STANDARD 1.2: Visual and Performing Arts

Standard 1: Visual and Performing Arts

Mission: The arts contribute to the achievement of social, economic and human growth by fostering creativity and providing opportunities for expression beyond the limits of language.

Standard 1.2 Creation and Performance

All students will utilize those skills, media, methods and technologies appropriate to each art form in the creation, performance and presentation of dance, music, theater and visual art.

Big Idea: Active participation in the arts leads to a comprehensive understanding of the imaginative and creative process.
1.2 A. Dance
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does creating and performing in the arts differ from viewing the arts? - To what extent does the viewer properly affect and influence the art and the artist and to what extent is the art for the artist?	- The arts serve multiple functions: enlightenment, education, and entertainment. - Though the artist’s imagination and intuition drive the work, great art requires skills and discipline to turn notions into a quality product. - The artistic process can lead to unforeseen or unpredictable outcomes.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Demonstrate technical proficiency and artistic application of anatomical and kinesthetic principles in performance.
2. Craft dances with themes that have unity of form and content that demonstrate the ability to work alone and in small groups to create dances with coherence and aesthetic unity.
3. Collaborate in the design and production of a dance work.
4. Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in dance.
1.2 B. Music
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does creating and performing in the arts differ from viewing the arts? - To what extent does the viewer properly affect and influence the art and the artist and to what extent is the art for the artist?	- The arts serve multiple functions: enlightenment, education, and entertainment. - Though the artist’s imagination and intuition drive the work, great art requires skills and discipline to turn notions into a quality product. - The artistic process can lead to unforeseen or unpredictable outcomes.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Sing or play musical works from different genres with expression and technical accuracy.
2. Analyze original or prepared musical scores and demonstrate how the elements of music are manipulated.
3. Improvise or compose melodies, stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts and rhythmic accompaniments using a chosen system of notation.
4. Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments using a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media.
5. Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in music.
1.2 C. Theater
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does creating and performing in the arts differ from viewing the arts? - To what extent does the viewer properly affect and influence the art and the artist and to what extent is the art for the artist?	- The arts serve multiple functions: enlightenment, education, and entertainment. - Though the artist’s imagination and intuition drive the work, great art requires skills and discipline to turn notions into a quality product. - The artistic process can lead to unforeseen or unpredictable outcomes.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Create original interpretations of scripted roles demonstrating a range of appropriate acting styles and methods.
2. Interpret a script by creating a production concept with informed, supported, and sustained directorial choices.
3. Collaborate in the design and production of a theatrical work
4. Plan and rehearse improvised and scripted scenes.
5. Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in theater.
1.2 D. Visual Arts
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does creating and performing in the arts differ from viewing the arts? - To what extent does the viewer properly affect and influence the art and the artist and to what extent is the art for the artist?	- The arts serve multiple functions: enlightenment, education, and entertainment. - Though the artist’s imagination and intuition drive the work, great art requires skills and discipline to turn notions into a quality product. - The artistic process can lead to unforeseen or unpredictable outcomes.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Interpret themes using symbolism, allegory or irony through the production of two or three-dimensional art.
2. Perform various methods and techniques used in the production of works of art.
3. Produce an original body of work in one or more mediums that demonstrates mastery of methods and techniques.
4. Outline a variety of pathways and the requisite training for careers in the visual arts.

Link to Standard 1.2 Grade 7-8

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