PDE+ArtsandHumanities+Standards

=Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards for Arts and Humanities=

**9.1.8 Production, Performance, and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts**


 * 9.1.8.A:** Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities.

Elements Principles
 * Dance: • energy/force • space • time
 * Music: • duration • intensity • pitch • timbre
 * Theatre: • scenario • script/text • set design
 * Visual Arts: • color • form/shape • line • space • texture • value
 * Dance: • choreography • form • genre • improvisation • style • technique
 * Music: • composition • form • genre • harmony • rhythm • texture
 * Theatre: • balance • collaboration • discipline • emphasis • focus • intention • movement • rhythm • style • voice
 * Visual Arts: • balance • contrast • emphasis/focal point • movement/rhythm • proportion/scale • repetition • unity/harmony


 * 9.1.8.B:** Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
 * Dance: • move • perform • create and choreograph • improvise
 * Music: • sing • play an instrument • compose and arrange • improvise
 * Theatre: • stage productions • read and write scripts • improvise • interpret a role • design sets • direct
 * Visual Arts: • paint • draw • craft • sculpt • print • design for environment, communication, multi-media


 * 9.1.8.E:** Communicate a unifying theme or point of view through the production of works in the arts.


 * 9.1.8.F:** Explain works of others within each art form through performance or exhibition.


 * 9.1.8.G:** Explain the function and benefits of rehearsal and practice sessions.


 * 9.1.8.H:** Demonstrate and maintain materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces.
 * Analyze the use of materials.
 * Explain the use of mechanical/electrical equipment.
 * Demonstrate how to work in selected physical space/environment.
 * Demonstrate the selection of safe props/stage equipment.


 * 9.1.8.J:** Incorporate specific uses of traditional and contemporary technologies within the design for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others.
 * Explain and demonstrate traditional technologies (e.g., paint, tools, instruments).
 * Explain and demonstrate contemporary technologies (e.g., MIDI keyboards, Internet design, computers, interactive technologies, audio/sound equipment, board-mixer, video equipment, computerized lighting design).


 * 9.1.8.K:** Incorporate specific uses of traditional and contemporary technologies in furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.

**9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts**


 * 9.2.8.A:** Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.
 * 9.2.8.B:** Relate works in the arts chronologically to historical events
 * 9.2.8.C:** Relate works in the arts to varying styles and genre and to the periods in which they were created
 * 9.2.8.F:** Know and apply appropriate vocabulary used between social studies and the arts and humanities.
 * 9.2.8.H:** Identify, describe and analyze the work of Pennsylvania Artists in dance, music, theatre and visual arts.
 * 9.2.8.I:** Identify, explain and analyze philosophical beliefs as they relate to works in the arts (e.g., classical architecture, rock music, Native American dance, contemporary American musical theatre).
 * 9.2.8.J:** Identify, explain and analyze historical and cultural differences as they relate to works in the arts (e.g., PLAYS BY Shakespeare, works by Michelangelo, ethnic dance and music).
 * 9.2.8.K:** Identify, explain and analyze traditions as they relate to works in the arts (e.g., story telling – plays, oral histories- poetry, work songs- blue grass).
 * 9.2.8.L:** Identify, explain and analyze common themes, forms and techniques from works in the arts

**9.3 Critical Response**


 * 9.3.8.A:** Know and use the critical process of the examination of works in the arts and humanities.
 * Compare and contrast
 * Analyze
 * Interpret
 * Form and test hypotheses
 * Evaluate/form judgments
 * 9.3.8.C:** Identify and classify styles, forms, types and genre within art forms (e.g., modern dance and the ethnic dance, a ballad and a patriotic song).
 * 9.3.8.F:** Apply the process of criticism to identify characteristics among works in the arts.

**9.4 Aesthetic Response**


 * 9.4.8.B:** Compare and contrast informed individual opinions about the meaning of works in the arts to others (e.g., debate philosophical opinions within a listserve or at an artist’s website).
 * 9.4.8.C:** Describe how the attributes of the audience’s environment influence aesthetic responses