Standards
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Generate resourceDemonstrate flexibility by improvising phrases from a variety of criteria.
Generate resourceCollaborate with a partner to improvise movement using shadowing and mirroring.
Generate resourceDemonstrate creative solutions to movement problems by working independently and collaboratively with others.
Generate resourceDemonstrate the ability to create and perform dance through guided and self- exploration of a variety of stimuli.
Generate resourceObserve a dance and discuss how feelings and ideas relate to your personal experience.
Generate resourceThink creatively to develop individual dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Generate resourceUse information from research in other disciplines as inspiration to create dance that has meaning.
Generate resourceObserve or experience a variety of dance performances and describe the feelings and ideas that are evoked by the experience.
Generate resourceAccess and use research information as impetus for creating meaningful dance.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWork independently and collaboratively to experience different social, historical, and cultural forms of dance, making a personal connection.
Generate resourceApply dance literacy through performing a variety of forms and styles of dance.
Generate resourceWork collaboratively with others to perform and explain the meaning of dances from cultures related to general classroom studies.
Generate resourceAnalyze and infer how dance is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceDemonstrate knowledge of the contexts of dances from a variety of cultures, societies, and history.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationships of dance to music, theatre, the visual arts, media arts and other disciplines.
Generate resourceUsing information from the elements of dance (BEST), innovate through improvisation, a phrase that has meaning.
Generate resourceModify dance phrases, and discuss the reasons for the modifications as well as the effectiveness of artistic choices.
Generate resourceInnovate and act on a dance idea by creating a phrase inspired by the idea. Explain and support choices with clear communication.
Generate resourceUse the elements of dance and choreographic forms to create dance and explain its meaning or main idea.
Generate resourceModify dance phrases and discuss the reasons and effectiveness of choices.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions in order to select creative material for dance work. Explain the decisions with clear communication.
Generate resourceRevise independent or collaborative work using feedback, adapting to change.
Generate resourceRevise created movement based on feedback from self and others, and justify revision choices.
Generate resourceDescribe various aspects of dance (e.g. patterns, levels, relationships of dancers, spacing).
Generate resourceUse information from the BEST principles to explore and expand upon technique and vocabulary.
Generate resourceWork independently to incorporate a variety of energies in performed movement.
Generate resourceWork independently to perform movements in a variety of different directions.
Generate resourceWork in small groups cooperatively to perform movements using a variety of spatial relationships.
Generate resourceWork independently and in small groups to vary the rhythm and speed of the same dance phrase.
Generate resourceUse combinations of body, energy, space and time (BEST) to perform a variety of movements.
Generate resourceMemorize and perform dance phrases or dance works with technical accuracy.
Generate resourceRecognize movement performed correctly and incorrectly (considering anatomy, alignment, safety).
Generate resourceDevelop fundamental knowledge about the value of warm up, nutrition, and preparing the body for dance.
Generate resourceSafely adapt to change in a defined space and perceive spatial relationships to other dancers.
Generate resourceDemonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and evaluate personal healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life including nutrition and injury prevention.
Generate resourceCollaborate and work creatively with others to analyze and refine artistic work.
Generate resourcePerform dances for an audience with attention to clear communication of stories, poems, songs, and personal ideas.
Generate resourceThink creatively and analyze artistic work to produce elements that support the work such as props, scenery, programs, posters, costumes, technology, media, etc.
Generate resourceDance for an audience in a variety of spaces, demonstrating rehearsal and performance etiquette.
Generate resourceDetermine the meaning, purpose or artistic intent of a dance and create production elements that support them.
Generate resourceWork independently to observe a performance of dance work; analyze and describe how the elements of dance are used.
Generate resourceApply technology effectively by developing an organizer for recording observed or experienced patterns in a dance.
Generate resourceUsing information from BEST principles, identify and describe qualities of movement of various dances.
Generate resourceIdentify, create, and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance.
Generate resourceDescribe movement characteristics of multiple genres, cultures, and styles.
Generate resourceInteract effectively with others and discuss possible meanings and choreographic intent of an observed dance.
Generate resourceAnalyze a recorded or performed dance in order to discuss movement qualities and structure.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain why a moment in a dance had personal meaning or response.
Generate resourceClearly communicate how a dancer's technique conveys artistic expression and clarity in an observed dance.
Generate resourceIdentify and define the main/central idea of an observed dance using dance terminology.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions as to how costume, make-up, sets, lighting, music, etc. make a dance successful. Discuss decisions.
Generate resourceUse information from given criteria to evaluate a dance based on communication or theme, ideas, structure, and intent.
Generate resourceRecognize and describe selected aesthetic principles such as repetition, unity, variety, sequence, proportion, transition, balance, harmony, climax, and contrast, in dance performances.
Generate resourceThink critically and describe how selection of the elements of dance and choreographic forms affects personal performances, improvisations, and choreography.
Generate resourceEngage appropriately as an audience participant in formal and informal settings.
Generate resourceIdentify, analyze, and apply criteria for making aesthetic judgments in dance.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Generate resourceExamine and show how media artworks form meaning, situations, and/or culture.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceUnderstand and apply ethics and safety rules when using equipment and content.
Generate resourceAnalyze and infer how media is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationships of media arts to theatre, dance, music, the visual arts, and other disciplines.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others in a small group setting to create a visual representation of formulated ideas.
Generate resourceDevelop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others in a small group setting to create a task list to prepare for production.
Generate resourceForm, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others in a small group setting to decide what content is needed and how it will be captured.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others in a small group setting to make judgments and decisions on media production to act on creative ideas with a refined purpose.
Generate resourceConstruct, arrange, and combine various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying defined sets of principles.
Generate resourceIn refining and completing media artworks, practice, analyze, and demonstrate how emphasizing elements alters effect, purpose and clarity.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 4: Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.
Generate resourceWork creatively with others, in a small group setting, to curate multiple types of media (video, sound, still pictures) with academic content to create one media product.
Generate resourcePractice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media artworks.
Generate resourceInteract effectively with others to manage the media production plan to apply artistic/technical skills and define individual roles.
Generate resourceAct on creative ideas during media arts production to create new content.
Generate resourceExplore and interact with a variety of tools and techniques to construct media content.
Generate resourceExhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, soft skills (ex. tool use, collaboration, equipment use), and organizational roles.
Generate resourceExhibit and practice basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExhibit, demonstrate, and examine standard use of tools and techniques to construct media artworks.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions on presentation considering setting and potential distribution of media product(s).
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the presentation conditions, and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe and compare the experience; share results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
Generate resourceImplement critical thinking strategies to summarize how messages and audience experiences are created through media.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how messages are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceAnalyze media from the media arts industry to discuss purpose and meaning.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others to create general criteria to evaluate media products.
Generate resourceIdentify personal and cultural influences as well as creative preferences in creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceIdentify and document the benefits of, and opportunities for, making music both inside and outside of school and/or music class, including afterschool programs and extracurricular opportunities.
Generate resourceDescribe how interests, experiences, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and musical intentions when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, connect music to personal experience through creating, performing, or responding to music.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, connect music to other people’s personal experiences when creating, performing, or responding to music.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, make connections between music and other common core subjects, including the arts, through creating, performing, or responding to music.
Generate resourceAnalyze and document how music is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceDescribe and justify how music is a form of personal communication and expression.
Generate resourceDescribe and explain factors that impact the role of music in the lives of people.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationships of music to dance, theatre, the visual arts, media arts and other disciplines.
Generate resourceWith increasing independence, use standard notation, iconic notation or recording technology effectively to create and document personal musical ideas. Clearly communicate creative choices.
Generate resourceWith increasing independence, create musical ideas for classroom and personal composition activities, using appropriate technology as available.
Generate resourceCreate music with intermediate-level melodic, rhythmic, dynamic, and formal elements, in response to artistic stimuli, using appropriate technology as available.
Generate resourceSelect, present, explain, and document musical choices with connections to purpose and context.
Generate resourceConceptualize and generate musical ideas for an artistic purpose and context, using appropriate technology as available.
Generate resourceThink critically to evaluate and refine personal musical ideas in response to feedback and document revisions.
Generate resourcePresent a classroom version, incorporating refinements, and explain connections to the artistic purpose, using appropriate technology as available.
Generate resourceApply given criteria to evaluate and summarize refinements to personal musical ideas.
Generate resourcePresent a classroom version of personal musical ideas and summarize connections to artistic purpose.
Generate resourceWith teacher guidance, select a piece of music to read, analyze, and perform with attention to context and creative intent. Justify and support performance decisions.
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understanding of musical contexts when describing choices of music selected for performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain artistic qualities when performing musical ideas.
Generate resourceDescribe personal preferences for the selection of music for performance based on purpose, context, and technical skill.
Generate resourceDescribe and analyze how context (historical, cultural, social, and personal) informs performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through artistic qualities.
Generate resourceWith teacher guidance, identify feedback and explore multiple points of view during the rehearsal process, in order to improve performance quality, technical accuracy and artistic purpose.
Generate resourceIdentify and apply appropriate feedback to rehearse and refine performance.
Generate resourcePerform a varied repertoire of music with artistic purpose, demonstrating technical accuracy.
Generate resourceInteract effectively with the audience and other performers to convey the artistic purpose of the piece. Reflect with the listeners in discussion or other activity appropriate to the context.
Generate resourceDiscuss readiness of a varied repertoire of music for public performance, based on experience of time, place, and culture from which the music is chosen.
Generate resourceCommunicate purpose through music performance, paying attention to accuracy and interpretation.
Generate resourceClearly communicate personal preferences when selecting music for listening or performing and describe how the use of musical elements and context influence the choice.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, communicate clearly the importance of structure, musical elements, and context.
Generate resourceSelect music and describe, citing evidence, how personal interests, experiences, and purposes influence musical choice.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by structure, use of musical elements, and context (social, cultural, and historical).
Generate resourceWhen listening to music, communicate clearly how the use of musical elements and performance choices might create the intended effect.
Generate resourceSummarize and explain how artistic qualities are used in musicians’ interpretations.
Generate resourceChoose a piece of music or a musical performance and evaluate the quality according to specified criteria. Support point of view with evidence and appropriate musical vocabulary.
Generate resourceEngage appropriately as an active listener in formal and informal settings, paying attention to audience etiquette appropriate to the genre of music.
Generate resourceCompare and document musical elements from two or more contrasting selections of music.
Generate resourceDescribe personal evaluation of musical works or performances based on criteria, using appropriate musical vocabulary.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Generate resourcePresent a devised theatrical issue-based work to a formal or informal audience.
Generate resourceInteract with the audience in a formal or informal response activity.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceUsing devised criteria respond to personal responses to various theatrical works.
Generate resourceApply researched information to develop and refine a self-written theatrical work based on a historical source material.
Generate resourceAnalyze and infer how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceIdentify historical, global, and/or social issues expressed in a theatrical work from another culture.
Generate resourceIdentify and use historical source material to develop a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationships of theatre to dance, music, the visual arts, media arts, and other disciplines.
Generate resourceSynthesize ideas and collaborate with others to create interesting plot and characters for an original guided drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceWork creatively and collaborate with others to create and conceptualize settings, costumes, and properties for a guided drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceThink creatively and be flexible in rehearsing, and producing an original drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourcePropose and enact details to the plot and characters of a guided original drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourcePropose and explore different ways to represent setting, costume, and properties in a guided original drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceExplore how given circumstances impact a character’s motivation and objective in a guided original drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceWork creatively and collaborate with others to analyze and advance original ideas.
Generate resourceResearch information about the world of the story and use it creatively to enhance the devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceWork effectively with a diverse team being flexible with others in order to incorporate various artistic ideas in a devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others and work effectively in a diverse team to enhance a devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceUse available technology to enhance artistic choices in a devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceThrough collective inquiry, advance original ideas of plot in a drama/theatrical work using a character’s given circumstances, objective, and inner thoughts.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, assume defined responsibilities of a theatrical team and create a design for a devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceReason effectively while comparing artistic choices in a devised drama/theatrical experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate with others to reimagine staging choices in a timely manner.
Generate resourceReflect and critique on technical artistic choices and implement innovated ideas to refine choices to better reveal theme.
Generate resourcePerform a devised/adapted theatrical experience for an informal audience.
Generate resourceExplore and refine various artistic choices to enhance character, dialogue, and plot in a devised theatrical experience.
Generate resourceThrough rehearsal, explore and refine artistic choices in staging a devised theatrical experience.
Generate resourceCreate innovative solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a devised theatrical experience.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 4: Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.
Generate resourceWork creatively with others to decide on and implement original creative artistic choices for a scripted theatrical performance.
Generate resourceEffectively justify and implement specific acting, vocal, and movement choices to create a convincing character in a scripted performance.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply various artistic choices to enhance dramatic moments in a theatre work.
Generate resourceExpand on artistic physical and vocal choices to create a convincing character for a scripted performance.
Generate resourceUse acting exercises to creatively enhance a performance for a scripted theatrical experience.
Generate resourceUse theatre resources to solve problems for a scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceApply technology and implement innovative solutions to enhance a scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceIntegrate techniques of imagination, movement, and vocal exercises in a scripted theatrical experience.
Generate resourceCraft basic technical elements that enhance story and theme in a scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceCommunicate a self-reflection on a theatrical experience and one’s own contribution.
Generate resourceShare an informal or formal, theme-based and scripted, theatrical work for an audience and engage in shared reflections.
Generate resourceIdentify where artistic choices are made and analyze why they were made.
Generate resourceCommunicate effectively an aesthetic response to artistic choices in a theatrical experience.
Generate resourceIdentify artistic choices and explain personal aesthetic reactions to a theatrical experience.
Generate resourceEffectively reason and interact with others to compare personal feelings about character and plot in various theatrical experiences.
Generate resourceReason effectively to explore the relationship between an artist’s intent and artistic choices.
Generate resourceEngage appropriately as an audience participant in formal/informal settings.
Generate resourceIdentify and communicate personal reactions to various types and styles of theatrical experiences.
Generate resourceExplore various personal choices in creating a character for a theatrical experience.
Generate resourceApply created criteria and reason effectively to critique artistic choices in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDevelop and implement a plan to assess text and performance elements in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceRecognize how a character’s circumstances and choices impact an audience’s perspective in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 10: Synthesize -Â Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 11: Relate -Â Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceObserve and interpret cultural traditions and surroundings in new ways by creating art.
Generate resourceAct on creative ideas to connect personal experiences and knowledge to visually represent what people see, know, feel and imagine.
Generate resourceAnalyze and infer how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.
Generate resourceReason effectively to understand the role of art as an essential aspect of history, society, culture and human experience.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard I: Investigate, Plan, Make -Â Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Generate resourceCollaboratively combine ideas to generate an innovative theme, concept, or idea for art-making.
Generate resourceAnalyze and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for making an artwork.
Generate resourceAct on creative ideas to develop personally meaningful compositions through observation, imagination, or memory.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 2: Investigate -Â Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Generate resourceThrough guided practice, experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making methods to demonstrate quality craftsmanship.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe and visually represent places and/or objects that are personally meaningful.
Generate resourceInvestigate a variety of ways that artists and designers develop ideas in response to personal meaning.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 3: Reflect, Refine, Continue -Â Refine and complete artistic work
Generate resourceIndependently, collaboratively and persistently critique and refine artwork in search of progress for emerging meaning.
Generate resourceUse art vocabulary to create an artist statement that supports artistic decisions and meaning.
Generate resourceThink creatively to investigate a variety of ways that artists and designers develop ideas on revising, reflecting, and refining and developing work.
Generate resourceUse a variety of strategies to modify and refine artworks in process.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 4: Select -Â Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation
Generate resourceInvestigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces–physical and digital–for exhibiting art.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation. Make judgments and decisions for appropriate museums and galleries for specific works.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions to justify which works of art express ideas about self, other people, places and events that will be meaningful in presentations.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 5: Analyze -Â Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation
Generate resourceUsing logical and responsible methods, prepare art for adjustments in presentation for various locations and formats.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions effectively to critique artwork based on criteria for presentation or preservation.
Generate resourceAdapt to change when analyzing artwork based on criteria for presentation or preservation.
Generate resourceAnchor Standard 6: Share - Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Generate resourceExplain how and where different cultures record stories and history of life through art.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how art museums and other venues present ideas and provide information.
Generate resourceMake judgments and decisions to determine ways in which works of art express ideas about self, other people, places, and events.
Generate resourceAnalyze components in visual imagery that convey messages and compare personal interpretations.
Generate resourceAnalyze similarities and differences between the elements of art in observed form.
Generate resourceAct on Creative ideas to support which artworks represent what people see, know, feel, and imagine.
Generate resourceCreatively play with the elements of art and principles of design to develop compositions that are personally meaningful in our world.
Generate resourceConstruct meaning by describing the feelings experienced, the subject matter, the formal characteristics, and the art-making approach.
Generate resourceAnalyze media, develop and apply criteria to personally created works as well as the artwork of others.
Generate resourceEvaluate and apply a set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.
Generate resourceRecognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural context.
Generate resourceEngage appropriately as audience participants in formal and informal settings.
Generate resourceWork creatively, independently and with others to make judgments and decisions to evaluate a work of art based on various criteria demonstrating knowledge of content-specific literacy.
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