Grade 6 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.

Generate simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within AB and ABA forms that convey expressive intent.

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

Select, organize, construct, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements and compositions within AB or ABA form that demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or audio/video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and two-chord harmonic musical ideas.

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

Evaluate their own work, applying teacher-provided criteria such as application of selected elements of music, and use of sound sources.

Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.

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

Present the final version of their documented personal composition or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.

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

Apply teacher-provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific

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

Explain how understanding the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch, articulation, and dynamics.

Identify how cultural and historical context inform performances.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

Perform a selected piece of music demonstrating how their interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, and phrasing) convey intent.

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

Identify and apply teacher-provided criteria (such as correct interpretation of notation, technical accuracy, originality, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.

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

Perform the music with technical accuracy to convey the creator's intent.

Demonstrate performance decorum (such as stage presence, attire, and behavior) and audience etiquette appropriate for venue and purpose.

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

Select or choose music to listen to and explain the connections to specific

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

Describe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces.

Identify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

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

Describe a personal interpretation of how creators' and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.

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

Apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

Identify how the local community and theatre programs affect each other.

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

Explain how contextual aspects are impacted by 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 the multiple job opportunities connected to theatre.

Develop ability to fulfill production responsibilities.

Explain how creative skills gained in theatre can be applied to other content areas.

Explain how and why other content areas are 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

Analyze and evaluate the dramatic elements that work and why in performances.

Describe the reasons for the creator's choices in production elements using theatrical vocabulary.

Compare and contrast the differences between live theatre and video performances. Analyze a personal reaction to a performance.

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 on 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

Present a theatrical work to an audience.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Produce/Present

Warm-ups: Demonstrate vocal and physical warm-ups.

Voice: demonstrate projection, diction, inflection.

Review and critique creative works to improve their quality.

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

Craft/Refine

Recognize and use the environment and available resources for a production.

Complete the sequence of events leading up to a production.

Generate character and design interpretations from a script.

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

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Identify responsibilities of production team.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Read script: Differentiate dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

Recognize the differences between dramatic genres and realistic and non-realistic styles of theatre.

Identify and describe basic story elements.

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

Organize/Plan

Develop/Perform

Demonstrate concentration on task at hand.

Demonstrate active listening.

Demonstrate the give and take essential to effective collaboration.

Recognize unintended occurrences and apply them in a positive way.

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

Experience

Integrate and or adapt to unexpected circumstances/information.

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

Apply curiosity, questioning, and problem solving to develop artistic work.

Share ideas.

Demonstrate open minded acceptance of new ideas. Improvise dialogue while role playing a character. Improvise and role-play a real or fictional character. Visualize a setting appropriate to a story.

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

Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could be investigated in art-making.

Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.

Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.

Formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.

Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.

Explain environmental implications of conservation, care, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.

Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified need of diverse users.

Reflect on whether personal artwork conveys the intended meaning and revise accordingly.

Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.

Individually or collaboratively develop a visual plan for displaying works of art, analyzing exhibit space, the needs of the viewer, and the layout of the exhibit.

Access, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect history and values of a community.

Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.

Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotion, an actions.

Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art.