Standard: Fine Arts

08 Feb 2025

Careers and Pathways in Arts and Culture

August-June

Without the arts in our community, we would lack in entertainment and creative outlets that make the world a better place. Join the Arts Educators to discover how artists fit into the larger community, and the paths you can take to engage with the arts in your lives.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.HSP.3CO Explore how 21st-century skills developed in dance translate to a chosen career path.
  • MUS.HSP.5CO Demonstrate knowledge of potential musical career choices.
  • TH.HSP.7CO Discuss the importance of drama and theatre in a community and provide examples.
  • VA.HSAD.2CO Demonstrate personal strategies for lifelong involvement and advocacy in the visual arts.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.C2.4.d Evaluate the impact of personal involvement in an activity to improve school, home, community and world.

      Vocabulary:

      audition, contract, rehearse, résumé, artist, advocacy

      08 Feb 2025

      Speaking Up!

      August-June

      For ages, people have explored how to use their voice to confidently say what they mean. We will empower students to present themselves in front of peers through the light-hearted lens of improv comedy. We will also gather inspiration from visual artists who used their works to speak their minds.

      Fine Arts Standards:

      • TH.HSP.1PE Manipulate vocal qualities, posture, movement, and language to express variety in characters during improvisation and dramatic situations.
      • TH.HSP.2PE Demonstrate the collaborative skills necessary for producing a scene with a unified vision.
      • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.

      English Language Arts Standards:

      • SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

      Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

      • SEL.C1.3.d Demonstrate empathy through compassion in self and encourage in others.

        Vocabulary:

        listening, support, confidence, inner-champion, zines

        08 Feb 2025

        Mindfulness and the Arts

        August-June

        Using tools and practices centered around creativity and mindfulness, experience the calming effects of art, music, and mindful movement. This program supports the “love and belonging” and “esteem” stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and focuses on Whole Student Education. We will empower students by sharing self-regulation strategies that can support them  when the strain of friendships, school, or work become overwhelming.

        Fine Arts Standards:

        • DN.HSP.4PE Recognizes the mind-body connection in dance technique and performance.
        • MUS.HSP.4CO Describe the purpose and value of music in various cultures and settings.
        • VA.HSP.2CR Explore multiple solutions to artistic problems.

        Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

        • SEL.HS.D2.3.d Develop techniques to empower, encourage and affirm oneself and others, maintaining positive, healthy relationships.
        • SEL.HS.B1.1.d Utilize self-management strategies to regulate thoughts, emotions and behaviors within the context of the situation.

          Vocabulary:

          mindfulness, reflection, mental health, regulate

          08 Feb 2025

          Art Walk and Talk

          August-June

          Visit Greenacres Arts Center for an experience all about an exclusive rotating art exhibition by local artists who gathered inspiration from their time at the Greenacres Artist Weekend. Students will practice visual analysis, art criticism, and strategies for interpreting artworks. Schedule permitting, this program could include time with artists from the exhibition

          Fine Arts Standards:

          • VA.HSP.3CR Identify visual literacy strategies as a means to communicate concepts.
          • VA.HSP.3RE Utilize art criticism methods when responding to works of art.
          • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.
          • VA.HSP.2CO Recognize contributions of the visual arts in everyday life.

          English Language Arts Standards:

          • ELA.SL.9-10.1/SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10/11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

          *Standards may be customized to fit your classroom’s needs.

            Vocabulary:

            gallery, curation, description, visual analysis, interpretation, opinion

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