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Standard 4:
Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society. |
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| Dance | Students will know dances from many cultures and times and recognize their relationship to various cultural, social, and historic contexts. Students will recognize that dance is performed in many different cultural settings and serves many functions in diverse societies. | ||
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Students identify the major dance forms of specific world cultures past and present. |
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Students identify some of the major dance artists from diverse cultures. |
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Students show how specific dance forms are related to the culture from which they come. |
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| Music | Students will develop a performing and listening repertoire of music of various genres, styles, and cultures that represent the peoples of the world and their manifestations in the United States. Students will recognize the cultural features of a variety of musical compositions and performances and understand the functions of music within the culture. | ||
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Students identify the cultural contexts of a performance or recording and perform (with movement, where culturally appropriate) a varied repertoire of folk, art, and contemporary selections from the basic cultures that represent the peoples of the world. |
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Students identify from a performance or recording the titles and composers of well-known examples of classical concert music and blues/jazz selections. |
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Students discuss the current and past cultural, social, and political uses for the music they listen to and perform. |
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Students in performing ensembles, read and perform repertoire in a culturally authentic manner. |
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| Theatre | Students will gain knowledge about past and present cultures as expressed through theatre. They will interpret how theatre reflects the beliefs, issues, and events of societies past and present. | ||
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Students improvise scenes based on information about various cultures. |
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Students create intercultural celebrations using props, settings, and costumes. |
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Students explain how drama/theatre experiences relate to themselves and others. |
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| Visual Arts | Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society. | ||
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Students create art works that reflect a particular historical period of a culture. |
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Students demonstrate how art works and artifacts from diverse world cultures reflect aspects of those cultures. |
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Students demonstrate the ways in which some particular art works and artifacts reflect important aspects of the diverse cultures of the United States. |
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