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Standard Identifier: PK.DA:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of the body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
Essential Question(s): How is dance interpreted?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Observe a movement and share impressions.

Standard Identifier: PK.MA:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, share reactions to media artworks.

Standard Identifier: PK.MU:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With substantial guidance, explore music’s expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists’ interpretations of drama/theatre work are influenced by personal experiences, culture, and aesthetics.
Essential Question(s): How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, explore preferences in dramatic play, guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.b. With prompting and supports, name and describe characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.c. With prompting and supports describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Interpret art by identifying and describing subject matter.

Standard Identifier: K.VA:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.

Standard Identifier: K.TH:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists’ interpretations of drama/theatre work are influenced by personal experiences, culture, and aesthetics.
Essential Question(s): How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, identify preferences in dramatic play, a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.b. With prompting and supports, name and describe settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.c. With prompting and supports describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

Standard Identifier: K.MA:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Standard Identifier: K.DA:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of the body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
Essential Question(s): How is dance interpreted?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Observe movement and describe it using simple dance terminology.

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