Standards Grades K-12
Standard A | |
A student should be able to create and perform in the arts. A student who meets the content standard should:
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Related National Standards | |
Movement/Dance | • Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance. |
• Understanding choreographic principals, process, and structures. • Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods. | |
Drama | • Script writing by the creation of improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history. |
• Acting by developing basic skills to portray characters who interact in improvised and scripted scenes. | |
• Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes. • Directing by organizing rehearsals for improvised and scripted scenes. | |
Music | • Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. |
• Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. | |
• Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. | |
• Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniment. | |
• Reading and notating music. | |
Visual Arts | • Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes. |
• Using knowledge of structures and functions. | |
• Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas. | |
• Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines. |
Standard B | |
A student should be able to understand the historical and contemporary role of the arts in Alaska, the nation, and the world. A student who meets the content standard should:
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Related National Standards | |
Movement/Dance | • Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods. |
• Making connections between dance and other disciplines. | |
Drama | • Researching by using cultural and historical information to support improvised and scripted scenes. |
• Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience. | |
• Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre in film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present. | |
Music | • Performing a varied repertoire of music. |
• Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. | |
• Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. | |
• Understanding music in relation to history and culture. | |
Visual Arts | • Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures. |
• Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines. |
Standard C | |
A student should be able to critique the student’s art and the art of others. A student who meets the content standard should:
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Related National Standards | |
Movement/Dance | • Introducing choreographic principals, processes and structures. |
• Understanding dance as a way to create and communicate meaning. | |
• Applying and demonstrating critical and creative thinking skills in dance. | |
Drama | • Researching by finding information to support classroom dramatization. |
• Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms. | |
Music | • Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. |
• Evaluating music and music performances. | |
Visual Arts | • Using knowledge of structures and functions. |
• Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the works of others. |
Standard D | |
A student should be able to recognize beauty and meaning through the arts in the student’s life. A student who meets the content standard should:
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Related National Standards | |
Movement/Dance | • Understanding dance as a way to create and communicate meaning. |
Drama | • Analyzing and explaining personal preferences and constructing meaning from classroom dramatizations and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions. |
Music | • Evaluating music and music performances. |
Visual Arts | • Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas. |