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Standard 6

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Standard 1

Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.

Benchmark 1

The students will apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that the intended meaning is carried out in the product.

Indicator 1

The students will apply media, techniques, and processes with skill and
confidence.

Indicator 2

The students will produce drawings using pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, brush, colored pencil, and mixed media.

Indicator 3

The students will demonstrate craftsmanship in drawing through control of media and techniques.

Benchmark 2

The students will conceive of and create visual artwork that demonstrates an understanding of how to communicate ideas that relate to the media, techniques, and processes used.

Indicator 1

The students will research possible solutions, choose appropriate media and techniques, complete the expression and critique the completed project.

Indicator 2

The students will conceive and create works of art that communicate ideas as they relate to the media, techniques and processes they use.

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Standard 2

Using knowledge of structures and functions.

Benchmark 1

The students will recognize and successfully employ the elements and principles of design.

Indicator 1

The students will define and utilize a variety of linear expression in composition.

Indicator 2

The students will utilize shape by changes in color, value, texture or line.

Indicator 3

The students will use negative shape or space.

Indicator 4

The students will demonstrate that various combinations of the elements and principles of design can be utilized to express ideas in unified art works.

Indicator 5

The students will use value changes to connect points within a composition.

Indicator 6

The students will create illusions of texture and depict value changes by varying density of texture.



Benchmark 2

The students will develop and refine ideas for expression, create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems and demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions.

Indicator 1

The students will critique personal work using traditional aesthetic criteria.

Indicator 2

The students will use formal and expression qualities and discuss the meaning in relationship to their work.

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Standard 3

Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

Benchmark 1

The students will integrate visual, spatial, and contextual concepts to
communicate meaning in artwork.

Indicator 1

The students will be encouraged to experiment with a variety of style to express their individual ideas.

Indicator 2

The students will exhibit an expanded use and understanding of art vocabulary.

Indicator 3

The students will adapt ideas for expression to media and techniques.

Benchmark 2

The students will describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in artwork.

Indicator 1

The students will compare and contrast the styles of major works of art by examining the social, political, and economic contexts in which the works occurred.

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Standard 4

Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

Benchmark 1

The students will demonstrate an understanding of personal, group and cultural relationships and interactions with visual art.

Indicator 1

The students will discuss how aesthetic values are expressed as cultural differences.

Indicator 2

The students will examine the values and beliefs of people in relation to their perceptions of art, visual images and environment.

Benchmark 2

The students will describe the function and explore meaning of art works within varied cultures, times and places.

Indicator 1

The students will investigate how a change in media or technique would alter the appearance, meaning and impact of a work of art.

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Standard 5

Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

Benchmark 1

The students will identify intentions of those creating art works, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of those purposes in particular works.

Indicator 1

The students will make value judgments based on clearly defined criteria to indicate successful use of media, techniques, and processes.

Benchmark 2

The students will reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating visual art works.

Indicator 1

The students will examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views and intentions, and how they evoke particular responses to art.

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Standard 6

Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

Benchmark 1

The students will understand that people have visually recorded experiences and expressed ideas throughout time.

Indicator 1

The students will respond to events that affect their lives through personal
expression in visual media.

Indicator 2

The students will examine the concepts and historical context leading to various movements in art.

Indicator 3

The students will discuss and investigate current issues in art.

Indicator 4

The students will analyze the differences in art media used in various cultures and relate the findings to historical and contemporary art works.

Indicator 5

The students will utilize knowledge from other art forms and historical concepts in contexts to express their own ideas.

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