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 6:
1. Analyze both formal and expressive aspects of time, shape, space and energy, in various dance works.
2. Analyze the principles of choreography applied in a master dance work.
3. Differentiate among the various artistic and non-artistic contributions involved in dance production.
4. Analyze the interrelationship between dance movement and the movements of everyday life and effectively demonstrate the difference between pantomiming and abstracting a gesture.
5. Interpret compositional use of dance elements for expressive purposes
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 6:
1. Analyze musical elements in response to aural prompts and printed scores representing diverse genres and cultures and notational systems.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic concepts of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions.
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 6:
1. Examine the range of roles and characterizations possible in theatrical production and performance.
2. Examine the relationship between physicality and character development.
3. Identify various tactics employed by actors to create believable, motivated action
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 6:
1. Describe the emotional significance conveyed in the application of the elements.
2. Describe a work of art that clearly illustrates a principle of design.

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 3-4

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 7-8

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