Grade 7 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 rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases and variations over harmonic accompaniments within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that convey expressive intent.

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

Select, organize, develop and document personal musical ideas for arrangements, songs, and compositions within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that demonstrate unity and variety and convey expressive intent.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or audio/video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.

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

Evaluate their own work, applying selected criteria such as appropriate application of elements of music including style, form, and use of sound sources.

Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from others (teacher and peers).

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

Present the final version of their documented personal composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate unity and variety, and convey expressive intent.

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

Apply collaboratively-developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program with a specific purpose and/or context and, after discussion, identify expressive qualities, technical challenges, and reasons for choices.

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

Explain and demonstrate the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance and how elements of music are used.

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

Identify how cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different music interpretations.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

Perform contrasting pieces of music demonstrating their interpretations of the elements of music and 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 collaboratively-developed criteria (such as demonstrating correct interpretation of notation, technical skill of performer, originality, emotional impact, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when the music 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 and stylistic expression to convey the creator's intent.

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

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

Select or choose contrasting music to listen to and compare the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

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

Classify and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces.

Identify and compare 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 contrasting works and explain how creators' and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods, convey expressive intent.

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

Select from 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

Individually or collaboratively create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience art or design in community.

Analyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.

Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.

Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

Demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the internet, social media, and other communication formats.

Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.

Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or other format.

Compare and contrast how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented, and experienced.

Based on criteria, analyze and evaluate methods for preparing and presenting art.

Compare and contrast viewing and experiencing collections and exhibitions in different venues.

Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of a n artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.

Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.

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

Compare and explain the differences between an evaluation of an artwork base on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.