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Grade: Middle School Level II
Competencies:
1. Differentiate among techniques and unique properties of media to determine the expressive potential of each.
2. Demonstrate increasing proficiency in using elements and principles of art to communicate ideas, actions, and emotions in creating and responding to works of art.
3. Understand how the use of various media, techniques, and processes can result in different effects in works of art.
4. Develop perceptual skills and use expanded visual arts vocabulary to make judgements while creating and studying works of art.
5. Begin to use critical processes in the examination of works of art and design through reading, writing, and speaking.
6. Know roles, functions, and purposes of artists, works of art, and visual arts careers in selected cultures, times, and places.
7. Distinguish subject matter and themes that recur in works of art and design across cultures, times, and places.
8. Understand how factors of time and place (e.g. , climate, resources, ideas, technology) give meaning or function to works of art and design.
9. Understand that there are different individual opinions about what constitutes art.
10. Know that people can be influenced in the way they respect, value, and derive meaning from art.
11. Recognize the importance of integrating visual arts concepts and skills in other subject areas for use in everyday life.
12. Understand ways that major concepts, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts relate to those other subject areas within and outside the arts.
2. Demonstrate increasing proficiency in using elements and principles of art to communicate ideas, actions, and emotions in creating and responding to works of art.
3. Understand how the use of various media, techniques, and processes can result in different effects in works of art.
4. Develop perceptual skills and use expanded visual arts vocabulary to make judgements while creating and studying works of art.
5. Begin to use critical processes in the examination of works of art and design through reading, writing, and speaking.
6. Know roles, functions, and purposes of artists, works of art, and visual arts careers in selected cultures, times, and places.
7. Distinguish subject matter and themes that recur in works of art and design across cultures, times, and places.
8. Understand how factors of time and place (e.g. , climate, resources, ideas, technology) give meaning or function to works of art and design.
9. Understand that there are different individual opinions about what constitutes art.
10. Know that people can be influenced in the way they respect, value, and derive meaning from art.
11. Recognize the importance of integrating visual arts concepts and skills in other subject areas for use in everyday life.
12. Understand ways that major concepts, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts relate to those other subject areas within and outside the arts.