Upon graduation from the LAUSD, students will be able to:

1. Analyze and make informed judgments about works of art and artistic expression, including performances in dance, music, theater, and visual arts on the basis of form, content, technique , and creativity .

2. Describe the characteristics of dance, music, theater, and visual arts from various cultures and traditions, now and in the past, and explain how the visual and performing arts influence and are influenced by these cultures and traditions.

3. Use artistic perception, historical context, creativity, and analysis to demonstrate how dance, music, theater, and visual arts are related to each other, to the other content areas, and to lifelong learning.

Dance:
4. Design, perform, and critique dance sequences, studies and completed works: use dance technique to demonstrate choreographic principles and processes: use the vocabulary of dance in verbal and written analyses of specific dance.

5. Plan, compose, and perform extended dance pieces: perform the works of others demonstrating a sense of individuality and appropriate interpretation in the presentation. Music:
6. Read and write musical notation: analyze and describe music, using the vocabulary of music identify and explain compositional devices and techniques.

7. Sing or play on an instrument a varied repertoire of music: improvise melodies, and accompaniments: compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

Theater:
8. Analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters, plots, settings, and themes from dramatic texts that represent a variety genres and styles, historical periods, and cultures.

9. Develop and execute artistic interpretation of theatrical texts in the role of actor, director, and designer, justify selections of text, interpretation, and visual and sound elements to convey dramatic intent.

Visual Arts:
10. Apply the visual arts vocabulary in oral and written form: use refined and subtle discriminations to analyze the interrelationships of the elements and principles of the visual arts found in students own work, the work of others, and the environment.

11. Create original artwork based on personal experiences or responses by using visual arts skill in a variety of media and techniques; demonstrate the ability to organize themes and images through the use of the visual metaphor.

Upon completing grade ten students will be able to:

12. Evaluate and critique works of dance, music, theater, and visual arts in comparison with exemplary models, using established criteria and criteria which students develop.

13. identify works of art from various cultures and historical periods and determine the ways in which dance, music, theater, and visual arts maintain and express cultures themes: analyze specific works art, technical processes, and stylistic elements, including their own works.

14. Analyze how the characteristics of dance, music, theater, and visual arts relate to each others and to learning in other content areas, describe how knowledge of the arts is vital to life-long learning.

Upon completing grade ten in the LAUSD, students will, in at least one of the following four visual or performing arts, be able to:

Dance:
15. Perform combinations and variation of movements of modern complexity (e.g. changing meters and rhythmic patterns), using the elements of space, time, and force: discuss dance movements elements, using appropriate movement vocabulary.

16. Create choreography that demonstrates clarity of intent, unity, originality, coherent form, and artistic principles, process, and structures of movement.

Music:
17. Analyze the uses of musical notation symbols and the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, dynamics, and tone color in specific musical examples.

18. Sing or perform on an instrument with expression and technical accuracy alone and with others: improvise rhythmic and melodic variations on given melodies: compose and arrange music of various styles for voices or instruments, demonstrating the use of the elements of music.

Theater:
19. Analyze the plot, settings, characters, and theme of a play: select and justify the choice of portions of the play to perform.

20. Produce and perform scenes and plays, including students own written improvisational works, that contain a wide range of characterization with varied speech and movement: use student-researched information about people, events, time, and place to create appropriate characterizations and to design dramatic environments.

Visual Arts:
21. Analyze the functions and the visual structure of art and the use the vocabulary of the visual art in observing works of art, objects in nature, and events in the environment and in creating their own original works.

22. Create visual works of art in a wide variety of media, using techniques and processes that demonstrate proficiency informed by the elements and principle of the visual arts: apply visual arts concepts and technical skills to communicate effectively.

Upon completing grade eight in the LAUSD, Students will be able to:

23 Use established criteria to evaluate and effectiveness of works of art in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

24. Analyze the artistic and social characteristics and functions of dance, music, theater, and visual arts in various cultures and historical periods: explain why certain works are representative of their period culture.

25. Evaluate and cite specific examples of how the elements and principles of dance, music, theater, and visual arts are similar and how they are different, identify how the arts connect to learning in other content areas and to further lifelong learning experience.

Dance:
26. Move accurately to varying musical beats and rhythms: describe the elements and concepts of dance, using the vocabulary of dance.

27. Use movement vocabulary and kinesthetic awareness to create and refine original dance compositions, using a variety of themes.

Music:
28. Describe the use of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, dynamics, and tone color when reading or listening to music: read music accurately and expressively.

29. Sign and play music accurately in parts: improve simple melodic and harmonic accompaniments and composed short pieces within specified guidelines: use a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media when composing and arranging.

Theater:
30. Portray mood, characters, and emotion in recounting experience and stories: document observations and perceptions of performance and production values of lighting, mood, atmosphere, and sound.

31. Produce and perform scenes or play from a varied repertoire, including student's own written and improvisational works, using movement, vocal pitch tempo, and tone to differentiate characters.

Visual Arts:
32. Use the elements and principles of the visual arts in visual imagery: analyze images by investigating the compositional, expressive and metaphoric aspects of works of art.

33. Create two- and three-dimensional works of art that exhibit a familiarity with the elements and principles of the visual arts by using a variety of media and techniques; skillfully modify visual images (e.g., through elaboration, distortion, enlargement and simplification) to create a specific effect.

Upon completing grade four in the LAUSD, students will be able to:

34. Use appropriate dance, music, theater and visual arts terminology to explain personal preferences for specific examples of artistic expression.

35. Identify a variety of works of art in dance, music, theater and visual arts from various cultures and historical periods; determine the ways in which the works of art reflect people and places now and in the past.

36. Identify connections between the elements of dance, music, theater and visual arts, between an art form and other content areas and between the arts and lifelong learning skills.

Dance:
37. Use the body to express the elements of time, space and force in response to music, imagery and feelings.

38. Create and demonstrate dance elements and skills in improvisation, student choreography and established choreography.

Music:
39. Use a system of notation to read simple patterns of musical pitch and rhythm; recognize the basic elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, dynamics and tone color.

40. Sing and play classroom instruments (e.g., drums, maracas, tambourines, song bells) with accuracy; compose and improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns and accompaniments.

Theater:
41. Assume the role of objects, animals or people and reproduce their sounds, describe the mood, atmosphere and sounds of a production and their impact on feelings.

42. Create improvisational dramatizations that include plot, theme, character, development, dialogue, sound and visual aspects; write or record the dialogue situation.

Visual Arts:
43. Identify the elements of art and principles of the visual arts as seen in the environment and in works of art.

44. Create original works of art in a variety of media (e.g., drawing, painting, printmaking, modeling, construction, photography and computer graphics), using a variety of techniques.