Fine Arts

A - Creating

• improvise melodies, rhythms, variations, and accompaniments
• compose and arrange music within specified guidelines

B - Performing

• sing a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others
• perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others
• read and notate music

C - Responding

• listen to, analyze, and describe music
• evaluate music and music performances
• move and respond to a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others

D - Connecting

• connect music to the other fine arts and disciplines outside the arts
• connect music to history and culture

A - Creating

• improvise, compose, and arrange music within specified guidelines

B - Performing

• perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others
• read and notate music

C - Responding

• listen to, analyze, and describe music
• evaluate music and music performances

D - Connecting

• demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
• understand music in relation to history and culture

A - Creating

• organize, design, and refine theatrical works
• develop scripts through theatrical techniques

B - Performing

• act by communicating and sustaining roles in formal and informal environments
• execute artistic and technical elements of theatre

C - Responding

• engage actively and appropriately as an audience member
• critique various aspects of theatre and other media

D - Connecting

• explore how theatre connects to life experience, careers, and other content
• examine the role of theatre in a societal, cultural, and historical context

A - Creating

• engage in the creative process to generate and visualize ideas by using subject matter and symbols to communicate meaning
• create works of art based on selected themes
• identify and apply media, techniques, and processes of two-dimensional art
• identify and apply media, techniques, and processes of three-dimensional art
• demonstrate an understanding of the safe and appropriate use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes

B - Presenting

• participate in appropriate exhibition(s) of works of art to develop identity of self as artist

C - Responding

• discuss personal works of art and the artwork of others to enhance visual literacy

D - Connecting

• investigate and discover the personal relationships of artists to community, culture, and the world through making and studying art
• integrate information from other disciplines to enhance the understanding and production of works of art
• develop life skills (e.g., collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, communication) through the study and production of art