Browse Massachusetts State Standards

 Grade: Extended Studies
Standards
1: Singing: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2: Reading and Notation: Students will read music written in standard notation.
3: Playing Instruments: Students will play instruments, alone and with others, to perform a varied repertoire of music.
4: Improvisation and Composition: Students will improvise, compose, and arrange music.
5: Critical Response: Students will describe and analyze their own music and the music of others using appropriate music vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.
6: Purposes and Meanings in the Arts: Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and architecture were and are created, and, where appropriate, interpret their meanings.
7: Roles of Artists in Communities: Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present.
8: Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Sty: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts of style, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures, and genres.
9: Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts: Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their works.
10: Interdisciplinary Connections: Students will use knowledge of the arts and cultural resources in the study of the arts, English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering.