Grade 8 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

Relate connections found between different dances and discuss the relevance of the connections to the development of one's personal perspectives.

Research the historical development of a dance genre or style. Use knowledge gained from the research to create a dance study that evokes the essence of the style or genre. Share the dance study and research with peers.

Analyze and discuss how dances from a variety of cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities reveal the ideas and perspectives of the people.

Implement movement from a variety of stimuli (for example, music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience/recall, current news, social events) to develop dance content for an original dance study or dance.

Identify and select personal preferences to create an original dance study or dance. Use genre-specific dance terminology to articulate and justify choices made in movement development to communicate intent.

Collaborate to select and apply a variety of choreographic devices and dance structures to choreograph an original dance study or dance with a clear artistic intent. Articulate the group process for making movement and structural choices.

Define and apply artistic criteria to choreograph a dance that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Discuss how the criteria clarify or intensify the meaning of the dance.

Revise choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback from others. Articulate the reasons for choices and revisions and explain how they clarify and enhance the artistic intent.

Experiment with aspects of a recognized system to document a section of a dance by using words, symbols, or media technologies.

Sculpt the body in space and design body shapes in relation to other dancers, objects, and environment. Use appropriate focus in direct and indirect pathways.

Analyze and select metric, kinetic, and breathe phrasing and apply them appropriately to dance phrases. Perform dance phrases of different lengths that use various timings within the same section. Use different tempi in different body parts at the same time.

Direct energy and dynamics in such a way that movement is textured. Incorporate energy and dynamics to technique exercises and dance performance. Use energy and dynamics to enhance and project movements.

Embody technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to replicate, recall, and execute spatial designs and musical or rhythmical dance phrases.

Evaluate personal healthy practices in dance activities and everyday life, including nutrition and injury prevention. Discuss choices made, the effects experienced, and methods for improvement.

Collaborate with peers to discover strategies for achieving performance accuracy, clarity, and expressiveness. Articulate personal performance goals and practice to reach goals. Document personal improvement over time (for example, journaling, portfolio, timeline).

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Document efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements. Post-performance: accept notes from the choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.

Collaborate to design and execute production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performed on a stage, in a different venue, or for different audiences. Use production terminology to explain reasons for choices.

Describe and discuss patterns of movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Select a dance and explain how artistic expression is achieved through relationships among the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique and context. Cite evidence in the dance to support your interpretation, using genre-specific dance terminology.

Use artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective performance. Consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use 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, cultural knowledge, research, exemplary works) to inform the creation of media artworks.

Explain and demonstrate how media artworks create cultural experiences (for example, local and global events).

Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values (for example, democracy, environment, connecting people and places).

Analyze and responsibly interact with media arts tools, environments, and legal and technological contexts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, and virtual worlds.

Produce a variety of ideas and solutions for media artworks through application of chosen inventive generative methods (for example, concept modeling, prototyping).

Structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.

Implement production processes to integrate content and stylistic conventions for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles (for example, theme, unity).

Analyze, refine, and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and place.

Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey specific themes or ideas in order to reach a given audience.

Demonstrate a defined range of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing specified roles in producing and presenting media artworks (for example, strategizing, collaborative communication).

Demonstrate a defined range of creative and adaptive innovation abilities (for example, divergent solutions, bending conventions) in developing new solutions for identified problems within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.

Design the presentation and distribution of media artworks through multiple formats and/or contexts.

Evaluate the results of, and implement improvements for, presenting media artworks, considering impacts on personal growth and external effects.

Compare, contrast, and analyze the relationships between the components and style in media artworks.

Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks shape audience experience and create meaning.

Interpret meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.

Develop and apply relevant and specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback.

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

Select, organize, and document musical ideas for arrangements, song, and compositions within expanded forms that utilize various compositional techniques 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 their own work by selecting and applying criteria.

Present the final version of a personal composition or arrangement, using musicianship and originality to utilize various compositional techniques and convey expressive intent.

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

Select a varied repertoire to study based on music reading skills where appropriate, an understanding of form and tonality in the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual and ensemble.

Demonstrate or analyze, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the setting and formal characteristics of musical works contribute to understanding the context of the music in prepared or improvised performance.

Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.

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 (for example, dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, phrasing).

Apply teacher provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music selected for performance, identify practice strategies to address performance challenges, and refine the performances.

Perform the music with technical accuracy, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator's intent.

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

Explain reasons for selecting music based on musical characteristics, interest, purpose or context.

Describe how understanding context and the elements of music inform the response to music.

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

Identify and support the meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the musical elements and context.

Explain the influence of experiences, analysis, and context on interest in and evaluation of music.

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

Examine a community issue through multiple perspectives in a drama/theatre work.

Incorporate different forms of theatre to strengthen the meaning and conflict in a drama/theatre work with a particular cultural, global, or historic context.

Research and discuss how a playwright might have intended a drama/theatre work to be produced.

Investigate the time period and place of a theatrical work to better understand design choices.

Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to performance problems in a drama/theatre work.

Imagine and explore solutions to design challenges for a specific performance space in a drama/theatre work.

Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character's authentic inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a drama/theatre work.

Articulate and apply critical analysis, background knowledge, research, and historical and cultural context to the development of original ideas for a drama/theatre work.

participate in collaborative responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience.

Use repetition and analysis in order to unify a devised or scripted drama/theatre work during the rehearsal process.

Refine effective physical, vocal, and psychological traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

implement and refine a planned technical design using simple technology during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify various choices to enhance the interpretation of a drama/theatre work.

Use various character objectives, motives, and tactics in scene to overcome obstacles.

Choose a variety of acting techniques to increase skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

incorporate a variety of technical elements to create a design for a rehearsal or drama/theatre production.

Explore multiple themes within a drama/theatre performance.

Compare personal and peer reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Contrast multiple personal experiences and choose the most appropriate based on textual evidence when participating in a drama/theatre work.

Analyze how cultural perspectives influence the interpretation of a drama/theatre work.

Apply personal aesthetics to interpret a drama/theatre work.

Respond to a drama/theatre work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.

Assess how the production elements present the theme of a drama/theatre work.

Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience.

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

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

Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Document early stages of the creative process visually 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.

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 contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Collaboratively develop meaningful interpretations, supported by evidence, of artworks through describing and analyzing feelings, subject matter, formal characteristics, artmaking approaches, contextual information, and key concepts.

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