High School Fine Arts Wyoming Standards

Students conceptualize, create and revise original art to express ideas, experiences and stories

Students envision, create, communicate experiences and ideas, and work toward artistic goals through use of media, techniques, technologies, and processes

Students plan and create artistic works based on use of design elements and principles

Students collaborate with others in creative artistic processes

Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner

Students select, prepare and exhibit their artwork and explain their choice(s)

Students analyze and evaluate a wide range of isolated and coordinated dance movements with body awareness and intent

Students refine movement skills and evaluate alignment, balance, initiation of movement, range of motion, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery

Students apply and evaluate the elements of dance in their own and others performance

Students phrase movement artistically and musically and explain their choices

Students choreograph a dance using recognized structures and forms; students critique the use of choreographic structures and forms in a specific dance.

Explore and use technology with dance

Students synthesize elements of dance and choreography to communicate a coherent idea in a performance

Students refine musicianship through individual practice, rehearsal, revision and performance

Students perform independently and with others a varied repertoire of music, refining musicianship and technical accuracy.

Students improvise rhythms, melodies and accompaniments within a consistent style, meter, and tonality, and discuss their musical choices

Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines, demonstrating creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect

Students demonstrate musical literacy through reading, sightreading and notating music

Students perform in a theatrical setting using a variety of dramatic styles.

Students design and create for a theatrical setting using a variety of technical theatre skills and technologies

Students refine theatrical skills and self-discipline through rehearsal, practice, memorization and revision

Students apply collaborative skills to create and critique theatrical works

Students research characters, themes, and historical events to support the creation of theatrical productions

Students use a script to inform their performances and technical theatre designs

Students observe and describe in detail the physical properties of works of art

Students interpret and analyze the intentions of artists through themes, subjects and symbols. Students question and explore the implications of the artists' various purposes

Students state preferences for individual works of art and provide rationale for those preferences based on an analysis of artistic elements and principles

Students form and defend their preferences for artists, specific works and styles

Students interpret and analyze themes and symbolic movements in a dance performance

Students observe and critique performance of dance, based on their intellectual, kinesthetic and emotional response to the performance

Students use dance terminology to analyze how technical, organizational and dance elements contribute to the ideas, aesthetic quality, and impact of the performance.

Students evaluate how production elements contribute to the ideas, aesthetic quality, and impact of the performance.

Students analyze compositional devices and techniques used in a musical work and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques

Students respond to aural examples by evaluating musical elements and expressive devices of a varied repertoire of music

Students apply criteria in evaluating their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, or improvisations by comparing and contrasting them to similar or exemplary models

Students form and defend their preferences for musicians, musical works and genres

Students view and critique a live performance, including responses to the intellectual and emotional effects of the performance

Students observe and evaluate how technical, organizational and theatrical elements contribute to the ideas, aesthetic quality, and impact of the theatrical form.

Students interpret and analyze the intentions and artistic choices of dramatic artists through themes, subjects and symbols through use of theatrical terminology. Students question and explore the implications of the dramatic artists' various purposes

Students form and defend preferences for specific theatrical works using a rationale based on an analysis of theatrical elements, and personal experiences.

Students read, analyze and evaluate scripts

Students differentiate among a variety of historical, environmental and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art

Students describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, eras, and environments

Students analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, environment, and culture and place their work within the continuum of the visual arts

Students analyze the role of dance in reflecting the values and beliefs of various societies

Students analyze the relationships between historical events and the development of dance.

Students analyze the contributions of selected dance artists to various styles of dance and how they have used materials, inventions and technologies in their work

Students analyze the contributions that dance and its artists make to their local community

Students classify, by genre or style and by historical period or culture, unfamiliar music and explain the reasoning behind their classifications

Students listen to a varied repertoire of music, emphasizing American music, and analyze the characteristics that cause a work to be considered historically or culturally significant

Students evaluate the various purposes of music, select music for a specific purpose, and defend their choice

Students analyze dramatic works and distinguishing features from a variety of cultures and historical periods

Students examine the role and development of the theatre arts in a variety of cultures and historical periods

Students evaluate how a work of theatre impacts and is influenced by authorial, social, cultural and historical contexts

Students synthesize the creative and analytical processes and techniques of the visual arts and other disciplines

Students identify artistic skills and determine how they apply to a variety of careers and recreational opportunities

Students analyze the contributions that art and visual artists make to their local community and contemporary society

Students demonstrate appropriate behavior in a variety of art settings

Students identify and explain commonalities and differences between dance and other disciplines

Students identify how dance skills and experiences support and apply to a variety of careers and recreational opportunities

Students understand how media and social environment affect a dancer. Students analyze strategies to maintain personal health and well-being through dance

Students are attentive and respond appropriately to vocal, musical, social or observed cues.

Students analyze the economics of dance including the role of management, patronage, philanthropy and advocacy

Students demonstrate safe, responsible and appropriate behavior in a variety of musical settings

Students examine the creative and analytical processes of music in relationship to other disciplines

Students identify how musical skills and dispositions are applied to careers, cultural and recreational opportunities

Students analyze the economics of music including the role of management, patrons, philanthropy and advocacy

Students demonstrate appropriate etiquette in a variety of a theatrical settings

Students model and practice safe and responsible behavior in theatrical spaces

Students connect the creative and analytical processes and techniques of theatre with other disciplines, and understand how theatre influences and enhances other disciplines

Students identify theatrical skills and determine how they apply to a variety of careers and recreational opportunities

Students analyze the contributions that theatre and its artists make to their local community and contemporary society

Students analyze the economics of theatre including the role of management, patronage, philanthropy and advocacy

Artistic Connections: Students relate the arts to other disciplines, careers and everyday life.

Creative Expression Through Production: Students create, perform, exhibit or participate in the arts

Historical and cultural context: Students demonstrate an understanding of the arts in relation to history, cultures, and contemporary society.

Aesthetic Perception: Students respond to, analyze, and make informed judgments about the arts.