Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Other Maine Visual & Performing Arts sets

• Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
• Grades 3, 4, 5
• Grades 6, 7, 8

Students perform music that requires well-developed technical skills, attention to phrasing and interpretation, and the ability to perform various meters and rhythms in a variety of keys while modeling proper posture and technique, alone or with others.

Students apply accumulated knowledge of musical notation, symbols, and terminology to perform music with greater complexity and variation including sudden dynamic contrasts.

Students listen to, analyze, and evaluate music using their understanding of pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, form, timbre, texture, harmony, style, and compound meter.

Students identify and define the parts of the stage, and identify and describe the crisis, resolution, and theme of the play.

Students fulfill at least one technical role from pre-show through strike.

Students research and explain how art and artists reflect and influence culture and periods of time.

Students evaluate all the features of composition.

Students compare the effects of media and their associated tools, techniques, and processes, using elements, principles, and expressive qualities in art forms and genres.

Students create an original piece of choreography using the elements of dance.

Students create both solo and ensemble dance works accurately producing an original or pre-existing complex movement sequence with rhythmic acuity.

Students solve increasingly complex movement challenges involving several dance concepts with one or more partners.

Students include and explain costume, light, and sound changes in a piece of choreography.

Students perform music of various styles and genres that requires well-developed technical skills, attention to phrasing and interpretation and various meters and rhythms in a variety of keys, accurately applying the accumulated knowledge and skills of: proper posture and technique; musical notation; symbols; and terminology.

Students analyze and evaluate musical ideas expressed in their own compositions or the compositions of others.

Students refine gesture and stage business in the portrayal of a role.

Students demonstrate development of a character's attitude and point of view using voice timing, voice tone/level, and physicality to communicate ideas, moods, intentions, and/or feelings.

Students improvise through theatre games or productions to address unforeseen circumstances.

Students choose multiple suitable media, tools, techniques, and processes to create a variety of original art works.

Students use Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create original art works that demonstrate development of personal style in a variety of media and visual art forms.

Students create a body of original art work.

Students select, prepare, and help with exhibiting their works in the classroom, school, or other community location, and articulate an artistic justification for their selection.

Students apply and analyze creative problem-solving and creative-thinking skills to improve or vary their own work and/or the work of others.

Students analyze and evaluate art forms.

Students analyze the characteristics and purposes of products of the visual/performing arts to understand history and/or world cultures.

Students analyze skills and concepts that are similar across disciplines.

Students make short-term and long-term goals based on rigorous criteria and related to time management, interpersonal interactions, or skill development that will lead to success in the arts.

Students explain how their knowledge of the arts relates to school-to-school and school-to-work transitions and other career and life decisions including the recognition that the arts are a means of renewal and recreation.

Students demonstrate positive interpersonal skills and reflect on the impact of interpersonal skills on personal success in the arts.