West Virginia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 8

WV.VA.S.1. General Art: 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.

VA.8.1.1. Students will select and apply various media, techniques, technologies, and processes used to express experiences and/or ideas.

VA.8.1.2. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of their choice of media, techniques, technologies, and processes.

VA.8.1.3. Students will use selected media, techniques, technologies, and processes to produce two-dimensional or three-dimensional artwork that communicate experiences and/or ideas, e.g., photography, computer imagery.

VA.8.1.4. Students will demonstrate safe and effective use of materials, tools, and technology.

WV.VA.S.2. General Art: 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.

VA.8.2.1. Students will identify and use the elements of art, e.g., line, shape, color, texture, value, form, and space.

VA.8.2.2. Students will identify and use the principles of design, e.g., unity, rhythm, emphasis, balance, variety, repetition, and proportion.

VA.8.2.3. Students will create two-dimensional artworks using a variety of elements of art and principles of design.

VA.8.2.4. Students will create three-dimensional artworks using a variety of elements of art and principles of design.

VA.8.2.5. Students will create artworks using color schemes chosen from the following: complementary, analogous, monochromatic, triadic, split-complementary, warm, cool.

VA.8.2.6. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of using the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

WV.VA.S.3. General Art: 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.

VA.8.3.1. Students will choose realistic or non-objective symbols and ideas to communicate specific meaning in two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.

VA.8.3.2. Students will create realistic or non-objective symbols to communicate personal experiences.

VA.8.3.3. Students will analyze the effectiveness of choices in creating art relative to subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

WV.VA.S.4. General Art: 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.

VA.8.4.1. Students will analyze and interpret the characteristics of artworks and artists from different periods of time, styles, and cultures.

VA.8.4.2. Students will analyze and evaluate art movements with concurring world events.

VA.8.4.3. Students will explain how time and place influence meaning and value in a work of art.

VA.8.4.4. Students will examine the relationships of local history and culture to West Virginia artists and West Virginia.

WV.VA.S.5. General Art: 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.

VA.8.5.1. Students will identify various careers in art, e.g., architect, graphic designer, educator, industrial designer.

VA.8.5.2. Students will identify the changing nature of art in a contemporary world.

VA.8.5.3. Students will compare the contemporary and/or historical meaning and purposes of artworks based on information about their period and culture, e.g., Toulouse-Lautrec to modern graphic designers, cartoonist's animation to computer generated animation.

VA.8.5.4. Students will identify and evaluate the purpose for creating specific types of art, e.g., public sculptures, photography, computer generated art.

VA.8.5.5. Students will select and display his/her artwork(s).

VA.8.5.6. Students will develop written responses to various works of art that includes description, interpretation, analysis, and judgment.

VA.8.5.7. Students will participate in a group critique of various works of art using an art criticism process that includes description, interpretation, analysis, and judgment.

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

VA.8.6.1. Students will compare and contrast the characteristics of the visual arts as they relate to other disciplines.

VA.8.6.2. Students will employ two or more arts disciplines to recreate or illustrate a selected historical event.

WV.MU.S.1. General 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.

GM.8.1.1. Students will sing songs in three parts.

GM.8.1.2. Students will play major and minor melodies.

GM.8.1.3. Students will play major and minor chords.

WV.MU.S.2. General Music: Exploring: Students will read and notate music; listen to, analyze, and describe music; and evaluate music and music performances.

GM.8.2.1. Students will read rhythmic patterns from 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.

GM.8.2.2. Students will follow a three-part score, using repeats, dynamics, and various tempi.

GM.8.2.3. Students will follow grand staff notation.

GM.8.2.4. Students will refine all rhythmic notations.

GM.8.2.5. Students will refine notation in treble and bass clefs.

GM.8.2.6. Students will identify aurally the bass voice.

GM.8.2.7. Students will evaluate a live or recorded music performance.

WV.MU.S.3. General Music: Creating: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments; and compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

GM.8.3.1. Students will improvise an eight measure rhythm in a percussion ensemble.

GM.8.3.2. Students will create musical composition (8 measures).

WV.MU.S.4. General 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.

GM.8.4.1. Students will sing West Virginia songs.

GM.8.4.2. Students will relate West Virginia songs to West Virginia history and geography.

GM.8.4.3. Students will expand on instrumental and vocal styles from various cultures.

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 (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.