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Arts: Intermediate
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.
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 the technical language used in discussing dance performances.

 
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Students demonstrate knowledge of choreographic principles and processes.

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Students express to others their understanding of specific dance performances, including perceptions, descriptions, analyses, interpretations, and evaluations.

       
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 demonstrate a basic awareness of the technical skills musicians must develop to produce an aesthetically acceptable performance.

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Students use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of social-musical functions and uses (appropriate choices of music for common ceremonies and other events).

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Students use basic scientific concepts to explain how music-related sound is produced, transmitted through air, and perceived.

 
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Students use terminology from music and other arts to analyze and compare the structures of musical and other artistic and literary works.

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Students through listening, analyze and evaluate their own and others' performances, improvisations, and compositions by identifying and comparing them with similar works and events.

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Students use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of the musical elements.

       
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 use the techniques and vocabulary of theatre criticism, both written and oral, to discuss theatre experiences and improve individual and group performances.

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Students examine and discuss the use of other art forms in a theatre production.

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Students explain how drama/theatre experiences relate to other literary and artistic events.

       
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 identify, analyze, and interpret the visual and sensory characteristics that they discover in natural and human-made forms.

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Students compare the ways ideas and concepts are communicated through visual art with the various ways that those ideas and concepts are manifested in other art forms.

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Students compare the ways ideas, themes, and concepts are communicated through the visual arts in other disciplines, and the various ways that those ideas, themes, and concepts are manifested within the discipline.

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Students discuss and write their analyses and interpretations of their own works of art and the art of others, using appropriate critical language.

       
 
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