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 Grade: Middle School Level IV
Competencies:
1. Use techniques appropriate to the unique qualities of various media to reach an original and artistic solution in creating works of art.
2. Understand and apply with increasing skill elements of art and principles of design to a variety of media, techniques, and processes to create original and expressive works of art.
3. Apply knowledge of how the use of various media, techniques, and processes results in different effects in works of art.
4. Develop perceptual skills and use increased visual arts vocabulary to make judgments while creating and studying works of art.
5. Understand, examine, and practice various critical processes in evaluating works of art and design.
6. Understand that roles, functions, and purposes of artists, works of art, and visual arts careers vary across cultures, times, and places.
7. Recognize subject matter, themes, and forms that recur in works of art and design across cultures, times, and places.
8. Know that factors of culture, time, and place affect characteristics of works of art and design.
9. Understand different concepts about what constitutes art.
10. Understand that personal experience affects how people respect, value, and derive meaning from art.
11. Recognize how the meaningful integration of visual arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other subject areas provides essential tools for everyday life.
12. Understand ways that major concepts, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts relate to arts and other disciplines.