visual artworks and their meanings by using an art criticism model such as description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.

5.2. Reflect analytically on various interpretations for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.

TN.6.0. Visual Art History: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Examine ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts and other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

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

1.2. Demonstrate rhythmic acuity and musicality.

1.3. Refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

1.4. Analyze dance movement according to the basic elements of dance (space, shape, time, and energy).

1.5. Identify and understand the basic elements of dance production.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Use sensory information to generate movement through improvisation.

2.2. Examine movement studies as related to the principles of choreography.

2.3. Analyze solo or group movement studies.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Understand that dance heightens self-awareness and communicates concepts.

3.2. Demonstrate how various senses change perception and communication.

3.3. Communicate meaning through projecting.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism and Analysis - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Solve a variety of movement problems.

4.2. Discuss a variety of dance interpretations and the basis for these interpretations.

4.3. Understand the reasons for artistic decisions and the effects of those decisions.

4.4. Understand how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical Contexts - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Recognize the diversity of dance expression throughout the world.

5.2. Understand that dance is central to human experience and has its roots in ritual and communal expression.

5.3. Understand the similarities and differences among classical, theatrical, and contemporary forms of dance.

5.4. Understand how dance and dancers are portrayed in contemporary media.

5.5. Explore the significance of dance in different social/historical/cultural/political contexts.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how healthful/unhealthful living choices affect the dancer.

6.2. Recognize differences in historical and cultural images of the body.

6.3. Employ basic principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Understand how the same idea can be expressed in dance and other art forms.

7.2. Examine how technology can be used in the field of dance.

7.3. Articulate principles of other academic areas as they occur in dance.

TN.1.0. Music (General): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone with expression and technical accuracy.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble with expression and technical accuracy.

TN.2.0. Music (General): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to perform instrumental music alone with expression and technical accuracy.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

TN.3.0. Music (General): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise melodies.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise accompaniments.

TN.4.0. Music (General): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in composition.

4.2. Demonstrate how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety in arranging music

TN.5.0. Music (General): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, and symbols of musical expression.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony and symbols of musical expression.

TN.6.0. Music (General): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

6.3. Compare compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release between two similar musical works.

TN.7.0. Music (General): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music compositions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of performances.

TN.8.0. Music (General): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period, and style.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences and uses of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (General): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods.

9.2. Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

9.3. Examine the evolution of American musical genres.

TN.1.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music through singing selected musical examples, rhythmic patterns, tuning notes in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of harmony through singing chorales and selected examples up to four (4) parts in complexity.

TN.2.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate that tone production includes the continuing development and understanding of the characteristic qualities of sound, and is able to measure the mastery level for the maturity and control of the characteristic sound.

2.2. Employ the techniques of sight-reading and performance on musical works from many compositional periods, such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, and the 20th century, with characteristic interpretive elements.

2.3. Demonstrate that technique includes the proper development and understanding of correct posture, hand position, fingering, wind articulation and percussion sticking as well as demonstrate facility in all scales and rudiments.

2.4. Employ the symbols of dynamic control and demonstrate the nuances of phrase shaping; assess appropriate ways to interpret the expressive qualities of music, developing these nuances through dynamic control, tempo variation, and phrase shaping.

2.5. Differentiate between correct and incorrect pitch and distinguish the listening responsibilities within an ensemble as an individual performer, employing these responsibilities to perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature that encompasses all levels of difficulty on a scale of 1-6.

TN.3.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Through a traditional ensemble, create a rhythmic or melodic improvised solo over a given chord progression.

3.2. Through the medium of jazz, create an improvised stylistically correct solo on original melodies over a given chord progression, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

TN.4.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose music demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

4.2. Arrange music for his/her performing medium.

TN.5.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Apply and evaluate notated musical concepts in order to sight-read accurately and expressively, music encompassing all difficulty levels on a scale of 1-6.

5.2. Analyze and perform nonstandard notational symbols used by some 20th century composers.

TN.6.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.2. Explain, analyze, and describe the use of compositional devices and techniques in a given work that make it unique, interesting and expressive, and give examples of other works that make similar use of those devices and techniques.

TN.7.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Develop criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions, and assess and appraise the aesthetic qualities of various musical genres, explaining the musical means and devices these works use to evoke feelings and emotions.

7.2. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate to the style of the music and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

TN.8.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in similar and distinctive ways in various arts and distinguish how these elements are utilized throughout different historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Instrumental Music): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast various music genres and their historical backgrounds, and appraise the historical contribution or significance of a given musical work.

9.2. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and assess the cultural significance of that composition.

TN.1.0. Music (Music History): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

1.2. Demonstrate through singing selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.2.0. Music (Music History): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of ensemble literature from ancient to modern times.

2.2. Demonstrate through instrumental performance selected musical examples of solo literature from ancient to modern times.

TN.3.0. Music (Music History): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate vocal improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

3.2. Demonstrate instrumental improvisational techniques in creating melodies, variations and accompaniments within appropriate historical contexts.

TN.4.0. Music (Music History): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

4.2. Arrange simple examples that demonstrate an understanding of musical styles from ancient to modern times.

TN.5.0. Music (Music History): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate basic skill in reading standard and non-standard notation in selected musical examples from ancient to modern times.

5.2. Demonstrate basic skill in notating music to include standard and non-standard notation.

TN.6.0. Music (Music History): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze musical examples from various historical periods.

6.2. Distinguish through aural techniques the appropriate historical period for a given musical excerpt.

TN.7.0. Music (Music History): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Evaluate musical works based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

7.2. Evaluate musical performances based on the musical characteristics of each historical period.

TN.8.0. Music (Music History): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture) are used in the arts within various historical periods.

8.2. Compare ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.3. Assess the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.4. Examine the role of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Music History): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Compare and contrast selected literature by genre or style and historical periods or cultures.

9.2. Appraise the historical and /or cultural significance of a given musical work.

TN.1.0. Music (Music Theory): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Sing diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

1.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.2.0. Music (Music Theory): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Play diverse musical examples alone with an emphasis on technical accuracy and analysis.

2.2. Demonstrate appropriate ensemble skills.

TN.3.0. Music (Music Theory): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise original melodies over I - IV - V chord progressions.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise variations in a variety of styles.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise harmonizing parts and rhythmic variations for melodies based on pentatonic, major or minor scales.

TN.4.0. Music (Music Theory): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Demonstrate their knowledge of the expressive effect of the elements of music through composing and arranging.

4.2. Demonstrate knowledge of practical vocal and instrumental ranges through composing and arranging.

4.3. Demonstrate the aural and notational acuity necessary to write compositions and arrangements.

TN.5.0. Music (Music Theory): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read standard notation in all clefs.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze music using Roman numeral analysis employing triads and tetrads in all inversions.

5.3. Demonstrate knowledge of major and minor mode.

5.4. Demonstrate the ability to interpret the use of the elements of music in instrumental and vocal scores.

5.5. Demonstrate the ability to transcribe simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns from sound.

TN.6.0. Music (Music Theory): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of compositional devices and techniques used in a given aural example of music by describing specific events such as ostinato, imitation, or modulation.

6.2. Demonstrate the ability to classify works of the same genre or style that use the same or differing compositional techniques.

6.3. Demonstrate the principles of voice leading, chord voicing and doubling, non-harmonic tone use in melody, and figured bass analysis in the 18th century style of four-part writing.

TN.7.0. Music (Music Theory): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate musical works and performances in terms of their aesthetic qualities.

7.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish the musical means used to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Music Theory): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Illustrate the similarities and distinctive characteristics of various arts from different historical periods or cultures.

8.2. Examine the roles of the people involved in the various arts.

8.3. Appraise the role and importance of music and the other arts in fully developing the mind and completing one's education.

TN.9.0. Music (Music Theory): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish music genres or styles influenced by more than one culture, identify the cultural influences, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis.

9.2. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish stylistic features that define the aesthetic tradition and historical or cultural context of a musical work.

9.3. Examine the importance of music in the cultural development of a people.

TN.1.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate expression and technical accuracy in a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 6 on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory.

1.2. Demonstrate the fundamentals of correct vocal production.

1.3. Demonstrate diction appropriate to the style of selected literature.

1.4. Demonstrate ensemble skills by singing in small ensembles.

TN.2.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Use melodic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

2.2. Use rhythmic instruments to enhance choral compositions, when appropriate.

TN.3.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a melodic passage.

3.2. Demonstrate the ability to improvise a variation.

3.3. Demonstrate the ability to improvise an accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose vocal and/or instrumental descants, obbligati and/or ostinati.

4.2. Compose vocal warm-ups.

4.3. Combine a group of pieces into a medley.

TN.5.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read/sing an assigned vocal part (both rhythm and pitch) from choral music with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.2. Interpret terms, signs and musical symbols necessary for performing a choral music score.

5.3. Sight-read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 4 or above, on a scale of 1 to 6.

5.4. Demonstrate ability to notate vocal parts using standard symbols, signs, and formats.

5.5. Interpret non-standard notation in choral music.

TN.6.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.1. Analyze rehearsal and performance literature to identify the uses of musical elements, forms, expressive devices and compositional techniques.

6.2. Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a recorded work that make it unique, interesting and expressive.

6.3. Compare and contrast ways in which musical materials are used in works of the same genre or style.

6.4. Listen to a variety of musical styles and genres.

TN.7.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate personal participation in a choral performance.

7.2. Use specific student/teacher developed criteria to evaluate choral performances as compared to similar or exemplary models.

7.3. Evaluate a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means used by the composer to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Recognize how elements (i.e. color, balance, texture, form, movement, etc.) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts.

8.2. Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style.

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

8.4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in creating, producing and listening to music.

8.5. Demonstrate an understanding of the many presences of music in today's environment.

TN.9.0. Music (Vocal/Choral): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Classify selected choral literature by genre or style and historical period or culture.

9.2. Contrast various American music genres and their origins.

9.3. Distinguish the stylistic features of a given choral work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.

TN.1.0. Music (Class Piano): Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of vocal technique by echoing rhythmic and melodic patterns, singing chord root movements, and singing major/minor chords and scales in a prepared plan to improve reading, improvising, and composing skills.

1.2. Employ proper vocal technique to sing familiar songs at the keyboard with accompaniment patterns learned for general use.

TN.2.0. Music (Class Piano): Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Utilizing correct posture, hand position and appropriate fingering choices the student will:

2.1. Demonstrate with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of piano literature on a scale of 1 to 6 with some pieces performed from memory.

2.2. Demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills by playing in large and small ensembles, both one on a part and with others.

TN.3.0. Music (Class Piano): Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Demonstrate improvisation skills by performing an improvised solo using tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant chords; and in a variety of styles.

3.2. Improvise a keyboard solo utilizing rhythmic and/or melodic variations based on both pentatonic melodies and melodies in major and minor keys.

TN.4.0. Music (Class Piano): Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose short keyboard pieces.

4.2. Employ technology, where possible, to diminish notational limitations and expand the creative possibilities for composition.

4.3. Arrange selected vocal or instrumental work for keyboard.

TN.5.0. Music (Class Piano): Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate the ability to read a piano score by identifying and defining standard notational symbols.

5.2. Demonstrate the ability to sight-read by accurately performing selected music, hands together for a variety of music.

5.3. Employ standard notation to record musical ideas.

TN.6.0. Music (Class Piano): Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe keyboard music.

6.1. Analyze a varied repertoire of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and twentieth-century music by describing the uses of the elements of music and the formal design.

6.2. Analyze and evaluate the uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, significant, interesting, and expressive.

TN.7.0. Music (Class Piano): Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Employ specific student/teacher evolved criteria to critically evaluate compositions, arrangements, performances of others, and personal performances.

7.2. Evaluate performance of others and personal performances in terms of aesthetic qualities, and explain the musical means these performances utilize to evoke feelings and emotions.

TN.8.0. Music (Class Piano): Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Appraise and evaluate how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in the various arts.

8.2. Compare and contrast the ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts interrelate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music (Class Piano): Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Organize aural examples of keyboard music by genre, style, historical period, and/or culture.

9.2. Distinguish keyboard genres, their origins, and the pianists/composers associated with them.

TN.1.0. Theatre: Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1. Understand the principles of script writing.

1.2. Examine life experiences and develop imaginary situations.

1.3. Demonstrate understanding of people, life, and story elements.

1.4. Participate in script writing by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems.

1.5. Explore dramatic situations through the creation of scripts.

1.6. Utilize language to express meaning, character, and subtext.

1.7. Utilize technical theatre elements in script writing.

TN.2.0. Theatre: Character Acting - Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

2.1. Use sensory perception to enact multi-faceted characters, recognizing individual differences.

2.2. Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer, recognizing individual differences.

2.3. Use imagination to form and to express thought, feeling, and character.

2.4. Use characters to develop situations and environments through individual and ensemble work.

2.5. Utilize improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

2.6. Develop skills of analysis in acting.

2.7. Identify and use vocal techniques to portray thought, feeling, and character as an integral element of theatre production.

2.8. Employ movement to express thought, feeling, and characterization.

2.9. Explore characterization through the use of various styles of acting.

2.10. Examine technical theatre elements to enhance characterization.

TN.3.0. Theatre: Scene Design - Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.1. Understand processes, techniques, terminology and materials of technical theatre and theatre management.

3.2. Develop a positive sense of self through theatrical collaboration.

3.3. Understand and analyze theatre management positions.

3.4. Understand and analyze theatre design positions.

3.5. Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a profession and as an avocation.

TN.4.0. Theatre: Directing - Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.

4.1. Understand the functions and responsibilities of the director.

4.2. Develop leadership and collaborative skills through directing formal and informal productions.

4.3. Explore solutions to acting, technical theatre, and theatre production problems and evaluate consequences and implications.

4.4. Understand the principles of stage movement as an integral element of theatre production.

4.5. Analyze a dramatic text to determine appropriate production values.

TN.5.0. Theatre: Research - Students will research by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

5.1. Understand, compare, and contrast various genres and periods of dramatic literature.

5.2. Discover and explore the contributions of people in a multi-cultural society in the development of theatre.

5.3. Examine historical motifs and themes of theatre.

TN.6.0. Theatre: Theatrical Presentation - Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.1. Examine dramatic productions as a synthesis of all the arts.

6.2. Integrate the knowledge of other traditional arts into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.3. Integrate the knowledge of non-traditional new and emerging technological art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

6.4. Understand elements of various arts forms.

6.5. Explore technical theatre as a means of integrating traditional and non-traditional art forms.

6.6. Achieve ensemble in performance works.

TN.7.0. Theatre: Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, critique, and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.1. Respond to a variety of theatrical experiences as an effort to interpret, intensify and ennoble human experience.

7.2. Expand the depth and scope of aesthetic judgment by experiencing informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions and theatre of diverse styles, periods, and genres.

7.3. Understand the role of the audience in creating a theatrical experience.

TN.8.0. Theatre: Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.

8.1. Understand dramatic conventions and theatre genres throughout history.

8.2. Discover and explore historical motifs and themes.

8.3. Understand the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media on society throughout history.

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate the use of knowledge and technical skills in at least one specific medium.

1.2. Produce visual art that exhibits a communication of ideas through the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

1.3. Analyze, synthesize and evaluate the application of media, techniques and processes used to solve visual art problems.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and design principles.

2.2. Analyze and critique organizational components and expressive qualities of artworks.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

2.4. Apply problem-solving skills to create solutions to specific visual art tasks.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Demonstrate critical thinking in the selection of content in works of art.

3.2. Evaluate meaningful images that reflect personal experiences and environments.

3.3. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.4. Research and create a series of related works in a particular subject matter.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of how historical and contemporary works of art reflect and influence societies and cultures.

4.2. Interpret the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures.

4.3. Demonstrate how history and culture influence the production of art

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Assess visual artworks and their meanings by using a variety of criteria and techniques.

5.2. Reflect on and evaluate artworks in order to understand various interpretations.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Integrate ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts with other subject areas.

TN.1.0. Visual Art History: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the unique properties and potential of art materials and media.

1.2. Research types of media, techniques, and processes used in select works and/or by select artists.

TN.2.0. Visual Art History: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of both structures and functions.

2.1. Demonstrate an understanding of art elements and principles of design.

2.2. Investigate how the function and the materials of a form influence its structure, shape or appearance.

2.3. Evaluate the function of artworks as to utilitarian or intrinsic purposes.

TN.3.0. Visual Art History: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Analyze and interpret symbols and their origins.

3.2. Research the choices of subject, themes, and symbols used by artists.

TN.4.0. Visual Art History: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which history and culture influence the production of art.

4.2. Research, analyze, and explain how visual art reflects and influences societies and cultures.

TN.5.0. Visual Art History: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Research and critique visual artworks and their meanings by using an art criticism model such as description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.

5.2. Reflect analytically on various interpretations for understanding and evaluating works of visual art.

TN.6.0. Visual Art History: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine the materials, technologies, processes, and terminology used in the visual and performing arts.

6.2. Examine ideas, issues, and themes in the visual arts and other subject areas.