Grade 8 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 harmonic accompaniments within expanded forms (including introductions, transitions, and codas) that convey expressive intent.

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

Select, organize, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements, songs, and compositions within expanded forms that demonstrate tension and release, unity and variety, balance, and convey expressive intent.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or audio/video recording to document personal 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 by selecting and applying criteria including appropriate application of compositional techniques, style, form, and use of sound sources.

Describe the rationale for refining works by explaining the choices, based on evaluation criteria.

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 the application of compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release, and balance to convey expressive intent.

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

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

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

Compare the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance, explaining how the elements of music are used in each.

When analyzing selected music, sight-read in treble or bass clef simple rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic notation.

Identity how cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different musical effects.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

Perform contrasting pieces of music, demonstrating as well as explaining how the music's intent is conveyed by their interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, and phrasing).

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

Identify and apply personally-developed criteria (such as demonstrating correct interpretation of notation, technical skill of performer, originality, emotional impact, variety, 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, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator's intent.

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

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

Select programs of music (such as a CD mix or live performances) and demonstrate the connections to an interest or experience for a specific purpose.

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

Compare how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure within programs of music.

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

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

Support personal interpretation of contrasting programs of music and explain how creators' or performers' apply the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods to convey expressive intent.

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

Apply appropriate personally-developed 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

Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity.

Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a contemporary practice of art and design.

Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

Demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.

Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation.

Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display, and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.

Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.

Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.

Compare and contrast context and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.

Create a convincing and logical argument to support and evaluation of art.