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This webpage provides an overview of what your child will learn about Fine Arts in middle school. The Fine Arts learning outcomes focus on visual art and design, digital production, band, orchestra, and choir.
Examples of Your Child’s Work at School
Band
Demonstrate, using music-reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.
Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate) an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.
Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.
Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.
Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.
Share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives – individually or as an ensemble- that demonstrate an understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performance.
Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.
Choir
Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.
Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.
Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.
Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the setting and formal characteristics of musical works contribute to understanding the context of the music in prepared or improvised performances.
Demonstrate understanding and application of expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music through prepared and improvised performances.
Orchestra
Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.
Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.
Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.
Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.
Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.
Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.
Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Visual Art & Design
Experiment with materials like clay, paint, pastels, and graphite.
Create 2D and 3D work inspired by student interests.
Create a variety of 2-D, 3-D, and/or digital artwork with clay, paint, and re-purposed materials.
Proficiently manipulate the structural elements of art with increasing independence to promote creative risk-taking in the artwork.
Investigate artworks from Western and non-Western cultures.
Expand the understanding and appreciation of the role of art in global culture.
Use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works.
Explore the structural elements of art used when creating 3-D forms.
Use additive and subtractive processes to manipulate and construct sculptural or ceramic forms in media that may include, but are not limited to, clay, wood, plaster, found objects, etc.
Examine the effects of attention to detail, size, position, overlapping, visual pattern, and texture.
Focus on the use of safety procedures for processes, media, and techniques.
Digital Production
Work in a group environment to create an audio project that creates a mental picture through the use of sound effects and music.
Develop a “picture” of want to paint in a listener’s mind.
Critically approach audio and video scripts.
Identify a potential client and produce a video that best meets the client’s needs.
Plan how to find a client that needs a video or DVD produced. The client can be a school class, club or extracurricular activity, a nonprofit agency, or a similar venture.
Create a video that will meet client needs, such as a promotional video, a fund-raising video, a training video, or a public service announcement (PSA).
Use skills in music production and multi-media to impact and affect social change.
Create a media campaign action that is clearly communicated, informs the public, and persuades the audience to help through a call to action.