STANDARD 1.3: 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 1.3 Elements and Principles of the Arts

All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of dance, music, theater and visual art.

Big Idea: An understanding of the elements and principles of art is essential to the creative process and artistic production.
1.3 A. Dance
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do underlying structures unconsciously guide the creation of art works? - Does art have boundaries?	- Underlying structures in art can be found via analysis and inference. - Breaking accepted norms often gives rise to new forms of artistic expression.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Investigate the relationship of dance and other art forms
2. Differentiate basic compositional structures in choreography.
3. Recognize contrasting and complementary shapes and shared weight centers in composition and performance.
1.3 B. Music
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do underlying structures unconsciously guide the creation of art works? - Does art have boundaries?	- Underlying structures in art can be found via analysis and inference. - Breaking accepted norms often gives rise to new forms of artistic expression.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Explore musical elements through verbal and written responses to diverse aural prompts and printed scores.
2. Identify and categorize sound sources by common traits.
3. Differentiate basic structures in music composition.
1.3 C. Theater
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do underlying structures unconsciously guide the creation of art works? - Does art have boundaries?	- Underlying structures in art can be found via analysis and inference. - Breaking accepted norms often gives rise to new forms of artistic expression.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Recognize basic stage directions in the dramatization of stories/plays
2. Examine the basic structural characteristics of the well-made play.
1.3 D. Visual Arts
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do underlying structures unconsciously guide the creation of art works? - Does art have boundaries?	- Underlying structures in art can be found via analysis and inference. - Breaking accepted norms often gives rise to new forms of artistic expression.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Identify the design principles of balance, harmony, unity, emphasis, proportion and rhythm/movement.
2. Identify elements and principles of design in specific works of art.

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade K-2

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 5-6

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