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 Grade: Middle School Level III
Competencies:
1. Use advanced techniques appropriate to the unique qualities of various media to reach an original and artistic solution.
2. Know how to use the elements of art and principles of design in a variety of media, techniques, and processes to create original and expressive works of art.
3. Increase knowledge of and ability to use various media, techniques and processes in creating different effect in works of art.
4. Develop perceptual skills and use correct visual arts vocabulary to make judgments while studying works of art.
5. Investigate different models of critical processes for use in the examination of works of art and design for reading, writing, and speaking.
6. Know that the roles, functions, and purposes of artists, works of art, and visual arts careers are influenced by cultural, historical, and political issues.
7. Identify universal themes, concepts, forms, and functions that recur in works of art and design across cultures, times, and places.
8. Understand that factors of culture, time, and place affect the characteristics of works of art and design.
9. Know that there are different concepts about what constitutes art.
10. Know that multiple factors affect how people respect, value, and derive meaning from art.
11. Know that the integration of visual arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other subject areas provides essential tools for everyday life.
12. Know that major concepts, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts relate to those in other subject areas -within and outside the arts - throughout time.