Grade 2 Fine Arts Kansas Standards

Responding – Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.

Performing – Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Creating – Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.

Imagine: Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

Generate musical patterns and ideas within the context of a given tonality (such as major and minor) and meter (such as duple and triple).

Plan and Make: Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts.

Demonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting patterns and ideas for music that represent expressive intent.

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.

Evaluate and Refine: Evaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet appropriate criteria.

Interpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal music.

Present: Share creative musical work that coveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

Convey expressive intent for a specific purpose by presenting a final version of personal musical ideas to peers or informal audience.

Select: Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill, and context.

Demonstrate and explain personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.

Analyze: Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts (such as tonality and meter) in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using iconic or standard notation.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

Demonstrate understanding of expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.

Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluate and refine personal and ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others.

Apply established criteria to judge the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

Rehearse, identify and apply strategies to address interpretive, performance, and technical challenges of music.

Present: Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context.

Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.

Perform appropriately for the audience and purpose.

Select: Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context.

Explain and demonstrate how personal interests and experiences influence musical selection for specific purposes.

Analyze: Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response.

Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music.

Interpret: Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Evaluate: Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes.

Identify local theaters and how they are a part of the community.

Develop acceptance of individuals in their theatrical community and the community as a whole.

Respond to the feelings/emotions within self and other's discovered through drama work and theatre experiences to demonstrate an understanding of the human experience.

Acceptance/Respect

Recognize how theatre communicates ideas about past and present cultural and social context.

Recognize the contextual aspects of performances from various cultures, times, and places.

Communicate the relationships between theatre and the world to make meaning and deepen understanding of cultural, global, and historical contexts.

Contextualize

Identify jobs related to theatre production.

Identify other content areas used in theatre.

Recognize elements and skills from other content areas used in theatre and use skills developed through theatre in other content and occupational areas.

Cross Curricula/Careers

Connect/Integrate

Identify how dramatic elements communicate meaning and elicit emotions.

Describe how theatre artists manipulate theatrical elements.

Describe the elements of live theatre. Identify how dramatic elements communicate meanings and elicit emotions in stories, performances, and electronic media.

Interpret and articulate perspectives on theatre experiences in one's own work and the work of others by using criteria such as aesthetics, beliefs, contexts, and critical perspectives.

Analyze/Critique/Evaluate

Appreciate/Respond

Identify and reflect upon personal meaning and emotional responses to performances and apply ideas to self and society.

Create a personal response to a performance and apply those ideas to self and society.

Reflect

Display appropriate emotional behavior throughout the production process.

Demonstrate active listening.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior.

Use self-control and active listening to appreciate and respond to a performance.

Etiquette/Respect

Appreciate/Respond

Share stories about personal experiences.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Produce/Present

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

Create a setting appropriate to a story.

Maintain a safe space for experimentation and risk taking for the development, revision, and refinement of new work, ideas, and perspectives.

Craft/Refine

Improvise a play using available materials.

Use improvisation to create dialogue for a script.

Sequence the steps needed for creating a project.

Identify and distinguish the various roles and responsibilities necessary for theatrical production.

Develop a performance from story book.

Listen to script, differentiating dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

List and describe the basic elements of a story.

Acquire the information and skills necessary for the planning and preparation of a theatrical work.

Organize/Plan

Develop/Perform

Collaborate with peers to perform a classroom dramatization.

Demonstrate active listening.

Problem solve with others.

Concentrate on the task at hand for a specific period of time.

Work with others.

Adjust playmaking to incorporate unintended occurrences.

Engage in creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences both individually and collaboratively.

Experience

Engage in collaborative, imaginative play.

Apply personal observation, knowledge, and experience to shape a work.

Improvise a character and setting from a story.

Engage in imaginative play. Problem solve when the unexpected happens.

Engage in self-directed play. Try new things. Improvise a character and dialogue. Improvise a setting appropriate for a story. Communicate through physical action and reaction.

Explore and imagine through creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences to discover diverse creative ideas.

Envision

Discover/Create

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

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Connecting

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Presenting

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Creating

Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.

Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.

Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.

Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.

Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.

Repurpose objects to make something new.

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.

Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, other venues) contributes to communities.

Perceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one's natural world and constructed environments.

Categorize images based on expressive properties.

Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.

Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.