Validate the effects of visual structures and functions, and reflect upon these effects in personal work.

Identify and defend various purposes for creating works of visual art.

Understand and respect that there are different responses to specific art works in a global community.

Analyze the characteristics of personal artwork.

Develop a sensitivity and understanding of how personal experiences can influence the development of artwork.

Defend the history of visual arts and specific relationships to various cultures and times.

Compare and contrast works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

Demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts interrelate in making and studying works of art.

Explain how visual arts have inherent relationships to everyday life.

Identify various careers in the visual arts.

Understand and use comparative characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

Synthesize connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

Critique personal and peer artistic design choices.

Suggest and implement alternative characters, settings, or events after viewing or participating in a performance.

Display skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.

Compare and contrast personal traits and characters traits derived from a text.

Question emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

Understand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.

Understand the significance of theatre and its relationship to history and cultures.

Develop criteria to evaluate the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

Create performances in varied multimedia forms.

Compare and contrast how varied art forms are an expression of everyday life.

Use materials, techniques, media, technology, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences.

Use art materials and tools safely and responsibly with environmental awareness.

Incorporate the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Participate in the process and delivery of a final product for exhibition or presentation.

Synthesize the knowledge of materials, techniques, and processes to create artwork.

Apply knowledge of how to use visual characteristics and organizational principles to communicate ideas.

Explore and understand prospective subject matter, ideas, and symbols for works of art.

Select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

Analyze how art conveys ideas to express one's individuality.

Explore and understand the impact of digital media and technology in the creation of artwork.

Identify music forms when presented aurally.

Use invented or standard notation to transcribe music.

Understand and respect that there are different responses to specific art works in a global community.

Use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music.

Identify and describe a variety of sound sources, including orchestral, band, electronic, world instruments, and voices.

Devise criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.

Explain, using music vocabulary, personal aesthetic response to music.

Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from various historic periods and cultures.

Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures.

Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music performed.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

Create and demonstrate vocal expression to support the playing of a character.

Improvise real and non-real characters.

Appraise artistic choices regarding character, environment, and situation that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Improvise dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Create simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.