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The Arts: Visual Art

  Curriculum Standard 4
Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

  • Compare the characteristics of works of art representing various cultures, historical periods, and artists.

     

  • Describe and place a variety of art objects by style and artist, and by historical and cultural contexts.

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  • Describe how a given work of art can be interpreted differently in various cultures and time.

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  • Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
  • Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.

  • Analyze relationships among works of art in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, using their observations to inform their own art making.

     

  • Understand various critical models of interpreting works from several historical periods and cultures.

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  • Analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning.

  Curriculum Standard 5
    Analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' artwork.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

  • Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

  • Analyze the meanings of contemporary and historic artworks.

  • Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' work by using specific criteria.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

  • Research and analyze historic meaning and purpose in various works of art.

  • Defend personal interpretations to better understand specific works of art.

  • Reflect critically on various interpretations to better understand specific works of art.

  • Analyze and interpret art works identifying relationships among form, context and purposes.

Social Studies: History

  Curriculum Standard 18
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history and its uses in contemporary situations.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts, and documents represent links to the past and that they are sources of data from which historical accounts are constructed.

  • Discuss the importance of individuals and groups that have made a difference in history, and the significance of character and actions for both good and ill.

  • Use basic research skills to investigate and prepare a report on a historical person or event.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
  • Analyze historical documents, artifacts, and other materials for credibility, relevance, and point of view.

  • Examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society, or theme; analyze change over time; and make logical inferences concerning cause and effect.

Language Arts: Literature

  Curriculum Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting, and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature as well as literary works translated into English.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:

  • Understand that a single text, including poetry, novels, essays, spoken and audio-visual presentations, and accounts of events from real life, may elicit a variety of responses and informed, reasoned interpretations.

  • Explain that literature can be used to better understand themselves and others, as well as develop an understanding of American culture and the world in which they live.

  • Understand the characteristics of a wide variety of genres including short stories, mysteries, poetry, drama, legends, biographies, autobiographies, historical fiction, science fiction, adventure stories, informational articles, and factual presentations.

  • Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of a wide variety of literary works such as Newbery books and worthy examples of writing by American and British authors.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
  • Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature, and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.

  • Understand that themes and events in literature often parallel real life.

  • Analyze the ways that literature reflects the range of human experience.

  • Analyze the ways readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts.

  • Identify, analyze, and interpret literary themes and elements.

  • Stand apart from a text and consider it objectively by performing a range of tasks including critically evaluating; comparing and contrasting; understanding the impact of the organizational structure; and analyzing the use of such elements as satire, irony, humor, bias, redundancy, symbolism, analogies, metaphors, and poetic license.

  • Critically analyze and evaluate texts for their practical, informational, or aesthetic value; for writer's craft; for writer's biases; and for the inherent ability of the work to communicate.