Grade 6 Fine Arts ILS Standards

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.

Construct meaningful interpretations of 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.

Performing

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

Observe the movement characteristics or qualities observed in a specific dance genre. Describe differences and similarities about what was observed to one's attitudes and movement preferences.

Choose a topic, concept, or content from another subject of interest and research how other art forms have expressed the topic. Create and explain a dance study that expresses the idea.

Interpret and show how the movement and qualities of a dance communicate its cultural, historical, and/or community purpose or meaning.

Relate similar or contrasting ideas to develop choreography using a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, social events).

Explore various movement vocabularies to transfer ideas into choreography.

Explore choreographic devices and dance structures to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or purpose of the dance.

Determine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Based on the criteria, evaluate why some movements are more or less effective than others.

Revise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic intent.

Explore or invent a system to record a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or a form of media technology.

Refine partner and ensemble skills in the ability to judge distance and spatial design. Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space.

Use combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the time and the dynamics of a phrase or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats.

Explore dynamic expression as it relates to energy relationships in a variety of dance genres or styles.

Embody technical dance skills (for example, alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, levels, facings, pathways, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions.

Apply basic anatomical knowledge, proprioceptive feedback, spatial awareness, and nutrition to promote safe and healthy strategies when warming up and dancing.

Collaborate as an ensemble to refine dances by identifying what does and does not work in executing complex patterns, sequences, and formations. Solve movement problems to dances by testing options and finding good results. Document self-improvements over time.

Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Post-performance: accept notes from the choreographer, make corrections as needed, and apply to future performances.

Compare and contrast a variety of possible production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of the work. Select choices and use production terminology to explain reasons for the decisions made.

Describe recurring patterns of movement and their relationships in dance.

Explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Explain how the artistic expression of a dance is achieved through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, dance structure, and context. Use genre-specific dance terminology to explain how these communicate the intent of the dance.

Discuss the characteristics and artistic intent of a dance from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice and develop artistic criteria to critique the dance, using genre-specific dance terminology.

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.

Construct meaningful interpretations of 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.

Producing

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources (for example, knowledge, experiences, interests, research) to create media artworks.

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences (for example, historical events).

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to social, community, and cultural situations (for example, cultural identity, history, entertainment).

Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy.

Formulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative generative methods (for example, sketching, improvising, brainstorming).

Organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.

Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles (for example, point of view, perspective).

Explain and demonstrate how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and different audiences.

Demonstrate how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork in order to reach a given audience.

Develop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing various assigned roles in producing and presenting media artworks (for example, invention, formal technique, production, self-initiative, problem solving).

Develop a variety of creative and adaptive innovation abilities (for example, testing constraints) in developing solutions within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.

Analyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Analyze the results of, and improvements for, presenting media artworks.

Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.

Identify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Interpret a variety of media artworks, using given criteria.

Identify and apply relevant criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.

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.

Construct meaningful interpretations of 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.

Performing

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music as developmentally appropriate.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life as developmentally appropriate.

Compose rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases over harmonic accompaniments within a given form(s) that convey expressive intent.

Select, organize, construct, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements and compositions within given form(s) that demonstrate effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.

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

Evaluate their own work, applying teacher provided criteria.

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

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

Apply teacher provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific purpose and/or context, and explain why each was chosen.

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 musical symbols (for example, rhythm, pitch, articulation, dynamics).

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

Identify and apply teacher-provided criteria to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.

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

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, genre, and style.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Construct meaningful interpretations of 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.

Performing

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating

Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama/theatre work demonstrate the perspective of a community or culture.

Identify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama/theatre work.

Research and analyze two different versions of the same drama/theatre story or plot to determine differences and similarities in the visual and aural world of each story.

Identify and use artifacts from a time period and place to develop choices in a drama/theatre design.

Identify possible solutions to performance challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Identify solutions to design challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Explore a scripted or improvised character authentic to a drama/theatre work.

Use critical analysis to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work.

Articulate and examine choices to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

Explore a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify the dramatic arc of a scene.

Identify character objectives and motives in a scene.

Apply acting exercises to a drama/theatre work.

Articulate how technical elements (costumes, lights, props, set, sound) are integrated into a drama/theatre work.

Explore a theme through a drama/theatre performance for an informal audience.

Explain and justify artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work.

Contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in a drama/theatre work.

Identify cultural perspectives that may influence the interpretation of a drama/theatre work.

Identify personal aesthetics through participation in, or observation of, a drama/theatre work.

Apply criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work as an individual.

Consider the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience's perspective.

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.

Construct meaningful interpretations of 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

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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 cleanup of art materials, tools, and equipment.

Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs 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.

Assess, 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, emotions, and actions.

Collaboratively interpret art and generate meanings through describing and analyzing feelings, subject matter, formal characteristics, artmaking approaches, and contextual information.

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