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Standard Three: Responding To and Analyzing Works of Art  
Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
Dance Students will express through written and oral language their understanding, interpretation, and evaluation of dances they see, do, and read about. Students will acquire the critical vocabulary to talk and write about a variety of dance forms.
    PI Students make comparisons of the nature and principles of dance to other arts
    PI Students analyze and describe similarities and differences in different dance forms and styles
        PI Students describe and compare a variety of choreographic approaches used in the creation of dances
    Music Students will demonstrate the capacity to listen to and comment on music. They will relate their critical assertions about music to its aesthetic, structural, acoustic, and psychological qualities. Students will use concepts based on the structure of music’s content and context to relate music to other broad areas of knowledge. They will use concepts from other disciplines to enhance their understanding of music.
    PI Students, through listening, analyze and evaluate their own and others' performances, improvisations, and compositions and suggest improvements
    PI Students read and write critiques of music that display a broad knowledge of musical elements, genres, and styles
    PI Students use anatomical and other scientific terms to explain the musical effectiveness of various sound sources - traditional, nontraditional, and electronic
      PI Students use appropriate technical and socio-cultural terms to describe musical performances and compositions
      PI Students identify and describe the contributions of both locally and internationally known exemplars of high quality in the major musical genres
      PI Students explain how performers, composers, and arrangers make artistic decisions
        Theatre Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate plays and theatrical performances, both live and recorded, using the language of dramatic criticism. Students will analyze the meaning and role of theatre in society. Students will identify ways in which drama/theatre connects to film and video, other arts, and other disciplines.
        PI Students articulate an understanding, interpretation, and evaluation of a theatre piece as drama and as a realized production, using appropriate critical vocabulary
        PI Students evaluate the use of other art forms in a theatre production
        PI Students explain how a theatrical production exemplifies major themes and ideas from other disciplines
                 
        Visual
        Arts

        Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.

        PI Students use the language of art criticism by reading and discussing critical reviews in newspapers and journals and by writing their own critical responses to works of art (either their or those of others)
        PI Students explain the visual and other sensory qualities in art and nature and their relationship to the social environment

          PI Students analyze and interpret the ways in which political, cultural, social, religious, and psychological concepts and themes have been explored in visual art
          PI Students develop connections between the ways ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts and other disciplines in everyday life
                   
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          Photography and the National Park Service

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          In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which art has the power to influence government policy. Students will learn that photography has had a social impact at various intersections with other historical events and movements. This lesson addresses the impact the photographs of the western frontier had on eastern U.S., especially by ensuring that the national parks system would be created.

           

           

           

          		  
           
           
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