Grades 6, 7, 8

Other Maine Visual & Performing Arts sets

• Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
• Grades 3, 4, 5
• Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Students accurately perform music that includes changes of tempo, key, and meter in modest ranges with moderate technical demands, modeling proper posture and technique, alone or with others.

Students apply accumulated knowledge of musical notation, symbols, and terminology to a music performance.

Students listen to and compare elements of music, including pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, form, timbre, texture, harmony, style, and compound meter.

Students identify and explain theatre terms and concepts including stage business, ad-libbing, conflict, action/reaction, focus, and stage directions.

Students describe and participate in a performance from pre-show through strike.

Students explain and compare different purposes of artists and their artwork, in the context of time and place.

Students compare features of composition both within an art work and among art works.

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

Students use movement to express and communicate a story, a piece of music, an artwork, or an emotion.

Students create and develop dance sequences.

Students use improvisation to discover and invent movement sequences and solve movement challenges with one or more partners.

Students identify and select light, costume, or sound changes to enhance a dance phrase.

Students perform music of various styles and genres that includes changes of tempo, key, and meter in modest ranges with moderate technical demands accurately applying the accumulated knowledge and skills of: proper posture and technique; musical notation; symbols; and terminology.

Students compare musical ideas expressed in their own compositions or the compositions of others.

Students apply gesture, movement, and stage business in the portrayal of a role.

Students demonstrate development of a character's attitude and point of view by adjusting voice timing and tone/level and using non-verbal techniques.

Students improvise through theatre games by using blocking, relationships, props, and movement.

Students choose suitable media, tools, techniques, and processes to create original art works.

Students use Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create original art works that demonstrate different styles in paintings, three-dimensional objects, drawings from imagination and real life, and a variety of other media and visual art forms.

Students create art works that communicate an individual point of view.

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

Students describe and apply creative-thinking skills that are part of the creative problem-solving process.<ol type="a"><li>Fluency</li><li>Flexibility</li><li>Elaboration</li><li>Originality</li><li>Analysis</li></ol>

Students compare and analyze art forms.

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

Students explain skills and concepts that are similar across disciplines.

Students set goals related to time management, interpersonal interactions, or skill development that will lead to success in the arts.

Students explain the impact of artistic and career choices on self, others, and the natural and man-made environment.

Students demonstrate positive interpersonal skills and analyze how interpersonal skills affect participation in the arts.