West Virginia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 12

WV.VA.S.1. General Art I: Media, Techniques, and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials, tools and technology in a safe and responsible manner.

VAI.1.1. Students will distinguish among a variety of two-dimensional media, techniques and processes.

VAI.1.2. Students will distinguish among a variety of three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.

VAI.1.3. Students will create two- dimensional artworks using various media, techniques, and processes in a safe and responsible manner, to communicate original and personal ideas.

VAI.1.4. Students will create three-dimensional artworks using various media, techniques, and processes in a safe and responsible manner, to communicate original and personal ideas.

WV.VA.S.2. General Art I: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

VAI.2.1. Students will identify similarities and differences in two- and three-dimensional visual art based on the elements of art and principles of design.

VAI.2.2. Students will analyze structures and functions of two-and three- dimensional artworks.

VAI.2.3. Students will create two- and three-dimensional artworks based on elements of art and principles of design using appropriate media, processes, and techniques to solve assigned problems.

VAI.2.4. Students will critique artworks showing an understanding of elements of art and principles of design.

WV.VA.S.3. General Art I: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for artworks; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

VAI.3.1. Students will research how past and current cultures have used content and symbolism to express ideas in their artwork.

VAI.3.2. Students will use subjects, themes, and symbols to communicate intended meaning in artwork.

VAI.3.3. Students will use problem-solving skills in the creative process of choosing subjects, symbols, and ideas.

WV.VA.S.4. General Art I: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate the understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

VAI.4.1. Students will explain the historical and cultural backgrounds for the media in their artwork.

VAI.4.2. Students will analyze different styles and time periods in art.

VAI.4.3. Students will research the relationship of artworks to one another in terms of their history and culture.

WV.VA.S.5. General Art I: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

VAI.5.1. Students will use a critical process in discussing works of art.

VAI.5.2. Students will analyze and discuss how and why specific works were created.

VAI.5.3. Students will use a criteria for evaluating their own work and the work of various periods and different cultures

WV.VA.S.6. General Art I: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

VAI.6.1. Students will compare and connect the creative processes used in visual arts to other subject areas.

VAI.6.2. Students will research and analyze another subject area to identify similarities and differences in comparison with the discipline of art.

WV.VA.S.1. General Art II: Media, Techniques and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

VAII.1.1. Students will select appropriate techniques and processes for a variety of two-dimensional media.

VAII.1.2. Students will select appropriate techniques and processes for a variety of three-dimensional media.

VAII.1.3. Students will create two-dimensional artworks to communicate ideas and expressive qualities.

VAII.1.4. Students will create three-dimensional artworks to communicate ideas and explore expressive qualities.

VAII.1.5. Students will use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

WV.VA.S.2. General Art II: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

VAII.2.1. Students will formulate and express personal judgments about the effectiveness of using the elements of art and principles of design to accomplish specific purposes of art.

VAII.2.2. Students will analyze and compare the use of the elements and principles of design in works of art.

VAII.2.3. Students will use a variety of critical methods to evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions.

VAII.2.4. Students will create works of art that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific art problems.

WV.VA.S.3. General Art II: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for artworks; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

VAII.3.1. Students will reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, intellectually, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture.

VAII.3.2. Students will apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks.

VAII.3.3. Students will recognize how creative problem-solving and analogical thinking can be applied to their daily lives.

WV.VA.S.4. General Art II: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

VAII.4.1. Students will explain historical or cultural contexts of artworks through characteristics and purposes.

VAII.4.2. Students will explain the meaning and style of specific art objects within various cultures, times and places.

VAII.4.3. Students will analyze their own artwork in terms of the relationship to history, aesthetics, and culture.

WV.VA.S.5. General Art II: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

VAII.5.1. Students will analyze and justify the artists' motivations for creating artworks.

VAII.5.2. Students will identify purposes and develop a criterion for creating and maintaining personal portfolios.

VAII.5.3. Students will analyze and evaluate different genres of artwork emphasizing cultural viewpoints.

VAII.5.4. Students will use a critical process to draw comparisons of artwork.

WV.VA.S.6. General Art II: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

VAII.6.1. Students will select and compare artwork using specific historical issues or themes to other subject areas.

VAII.6.2. Students will apply creative problem solving techniques to a multi-disciplinary artwork.

WV.VA.S.1. General Art III: Media, Techniques and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

VAIII.1.1. Students will use advanced techniques and processes in a safe and responsible manner to create two-dimensional artworks in a variety of media.

VAIII.1.2. Students will use advanced techniques and processes safe and responsible manner to create three-dimensional in a variety of media.

VAIII.1.3. Students will create and prepare two- and three-dimensional works for inclusion in an exhibition and/or portfolio.

WV.VA.S.2. General Art III: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

VAIII.2.1. Students will categorize artworks from different cultures and viewpoints in terms of elements of art and principles of design.

VAIII.2.2. Students will create multiple solutions through preliminary work to assigned problems in structures and functions.

WV.VA.S.3. General Art III: Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for artworks; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols and ideas.

VAIII.3.1. Students will evaluate symbolism used in the works of various artists.

VAIII.3.2. Students will develop specific themes and ideas in relation to life experiences and/or perceptions when creating their artwork.

WV.VA.S.4. General Art III: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

VAIII.4.1. Students will define themes common to various cultures and analyze how they relate to the creation of art.

VAIII.4.2. Students will create works of art that reflect common themes in various cultures.

WV.VA.S.5. General Art III: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

VAIII.5.1. Students will describe various functions of art.

VAIII.5.2. Students will investigate aesthetics to understand multiple meanings in art.

VAIII.5.3. Students will analyze their own artwork and other artists' work by participating in a critique.

WV.VA.S.6. General Art III: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

VAIII.6.1. Students will recognize examples of art used in other disciplines.

VAIII.6.2. Students will compare and contrast the materials, technologies, media and processes of the visual arts with those of other disciplines.

WV.VA.S.1. General Art IV: Media, Techniques, and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

VAIV.1.1. Students will apply advanced techniques in a safe and responsible manner to communicate ideas effectively in two-dimensional media.

VAIV.1.2. Students will apply advanced techniques in a safe and responsible manner to communicate ideas through three-dimensional media.

VAIV.1.3. Students will organize works for portfolio and exhibition.

WV.VA.S.2. General Art IV: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they relate to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structure and functions in art.

VAIV.2.1. Students will appraise viewpoints written about famous artworks in terms of elements and principles of design.

VAIV.2.2. Students will use multiple solutions to communicate expressive ideas in artwork, which demonstrate structures and functions.

WV.VA.S.3. General Art IV: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for artworks; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

VAIV.3.1. Students will analyze how specific artists have used subject matter and symbols in their work.

VAIV.3.2. Students will evaluate of the influences other artists have had on their work.

VAIV.3.3. Students will use problem-solving skills to develop specific themes and ideas in the creation of artwork.

WV.VA.S.4. General Art IV: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

VAIV.4.1. Students will use critical models to interpret the meaning of artworks across time and various cultures.

VAIV.4.2. Students will analyze aesthetic viewpoints revealed in a variety of artworks.

WV.VA.S.5. General Art IV: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historical meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

VAIV.5.1. Students will analyze their own and other artists' work to prepare oral and/or written critiques.

VAIV.5.2. Students will compare and contrast the work of critics, historians, aestheticians and artists.

VAIV.5.3. Students will review and analyze the content of portfolios or exhibits in terms of ideas, attitudes, reflective critiques, and statement of intent.

VAIV.5.4. Students will write a personal statement of art for inclusion in their portfolio.

WV.VA.S.6. General Art IV: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

VAIV.6.1. Students will compare and contrast the materials, technologies, media and processes of the visual arts with those of other disciplines.

WV.VA.S.1. Studio Art I: Media, Techniques and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

SAI.1.1. Students will apply media, techniques, and processes related to the studio area with proficiency, skill, and confidence.

SAI.1.2. Students will use media techniques and processes safely.

SAI.1.3. Students will create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use.

SAI.1.4. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the terminology related to the media and processes.

WV.VA.S.2. Studio Art I: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

SAI.2.1. Students will analyze and compare artworks in relationship to elements of art and principles of design in oral and/or written critiques.

SAI.2.2. Students will create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve a specific visual arts problem.

SAI.2.3. Students will apply multiple solutions to a specific visual arts problem in terms of organizational structures and functions.

WV.VA.S.3. Studio Art I: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for artworks; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

SAI.3.1. Students will produce artworks relating to personal subjects and ideas.

SAI.3.2. Students will research specific images and ideas of past and present cultures.

SAI.3.3. Students will explain the value of historical ideas and images in personal artwork and the work of others.

SAI.3.4. Students will integrate symbols and ideas related to contemporary society in their artwork.

WV.VA.S.4. Studio Art I: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

SAI.4.1. Students will identify intentions of those creating artworks and discuss the meanings, functions, and uses of specific art objects from various cultures.

SAI.4.2. Students will describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts.

SAI.4.3. Students will research, evaluate, and report the relationships of artworks to one another in terms of history, aesthetics and culture.

WV.VA.S.5. Studio Art I: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

SAI.5.1. Students will use a critical process to analyze artworks in the context of structures and functions.

SAI.5.2. Students will reflect on and state the historical, cultural, religious, and political influences on specific artworks.

WV.VA.S.6. Studio Art I: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

SAI.6.1. Students will compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other creative discipline.

SAI.6.2. Students will analyze connections between a given historical period or style in the art media with the scientific or cultural ideas, issues, or themes of the time.

WV.VA.S.1. Studio Art II: Media, Techniques, and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

SAII.1.1. Students will produce a significant body of work using advanced media techniques and processes confidently and in a safe and responsible manner.

SAII.1.2. Students will communicate intellectual ideas effectively through the application of problem-solving skills.

SAII.1.3. Students will create and select work for inclusion in an exhibition/portfolio.

WV.VA.S.2. Studio Art II: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

SAII.2.1. Students will compare and contrast artworks from different viewpoints or cultures in terms of elements and principles of design.

SAII.2.2. Students will formulate multiple solutions using preliminary drafts in the process of solving assigned problems or independent projects.

SAII.2.3. Students will appraise the significance of the elements of art, principles of design, structures, and functions in overall compositional unity of their work.

WV.VA.S.3. Studio Art II: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for art works; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols and ideas.

SAII.3.1. Students will select symbols and ideas as content for artwork.

SAII.3.2. Students will differentiate specific themes or ideas in terms of aesthetics.

WV.VA.S.4. Studio Art II: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

SAII.4.1. Students will analyze art media in various cultures to identify common themes or motifs.

SAII.4.2. Students will determine how history and culture affects art criticism and aesthetics.

WV.VA.S.5. Studio Art II: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

SAII.5.1. Students will develop oral and written critiques of their own and other artists' works.

SAII.5.2. Students will compile multi-level portfolio materials and projects which may include reflective writing, journals, drafts, self-critiques, and an artist's statement.

WV.VA.S.6. Studio Art II: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

SAII.6.1. Students will incorporate another discipline(s) into their artwork.

WV.VA.S.1. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Media, Techniques and Processes: Students will identify media and materials used in creating art; understand processes and techniques in creating art; apply problem-solving skills in creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art; and use materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

AH.1.1. Students will identify and describe various styles, techniques, and media in works of art.

AH.1.2. Students will use in a safe and responsible manner, media, techniques and processes in relation to artwork studied.

AH.1.3. Students will examine and classify media and processes of artists throughout history.

WV.VA.S.2. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Elements of Art and Principles of Design: Students will identify selected elements of art and principles of design as they relate to art and the environment; understand qualities of elements of art and principles of design as they apply to two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and artworks; apply elements of art and principles of design as they relate to the problem-solving skills in the creation of art; and Communicate expressive ideas that demonstrate an understanding of structures and functions in art.

AH.2.1. Students will recognize the elements of art and principles of design used across the cultures and time periods.

AH.2.2. Students will integrate the elements of art and principles of design to two- and three-dimensional art across cultures and time periods.

AH.2.3. Students will collect information concerning a variety of artists' applications of applying the elements of art and principles of design.

AH.2.4. Students will point out how the structures and functions of art are communicated in various cultures throughout history.

WV.VA.S.3. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas: Students will identify symbols and ideas to communicate meaning in art; determine potential content for art works; and apply problem-solving skills to choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

AH.3.1. Students will identify and compare cultural and multi-cultural influences on art.

AH.3.2. Students will recognize symbols, issues, and themes related to artworks of varied time periods and cultures.

AH.3.3. Students will compare and contrast aesthetic expression in terms of both form and content.

AH.3.4. Students will explain the process of how artists find subject matter, and ideas in creating art.

WV.VA.S.4. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Art History and Diversity: Students will identify how the visual arts have a history and specific relationship to culture; analyze works of art that reflect different styles and time periods; and demonstrate an understanding of how history, culture, and the arts influence each other.

AH.4.1. Students will analyze the historical influences on contemporary art.

AH.4.2. Students will research and apply styles and periods of art through products or presentations.

AH.4.3. Students will explain that artistic forms are often indicators of social/religious beliefs.

WV.VA.S.5. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Reflection and Analysis: Students will identify multiple purposes for creating works of art; analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry; and describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures.

AH.5.1. Students will analyze the purposes and resulting effects of criticism in a variety of written or oral forms.

AH.5.2. Students will compare artists, styles, techniques, and their influences within a given time period using a critical process.

AH.5.3. Students will develop criteria for critiques about artists, styles, movements, aesthetics and concepts.

WV.VA.S.6. Art History, Appreciation, Aesthetics: Multi-disciplinary Connections: Students will identify characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines; and analyze by comparing and contrasting connections between disciplines.

AH.6.1. Students will explore art history and its relationships to other disciplines.

WV.D.S.1. Dance I: Communication: Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D1.1.1. Students will observe and experiment through movement how personal experience influences the individual interpretation of a concept.

D1.1.2. Students will explore, improvise and communicate abstract ideas through movement.

D1.1.3. Students will explore and communicate the distinguishing moment when movement becomes dance (when movement takes on purpose and intent it becomes dance).

D1.1.4. Students will improvise a movement phrase that effectively communicates a contemporary social theme (e.g., homelessness, relationships, peer pressure).

WV.D.S.2. Dance I: Movement, Elements and Skills: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D1.2.1. Students will identify, practice and review appropriate alignment, strength, flexibility, agility and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movements.

D1.2.2. Students will identify and practice steps and patterns from two different dance styles/traditions.

D1.2.3. Students will develop rhythmic acuity.

D1.2.4. Students will introduce and demonstrate the various movement elements (e.g., swinging, sustained, percussive).

D1.2.5. Students will perform combinations and variations of dance elements in a broad dynamic range (e.g., Forceful, lyrical).

D1.2.6. Students will develop an awareness of the importance of projection and apply to dance performances.

D1.2.7. Students will practice extended movement sequences.

WV.D.S.3. Dance I: Healthful Living: Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

D1.3.1. Students will develop and write personal health goals relating to the study of dance.

D1.3.2. Students will identify how lifestyle choices affect the dancer.

D1.3.3. Students will research historical and cultural perception of body image as it relates to dance.

WV.D.S.4. Dance I: Cultures and Historical Periods: Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D1.4.1. Students will explore and discuss similarities and differences between two or more culturally diverse forms of dance.

D1.4.2. Students will define the traditions and techniques of classical and theatrical dance forms.

D1.4.3. Students will research and answer ten or more prepared questions about dance and dancers prior to the twentieth century.

D1.4.4. Students will research and discuss dance and dancers as perceived in contemporary media when compared to other time periods and cultures.

WV.D.S.5. Dance I: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D1.5.1. Students will create a series of mini-dance pieces and revise them over time.

D1.5.2. Students will establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating the student's work.

D1.5.3. Students will answer aesthetic questions (e.g., What did I see? What do I feel about what I saw? What questions do I have about what I saw?) in a group setting.

WV.D.S.6. Dance I: Choreography: Students will understand choreographic principles, processes and structures.

D1.6.1. Students will define and practice elements of choreography (e.g., levels, space, time and force).

D1.6.2. Students will define and practice structures and forms (e.g., palindrome, theme and variations, rondo, round, contemporary forms) through the creation of a movement phrase.

D1.6.3. Students will explore improvisation as a way to generate movement for choreography.

WV.D.S.7. Dance I: Connections with Other Disciplines: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D1.7.1. Students will create a group interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by the group including dance and two other disciplines.

D1.7.2. Students will discuss how technology can be used to reinforce, enhance or alter the dance idea in an interdisciplinary project.

WV.D.S.1. Dance II: Communication: Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D2.1.1. Students will demonstrate appropriate understanding of how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance.

D2.1.2. Students will use improvisation to structure and communicate abstract ideas.

D2.1.3. Students will formulate and answer questions about how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance.

D2.1.4. Students will in a small group, create a dance that effectively communicates a contemporary social theme.

WV.D.S.2. Dance II: Movement, Elements and Skills: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D2.2.1. Students will demonstrate appropriate skeletal alignment, isolation of body parts, strength, flexibility, agility and coordination in locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movements.

D2.2.2. Students will identify and demonstrate longer and more complex steps and patterns from two different dance styles/traditions.

D2.2.3. Students will demonstrate rhythmic precision.

D2.2.4. Students will create a dance phrase using the various movement elements.

D2.2.5. Students will create combinations and variations of dance elements in a broad dynamic range.

D2.2.6. Students will demonstrate projection while performing dance skills.

D2.2.7. Students will demonstrate the ability to remember extended movement sequences.

WV.D.S.3. Dance II: Healthful Living: Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

D2.3.1. Students will reflect upon the student's own progress and personal growth during the study of dance.

D2.3.2. Students will effectively communicate how lifestyle choices affect the dancer (e.g., role play, case study, skits.)

D2.3.3. Students will analyze historical and cultural images of the body in dance and compare these to images of the body in contemporary media.

WV.D.S.4. Dance II: Cultures and Historical Periods: Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D2.4.1. Students will perform and describe similarities and differences between two or more culturally diverse forms of dance.

D2.4.2. Students will explore and discuss the traditions and techniques of classical and theatrical dance forms.

D2.4.3. Students will create and answer twenty-five questions about dance and dancers prior to the twentieth century.

D2.4.4. Students will analyze how dance and dancers are perceived in contemporary media when compared to other time periods and cultures.

WV.D.S.5. Dance II: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D2.5.1. Students will create a dance and revise it over time, explaining the revisions and their impact on the final product.

D2.5.2. Students will review and apply aesthetic criteria in evaluating the student's own work and the work of others in a positive and constructive manner.

D2.5.3. Students will formulate and answer aesthetic questions (e.g., What particular characteristics distinguish the identify of a specific dance? How much can one change a dance before it becomes a different dance?).

WV.D.S.6. Dance II: Choreography: Students will understand choreographic principles, processes and structures.

D2.6.1. Students will perform a brief dance phrase containing three to five elements of choreography.

D2.6.2. Students will perform a brief dance phrase using at least two structures or forms chosen from palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, contemporary forms, etc.

D2.6.3. Students will use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.

WV.D.S.7. Dance II: Connections with Other Disciplines: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D2.7.1. Students will create an interdisciplinary project based on a theme identified by the student, including dance and two other disciplines.

D2.7.2. Students will demonstrate how technology can be used to reinforce, enhance or alter the dance idea in an interdisciplinary project.

D2.7.3. Students will identify and discuss commonalities and differences between dance and other disciplines with regard to fundamental concepts such as materials, elements and ways of communicating meaning.

WV.D.S.1. Dance III: Communication: Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D3.1.1. Students will compare and contrast how meaning is communicated in the student's previously created dances.

D3.1.2. Students will observe and research ways that a dance creates and conveys meaning by considering the dance from a variety of perspectives.

D3.1.3. Students will create an individual dance conveying a personal idea, belief or theme.

WV.D.S.2. Dance III: Movement, Elements and Skills: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D3.2.1. Students will review and practice consistency and reliability in performing technical skills.

D3.2.2. Students will review, identify and practice technical skills with expression, demonstrating clarity, musicality and stylistic nuance.

D3.2.3. Students will self assess and correct techniques through extensive rehearsals.

WV.D.S.3. Dance III: Healthful Living: Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

D3.3.1. Students will research and discuss the challenges facing performers in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

WV.D.S.4. Dance III: Cultures and Historical Periods: Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D3.4.1. Students will research and create a time line illustrating important dance events prior to the twentieth century, placing them in their social and historical contexts.

D3.4.2. Students will perform a dance that displays the traditions and techniques of a specific culture or historical period.

D3.4.3. Students will compare and contrast the role and significance of dance in two different social/historical/cultural political contexts.

WV.D.S.5. Dance III: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D3.5.1. Students will discuss and research how skills developed in dance are applicable to a variety of careers (e.g., sports, modeling, secretary, therapist).

D3.5.2. Students will research and analyze the styles of several choreographers or dance companies.

D3.5.3. Students will research and discuss issues of ethnicity, gender, social/economic class, age and/or physical condition in relation to dance.

WV.D.S.6. Dance III: Choreography: Students will understand choreographic principles, processes and structures.

D3.6.1. Students will demonstrate refined skills in performing a small group dance with coherence and aesthetic unity.

D3.6.2. Students will research the creative process as discussed by recognized choreographers (e.g., video biographies, interviews).

WV.D.S.7. Dance III: Connections with Other Disciplines: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D3.7.1. Students will research one choreographic work and one other artwork from the same culture and time period and examine how those works reflect the artistic/cultural/historical context of the time period.

D3.7.2. Students will research an interdisciplinary project using media technologies that present dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video/computer-aided live performance or animation).

WV.D.S.1. Dance IV: Communication: Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D4.1.1. Students will create and perform a series of mini-dance studies that convey different meanings from a variety of perspectives.

WV.D.S.2. Dance IV: Movement, Elements and Skills: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D4.2.1. Students will demonstrate a high level of consistency and reliability in performing technical skills.

D4.2.2. Students will perform technical skills with expression, demonstrating clarity, musicality and stylistic nuance.

D4.2.3. Students will refine technique through self-evaluation and correction.

WV.D.S.3. Dance IV: Healthful Living: Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

D4.3.1. Students will research and analyze one professional performer's challenges in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

WV.D.S.4. Dance IV: Cultures and Historical Periods: Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D4.4.1. Students will research and create a time line illustrating important dance events in the twentieth century, placing them in their cultural and political contexts.

D4.4.2. Students will perform dances illustrating to different social/historical/cultural/political contexts.

WV.D.S.5. Dance IV: Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D4.5.1. Students will demonstrate and explain how skills developed in dance enhance present and future goals.

D4.5.2. Students will analyze the style of a choreographer or cultural form; create a dance in that style.

D4.5.3. Students will analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, social/economic class, age and/or physical condition in relation to dance.

WV.D.S.6. Dance IV: Choreography: Students will understand choreographic principles, processes and structures.

D4.6.1. Students will create in small groups a dance with coherence and aesthetic unity.

D4.6.2. Students will accurately describe the creative process used in choreographing the student's own movement sequence(s).

WV.D.S.7. Dance IV: Connections with Other Disciplines: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D4.7.1. Students will compare and contrast one choreographic work to one other artwork from the same culture and time period in terms of how those works reflect the artistic/cultural/historical context of that same period.

D4.7.2. Students will create an interdisciplinary project using media technologies that present dance in a new or enhanced form (e.g., video dance, video-aided live performance or animation).

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level I - Strings) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SI.1.1. Students will match pitches.

SI.1.2. Students will keep a steady beat and perform given rhythms accurately.

SI.1.3. Students will play with resonant tone.

SI.1.4. Students will play with correct standing/sitting position; left hand, wrist, and arm positions; and correct bow hold.

SI.1.5. Students will play from memory the major scales of D and G.

SI.1.6. Students will identify octaves played in tune.

SI.1.7. Students will play octaves.

SI.1.8. Students will play notated melodies in the styles of rounds and folk songs.

SI.1.9. Students will accurately echo play rhythmic and melodic patterns played by the teacher.

SI.1.10. Students will use detache bowing to play legato melodies.

SI.1.11. Students will differentiate pizzicato and arco playing.

SI.1.12. Students will play pizzicato and arco with good tone quality.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level I - Strings) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SI.2.1. Students will play melodies in the meters of 2, 3, and 4.

SI.2.2. Students will play melodies containing whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes, rests and ties.

SI.2.3. Students will read aloud a familiar melody from the staff using the correct note names.

SI.2.4. Students will interpret a repeat sign.

SI.2.5. Students will notate quarter notes and rests.

SI.2.6. Students will add barlines to an example containing none.

SI.2.7. Students will identify the rhythm pattern used in a tune played by the teacher.

SI.2.8. Students will identify the B section of a binary or ternary piece and the return of the A section in a ternary piece.

SI.2.9. Students will respond verbally, using correct names of notes, the staff, rhythms, clefs, and meter signatures when questioned about a line of music.

SI.2.10. Students will describe the tone quality of a violin, viola, 'cello or bass.

SI.2.11. Students will identify aurally which instrument is being played by the teacher or another student.

SI.2.12. Students will listen to exemplary models of instrumental performances.

SI.2.13. Students will distinguish between acceptable/unacceptable pizzicato and arco tone quality.

SI.2.14. Students will classify a piece as played in tune or out of tune after listening to a performance.

SI.2.15. Students will identify, aurally, the rhythms incorrectly played.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level I - Strings) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SI.3.1. Students will echo patterns as played by instructor.

SI.3.2. Students will create a response to a rhythmic pattern performed by the teacher.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level I - Strings) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SI.4.1. Students will relate note values to fractions in math.

SI.4.2. Students will listen to a performance of a folk song and discuss its historical and cultural background.

SI.4.3. Students will discuss and demonstrate concert etiquette.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Strings) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SII.1.1. Students will play legato melodies marked with two-note slurs.

SII.1.2. Students will play staccato passages.

SII.1.3. Students will play melodies using a resonant tone.

SII.1.4. Students will demonstrate good posture, playing position, and bow control.

SII.1.5. Students will play melodies in D and G major.

SII.1.6. Students will play from memory the major scales of D and G major.

SII.1.7. Students will participate in the performance of folk tunes from various cultures as well as the performance of simple marches.

SII.1.8. Students will play a simple, familiar melody by ear.

SII.1.9. Students will play a piece utilizing piano and forte.

SII.1.10. Students will sightread melodies observing appropriate dynamics.

SII.1.11. Students will perform duets and two- and three-part rounds.

SII.1.12. Students will interpret accents.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level II - Strings) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SII.2.1. Students will perform pieces containing whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted quarter notes and rests in meters of 2, 3 and 4.

SII.2.2. Students will sightread melodies in D and G major.

SII.2.3. Students will perform at sight unisons and octaves.

SII.2.4. Students will interpret the following: D.C. al Fine, D.S. al Fine, multiple endings.

SII.2.5. Students will add the meter signature to a written example without one.

SII.2.6. Students will differentiate between octaves, unisons, and fifths presented aurally.

SII.2.7. Students will evaluate a recorded performance.

SII.2.8. Students will evaluate their own performance of a melody.

SII.2.9. Students will distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate tone quality.

SII.2.10. Students will interpret melodies utilizing piano and forte.

SII.2.11. Students will play a melody in tempo andante, allegro and in tempo moderato.

SII.2.12. Students will identify forte when the teacher plays loudly and piano when the teacher plays softly.

SII.2.13. Students will label a piece of music with the following: name of clef, names of lines and spaces, note names, and note values.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level II - Strings) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SII.3.1. Students will create a response to a melodic pattern performed by the teacher.

SII.3.2. Students will play familiar melody by ear.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level II - Strings) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SII.4.1. Students will compile a list of how music is used each day, e.g., commercials, movie/TV themes, church music, and answer questions as to why music is used in everyday life.

SII.4.2. Students will discuss the principles of sound and pitch production on string instruments.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level III - Strings) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SIII.1.1. Students will play with extended finger positions in the first position.

SIII.1.2. Students will play melodies and scales in major keys of C, G and D.

SIII.1.3. Students will perform e, b, and a natural minor scales.

SIII.1.4. Students will play melodies marked with 3-note slurs.

SIII.1.5. Students will play intervals formed with one fingered and one open string. (Omit double bass.)

SIII.1.6. Students will play by ear to echo a simple melody played by the teacher.

SIII.1.7. Students will play slurred melodies incorporating string crossings.

SIII.1.8. Students will play with slurred staccato bow strokes.

SIII.1.9. Students will play non-legato melodies.

SIII.1.10. Students will perform pieces containing dotted rhythms, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes and rests in meters of 2, 3, 4, and alla breve.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level III - Strings) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SIII.2.1. Students will identify the following in a given piece of music: slur and staccato markings; key signatures for C, G, D major, e, b, and a minor; sixteenth notes, dotted notes, and eighth note triplets.

SIII.2.2. Students will write major scales in the keys of C, G, D.

SIII.2.3. Students will write the intervals of a second, fifth, and octave above a given note.

SIII.2.4. Students will demonstrate contrasting dynamics in a piece of music including p, mp, mf, and f.

SIII.2.5. Students will identify like and unlike phrases and sections presented aurally.

SIII.2.6. Students will identify a major triad.

SIII.2.7. Students will tune his/her instrument.

SIII.2.8. Students will distinguish between good and poor intonation, correct and incorrect rhythms, good and poor tone quality in their own performance.

SIII.2.9. Students will identify and define crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, ritardando and fermata.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level III - Strings) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SIII.3.1. Students will improvise a rhythmic variation on a melody.

SIII.3.2. Students will improvise a musical phrase according to parameters provided by the teacher.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level III - Strings) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SIII.4.1. Students will discuss the difference between fiddle and violin music.

SIII.4.2. Students will demonstrate simple fiddle techniques.

SIII.4.3. Students will trace the origins of Appalachian fiddle music.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level IV - Strings) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SIV.1.1. Students will perform using martele loure bow strokes.

SIV.1.2. Students will play melodies in major and minor keys up to and including 3 sharps.

SIV.1.3. Students will play major scales through 3 sharps.

SIV.1.4. Students will play syncopated rhythms.

SIV.1.5. Students will perform a piece in a minor key and identify a country from which the melody may have come.

SIV.1.6. Students will play a melody con sordino.

SIV.1.7. Students will play sixths in first position (omit double bass).

SIV.1.8. Students will play unisons & octaves formed with 1 open string & 1 string fingered in 3rd position ('cellos & basses in 4th position interpret a tempo.

SIV.1.9. Students will participate in the performance of a Baroque piece.

SIV.1.10. Students will perform melodies using chromatic tones and meter in 6.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level IV - Strings) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SIV.2.1. Students will write the intervals of a third, fourth and sixth, above a given note.

SIV.2.2. Students will play at sight pieces containing the following: contrasting dynamics, various bowings and articulations, melodies in major and minor keys up to 3 sharps.

SIV.2.3. Students will identify aurally the A section of a rondo each time it occurs.

SIV.2.4. Students will identify minor melodies presented aurally.

SIV.2.5. Students will identify contrasting dynamics in a played example.

SIV.2.6. Students will list characteristics of good solo playing and good ensemble playing, e.g., type of tone quality, intonation, rhythmic precision.

SIV.2.7. Students will compare their own performance of a given piece with a recorded performance.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level IV - Strings) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SIV.3.1. Students will improvise a simple melody.

SIV.3.2. Students will create and notate a musical example in a given meter and key, using correct pitch and rhythmic notation, clef, and key signatures.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level IV - Strings) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SIV.4.1. Students will discuss the art, music, and dance of the Baroque period.

SIV.4.2. Students will compare phrases to sentences in language arts (antecedent and consequent phrases).

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level V - Strings) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SV.1.1. Students will demonstrate characteristics of good ensemble playing.

SV.1.2. Students will participate in the performance of pieces using a variety of bowings, tempo changes, and contrasting dynamics.

SV.1.3. Students will play melodies and major scales in major keys up to and including 3 sharps and 1 flat.

SV.1.4. Students will play melodies and minor scales in minor keys up to and including 3 sharps and 1 flat.

SV.1.5. Students will participate in the performance of a waltz and a movement from a symphony or concerto.

SV.1.6. Students will play a chromatic scale.

SV.1.7. Students will play melodies which, because of extended range or convenience of finger patterns, require the use of positions other than first. These positions are different for the various stringed instruments. Thus, they are specified for Level V as follows: violin & viola - 3rd position, 'cello - 1/2, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th positions & extensions, bass - 1/2, 2nd, & 4th positions & extensions.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level V - Strings) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SV.2.1. Students will interpret the tempos allegretto and adagio.

SV.2.2. Students will identify sforzando.

SV.2.3. Students will identify the following: coda, introduction, tonal center.

SV.2.4. Students will critique a performance.

SV.2.5. Students will play at sight melodies which, because of extended range or convenience of finger patterns, require the use of positions other than first. These positions are different for the various stringed instruments. Thus, they are specified for Level IV as follows: violin - 3rd position, viola - 3rd position, 'cello - 1/2, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th positions and extensions, bass - 1/2, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th positions and extensions.

SV.2.6. Students will interpret music using contrasting dynamics including pp and ff.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level V - Strings) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SV.3.1. Students will create, notate and perform a simple melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level V - Strings) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SV.4.1. Students will discuss the art and music of the Classical period.

SV.4.2. Students will discuss the characteristics of music genres and styles studied.

SV.4.3. Students will relate the physical aspects of playing music to the use movement in physical education.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives: Orchestra I (Level VI - Strings Advanced) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SVI.1.1. Students will play melodies which, because of extended range or convenience of finger patterns, require the use of the higher positions. These positions are different for the various stringed instruments. Thus, they are specified for Level VI as follows: violin - 2nd and 5th positions, viola - 2nd and 5th positions, cello and bass - 5th and 6th positions and extensions.

SVI.1.2. Students will play major and minor scales and melodies in keys up to and including 4 sharps and 2 flats.

SVI.1.3. Students will play pieces in irregular meters.

SVI.1.4. Students will play pieces containing changing meters.

SVI.1.5. Students will play double stops, trills and grace notes.

SVI.1.6. Students will play using vibrato.

SVI.1.7. Students will demonstrate characteristics of good ensemble (string orchestra) playing.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives: Orchestra I (Level Vl - Strings Advanced) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SVI.2.1. Students will sightread music containing the tempo markings largo, accelerando, contrasting dynamics, subito p, and subito f.

SVI.2.2. Students will listen to symphonies by different composers and describe the elements of music and expressive devices that make each unique.

SVI.2.3. Students will interpret tempo, dynamic, and expressive terms and symbols used in a piece of music, e.g., andante, accelerando, sfz, col legno.

SVI.2.4. Students will create a list of characteristics of exemplary playing including techniques and expression.

SVI.2.5. Students will describe the compositional techniques used in a theme and variation.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives: Orchestra I (Level Vl - Strings Advanced) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SVI.3.1. Students will create melodic variations on a given melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives: Orchestra I (Level Vl - Strings Advanced) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SVI.4.1. Students will compare musical works from the Classical and Romantic periods; discuss similarities and differences.

SVI.4.2. Students will describe ways in which music is related to a foreign language, mathematics, and science.

SVI.4.3. Students will create a list various roles that musicians perform, and cite representative individuals in each role and describe their activities and achievements.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives: Orchestra II (Level Vll - Strings Advanced) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SVII.1.1. Students will play melodies in major and minor.

SVII.1.2. Students will play major and minor scales and melodies in keys up to 5 sharps and 3 flats.

SVII.1.3. Students will perform the following: arpeggiated chords, major or minor double stops using higher range positions (exclude 'cellos and basses).

SVII.1.4. Students will demonstrate characteristics of good ensemble (string orchestra) playing.

SVII.1.5. Students will participate in the performance of a solo, duet or trio utilizing higher range positions with one person per part.

SVII.1.6. Students will play 3- and 4-note chords.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives: Orchestra ll (Level Vll - Strings Advanced) Exploring: Students will: read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SVII.2.1. Students will interpret the symbol for a turn (~).

SVII.2.2. Students will read at sight melodies and rhythmic examples in irregular and subdivided meters.

SVII.2.3. Students will perform accurately and expressively dynamic markings in orchestra literature.

SVII.2.4. Students will use an extensive technical vocabulary of music.

SVII.2.5. Students will identify counter melodies in recorded, played or written examples.

SVII.2.6. Students will describe symphonic form.

SVII.2.7. Students will perform a movement of a symphony, then listen to a professional recording of the same piece, and critique their performance.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives: Orchestra ll (Level Vll - Strings Advanced) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SVI.3.1. Students will add trills and grace notes to a major or minor melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives: Orchestra ll (Level Vll - Strings Advanced) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SVII.4.1. Students will compare the processes used in composing music and creating visual art. Include the basic content of each art form, e.g., unity and variety, repetition and contrast.

SVII.4.2. Students will discuss how music has reflected historical events and culture.

SVII.4.3. Students will discuss the use of stringed instruments in American music genres, e.g., folk music, jazz, pop.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives: Orchestra lll (Level Vlll - Strings Advanced) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SVIII.1.1. Students will perform string orchestra works, full orchestral works, and chamber music from various time periods.

SVIII.1.2. Students will play scales and melodies in major and minor keys up to and including 5 sharps and 4 flats.

SVIII.1.3. Students will play melodies which, because of extended range or convenience of finger patterns, require the use of higher positions. These positions are specified as follows: violin - 4th position and above, viola - 4th position and above, 'cello - thumb position bass - extreme upper position.

SVIII.1.4. Students will play arpeggiated I, IV and V7 chords in major and minor keys.

SVIII.1.5. Students will participate in the performance of a string quartet.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives: Orchestra lll (Level Vlll - Strings Advanced) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SVIII.2.1. Students will describe meter changes, clefs, and transpositions.

SVIII.2.2. Students will play a piece that makes use of non-standard notation and interpret all symbols.

SVIII.2.3. Students will sightread melodies with changing meters and interpret tempo changes within a piece.

SVIII.2.4. Students will describe in detail a concerto presented aurally.

SVIII.2.5. Students will compare and contrast timbre, dynamics, and form in two orchestral pieces.

SVIII.2.6. Students will describe feelings evoked while listening to a musical work and list what elements of music contributed to those emotions.

SVIII.2.7. Students will interpret a string quartet score.

SVIII.2.8. Students will listen to string quartets by different composers and describe the elements of music and expressive devices that make each unique.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives: Orchestra lll (Level Vlll - Strings Advanced) Creating: Students will improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SVIII.3.1. Students will create a melody in the style requested by the teacher.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives: Orchestra lll (Level Vlll - Strings Advanced) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SVIII.4.1. Students will compare a Classical string quartet with a Romantic string quartet and discuss differences in the styles.

SVIII.4.2. Students will cite examples orchestral music of the twentieth century.

SVIII.4.3. Students will list American orchestral composers.

SVIII.4.4. Students will label the genre, time period and culture of recorded examples.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives: Orchestra lV (Level lX- Strings Advanced) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

SIX.1.1. Students will play scales and melodies in all major and minor keys.

SIX.1.2. Students will interpret a solo.

SIX.1.3. Students will participate in the performance of a movement of a symphony, an overture, and a concerto.

SIX.1.4. Students will play utilizing spiccato bowing.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives: Orchestra lV (Level lX- Strings Advanced) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

SIX.2.1. Students will use correct patterns, conduct from an orchestral score.

SIX.2.2. Students will interpret music containing double sharps and double flats.

SIX.2.3. Students will interpret contrasting dynamics when sightreading an instrumental piece.

SIX.2.4. Students will identify the three parts of a movement in Sonata Allegro form presented aurally.

SIX.2.5. Students will describe in detail the forms of the movements of a symphony.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives: Orchestra lV (Level lX- Strings Advanced) Creating: Students will Improvise music within specified guidelines; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

SIX.3.1. Students will perform an improvisation over a chord progression.

SIX.3.2. Students will identify and play arpeggiated I, IV, and V7 chords using bowing styles characteristic of a requested time period.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives: Orchestra lV (Level lX- Strings Advanced) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

SIX.4.1. Students will trace the evolution of the role of the composer/musician from church or court musician to independent artist.

SIX.4.2. Students will list the musical characteristics that contribute to a given musical work's placement in a time period.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level l - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WI.1.1. Students will show proper instrument assembly, maintenance, hygiene and cleaning.

WI.1.2. Students will display correct posture while playing an instrument.

WI.1.3. Students will keep a steady beat.

WI.1.4a. Students will match pitches with good intonation (brass and woodwinds only).

WI.1.4b. Students will play exercises that include single strokes, five stroke roll, nine stroke roll, long roll, and flams (percussion only).

WI.1.5. Students will participate in the performance of beginning level music.

WI.1.6. Students will interpret the dynamic markings p and f.

WI.1.7. Students will play an instrumental solo.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level l - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WI.2.1. Students will identify by sound musical instruments used in beginning band.

WI.2.2. Students will differentiate between good and poor tone quality.

WI.2.3. Students will identify like and unlike musical phrases and/or sections.

WI.2.4. Students will read quarter, half, whole, and eighth notes and rests in meter in 2, 3, 4, and alla breve.

WI.2.5. Students will play notated melodies based on the concert major scales of Bb and Eb.

WI.2.6. Students will play melodies containing ties and two note slurs.

WI.2.7. Students will interpret the meaning of the repeat sign, D. C. al Fine, a measure repeat sign, a fermata, and multiple endings.

WI.2.8. Students will identify criteria for evaluating music and performances.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level l - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WI.3.1. Students will echo patterns as played by instructor.

WI.3.2. Students will create a response to a rhythmic pattern performed by the teacher.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level l - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WI.4.1. Students will describe the method of tone production for brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments as it relates to the principles of sound production.

WI.4.2. Students will explore and perform folk songs, patriotic melodies and popular music excerpts as presented in the method book.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WII.1.1. Students will participate in the performance of music containing harmony.

WII.1.2. Students will interpret the dynamic markings p, mf, and f.

WII.1.3. Students will participate in the performance of level I music.

WII.1.4. Students will play staccato passages.

WII.1.5. Students will play legato melodies marked with three or four note slurs.

WII.1.6. Students will develop range through performance of a varied repertoire.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level II - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WII.2.1. Students will identify and demonstrate conducting patterns in 2, 3 and 4.

WII.2.2a. Students will play melodies using acceptable tone (brass and woodwind only).

WII.2.2b. Students will perform music containing sixteenth notes (percussion only).

WII.2.3. Students will demonstrate proper techniques of playing the bass drum, cymbals (percussion only).

WII.2.4a. Students will play major scales in the concert keys of Bb, Eb and Ab.

WII.2.4b. Students will play ruffs, five stroke roll, nine stroke roll and single paradiddle (percussion only).

WII.2.5. Students will interpret the markings for ritardando.

WII.2.6. Students will identify binary (AB) and ternary (ABA) forms.

WII.2.7. Students will notate a simple step-wise melody played by the teacher when given a starting note.

WII.2.8. Students will expand criteria for evaluating music and performances.

WII.2.9. Students will perform at sight a short melody.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level II - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WII.3.1. Students will create a response to a melodic pattern performed by the teacher.

WII.3.2. Students will play familiar melody by ear.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level II - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WII.4.1. Students will relate note subdivision to simple mathematics.

WII.4.2. Students will perform music from different cultures and historic periods as presented in the method book.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level III - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WIII.1.1. Students will echo rhythmic patterns.

WIII.1.2. Students will interpret the dynamic markings p, mp, mf and f.

WIII.1.3. Students will demonstrate crescendo and decrescendo.

WIII.1.4. Students will play accents.

WIII.1.5. Students will demonstrate characteristics of proper ensemble playing.

WIII.1.6. Students will perform grade level I or II music, with appropriate expression, articulation, posture and tone production.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level III - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WIII.2.1. Students will identify and notate the name of clef, names of lines and spaces, note names, and note values.

WIII.2.2. Students will play in tempo allegro, tempo and tempo andante.

WIII.2.3a. Students will read dotted quarter / eighth note rhythms.

WIII.2.3b. Students will perform simple melodies on mallet instruments (percussion only).

WIII.2.4. Students will identify key changes

WIII.2.5. Students will identify a coda.

WIII.2.6a. Students will play chromatic passages.

WIII.2.6b. Students will play a seventeen-stroke roll, flam accent, flam tap and double paradiddles (percussion only).

WIII.2.7. Students will perform music containing syncopation.

WIII.2.8. Students will sight read in a major key.

WIII.2.9. Students will tune using an electronic tuner.

WIII.2.10. Students will listen critically and evaluate live performances by others.

WIII.2.11. Students will apply evaluation criteria to personal performance.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level III - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WIII.3.1. Students will play a familiar melody by ear and notate it.

WIII.3.2. Students will improvise a musical phrase according to parameters provided by the teacher.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level III - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture

WIII.4.1. Students will describe the style and characteristics of music studied.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level IV - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WIV.1.1. Students will perform as part of a large ensemble at a level of difficulty of 2 or 3.

WIV.1.2. Students will perform a solo or as part of a small instrumental ensemble.

WIV.1.3. Students will interpret the dynamic markings pp, p, mp, mf, f and ff.

WIV.1.4. Students will interpret fp.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level IV - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WIV.2.1. Students will perform music in 6/8 time.

WIV.2.2a. Students will play chromatic scale.

WIV.2.2b. Students will perform using two-hand technique on mallet percussion.

WIV.2.3. Students will perform music containing sixteenth notes including dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythm.

WIV.2.4a. Students will play from memory and notate major scales through four flats in concert pitch.

WIV.2.4b. Students will play a seven stroke roll, thirteen stroke roll, flamacue, flam paradiddle, and all ratamacues (percussion only)

WIV.2.5. Students will play in the concert keys of C, F, Bb, Eb, and Ab major.

WIV.2.6. Students will play in tempo allegro, tempo moderato, and tempo andante.

WIV.2.7. Students will play a minor scale.

WIV.2.8. Students will play a minor melody.

WIV.2.9a. Students will demonstrate the ability to play in tune as an ensemble member.

WIV.2.9b. Students will play timpani (percussion only).

WIV.2.10. Students will evaluate their own performance and performances by others and offer constructive suggestions for improvement.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level IV - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WIV.3.1. Students will improvise variations of a melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level IV - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WIV.4.1. Students will explain the measurement of sound waves using a tuning device.

WIV.4.2. Students will explain the characteristics of music genres, styles and cultures.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level V - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WV.1.1. Students will play conducted dynamic changes.

WV.1.2. Students will play staccato, marcato, and legato.

WV.1.3. Students will play triplets and swing eighth notes.

WV.1.4. Students will play grace notes and trills.

WV.1.5. Students will play solos, duets, trios, and quartets.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level V - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WV.2.1. Students will play melodies in major keys up to and including 4 sharps and 5 flats.

WV.2.2. Students will apply musical definitions, symbols, and terms.

WV.2.3. Students will sight-read music with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6.

WV.2.4a. Students will play from memory and notate major scales from C through 4 flats.

WV.2.4b. Students will play a drag paradiddle number 1, number 2, and a flam paradiddle (percussion only).

WV.2.5. Students will demonstrate the relationship of tempo indications to metronome markings.

WV.2.6. Students will play odd and/or mixed meter.

WV.2.7. Students will identify the characteristics of the melody, harmony, texture, and rhythm of performance examples.

WV.2.8. Students will develop a list of criteria to be used in the evaluation of a musical performance through oral discussion or a written report.

WV.2.9. Students will compare student performances with those by professional groups.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level V - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WV.3.1. Students will improvise a simple melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level V - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WV.4.1. Students will explain the physical properties of sound.

WV.4.2. Students will identify and compare characteristics of music of a variety of genres, styles, historic periods and cultures.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VI - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WVI.1.1. Students will perform in an ensemble, demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.

WVI.1.2. Students will play standard jazz band rhythms on drum set (percussion only).

WVI.1.3. Students will play in a mixed-instrument small ensemble with one person on a part.

WVI.1.4. Students will play a turn.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level VI - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WVI.2.1. Students will play melodies in major keys up to and including five sharps and six flats.

WVI.2.2. Students will identify and interpret musical symbols and musical terms.

WVI.2.3. Students will play from memory and notate major scales through five sharps and six flats.

WVI.2.4. Students will sight-read grade level III music.

WVI.2.5. Students will describe the formal structures, tempos, dynamics, and timbres of performance examples.

WVI.2.6. Students will using evaluative criteria explain differences between 'good' and 'great' performances.

WVI.2.7. Students will compare 2 or more compositions by the same composer.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level VI - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WVI.3.1. Students will improvise melody over teacher selected chord changes.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level VI - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WVI.4.1. Students will explain physical characteristics of particular instruments.

WVI.4.2. Students will identify the importance of major American musicians.

WVI.4.3. Students will trace the evolution of music in America.

WVI.4.4. Students will classify unfamiliar aural examples of music by genre, style, historical period, and culture.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WVII.1.1. Students will demonstrate precise rhythmic articulation.

WVII.1.2. Students will demonstrate proper techniques of playing chimes and gong along with proper techniques of playing World percussion instruments (percussion only).

WVII.1.3. Students will play rubato passages.

WVII.1.4. Students will play melodies with changing meters.

WVII.1.5. Students will play melodies with vibrato where applicable.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level VII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listening to, analyzing, and describing music; and evaluating music and music performances.

WVII.2.1. Students will interpret dynamic changes.

WVII.2.2. Students will play at sight melodies in major and minor keys.

WVII.2.3. Students will identify form used in performed examples.

WVII.2.4. Students will describe timbres created by the use of unique combinations of instruments.

WVII.2.5. Students will perform a piece using nonstandard notation symbols.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level VII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments. And compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WVII.3.1. Students will compose, notate and perform a simple melody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level VII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WVII.4.1. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements of the arts in different cultures.

WVII.4.2. Students will list characteristics of music representing the major historical periods.

WVII.4.3. Students will discuss how the elements of music can be used to evoke emotion or to describe places or events.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VIII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

WVIII.1.1. Students will play conducted tempo changes.

WVIII.1.2. Students will demonstrate different combinations of articulation.

WVIII.1.3. Students will interpret contrasting dynamics.

WVIII.1.4. Students will interpret an instrumental solo passage with proper style.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level VIII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

WVIII.2.1. Students will identify counter melodies.

WVIII.2.2. Students will play at sight a melody having metric modulations.

WVIII.2.3. Students will play and notate all major and relative minor scales.

WVIII.2.4. Students will play arpeggiated all major and minor triads.

WVIII.2.5. Students will compare musical forms from different eras.

WVIII.2.6. Students will analyze emotions evoked by the use of the elements of music in a given musical work.

WVIII.2.7. Students will describe how the elements of music are used in a given work to make it unique, interesting, and expressive.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level VIII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments, and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

WVIII.3.1. Students will improvise background 'fills' (percussion).

WVIII.3.2. Students will improvise a countermelody.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level VIII - Instrumental Music Winds and Percussion) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

WVIII.4.1. Students will identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serves to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical context.

WVIII.4.2. Students will compare the uses of characteristic elements of the arts in different historical periods.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level I - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMI.1.1. Students will sing unison and two-part music.

CMI.1.2. Students will demonstrate piano and forte singing.

CMI.1.3. Students will demonstrate proper attacks and releases.

CMI.1.4. Students will sing rounds and partner songs using choral arrangements.

CMI.1.5. Students will sing major scales within their vocal ranges.

CMI.1.6. Students will demonstrate legato and staccato singing styles with proper vocal quality.

CMI.1.7. Students will demonstrate proper vocal techniques (tone production, breathing, posture).

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level I - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMI.2.1. Students will sing literature containing whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests and practice writing rhythmic notation.

CMI.2.2. Students will recognize basic meter signatures.

CMI.2.3. Students will sing unison and two part songs from a notated score.

CMI.2.4. Students will sing at sight a melody in treble clef.

CMI.2.5. Students will sing a melody containing syncopation and meter changes.

CMI.2.6. Students will sight-read a two part vocal composition observing standard notation symbols.

CMI.2.7. Students will identify AB or ABA form in an aural example.

CMI.2.8. Students will identify recurring musical phrases in an aural example.

CMI.2.9. Students will identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices in an aural example.

CMI.2.10. Students will identify the time signature in a choral composition.

CMI.2.11. Students will recognize basic interval patterns.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level I - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMI.3.1. Students will develop a musical genre timeline using selected literature.

CMI.3.2. Students will improvise vocal and rhythmic patterns.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level I - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMI.4.1. Students will listen to exemplary models of quality choral performances.

CMI.4.2. Students will develop criteria for quality choral performances.

CMI.4.3. Students will listen to exemplary models of various types of choral music performances applying sound quality to choral ensembles and develop criteria for quality choral performances.

CMI.4.4. Students will identify the physical characteristics of vocal tone production.

CMI.4.5. Students will identify the anatomical characteristics of vocal tone production and the changing voice.

CMI.4.6. Students will explain the choral text.

CMI.4.7. Students will begin to compile a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

CMI.4.8. Students will explain the meaning of the choral text.

CMI.4.9. Students will describe the historical significance of selected choral literature.

CMI.4.10. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMII.1.1. Students will sing vocalises within their vocal range.

CMII.1.2. Students will sing a minor melody.

CMII.1.3. Students will sing musical phrases with proper breathing.

CMII.1.4. Students will participate in the choral performance of varied literature.

CMII.1.5. Students will demonstrate use of dynamics in singing.

CMII.1.6. Students will identify individual parts in the choral performance of a canon with attention to balance of parts.

CMII.1.7. Students will begin to sing with metrical and textual accents.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMII.2.1. Students will sing literature containing sixteenth notes, rests, and syncopated rhythms and apply the rhythmic dictation to the understanding of music notation.

CMII.2.2. Students will identify meter signatures.

CMII.2.3. Students will identify major and minor chords.

CMII.2.4. Students will identify basic interval relationships.

CMII.2.5. Students will identify the beat numbers in each measure of a choral composition.

CMII.2.6. Students will sing literature with varied tempo markings.

CMII.2.7. Students will sing two and three-part songs from a notated score.

CMII.2.8. Students will sing at sight a melody in treble clef and begin melodic dictation.

CMII.2.9. Students will sight-read a three-part vocal composition observing standard notation symbols.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMII.3.1. Students will compile a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

CMII.3.2. Students will create a multi-genre project dealing with the choral literature.

CMII.3.3. Students will improvise vocal and rhythmic patterns.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and explain relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMII.4.1. Students will explain texts in literature.

CMII.4.2. Students will appraise and refine criteria for quality performances.

CMII.4.3. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

CMII.4.4. Students will evaluate taped personal and/or group performances using various types of choral literature.

CMII.4.5. Students will relate a choral work to its historical and cultural origins.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level III - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMIII.1.1. Students will expand upon the use of tempo and dynamic markings.

CMIII.1.2. Students will sing songs which incorporate the use of metric accents; i.e., accent, tenuto.

CMIII.1.3. Students will sing major and minor melodies with good tone production.

CMIII.1.4. Students will participate in the choral performance of songs in foreign languages.

CMIII.1.5. Students will demonstrate proper expression in the interpretation of phrases.

CMIII.1.6. Students will sing intervals with proper intonation.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level III - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMIII.2.1. Students will sing literature with varied tempo markings.

CMIII.2.2. Students will explain/explore major and minor chords.

CMIII.2.3. Students will explain/explore all intervallic relationships.

CMIII.2.4. Students will identify voice classifications of the human voice in an aural example.

CMIII.2.5. Students will identify I and V chords.

CMIII.2.6. Students will sing three-part songs from a notated score.

CMIII.2.7. Students will identify meter changes in an aural example.

CMIII.2.8. Students will continue to explore melodic dictation and dynamic dictation.

CMIII.2.9. Students will identify metric accents in a choral composition.

CMIII.2.10. Students will sing literature containing sixteenth notes, rests, and syncopated rhythms and apply the rhythmic dictation to the understanding of music notation.

CMIII.2.11. Students will sing at sight a two-part choral song.

CMIII.2.12. Students will sight-read a three-part vocal composition observing standard notation symbols.

CMIII.2.13. Students will sing at sight literature containing meter changes.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level III - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMIII.3.1. Students will expand their portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

CMIII.3.2. Students will develop a concert program using designated choral literature including cover and interior information.

CMIII.3.3. Students will create in writing basic melodic and rhythmic patterns using proper notational elements.

CMIII.3.4. Students will improvise vocal and rhythmic patterns.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level III - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMIII.4.1. Students will communicate through singing choral texts in music.

CMIII.4.2. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

CMIII.4.3. Students will evaluate and expand criteria for quality performances.

CMIII.4.4. Students will relate a choral work to its historical and cultural origins.

CMIII.4.5. Students will evaluate taped personal and/or group performances using various types of choral literature.

CMIII.4.6. Students will analyze and apply the scientific principles involved in tone production and aural recognition of the different voice classifications.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level IV - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMIV.1.1. Students will sing choral literature containing varied stylistic, dynamics and tempo markings.

CMIV.1.2. Students will demonstrate proper attacks and releases.

CMIV.1.3. Students will demonstrate proper breathing and dynamics in singing musical literature.

CMIV.1.4. Students will sing literature that goes beyond 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 time signatures ensemble.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level IV - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMIV.2.1. Students will sing melodies containing syncopation and meter changes.

CMIV.2.2. Students will interpret musical terms, notation, and symbols.

CMIV.2.3. Students will identify recurring musical phrases in an aural example.

CMIV.2.4. Students will identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices in an aural example.

CMIV.2.5. Students will sing three and four part song from notated score.

CMIV.2.6. Students will sing literature containing 6/8, cut time, and 2/2, 3/2, 4/2 meters, etc.

CMIV.2.7. Students will identify various forms in an aural example.

CMIV.2.8. Students will identify the time signature in a choral composition from and aural examples.

CMIV.2.9. Students will distinguish the difference between open and closed score reading.

CMIV.2.10. Students will identify major, minor, and perfect interval patterns.

CMIV.2.11. Students will explore music dictation which includes rhythm, pitch, meter and dynamics.

CMIV.2.12. Students will interpret and perform various stylistic differences.

CMIV.2.13. Students will sing at sight a three-part choral score.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level IV - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMIV.3.1. Students will compile and expand a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

CMIV.3.2. Students will create a glossary of musical terms and symbols.

CMIV.3.3. Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations on a given melodic phrase.

CMIV.3.4. Students will create a document that will compare and contrast two different styles of choral literature.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level IV - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMIV.4.1. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

CMIV.4.2. Students will explain the meaning of the choral text.

CMIV.4.3. Students will describe the historical significance of selected choral literature.

CMIV.4.4. Students will critique exemplary models of quality choral performance.

CMIV.4.5. Students will develop criteria for quality choral performances.

CMIV.4.6. Students will evaluate live or taped choral performances of peers.

CMIV.4.7. Students will compare and contrast representative individuals and their historic roles as composers/performers of choral literature.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level V - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMV.1.1. Students will sing literature containing a wide variety of time signatures.

CMV.1.2. Students will demonstrate proper attacks and releases.

CMV.1.3. Students will sing choral literature containing a wide variety of styles, dynamics and tempi.

CMV.1.4. Students will sing dark and bright vowel sounds.

CMV.1.5. Students will demonstrate proper vocal techniques (tone production, breathing, posture).

CMV.1.6. Students will sing with proper intonation, blend, balance, and expression within a four-part choral ensemble.

CMV.1.7. Students will sing an a cappella, multi-part composition with proper tone production and intonation.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level V - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMV.2.1. Students will sing melodies containing syncopation and meter changes.

CMV.2.2. Students will sing three- and four-part song from notated score.

CMV.2.3. Students will explore various meters.

CMV.2.4. Students will sing three- and four-part song from notated score.

CMV.2.5. Students will identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices in an aural example.

CMV.2.6. Students will identify recurring musical phrases in an aural example.

CMV.2.7. Students will identify various forms in an aural example.

CMV.2.8. Students will identify the time signature in a choral composition from and aural examples.

CMV.2.9. Students will identify the melodic and harmonic parts in a four-part vocal score.

CMV.2.10. Students will interpret and perform various stylistic differences.

CMV.2.11. Students will perform a four-part choral piece demonstrating an understanding of musical terminology and signs.

CMV.2.12. Students will sight-sing his/her own part within a four-part score.

CMV.2.13. Students will notate appropriate scales and I, IV, V7 chords for selected choral pieces.

CMV.2.14. Students will demonstrate ability to perform major, minor, and perfect intervals.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level V - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMV.3.1. Students will compile a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

CMV.3.2. Students will expand a glossary of musical terms and symbols.

CMV.3.3. Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations on a given melodic phrase.

CMV.3.4. Students will create a document to compare and contrast two different styles of choral literature.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level V - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMV.4.1. Students will explain the meaning of the choral text.

CMV.4.2. Students will formulate and research available careers in music.

CMV.4.3. Students will describe the historical significance of selected choral literature.

CMV.4.4. Students will discuss the role of composers of studied choral literature during their lifetime and the effect of their music on the choral art today.

CMV.4.5. Students will listen to exemplary models and critique various types of choral music performances.

CMV.4.6. Students will listen to exemplary models and develop criteria for quality choral performances.

CMV.4.7. Students will compare choral music with other arts from the same historical period style and culture.

CMV.4.8. Students will evaluate live or taped choral performances of peers.

CMV.4.9. Students will critique personal performance of choral or solo literature.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VI - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMVI.1.1. Students will demonstrate and perform proper vocal techniques with regard to tone production, breathing, posture, vowel modification, proper attack and release, natural vibrato and straight tone.

CMVI.1.2. Students will sing literature containing rubato and terraced dynamics.

CMVI.1.3. Students will sing a polyphonic composition with appropriate stylistic tone quality.

CMVI.1.4. Students will sing a four-part choral composition, accompanied and unaccompanied, with one singer per part and illustrate the understanding of good intonation, balance, and blend.

CMVI.1.5. Students will recognize a wide variety of choral styles and apply proper technique in performance venues.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level VI - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMVI.2.1. Students will recognize and describe compositions in various meters.

CMVI.2.2. Students will demonstrate accurate interpretation of a four part song from a full vocal score.

CMVI.2.3. Students will sight-sing his or her own part within a four-part score.

CMVI.2.4. Students will identify multi-voice parts in an aural example.

CMVI.2.5. Students will identity and perform melodies, harmonic passages, and intervallic relationships within a full vocal score.

CMVI.2.6. Students will discuss music events occurring in a given example of choral music, e.g., form, meter, and textual changes.

CMVI.2.7. Students will describe voicing combinations in a given choral work that make it unique.

CMVI.2.8. Students will notate major and minor scales as they apply to choral selections studied.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level VI - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMVI.3.1. Students will evaluate a given choral composition using the appropriate musical terms and symbols from a student generated glossary.

CMVI.3.2. Students will sing improvised melodic and/or harmonic parts in a variety of musical styles.

CMVI.3.3. Students will create program notes for a current performance program integrating technology.

CMVI.3.4. Students will expand a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level VI - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMVI.4.1. Students will evaluate and critique various choral music performances.

CMVI.4.2. Students will appraise a given choral work in terms of its aesthetic qualities.

CMVI.4.3. Students will evaluate live or taped choral performances of peers.

CMVI.4.4. Students will evaluate the musical elements that are used to support feelings and emotions created in a choral work.

CMVI.4.5. Students will continue to critique personal and ensemble performances of choral music literature.

CMVI.4.6. Students will judge and evaluate exemplary models of quality choral music performances.

CMVI.4.7. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VII - Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing alone, and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMVII.1.1. Students will continue to demonstrate and perform proper vocal techniques with regard to tone production, breathing, posture, vowel modification, proper attack and release, natural vibrato and straight tone.

CMVII.1.2. Students will perform literature containing varied tempi and dynamics.

CMVII.1.3. Students will strive for good choral tone quality within various styles of music.

CMVII.1.4. Students will sing a four-, six- or eight-part choral composition, accompanied and unaccompanied, with one singer per part and illustrate the understanding of good intonation, balance, and blend.

CMVII.1.5. Students will recognize and apply understanding to a wide variety of choral styles in performance venues.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level VII - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

CMVII.2.1. Students will continue to demonstrate accurate interpretation of a four part song from a full vocal score.

CMVII.2.2. Students will continue to sight-sing his or her own part within a four part score.

CMVII.2.3. Students will continue to identify multi-voice parts in an aural example.

CMVII.2.4. Students will prepare an analysis identifying musical elements including transposition, meter change, and stylistic changes within assigned voice part in a choral work.

CMVII.2.5. Students will perform compositions notated with contemporary and/or no-traditional symbols.

CMVII.2.6. Students will sight-read a four, six, or eight-part polyphonic.

CMVII.2.7. Students will critique a live performance of choral music and prepare a project on the concert attended.

CMVII.2.8. Students will describe the musical elements used in choral accompaniments that make them unique, interesting and expressive.

CMVII.2.9. Students will notate major/minor scales, chords, and arpeggio in both treble and bass clef as they apply to selected choral pieces.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VII - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMVII.3.1. Students will evaluate a given choral composition using the appropriate musical terms and symbols from a student generated glossary.

CMVII.3.2. Students will continue to sing improvised melodic and/or harmonic parts in a variety of musical styles.

CMVII.3.3. Students will create a sample choral concert including printed program with program notes integrating technology.

CMVII.3.4. Students will continue to compile a portfolio of performed choral music and musical experiences.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level VII - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMVII.4.1. Students will continue to evaluate and critique various choral music performances.

CMVII.4.2. Students will appraise given choral works in terms of its aesthetic qualities.

CMVII.4.3. Students will continue to evaluate live or taped choral performances of peers.

CMVII.4.4. Students will continue to evaluate the musical elements that are used to support feelings and emotions created in a choral work.

CMVII.4.5. Students will continue to critique personal and ensemble performances of choral music literature.

CMVII.4.6. Students will continue to judge and evaluate exemplary models of quality choral music performances.

CMVII.4.7. Students will formulate and research available careers in the musical field.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Primer Level- Choral Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

CMP.1.1. Students will sing scales within their vocal ranges.

CMP.1.2. Students will demonstrate proper pitch, breath, and posture techniques.

CMP.1.3. Students will sing rounds using choral arrangements.

CMP.1.4. Students will sing unison.

CMP.1.5. Students will begin to interpret various singing styles.

CMP.1.6. Students will demonstrate dynamic singing.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Primer Level - Choral Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to and describe music.

CMP.2.1. Students will sing literature containing whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests.

CMP.2.2. Students will explore meter.

CMP.2.3. Students will sing unison songs from a notated score.

CMP.2.4. Students will sing at sight a melody in treble clef.

CMP.2.5. Students will sight-read a unison vocal composition observing standard notation symbols.

CMP.2.6. Students will identify AB or ABA form in an aural example.

CMP.2.7. Students will identify recurring musical phrases in an aural example.

CMP.2.8. Students will identify the time signature in a choral composition.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Primer Level - Choral Music) Creating: Students will create vocal and rhythmic patterns; and develop musical awareness.

CMP.3.1. Students will improvise vocal and rhythmic patterns.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Primer Level - Choral Music) Relating: Students will evaluate music and music performances; and understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

CMP.4.1. Students will listen to exemplary models and identify quality and variations of choral performances.

CMP.4.2. Students will listen to exemplary models of various types of choral music performances.

CMP.4.3. Students will identify the physical characteristics of vocal tone production.

CMP.4.4. Students will explain the meaning of text.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level I - Piano) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone or with others, a varied beginning repertoire of music.

PI.1.1. Students will keep a steady beat.

PI.1.2. Students will use correct hand and body positions to play piano.

PI.1.3. Students will practice repertoire at a level of 1.

PI.1.4. Students will recognize and use block or broken chord patterns.

PI.1.5. Students will play a scale hands together for one octave using correct finger patterns.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level I - Piano) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

PI.2.1. Students will read notation from treble and bass clefs, play the corresponding notes on the keyboard, and practice writing basic notation on the grand staff.

PI.2.2. Students will identify stepwise and skip wise patterns.

PI.2.3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of bar lines, measures, ties, and rests, fermata, accidentals, written rhythms, D.C. al Fine, D.S. al Fine, multiple endings, and accents.

PI.2.4. Students will perform piano (p) and forte (f) dynamic levels.

PI.2.5. Students will read notation in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 meters.

PI.2.6. Students will read basic music notation.

PI.2.7. Students will sight-read a simple melody with chordal accompaniment (I, IV, V7).

PI.2.8. Students will play pieces in various keys and recognize these key signatures.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level I - Piano) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

PI.3.1. Students will recognize and play cadences using the I, IV, and V7 chords in key of C Major.

PI.3.2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of chord structure and tonality.

PI.3.3. Students will write a melody within a given key.

PI.3.4. Students will compose a block chord accompaniment using I, IV, and V7 chords.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level I - Piano) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

PI.4.1. Students will develop evaluation skills in one's own practicing to determine correct tonality and rhythmic accuracy.

PI.4.2. Students will relate the tonality of the piano to the physical properties of sound, e.g., different length of strings and different thickness of strings produce different pitches.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level II - Piano) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone or with others, a varied repertoire of music.

PII.1.1. Students will play staccato and legato and continue refining phrasing techniques.

PII.1.2. Students will play literature containing independence of hands and contrary motion.

PII.1.3. Students will perform a piece demonstrating changes in dynamics.

PII.1.4. Students will demonstrate major scale fingering.

PII.1.5. Students will use damper pedal in legato pedaling.

PII.1.6. Students will perform major scales, both hands together, for one octave maintaining a steady tempo.

PII.1.7. Students will study pieces at a level of difficulty of #1 or #2, on a scale of one to six.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level II - Piano) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

PII.2.1. Students will recognize the elements of music.

PII.2.2. Students will identify and perform crescendo and dimuendo markings in pieces studied.

PII.2.3. Students will read, perform, and write notation in varied meters using the grand staff.

PII.2.4. Students will read and perform eighth note patterns and triplets and continue to expand understanding use of rhythms.

PII.2.5. Students will interpret tempo markings.

PII.2.6. Students will read and perform music with basic syncopated rhythm patterns.

PII.2.7. Students will sight-read, both hands together, at appropriate level of difficulty.

PII.2.8. Students will play pieces in varied keys.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level II - Piano) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

PII.3.1. Students will recognize and play cadences using the I, IV, and V7 chords in varied keys.

PII.3.2. Students will produce simple dictation of rhythms.

PII.3.3. Students will improvise a simple melody over given I, IV, V7 chords progression using only the notes of those chords.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level II - Piano) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

PII.4.1. Students will listen to and evaluate musical excerpts of exemplary piano performances.

PII.4.2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic music terminology.

PII.4.3. Students will develop evaluation skills to include critical listening to individual and class performances in the following areas: notes, tempo, rhythm, dynamics and other elements of music studied.

PII.4.4. Students will evaluate his/her present level and set goals to obtain a higher level of proficiency in areas of musical performance.

PII.4.5. Students will identify various roles that keyboard musicians perform.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level III - Piano) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied beginning repertoire of music.

PIII.1.1. Students will experience accompanying both soloists and small ensembles.

PIII.1.2. Students will continue refinement of ensemble skills.

PIII.1.3. Students will perform music at a level 1, 2, or 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.

PIII.1.4. Students will play major scales at increased tempi and explore remaining major scales.

PIII.1.5. Students will explore minor scales.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level III - Piano) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music.

PIII.2.1. Students will read 2-part chorale notation (grand staff).

PIII.2.2. Students will sight-read at level.

PIII.2.3. Students will perform music in varied keys both major and minor.

PIII.2.4. Students will listen to piano music representing different periods of musical history and discuss form and style.

PIII.2.5. Students will apply devices used and identify the form of a work studied.

PIII.2.6. Students will notate major and minors for treble and bass clef.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Level IV - Piano) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone or with others, a varied beginning repertoire of music.

PIV.1.1. Students will play accompaniments reflecting proficiency levels.

PIV.1.2. Students will demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills with a soloist and/or ensemble.

PIV.1.3. Students will perform a graded piano solo.

PIV.1.4. Students will continue increasing the tempo of playing all major scales.

PIV.1.5. Students will continue to practice minor scales.

PIV.1.6. Students will perform minor arpeggios.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Level III - Piano) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

PIV.2.1. Students will transpose pieces to neighboring keys.

PIV.2.2. Students will sight-read at the appropriate level.

PIV.2.3. Students will read music and continue study of written notation.

PIV.2.4. Students will analyze AB, ABA form in their own repertoires.

PIV.2.5. Students will define aesthetic qualities.

PIV.2.6. Students will evaluate performances, their own and others, in terms of aesthetic qualities.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Level III - Piano) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

PIII.3.1. Students will play cadences using the I-IV-V7 chord pattern in all major keys.

PIII.3.2. Students will utilize different styles in improvised accompaniments.

PIII.3.3. Students will play compositions in major and minor keys.

PIV.3.1. Students will play cadences using major/minor I-IV-V7-I chord patterns.

PIV.3.2. Students will continue exploration of original melodic variations and accompaniments.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Level III - Piano) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

PIII.4.1. Students will develop skills in assessing their own musicality at a higher level to include phrasing, dynamics, meter markings, and articulation; and

PIII.4.2. Students will explain the multiple uses and career applications of keyboard instruments.

PIV.4.1. Students will compare the historical development of piano literature using characteristic musical elements.

PIV.4.2. Students will perform, identify and analyze repertoire representative of the various periods in Music History.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Folk Music I Level I Instrumental Folk Music) Performing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music; and perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

FI.1.1. Students will match pitch with good intonation.

FI.1.2. Students will show appropriate tuning techniques.

FI.1.3. Students will keep a steady beat in musical selections.

FI.1.4. Students will perform instrumental solos with technical accuracy using the following: Guitar - Banjo - Dulcimer- Mandolin/Fiddle.

FI.1.5. Students will perform chords: Guitar - G7, C, G, D7, F, D, A7, A, E, E7, Am, Em, Dm, Bm7, B7, Am7, C7, and F7; Banjo, Mandolin/Fiddle - G, D7, C, Em, D, F, E7, E, and Am; Dulcimer - C, G, D, D7, Cm, Gm, Dm in block style, as well as drones tuned in fifths as harmonic accompaniment for melodies.

FI.1.6. Students will perform as members of an ensemble while demonstrating attention to appropriate balance, blend, and tonal and rhythmic accuracy.

FI.1.7. Students will participate in the performance of a duet or round with one student per part.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Folk Music I Level I Instrumental Folk Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

FI.2.1. Students will interpret tied notes, and simple syncopated rhythms.

FI.2.2. Students will interpret repeat signs, multiple endings, the measure repeat sign, D.S., and D.C. al Fine.

FI.2.3. Students will perform melodies and rhythms in meters of two, three, four, and six.

FI.2.4. Students will interpret the fermata.

FI.2.5. Students will play a chromatic scale of one octave.

FI.2.6. Students will read and interpret chord charts and tablature.

FI.2.7. Students will demonstrate a steady beat within pieces using standard notation including whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note and rest values.

FI.2.8. Students will interpret the following dynamic markings: p, mf, f.

FI.2.9. Students will play ascending and descending one-octave scales in the keys of C, F, and G for guitar; C, G, and A for banjo, mandolin/fiddle; Mixolydian and Aeolian modes for dulcimer.

FI.2.10. Students will interpret the tempo indicators andante, moderato, allegro, and ritardand.

FI.2.11. Students will identify and play each line in a lead sheet.

FI.2.12. Dulcimer - Students will perform musical selections that utilize fret numbers. Banjo - Students will demonstrate hammer and pull technique in musical selections.

FI.2.13. Students will use the technical vocabulary of music in discussion and analysis of pieces played and heard.

FI.2.14. Students will describe binary, ternary and strophic forms and give examples of each.

FI.2.15. Students will identify block and arpeggiated accompaniment styles.

FI.2.16. Students will listen to a piece of music, identify the dominant elements of the piece that make it unique, interesting, and expressive, e.g., dynamics, tempo, variations, range, tonality, and modulations.

FI.2.17. Students will apply musical criteria to evaluations of their own performances and performances by others, e.g., good ensemble playing, tone quality, and technical accuracy.

FI.2.18. Students will compare two different style forms, e.g., ballad and jig.

FI.2.19 Students will notate a familiar melody.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Folk Music I Level I Instrumental Folk Music) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

FI.3.1. Students will improvise a chordal accompaniment utilizing down and up strokes appropriate to melodic rhythms and style.

FI.3.2. Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations in the keys of: Guitar, Mandolin/Fiddle - C, G, D, and A major. Banjo - G and A major. Dulcimer - Mixolydian tuning, e.g., Aeolian tuning, G minor.

FI.3.3. Students will create an eight-bar melody over a given two-chord progression.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Folk Music I Level I Instrumental Folk Music) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

FI.4.1. Students will compare phrases to sentences in language arts (antecedent and consequent phrases).

FI.4.2. Students will research and/or collect examples of folk music and lore.

FI.4.3. Students will develop a timeline showing composers and performers of a style of folk music.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Folk Music II Level II Instrumental Folk Music) Performing: Students will sing alone, and with others, a varied repertoire of music; and perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

FII.1.1. Students will perform instrumental solos with expression and technical accuracy.

FII.1.2. Students will perform the following chords: Guitar - six string barre major, minor, and seventh chords; Banjo, Mandolin/Fiddle - A, Dm, Gm, Bb, B, G7, and C7; Dulcimer - Bb, F, G7, A7, E7, Em, Bm, Am, and Dm7 in block and arpeggiated styles.

FII.1.3. Students will lead an ensemble, e.g., church group, youth chorus, sing-along, folk instrument group.

FII.1.4. Students will perform in a duet, trio, and quartet with one student per part.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Folk Music II Level II Instrumental Folk Music) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

FII.2.1. Students will notate and play a chromatic scale ascending and descending as follows: Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle - two octaves; Banjo and Dulcimer - one octave.

FII.2.2. Students will interpret triplet rhythm patterns in musical selections.

FII.2.3. Students will interpret alla breve in musical selections.

FII.2.4. Students will interpret the rhythm pattern of a dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth in musical selections.

FII.2.5. Students will transcribe existing music into tablature.

FII.2.6. Students will notate and play ascending and descending two-octave scales in the keys of C, F, and G for guitar; C, G, and A for banjo, mandolin/fiddle; Mixolydian and Aeolian modes for dulcimer.

FII.2.7. Students will sight-read harmony using broken and block chords.

FII.2.8. Students will identify and describe the usage of a chord line, melody line, and piano grand staff of a given piece of music.

FII.2.9. Guitar - Students will demonstrate hammer on and pull techniques in musical selections. Banjo - Students will demonstrate left hand finger pluck in musical selections.

FII.2.10. Students will analyze pieces to determine their form and describe the compositional techniques used to create these forms.

FII.2.11. Students will identify a piece as major, minor, or modal, and describe how the tonality or modality and other compositional devices contribute to the uniqueness, interest, and expressiveness of the piece.

FII.2.12. Students will refine valid musical criteria for evaluating their own performances, as well as performances by others.

FII.2.13. Students will compare performances of exemplary models.

FII.2.14. Students will compare two different musical selections in terms of the feelings and emotions they evoke.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Folk Music II Level II Instrumental Folk Music) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

FII.3.1. Students will guitar and banjo - improvise chordal accompaniments utilizing hammer, pull (hammer off), choke, slide, and arpeggio techniques.

FII.3.2. Banjo players will improvise using drop thumb and fretted pulls.

FII.3.3. Dulcimer players will improvise using finger picking or arpeggios.

FII.3.4. Students will improvise a chordal accompaniment using staccato and percussion effects.

FII.3.5. Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle - Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations in the keys of Em, F, Dm, Am, and Bm.

FII.3.6. Banjo - Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations using modal tuning (g D G C D) and Double C tuning (g C G C D).

FII.3.7. Dulcimer - Students will improvise rhythmic and melodic variations using Dorian tuning, e.g., Ionian tuning, C and G major.

FII.3.8. Students will create an original melody of at least eight measures harmonized by four or more different chords.

FII.3.9. Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle - Students will improvise an original melody over a standard twelve bar blues.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Folk Music II Level II Instrumental Folk Music) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

FII.4.1. Students will describe how sound is produced on a string instrument (including how the pitch is changed), and relate this to the science of acoustics.

FII.4.2. Students will research the development and use of a folk instrument.

FII.4.3. Students will identify successful folk musicians and list their significant roles in the development of diverse styles and forms of folk music.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Music Appreciation/History) Performing. [This elective program does not require the student to perform.]

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Music Appreciation/History) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

MAH.2.1. Students will employ elements of music including melody, rhythm, harmony, form and texture.

MAH.2.2. Students will employ technology to explore musical sounds.

MAH.2.3. Students will investigate traditional and non-traditional sound sources.

MAH.2.4. Students will explore the development and function of music from the oral and written traditions in diverse cultures throughout history.

MAH.2.5. Students will explore various opportunities to experience music in the community.

MAH.2.6. Students will identify the various uses of music.

MAH.2.7. Students will discuss the role of technology in the development of music.

MAH.2.8. Students will develop skills in evaluating music individually and in groups.

MAH.2.9. Students will defend individual judgments regarding the function of the elements of music.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Music Appreciation/History) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music with specified guidelines.

MAH.3.1. Students will notate original musical ideas in treble and bass clefs.

MAH.3.2. Students will notate music from dictation.

MAH.3.3. Students will employ technology to notate and/or read music.

MAH.3.4. Students will improvise music.

MAH.3.5. Students will arrange music using a choice of notation and form.

MAH.3.6. Students will compose music using a choice of notation and form.

MAH.3.7. Students will use music terminology in explaining music, music notation, instruments, voices, and performances.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Music Appreciation/History) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

MAH.4.1. Students will demonstrate respect for the contributions of the performer.

MAH.4.2. Students will explain appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of music performed within a musical setting.

MAH.4.3. Students will research available careers in the musical field.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Music Theory, Composition, Arranging) Performing: Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

MT.1.1. Students will perform major and minor scales on the instrument of their choice;

MT.1.2. Students will perform bass and treble clef chords on the keyboard; and

MT.1.3. Students will perform, at sight, a composition on instrument of choice.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Music Theory, Composition, Arranging) Exploring: Students will read and notate music; and listen to, analyze, and describe music.

MT.2.1. Students will demonstrate the ability to sight sing using solfeggio, numbers, and letter names.

MT.2.2. Students will write major and minor scales with key signatures in both treble and bass clef.

MT.2.3. Students will write I, IV, and V chords for all major and minor keys and play these chords on a keyboard.

MT.2.4. Students will analyze given compositions for chords, key, and compositional devices.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Music Theory, Composition, Arranging) Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

MAH.3.1. Students will develop chord progressions of specified patterns in four-part voicing using the accepted rules of composition.

MAH.3.2. Students will improvise a melody above a given chordal accompaniment.

MAH.3.3. Students will improvise a chordal accompaniment of a given melody.

MAH.3.4. Students will employ technology to notate and/or read music.

MAH.3.5. Students will arrange music using a choice of notation and form.

MAH.3.6. Students will compose music using a choice of notation and form.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Music Theory, Composition, Arranging) Relating: Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; and understand music in relation to history and culture.

MT.4.1. Students will listen to exemplary compositions and compare and contrast compositional devices used.

MT.4.2. Students will research available careers in the musical field.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Theatre I) Scriptwriting: Students will scriptwrite through improvising, writing and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history. Students will:

TH1.1.1. Students will adapt a variety of well-written materials for classroom performance.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Theatre I) Acting: Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions. Students will:

TH1.2.1. Students will demonstrate the physical, social, and psychological dimensions of characters from dramatic texts.

TH1.2.2. Students will identify selected contemporary styles of theatre/ drama.

TH1.2.3. Students will explain various contemporary acting techniques and methods.

TH1.2.4. Students will depict characters in selected contemporary styles of theatre/ drama.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Theatre I) Designing and Producing: Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

TH1.3.1. Students will identify the basic physical and chemical properties of the technical aspects of theatre.

TH1.3.2. Students will read a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.

TH1.3.3. Students will choose designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that clearly support the text.

TH1.3.4. Students will demonstrate technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively and safely solve the problems of creating functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

TH1.3.5. Students will recognize coherent stage management, promotional and business plans.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Theatre I) Directing: Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for theatrical projects and productions.

TH1.4.1. Students will state multiple interpretations and visual and aural production choices for scripts and production ideas.

TH1.4.2. Students will research selections of text, interpretation and visual and aural artistic choices.

TH1.4.3. Students will observe and/or participate in communicating directorial choices to a small ensemble for improvised or scripted scenes.

WV.MU.S.5. Music Electives (Theatre I) Researching: Students will research by utilizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

TH1.5.1. Students will recognize and explore cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts and determine the practicality of the information to assist in making artistic choices for use in informal and formal productions.

WV.MU.S.6. Music Electives (Theatre I) Comparing and Integrating: Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms.

TH1.6.1. Students will identify and describe the basic nature, materials, elements and means of communicating in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance, music and visual art.

TH1.6.2. Students will research how the non-dramatic art forms are modified to enhance the expression of ideas and emotions in a theatre production.

TH1.6.3. Students will explore the integration of several arts disciplines.

WV.MU.S.7. Music Electives (Theatre I) Analyzing and Constructing Meanings: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH1.7.1. Students will research and discuss the social meanings from informal and formal productions and from dramatic performances from a variety of cultures and historical periods.

TH1.7.2. Students will develop personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and performances.

TH1.7.3 Students will research and discuss the whole and the parts of dramatic performances, taking into account the context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices.

TH1.7.4. Students will discuss their own and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices in informal and formal productions.

WV.MU.S.8. Music Electives (Theatre I) Understanding Context: Students will understand context of universal concepts by recognizing the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in the past and the present.

TH1.8.1. Students will research and discuss how similar themes are treated in drama from various cultures and historical periods.

TH1.8.2. Students will research and discuss the lives, works, and influence of representative theatre artists in various cultures and historical periods.

TH1.8.3. Students will identify cultural and historical sources of American theatre and musical theatre.

TH1.8.4. Students will discuss the effect of their own cultural experiences on their dramatic work.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Theatre II) Scriptwriting: Students will scriptwrite through improvising, writing and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.

TH2.1.1. Students will write, perform and evaluate scripts for plays based on spinoffs from existing works, histories, myths, stories, news events and life.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Theatre II) Acting: Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

TH2.2.1. Students will compare and contrast plays, films and other media for the physical, social and psychological dimensions of characters.

TH2.2.2. Students will identify and demonstrate selected historical styles of theatre/drama.

TH2.2.3. Students will explore and demonstrate various classical acting techniques and theatre conventions (e.g., Greek masks, Kabuki make-up, period manner and gesture).

TH2.2.4. Students will perform and sustain characters who communicate with audiences.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Theatre II) Designing and Producing: Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

TH2.3.1. Students will explain the basic physical and chemical properties of the technical aspects of theatre (such as light, color, electricity, paint, and makeup).

TH2.3.2. Students will distinguish among a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.

TH2.3.3 Students will develop designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that clearly support the text.

TH2.3.4. Students will apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively and safely solve the problems of creating functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

TH2.3.5. Students will design and implement coherent stage management, promotional and business plans.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Theatre II) Directing: Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for theatrical projects and productions.

TH2.4.1. Students will develop multiple interpretations and visual and aural production choices for scripts and production ideas and choosing those that are most interesting.

TH2.4.2. Students will justify selections of text, interpretation, and visual and aural artistic choices.

TH2.4.3. Students will effectively communicate directorial choices to a small ensemble for improvised or scripted scenes.

WV.MU.S.5. Music Electives (Theatre II) Researching: Students will research by utilizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

TH2.5.1. Students will identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts, and evaluate the practicality of the information to make artistic choices for use in informal and formal productions.

WV.MU.S.6. Music Electives (Theatre II) Comparing and Integrating: Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms.

TH2.6.1. Students will compare and contrast the basic nature, materials, elements and means of communicating in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance, music and visual art.

TH2.6.2. Students will explain how other art forms are modified to enhance the expression of ideas and emotions in theatre.

TH2.6.3. Students will demonstrate the integration of several arts disciplines in informal presentations.

WV.MU.S.7. Music Electives (Theatre II) Analyzing and Constructing Meanings: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH2.7.1. Students will articulate social concepts (e.g., themes, lessons, attitudes, values, morals) from informal and formal productions and from dramatic performances from a variety of cultures and historical periods; and relate these to current personal, national and international issues.

TH2.7.2. Students will articulate and defend personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and performances.

TH2.7.3 Students will analyze and critique the whole and the parts of dramatic performances, taking into account the context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices.

TH2.7.4. Students will constructively evaluate their own and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices in informal and formal productions.

WV.MU.S.8. Music Electives (Theatre II) Understanding Context: Students will understand context of universal concepts by recognizing the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in the past and the present.

TH2.8.1. Students will compare how similar themes are treated in drama from various cultures and historical periods, demonstrate with informal performances, and discuss how theatre can reveal universal concepts.

TH2.8.2. Students will identify and compare the lives, works and influence of representative theatre artists in various cultures and historical periods.

TH2.8.3. Students will discuss cultural and historical sources of American theatre and musical theatre.

TH2.8.4. Students will analyze the effect of their own cultural experiences on their dramatic works.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Theatre III) Scriptwriting: Students will scriptwrite through improvising, writing and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.

TH3.1.1. Students will collaborate in the development of original dramatic pieces for monologues, scenes or short plays developing character, human interaction, conflict and resolution.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Theatre III) Acting: Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

TH3.2.1. Students will analyze texts for all information and clues relevant to creating characters in at least two different acting styles.

TH3.2.2. Students will demonstrate artistic discipline to achieve ensemble in rehearsal and performance.

TH3.2.3. Students will create consistent characters in informal and formal theatre.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Theatre III) Designing and Producing: Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

TH3.3.1. Students will identify how scientific and technological advances have impacted set, light, sound and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH3.3.2. Students will assist directors in developing unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH3.3.3. Students will practice techniques of safe construction and efficient operation of technical aspects of theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH3.3.4. Students will use problem solving skills to assist in creating and reliably implementing production schedule, stage management plans, promotional ideas and business and front of house procedures for theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Theatre III) Directing: Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for theatrical projects and productions.

TH3.4.1. Students will explore and identify the roles and interrelated responsibilities of the various personnel involved in theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH3.4.2. Students will assist in collaborating with designers and actors to develop aesthetically unified production concepts for informal and formal theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH3.4.3. Students will assist with auditions, casting, directing and conducting production meetings.

WV.MU.S.5. Music Electives (Theatre III) Researching: Students will research by utilizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

TH3.5.1. Students will explore and identify appropriate historical production designs, techniques and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for theatre, film or television productions.

WV.MU.S.6. Music Electives (Theatre III) Comparing and Integrating: Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms.

TH3.6.1. Students will explore through research the interpretive and expressive nature of several art forms in a specific culture or historical period.

TH3.6.2. Students will determine the unique interpretive and aesthetic qualities of traditional arts from various cultures, historical periods and contemporary art forms.

TH3.6.3. Students will integrate designs from several art forms into theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.7. Music Electives (Theatre III) Analyzing and Constructing Meanings: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH3.7.1. Students will identify the conventions of nontraditional theatrical performances.

TH3.7.2. Students will explore various interpretations of the same texts and/or performances.

TH3.7.3. Students will research several dramatic works in terms of other aesthetic philosophies (e.g., the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism with its unities of time and place, Shakespeare and romantic forms, India's classical drama, Japanese Kabuki).

TH3.7.4. Students will gather and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work (e.g., theatre portfolios); select points most appropriate to promote further development.

WV.MU.S.8. Music Electives (Theatre III) Understanding Context: Students will understand context of universal concepts by recognizing the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in the past and the present.

TH3.8.1. Students will research the social and aesthetic impact of underrepresented theatre and film artists.

TH3.8.2. Students will define the relationships among cultural values, freedom of artistic expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.

TH3.8.3. Students will research the development of dramatic forms, production practices and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

TH3.8.4. Students will explain the historical and cultural influences on contemporary theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.1. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Scriptwriting: Students will scriptwrite through improvising, writing and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.

TH4.1.1. Students will write scripts for multiple media with attention to subtext, character motivation, dramatic problems, complications, crises, climax and resolution.

WV.MU.S.2. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Acting: Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

TH4.2.1. Students will analyze text for all information and clues relevant to creating a multi-dimensional characterization.

TH4.2.2. Students will refine artistic discipline to achieve an ensemble in rehearsal and performance.

TH4.2.3. Students will develop contrasting, consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.3. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Designing and Producing: Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

TH4.3.1. Students will explain the impact of scientific and technological advances on set, light, sound and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH4.3.2. Students will collaborate with directors to develop unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the drama for informal and formal theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH4.3.3. Students will safely construct and effectively operate technical aspects of theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH4.3.4. Students will assume responsibility for creating and reliably implementing production schedules, stage management plans, promotional ideas and business and front of house procedures for informal and formal theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.4. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Directing: Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for theatrical projects and productions.

TH4.4.1. Students will explain the roles and interrelated responsibilities of the various personnel involved in theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH4.4.2. Students will collaborate with designers and actors to develop aesthetically unified production concepts for theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

TH4.4.3. Students will use problem solving skills to conduct auditions, cast actors, direct scenes and conduct production meetings to achieve production goals.

WV.MU.S.5. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Researching: Students will research by utilizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

TH4.5.1. Students will research and describe appropriate historical production designs, techniques and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.6. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Comparing and Integrating: Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms.

TH4.6.1. Students will compare and contrast the interpretive and expressive nature of several art forms in a specific culture or historical period.

TH4.6.2. Students will compare and contrast the interpretive and expressive natures and aesthetic qualities of traditional arts from various cultures and historical periods with contemporary art forms.

TH4.6.3. Students will apply integrated designs using several arts and/or media in theatre, film, television or electronic media productions.

WV.MU.S.7. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Analyzing and Constructing Meanings: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.

TH4.7.1. Students will construct personal meanings from nontraditional dramatic performances.

TH4.7.2. Students will analyze, compare and evaluate differing critiques of the same dramatic texts and performances.

TH4.7.3. Students will critique several dramatic works in terms of aesthetic philosophies (e.g., the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism with its unities of time and place, Shakespeare and romantic forms, India's classical drama, Japanese Kabuki).

TH4.7.4. Students will analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work explaining which points are most appropriate to facilitate further development of the work.

WV.MU.S.8. Music Electives (Theatre IV) Understanding Context: Students will understand context of universal concepts by recognizing the role of theatre, film, television and electronic media in the past and the present.

TH4.8.1. Students will analyze the social and aesthetic impact of underrepresented theatre and film artists.

TH4.8.2. Students will analyze the relationships among cultural values, freedom of artistic expression, ethics and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.

TH4.8.3. Students will analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television and electronic media productions.