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Standard 3:
Responding To and Analyzing Works of Art Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought. |
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| Dance | Students will express through written and oral language their understanding, interpretation, and evaluation of dances they see, do, and read about. Students will acquire the critical vocabulary to talk and write about a variety of dance forms. | ||
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Students demonstrate knowledge of words and symbols (kinetic, visual, tactile, aural and olfactory) that describe movement. |
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Students express to others their understanding of specific dance performances, using appropriate language to describe what they have seen and heard. |
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| Music | Students will demonstrate the capacity to listen to and comment on music. They will relate their critical assertions about music to its aesthetic, structural, acoustic, and psychological qualities. Students will use concepts based on the structure of music's content and context to relate music to other broad areas of knowledge. They will use concepts from other disciplines to enhance their understanding of music. | ||
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Students through listening, identify the strengths and weaknesses of specific musical works and performances, including their own and others'. |
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Students describe the music in terms related to basic elements such as melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, form, style, etc. |
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Students discuss the basic means by which the voice and instruments can alter pitch, loudness, duration, and timbre. |
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Students describe the music's context in terms related to its social and psychological functions and settings (e.g., roles of participants, effects of music, uses of music with other events or objects, etc.). |
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Students describe their understandings of particular pieces of music and how they relate to their surroundings. |
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| Theatre | Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate plays and theatrical performances, both live and recorded, using the language of dramatic criticism. Students will analyze the meaning and role of theatre in society. Students will identify ways in which drama/theatre connects to film and video, other arts, and other disciplines. | ||
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Students discuss their understanding, interpretation, and evaluation of a theatrical performance, using basic theatre terminology. |
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Students identify the use of other art forms in theatre productions. |
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Students explain the relationship of theatre to film and video. |
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| Visual Arts | Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines. | ||
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Students explain their reflections about the meanings, purposes, and sources of works of art; describe their responses to the works and the reasons for those responses. |
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Students explain the visual and other sensory qualities (surfaces, colors, textures, shape, sizes, volumes) found in a wide variety of art works. |
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Students explain the themes that are found in works of visual art and how the art works are related to other forms of art (dance, music, theatre, etc.). |
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Students explain how ideas, themes, or concepts in the visual arts are expressed in other disciplines (e.g., mathematics, science, literature, social studies, etc.). |
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