Level 4: Achievement Objectives

	Dance	Drama	Music	The Visual Arts
Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts	Students will use elements of dance to share personal movement vocabularies and to explore the vocabularies of others.	Students will combine elements and techniques and a range of conventions to extend drama practice through a variety of activities.	Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, a range of patterns, effects, sound qualities, and structural devices.	Students will apply knowledge of elements and principles to make objects and images, using art-making conventions and a variety of techniques, tools, materials, processes, and procedures.
Developing Ideas in the Arts	Students will explore and use choreographic devices to give form to dance ideas.	Students will initiate ideas and make individual and collective decisions in order to plan and develop drama.	Students will use musical elements, instruments, and technologies to improvise and compose simple musical pieces.	Students will generate and develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, using imagination, observation, and a study of artists' works.
Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts	Students will present dance for a particular purpose and record responses to their own and others' dance.	Students will present and respond to drama and identify ways in which dramatic elements, techniques, and conventions combine to create meaning.	Students will prepare, rehearse, present, and evaluate brief music performances.	Students will explore and describe how different media influence the communication and interpretation of ideas in their own and others' work.
Understanding the Arts in Context	Students will explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures.	Students will investigate the purposes of drama in past and present contexts and describe how communities express themselves through drama.	Students will identify and investigate characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes, and styles in past and present cultures.	Students will investigate the purposes of objects and images in past and present cultures and identify contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.

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