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 2:
1. Perform planned and improvised dance sequences using the elements of time, space/shape, and energy.
2. Communicate through the creation and performance of planned and improvised sequences in response to meter, rhythm, and variations in tempo.
3. Create and perform using objects and other art forms as creative stimuli for dance.
4. Perform such movements as bending, twisting, stretching, and swinging, using various levels in space.
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 2:
1. Clap, sing or play from simple notation that includes pitch, rhythm, dynamics and tempo.
2. Vocalize the “home tone” of familiar and unfamiliar songs, and demonstrate appropriate posture and breathing technique while performing songs, rounds, or canons in unison and with a partner
3. Improvise short tonal and rhythmic patterns.
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 2:
1. Portray characters and describe basic plots and themes in creative drama.
2. Experiment with the use of voice and movement in creative drama and storytelling.
3. Employ theatrical elements to create and express stories in various cultural settings.
4. Show how different uses of and approaches to theater can communicate experiences.
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 2:
1. Create works of art using the basic elements of color, line, shape, form, texture, and space for a variety of subjects and basic media.
2. Cite basic visual art vocabulary used to describe works of art.
3. Present completed works of art in exhibition areas inside and outside the classroom.
4. Recognize how art is part of everyday life.

Link to Standard 1.2 Grade 3-4

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