This webpage provides an overview of what your child will learn about Fine Arts in high school. The Fine Arts learning outcomes focus on visual art and design, band, orchestra, and choir.
Examples of Your Child’s Work at School:
Band
- Demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
- Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
- Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate) an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.
- Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.
- Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.
- Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.
- Share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives – individually or as an ensemble- that demonstrate an understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performance.
- Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.
Choir
- Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.
- Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
- Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.
- Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
- Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the setting and formal characteristics of musical works contribute to understanding the context of the music in prepared or improvised performances.
- Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.
Orchestra
- Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.
- Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.
- Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.
- Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.
- Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.
- Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Visual Art & Design
- Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.
- Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
- Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
- Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
- Reflect on and explain important information about personal artwork in an artist statement or another format.
- Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.
- Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
- Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.
- Individually or collaboratively create visual documentation of places and times in which people gather to make and experience the art of design in the community.
- Analyze how the response to art is understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.