High School Fine Arts IAS Standards

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Creating

Explore a variety of stimuli for understanding and demonstrating choreographic principles, structures, and processes. Analyze the process and the relationship between the stimuli and choreographed dances.

Experiment with the elements of dance and use choreographic principles to explore personal movement preferences and strengths. Select movements that challenge skills and build on strengths in an original dance study or dance.

Synthesize content generated from a variety of stimuli to choreograph dance studies or dances using original or traditional dance styles.

Apply personal movement preferences and strengths with the movement vocabulary of several dance styles or genres to choreograph an original dance study or dance. Communicate an artistic intent and use choreographic processes. Compare personal choices to those made by well known choreographers.

Synthesize content generated from a variety of stimuli. Experiment and take risks to discover a personal voice to create, present, and explain artistic intent.

Expand personal movement preferences and strengths to discover unexpected solutions that communicate the artistic intent of an original dance using choreographic structures or forms. Analyze and define the movement content in a dance.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Collaborate to design a dance using a variety of choreographic principles to support an artistic intent. Explain how dance structures clarify the artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement for an original dance study or dance and explain how choreographic structure communicates that artistic statement.

Work individually or collaboratively to design and demonstrate a variety of choreographic processes to develop solo or group dances. Analyze how the structure and final composition informs the artistic intent.

Develop an artistic statement that reflects a personal aesthetic for an original dance and identify how the choreographic structure supports that artistic statement.

Demonstrate personal voice in designing original dances by applying choreographic structures or forms. Justify choreographic choices and explain how they are used to intensify artistic intent.

Construct an artistic statement for an original dance that communicates a personal, cultural, or artistic perspective and justify how the choreographic structure supports that artistic statement.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating choreographic processes, principles, and structures based on established artistic criteria , self-reflection, and the feedback of others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Compare a variety of recognized systems to document a dance using writing, symbols, or media technologies

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by refining choreographic processes, principles, and structures, collaboratively or independently using established artistic criteria, self- reflection and the feedback of others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Develop a strategy to record a dance using recognized systems of dance documentation (for example, writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies).

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating and refining choreographic processes, principles, and structures using self-reflection and feedback from others. Document choices made in the revision process in order to justify and support artistic intent.

Document a dance using recognized systems of dance documentation (for example, writing, a form of notation symbols, or using media technologies). Collaborate with others to review the documentation and make revisions.

Connecting

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Reflect upon the ideas expressed by the choreographer in a dance. Explain how the perspectives expressed by the choreographer may impact one’s own interpretation. Provide evidence to support one’s analysis.

Collaboratively identify a dance related question or problem. Conduct research through different mediums on how dance communicates new perspectives or realizations. Compare orally and in writing the process used in choreography to that of other creative, academic, or scientific procedures.

Analyze a dance that is related to content learned in other subjects and research its context. Synthesize information learned and share new ideas about its impact on one’s perspective.

Use established research methods and techniques to investigate a topic. Collaborate with others to identify questions and create and perform a piece of choreography. Discuss orally or in writing insights relating to knowledge gained through the research process, the synergy of collaboration, the choreography, and the transfer of learning from this project to other learning situations.

Create and review original choreography developed over time with respect to its content and context and its relationship to personal perspectives. Reflect on and analyze the criteria that contributed to changes in one’s personal growth.

Investigate various dance related careers through a variety of research methods and techniques. Select those careers of most interest. Develop individually or collaboratively criteria for making career choices that relate to the arts.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Analyze and discuss dances from selected genres or styles and/or diverse cultures and historical periods, and identify similarities and differences among them in relation to the culture or period of origin.

Analyze the use of artistic criteria in dances from several genres or styles, diverse cultures or historical periods, and/or world dance forms. Relate ideas expressed in the dances to the culture or period of origin.

Integrate knowledge gained from analyzing dances from several genres, styles and/or diverse cultures and historical periods, and/or world dance forms with one's personal dance experience. Explain how one’s dance literacy has expanded.

Performing

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Dance alone and with others maintaining a sense of spatial design. Use space intentionally during phrases and through transitions between phrases. Establish and break relationships with others as appropriate to the choreography.

Acquire the ability to use movement related to different tempi. Respond to rhythmic cues from different aspects of accompaniment.

Acquire total body awareness so that movement phrases demonstrate variances of energy and dynamics.

Dance alone and with others with spatial design. Develop partner and ensemble skills to execute simple to complex floor and air sequences with others while maintaining relationships through focus and intention.

Develop ability to use time and different tempi in dance studies and compositions in creative ways. Apply musicality as a phrasing tool.

Develop ability to apply varying energy and dynamics in movement phrases and compositions.

Refine partner and ensemble skills to a broad range of movement in space. Achieve artistic and expressive clarity of intention. Use focus to clarify movement and intention. Build relationships with other dancers and audience as appropriate to the dance technique.

Refine use of time and demonstrate complex phrasing with and without musical accompaniment. Use complex tempi and rhythms in dance compositions.

Refine use of energy and dynamics to clearly express intention in choreography. Use a broad dynamic range for establishing relationships with other dancers and for projecting to the audience.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Establish mastery of technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to retain and execute dance choreography. Expand development of foundational dance technique.

Develop a plan for healthful practices in dance activities and everyday life including nutrition and injury prevention. Discuss implementation of the plan.

Use a variety of strategies to analyze and evaluate performances of self and others (for example, use different mediums of practice to analyze the difference between the way movements look and how they feel to match performance with visual effect). Establish a basic set of performance goals applying practice strategies.

Develop ability to dance with sensibility toward other dancers while executing complex spatial, rhythmic, and dynamic sequences to meet performance goals.

Develop an understanding of anatomical principles and healthful practices as applied to technical dance skills. Follow a personal nutrition plan that supports health for everyday life.

Develop and execute collaborative and independent practice and rehearsal strategies with attention to technique and artistry informed by personal performance goals. Reflect on personal achievements.

Refine and apply body-mind principles to technical dance skills in complex choreography when performing solo, partner, or dancing in ensemble works in a variety of dance genres and styles. Self-evaluate performances and discuss and analyze performance ability with others.

Research healthful and safe practices for dancers and refine personal practice based on findings. Discuss how research informs practice and dance performance.

Refine a range of rehearsal strategies to achieve performance excellence. Demonstrate understanding of how to initiate, plan, and direct rehearsals with attention to technical details and fulfilling artistic expression.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Demonstrate performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. and performance. Post performance, accept notes from the choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology.

Acquire understanding of the production elements of a performance and identify ideas that would intensify and heighten the artistic intention of the dances.

Refine leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Implement performance strategies to enhance projection. Post- performance, accept notes from the choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production elements.

Develop the skills to individually or collaboratively produce a dance concert on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intention of the dance works.

Master leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Enhance performance using a broad repertoire of strategies for dynamic projection. Develop a professional portfolio (resume, head shot, etc.) documenting rehearsal and performance with fluency in professional dance terminology and production terminology.

Refine skills to individually or collaboratively produce dance concerts in a variety of venues and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works in each of the venues.

Responding

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Reflect upon recurring patterns of movement and acquire understanding of their relationships that constitute artistic intention.

Reflect upon the use of elements of dance in a variety of genres, styles, and diverse cultures and historical periods which may be specific to Indiana. Use genre- specific dance terminology.

Analyze dance works and identify examples of recurring patterns of movement and their relationships that create structure and meaning in dance.

Analyze and compare movement patterns and their relationships in a variety of genres, styles, and diverse cultures and historical periods which may be specific to Indiana. Identify and use criteria that measure how movement patterns impact communication and intention. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Evaluate dance works from a variety of dance genres and styles and explain how recurring patterns of movement and their relationships create well- structured and meaningful choreography.

Evaluate movement patterns in dances using objective and subjective criteria. Analyze aesthetic and cultural styles communicated in dances from a variety of genres, styles, and diverse cultures or historical periods. Use genre- specific dance terminology.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Reflect upon a dance and discuss its artistic intent and artistic expression. Identify use of the elements of dance and dance technique to enhance meaning and support intention. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Analyze how the elements of dance, execution of dance movement principles and context contribute to artistic expression in a variety of dances. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Evaluate and interpret how the elements of dance, execution of dance movement principles, and context contribute to artistic expression across different genres, styles, and/or diverse cultures and historical periods. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Reflect upon the artistic expression of a dance. Discuss insights using aesthetic criteria and dance terminology.

Analyze two or more dances using aesthetic criteria to evaluate artistic expression. Apply subjective and objective viewpoints. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Refine personal artistic preferences to critique dance. Apply subjective and objective viewpoints to a range of artistic expressions. Discuss perspectives with peers and justify views.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.

Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on the student's existing artwork.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative art making goals.

Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present- day life using a contemporary current practice of art or design.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan and produce works of art and design.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Connecting

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.

Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.

Compare uses of art in a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary current and local contexts.

Analyze and appraise the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society.

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.

Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in an chosen artwork.

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.

Explain how traditional and non- traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.

Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

Collaboratively or individually develop a plan for an installation, artwork, art show, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.

Refine and complete artistic work. Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Apply relevant criteria from traditional and/or contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

Presenting

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyze and select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.

Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.

Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.

Investigate, compare, and contrast methods for preserving and protecting art.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, and/or political beliefs and understandings.

Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and/or political history.

Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.

Responding

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.

Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.

Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Use established criteria in order to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

CREATE

Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

TRANSFORM

Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated music.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

IMAGINE

Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

Create

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

PERFORM

Perform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory, and written notation.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

DEVELOP/PERFORM

Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.

Perform

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

INTERPRET/EXPRESS

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

UNDERSTAND/INFORM

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate’

Beginning

RESPOND

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by audiating music.

Listen/Respond

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

EXPLORE

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

APPLY/TRANSFER

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relations between music, the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

Advanced

Proficient

Intermediate

Beginning

EXPERIENCE/CONNECT

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.

Connect

Imagine and predict how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal musical choices.

Utilize research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Consistently demonstrate and apply life skills developed in music studies and activities such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.

Demonstrate and explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when performing music.

Identify and practice life skills developed in music studies and activities such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.

Identify and demonstrate individual preference for music that is performed and/or listened to in daily life.

Identify various uses of music in daily life and describe the characteristics that make music suitable for a specific use.

Explore and evaluate personal benefits of performing and/or listening to music and how each can enrich one's life.

Explore and describe the role of music and the arts in developing an empathic society through music that is performed and/or listened to in daily life.

Discuss and debate the nature of music appreciation and justify music's value to society.

Demonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated within the performed music.

Recognize the characteristic elements of other art forms and analyze how they are combined with performed music.

Explore ways in which performed music connects with math, English/language arts, social studies, and science.

Discover, identify, and explore how performed music connects to other arts and humanities.

Explore and demonstrate ways in which performed music connects with math, English/language arts, social studies, and/or science.

Demonstrate and connect how the principles of performed music relate to other arts.

Explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated within the performed music.

Compare and describe how the characteristic elements of music and the other arts are used to depict and/or transform events, scenes, emotions, and/or ideas in performed music.

Consistently recognize and apply appropriate genre and style and understand composer and historical background information in performed music being studied.

Participate in an ensemble that demonstrates an understanding and appreciation of music throughout history, from various cultures and within the local community.

Prepare for careers in music.

Discuss and explore genre, style, composer, and historical background information in performed music.

Discuss the roles of various ensembles throughout history and discuss opportunities for participation in their own community.

Discuss opportunities of music careers.

Begin to demonstrate appropriate genre and style, while understanding composer, and historical background information in performed music.

Explore the roles of various ensembles throughout history, culture and opportunities for participation in the community.

Explore opportunities and preparation for careers in music.

Demonstrate and apply appropriate genre and style and understand historical background information in performed music being studied.

Research the roles of various ensembles throughout history, from various cultures and within the local community.

Research opportunities for careers in music.

Using traditional music notation, including common diacritical and expressive markings, students will accurately notate the rhythm, melody, harmonic structure, and form of three and four chord songs that are aurally perceived and/or audiation in Western and Non-Western music style.

Use gesture, movement, and other visual representations to represent pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and short melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.

Use gesture, movement, other visual representations, and both traditional and nontraditional music notation to represent pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and short melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.

Using traditional music notation, including common diacritical and expressive markings, students will accurately notate rhythmic and melodic motifs and melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.

Use standard and/or nontraditional notation to create songs in a variety of meters that include accurate chord progressions and melodic/rhythmic phrases.

Accurately arrange an advanced melody of their choice, including an accompaniment, and notate parts for their ensemble using traditional or electronic sources.

Create and share varied, personally-developed musical works (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes and contexts.

Create and notate rhythms and melodies (four to eight measures) in simple and/or compound meters using either traditional or nontraditional notation.

Plan and arrange an accompaniment to a provided four measure melody which outlines a simple chord progression.

Create and share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Use standard and nontraditional notation to create simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and two-chord harmonic musical ideas.

Arrange a given part song by reassigning voice or instrumentation for each part using traditional or electronic sources.

Create and share personally developed melodies and rhythmic passages (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Use standard and nontraditional notation to create rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences that involve chord progressions.

Arrange an intermediate melody and provide an accompaniment that demonstrates an effective beginning, middle, and ending using traditional or electronic sources.

Create and share personally developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.

Share varied, personally developed musical works (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes and contexts.

Improvise musical ideas for a variety of purposes and contexts.

Share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect the characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Share personally developed melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.

Improvise ideas for melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that reflect the characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.

Share personally developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.

Improvise ideas for arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that reflect the characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.

Audiate and speak or sing music with a variety of voicings in multiple clefs, major and minor keys, and various meters using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and perform major/three forms of minor scales, all intervals, advanced rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture, traditional, and non-standard music notation.

Audiate and speak or sing music written in the clef appropriate for their own voice/instrument and in major keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture, and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and perform basic scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and speak or sing music written in appropriate clefs, major and minor keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and perform intermediate level scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and speak or sing music written in appropriate clefs, major and minor keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Audiate and perform advanced scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.

Listen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Describe and analyze instrumentation, texture, compositional devices, form, style, and genre.

Justify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including reference to other art forms

Develop and justify evaluations of music, programs of music, and performances based on criteria, personal decision-making, research, and understanding of contexts.

Listen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Describe style and genre, and compositional devices.

Explore interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Using established criteria, recognize the structure and context of music.

Listen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Explore instrumentation, compositional devices, form, style, and/or genre.

Explain interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.

Recognize and describe works and performances based on personally or collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.

Listen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Identify and describe instrumentation, texture, compositional devices, form, style, and genre.

Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and varied researched sources.

Evaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally and collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure and context.

Express rhythmic patterns, melodic contour, harmonic progression, and expressive elements in a variety of meters and tonalities and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.

Express differences in musical sounds that are higher or lower, faster or slower, louder or softer, and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.

Express rhythmic patterns in a variety of meters and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.

Express rhythmic patterns, melodic contour, and harmonic progression in a variety of meters and tonalities and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.

Choral and Instrumental: Be able to explain proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.

Choral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing advanced musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Choral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

Choral: Demonstrate consistently the concepts of vocal health within warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.

Choral: Consistently and accurately sing alone or in ensembles, accompanied by an a cappella, historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions in a variety of languages, and using traditional and nontraditional notation.

Choral and Instrumental: Begin to demonstrate proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.

Choral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing beginning musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Choral and Instrumental: Begin to sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

Choral: Explore, using proper vocal technique and expand vocal range through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.

Choral: Sing literature representing a variety of vocal styles expressively, utilizing appropriate dynamic contrast, phrasing, and articulation alone or in ensembles, from a score and from memory.

Choral and Instrumental: Demonstrate and begin to identify proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.

Choral and Instrumental: Sing intermediate musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Choral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

Choral: Demonstrate, using proper vocal technique and expand vocal range through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.

Choral: Sing alone or in ensembles, historical and contemporary repertoire accompanied from Western and non-Western traditions and a cappella and with movement or body percussion when appropriate, to enhance authentic performance.

Choral and Instrumental: Demonstrate, identify, and apply proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.

Choral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing medium advanced musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Choral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

Choral: Explore the concepts of vocal health and how they affect singing through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.

Choral: Accurately sing alone or in ensembles, accompanied by an a cappella historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions in a variety of languages, and using traditional and nontraditional notation.

Consistently play and monitor correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.

Examine, evaluate, and critique, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the structure and context impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.

Play musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in advanced level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Instrumental: Consistently and accurately play alone or in ensembles historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions using traditional and nontraditional notation.

Play and become aware of correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.

Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.

Play musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance with beginning level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Instrumental: Play literature representing a variety of styles expressively, utilizing appropriate dynamic contrast, phrasing, and articulation alone or in ensembles, from a score and from memory.

Play and identify correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.

Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theory-based and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.

Play musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in moderate level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Instrumental: Play alone or in ensembles, historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions.

Play and demonstrate correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.

Document and demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theory based and structural aspects of musical works may impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.

Play musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in medium-advanced level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.

Instrumental: Accurately play alone or in ensembles historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions using traditional and nontraditional notation.

CREATE

Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation.

TRANSFORM

Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated and aurally perceived music.

IMAGINE

Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

Create

PERFORM

Perform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.

DEVELOP/PERFORM

Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.

Perform

INTERPRET/EXPRESS

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.

UNDERSTAND/INFORM

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.

RESPOND

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by audiating music.

Listen/Respond

EXPLORE

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.

APPLY/TRANSFER

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

EXPERIENCE/CONNECT

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.

Connect

Explore and evaluate personal benefits of listening to, performing, and creating music and how each can enrich one's life.

Explore and describe the role of music and the arts in developing an empathic society through music that is performed, created, and/or listened to in daily life.

Discuss and debate the nature of music appreciation and justify music's value to society.

Describe, explore, and critique how the principles of music relate to other disciplines.

Recognize the characteristic elements of music and those of at least one other art form and analyze how they were combined to create a unique work of art.

Describe and analyze how technology has changed who might participate in music and how various technologies can both enhance and diminish music and the other arts.

Identify, describe, and perform the stylistic features of known musical works that serve to define their aesthetic tradition and historical or cultural context.

Identify and explore music and musicians that influenced societal change and/or politics and describe how they reflected culture at a particular time in history.

Classify unfamiliar musical works by genre, style, historical period, and/or culture and defend the classification.

Notate the rhythm, melody, harmonic structure, and form of three and four chord songs that are aurally perceived and/or audiation using traditional music notation, including common diacritical and expressive markings.

Arrange pieces for voices and instruments using performing forces and expressive qualities other than those originally utilized in the piece in ways that might enhance or alter the expressive effect of the music.

Utilize both traditional and nontraditional notation to compose music in several distinct styles that demonstrate one's knowledge of the elements of music and how they might be used to achieve aesthetic and expressive effect.

Explore and utilize a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media and technology when composing and arranging music and articulate how they might enhance or diminish the music's aesthetic or expressive effect.

Improvise rhythms and melodies with a complementary melody or rhythmic accompaniment, with consistent style, meter, affect, and/or tonality.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic embellishments and variations in both major and minor keys.

Identify and utilize harmonic pitches while improvising stylized melodies and accompaniments.

Audiate and recognize age appropriate pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and known melodies from movement, gesture, traditional, or nontraditional notation.

Audiate and accurately sing and perform pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and melodies, including indicated expressive elements, in both major and minor modes and simple and compound meters on sight.

Audiate all the elements of music in a given excerpt or piece and perform it on sight in a musical and culturally authentic way.

Recall, explore, comprehend, and apply appropriate music vocabulary.

Identify elements of music and compare how they are utilized to create specific music styles and/or cultural traditions.

Evaluate the aesthetic impact of musical works by applying specific criteria and comparing them to known, exemplary models of similar style and/or cultural tradition.

Explore the muscular sensations of time and energy through the performance of choreographed and improvised movement, including conducting, both in place and in space.

Identify and express the elements of music, the implied meaning, and/or the subject of specific musical examples through choreographed folk dances and/or improvised movement, and explore the role of dance in various cultures.

Identify and express age appropriate music concepts including form, phrasing, expressive qualities, and timbre through movement and conducting in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

Sing accurate pitches and rhythms, as modeled and/or visually notated, in tune and with good breath control, diction, and tone quality throughout an expected and appropriate singing range.

Sing with expressive qualities and technical accuracy, as modeled and/or visually notated, and portray appropriate style and affect.

Sing tonal ostinati, canon, counter melodies, drones, or descants, as modeled and/or visually notated, to create harmony and sing in three or more parts.

Maintain pitch and rhythm accuracy, tone quality, tonal center, a steady beat, and appropriate style while singing both with accompaniment and a cappella to both portray and challenge the composer's intent.

Play accurate pitches and rhythms, as modeled and/or visually notated, in tune with a steady beat, good tone quality, and exemplary technique throughout the entire range of the instrument(s).

Play unpitched, melodic, and harmonic instruments with expression and technical accuracy, as modeled and/or visually notated, and portray appropriate style and affect.

Play both rhythmic and tonal ostinati, canon, counter melodies, drones, and descants, as modeled and/or visually notated, to create harmony, and play instruments in three or more parts.

Maintain pitch and rhythm accuracy, tone quality, tonal center, a steady beat, exemplary technique, and appropriate style while playing unpitched, melodic, and harmonic instruments to both portray and challenge the composer's intent.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a theatrical work

Explore the impact of technology on design choices in a theatrical work.

Use script analysis to generate ideas about a character that is believable and authentic in a theatrical work.

Investigate historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a theatrical work.

Understand and apply technology to design solutions for a theatrical work.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to develop a character that is believable and authentic in a theatrical work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Explore the function of history and culture in the development of an idea through a critical analysis of original ideas in a theatrical work.

Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and explore their interdependent roles in a theatrical work.

Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a theatrical work.

Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for theatrical work.

Analyze the role history, culture, and theatre traditions play in the process from the inception of an idea to the development of a theatrical work.

Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Practice and revise a devised or scripted theatrical work using theatrical staging conventions.

Explore physical, vocal and physiological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a theatrical work.

Use the rehearsal process to analyze the dramatic concept and technical design elements of a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Use research and script analysis to revise physical, vocal and physiological choices impacting the believability and relevance of a theatrical work.

Reimagine and revise technical design choices during the course of a rehearsal process to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Refine technical design choices to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Refine, transform, and re-imagine a devised or scripted theatrical work using the rehearsal process to invent or reimagine style, genre, form, and conventions.

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a theatrical work.

Apply advanced technical proficiencies from rehearsal through the performance to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Connecting

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Investigate how cultural perspectives, community ideas and personal beliefs impact a theatrical work.

Choose and interpret a theatre work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Collaborate on a theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a theatrical work.

Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a cross-cultural theatrical work.

Develop a theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Research how other theatre artists apply creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted theatrical work, using research methods

Use basic research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a theatrical work.

Formulate creative choices for devised or scripted theatre work based on theatre research about the selected topic.

Explore how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research applied in theatrical work.

Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted theatrical work, based on research.

Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a theatrical work, based on research.

Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies to create the visual composition of a theatrical work.

Using available technology, create a design for a technical element of a theatrical work.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic, in a theatrical work.

Performing

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Examine how character relationships assist in telling the story of a theatrical work.

Shape character choices using given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Discover how unique choices shape believable and sustainable theatrical work.

Identify how character choices are influenced by essential text information, research from various sources, and the director’s concept that influence character choices in a theatrical work.

Apply reliable research of directors’ styles to form unique choices for a directorial concept in a theatrical work.

Apply developmentally appropriate researched acting techniques as an approach to making character choices in a theatrical work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Practice developmentally appropriate acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or theatrical performance.

Use researched technical elements to increase the impact of design for a theatrical production.

Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable theatrical performance.

Apply technical elements and research to create a design that communicates the concept of a theatrical production.

Use and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a theatrical production.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perform a scripted theatrical work for a specific audience.

Present a theatrical work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

Present a theatrical production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in the creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturg.

Responding

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a theatre work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

Demonstrate an understanding of interpretations of artistic choices and how each might be used to influence future theatrical work.

Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a theatrical work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in theatrical works.

Identify and compare cultural perspectives and contexts that may influence the evaluation of a theatrical work.

Justify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and/or observation of a theatrical work.

Develop detailed supporting evidence and criteria to reinforce artistic choices, when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Apply concepts from a theatre work for personal realization about cultural perspectives and understanding.

Debate and distinguish multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and/or observation of a theatrical work.

Use detailed supporting evidence and appropriate criteria to revise personal work and interpret the work of others when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Use new understandings of cultures and contexts to shape personal responses to theatrical work.

Support and explain aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a theatrical work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Examine a theatrical work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering other art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

Consider the aesthetics of the production elements in a theatrical work.

Formulate a deeper understanding and appreciation of a theatrical work by considering its specific purpose or intended audience.

Analyze and assess a theatre work by connecting it to other art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

Construct meaning in a theatrical work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of production elements while respecting others’ interpretations.

Explain how a theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience.

Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a theatrical work to support or evaluate artistic choices.

Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for the same theatrical work.

Compare and debate the connection between a theatrical work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.