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High School Arts Specialization Curriculum Document

Purposes
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High School Arts Specialization Curriculum Framework
Topic: Purposes for Creating the Arts
Big Idea: Purposes for Creating the Arts

Content
Activities/Resources
What effective instructional activities and suggested materials could be used to teach this content?
Program of Studies
What skills, concepts, and understandings do students need to learn and be able to do?
Core Content for Assessment
What do students need to understand and be able to apply to new situations?
Subtopic: Music Purposes
High School Enduring Knowledge –
Understandings

Students will understand that
AH-HS-3.1.1
Students will explain how music fulfills a variety of purposes. DOK 2


Purposes of music: (different roles of music)

Ceremonial - music created or performed for rituals or celebrations (e.g., patriotic music, music for worship)

Recreational - music for entertainment (e.g., music for play such as game songs, music for dances and social events, music for physical activities, music as a hobby)

Artistic expression - music created with the intent to express or communicate one’s emotions, feelings, ideas, experience (e.g., music created and performed in a concert setting for an audience)

Resources

KET Music Toolkit

Arts & Humanities: The Student Handbook www.evamedia.com

Introduction to Music - Eileen O’Brien

Classical Music for Dummies by David Pogue and Scott Speck

A-Z of Classical Music - www.naxos.com

Examples of music and Student Activities
:
Listen to and discuss the following musical
examples:

Ceremonial
• Gospel
• Wedding March
• Pompo and Circumstance

Recreational
• Polka muisc
• Disco music
• Waltzes

• the arts fulfill a variety of purposes in society (e.g., to present issues and ideas, to entertain, to teach or persuade, to design, plan and beautify).
the arts have value and significance for daily life. They provide personal fulfillment, whether in career settings, avocational pursuits or leisure.
the arts provide forms of nonverbal communication that can strengthen the presentation of ideas and emotions.
High School Skills and Concepts – Music
Students will
compare, interpret and explain purposes for which music is created to fulfill (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)
create new, listen to, choose and perform music to fulfill a variety of specific purposes

High School Arts Specialization Curriculum Framework
Topic: Purposes for Creating the Arts

Artist Expression
• Popular music
• Country music
• Jazz music
• Compare the use of the music structures in each purpose.
• Itunes U - Select a university and go to the music site for recordings and lectures.

Note: The purpose of a specific musical composition could change depending upon the setting.

Vocabulary:
What terms could students use to clarify communication about this content?

Purposes of music: (reasons for creating music)
Ceremonial, Recreational, Artistic Expression

Assessment:
How will students be assessed to find out what they already know and what they’ve learned?
Students will

• compare, interpret and explain purposes for which music is created to fulfill (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)


Subtopic: Dance Purposes

High School Enduring Knowledge – Understandings
Students will understand that
AH-HS-3.2.1
Students will explain how dance fulfills a variety of purposes. DOK 2

Purposes of dance: (different roles of dance)

Ceremonial
- dances created or performed for rituals or celebrations (e.g., dances of Native Americans and West Africans to celebrate life events such as harvest, ritual dances associated with worship)

Recreational
- dancing for entertainment, to support recreational activities (e.g., ballroom, line dancing, aerobic dance, dance as a hobby)

Artistic expression
- dance created with the intent to express or communicate emotion, feelings, ideas (e.g., ballet, tap dance, modern dance, dance created and performed in a concert and/or theatrical setting for an audience
Resources:

KET Dance Toolkit
• Creating a Dance with a Purpose
• DanceSense (DVD) Part 2 - Dancing Through Time

Arts & Humanities: The Student Handbook www.evamedia.com

HAVPA Textbook (JCPS) Teacher Materials 2006
• Resources for Teaching Purposes of Dance

Examples, Topics and Student Activities
View and discuss the following performances and videos:

•Live performances (e.g. Ballet, Salsa Dancers, Ballroom)

• the arts fulfill a variety of purposes in society (e.g., to present issues and ideas, to entertain, to teach or persuade, to design, plan and beautify).
• the arts have value and significance for daily life. They provide personal fulfillment, whether in career settings, avocational pursuits or leisure.
• the arts provide forms of nonverbal communication that can strengthen the presentation of ideas and emotions.



High School Skills and Concepts Dance
Students will
• compare, interpret and explain purposes for which dance is created (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)
• create new, observe, choose and perform dance to fulfill a variety of specific purposes
Vocabulary:
What terms could students use to clarify communication about this content?

Purposes of dance: (reasons for creating dance)
Ceremonial, Recreational, Artistic Expression

Assessment:
How will students be assessed to find out what they already know and what they’ve learned?
Students will

• compare, interpret and explain purposes for which dance is created to fulfill (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)
• create new, observe, choose and perform dance to fulfill a variety of specific purposes


Subtopic: Drama/Theatre Purposes

High School Enduring Knowledge – Understandings
Students will understand that
AH-HS-3.3.1
Students will explain how dance fulfills a variety of purposes. DOK 2

Purposes of drama/theatre: (different roles of drama)

Sharing the human experience
- to express or communicate emotion, feelings, ideas, information through dramatic works (e.g., social change, express or communicate universal themes, to interpret and recreate information, ideas and emotions)

Passing on tradition and culture - to express or communicate feelings, ideas, information (e.g., narrative, storytelling, folktales, religious ritual and ceremony)

Recreational - drama as recreation and for recreational events (e.g., for entertainment, diversion, festivals)

Artistic expression - drama created with the intent to express or communicate emotion, feelings, ideas, information
(e.g., dramatic works created and performed in a theatrical setting for an audience)
Resources:

KET Drama Toolkit
• Purposes of a Dama Lesson Plan
• DVD

Arts & Humanities: The Student Handbook www.evamedia.com

HAVPA Textbook (JCPS) Teacher Materials 2006
• Resources for Teaching Purposes of Dance

Examples, Topics and Student Activities
View and /or read and discuss the following plays or movies:

Sharing the human experience:
• Clash of the Titans
• Of Mice and Men
• The Miracle Worker
• The Crucible
• I’m Not Rappaport
• A Doll’s House

Passing on tradition and culture
• A Raison in the Sun
• Rainmaker
• The Song Catcher
• Fences
• Steel Magnolias
• Color Purple

Recreational
• Spiderman
• James Bond movies

• the arts fulfill a variety of purposes in society (e.g., to present issues and ideas, to entertain, to teach or persuade, to design, plan and beautify).
• the arts have value and significance for daily life. They provide personal fulfillment, whether in career settings, avocational pursuits or leisure.
• the arts provide forms of nonverbal communication that can strengthen the presentation of ideas and emotions.

High School Skills and Concepts Dance
Students will
• compare, interpret and explain purposes for which dance is created (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)
• create new, observe, choose and perform dance to fulfill a variety of specific purposes
Vocabulary:
What terms could students use to clarify communication about this content?
See www.ket.org/artstoolkit

Purposes of drama/theatre: (reasons for creating dramatic works)
Sharing the human experience, Passing on tradition and culture, Recreational, Artistic Expression

Assessment:
How will students be assessed to find out what they already know and what they’ve learned?
Students will

• compare, interpret and explain purposes for which drama/theatre is created to fulfill (ceremonial, recreational, artistic expression)
• create new, observe, choose and perform dramatic worksto fulfill a variety of specific purposes

Background

Overview

Processes in the Arts

Structures in the Arts

Humanity in the Arts (Cultures and Historical Style Periods)

Interrelationships Among the Arts

Suggested Instructional Times (Chart)