High School Fine Arts Hawaii Standards

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Dance — Understand and apply elements of dance, appreciate how dance communicates meaning, and recognize its role across cultures and throughout history

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Drama and Theatre — Understand and apply the skills of acting, design, and technical theatre and understand the role of drama in various cultures throughout history

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Music — Understand and apply elements of music and understand how music communicates ideas, feelings, and experiences across cultures

How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture

How the Arts Communicate

How the Arts are Organized

Visual Arts — Understand and apply art materials, techniques, and processes in the creation of original works of art and understand how the visual arts communicate a variety of ideas, feelings, and experiences

Create original works of art using a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes

Demonstrate how the composition of a work of art is affected by the use of elements or principles of art and design

Analyze, using evidence, the relationship between themes explored in the visual arts and those explored in other content areas

Evaluate the effectiveness of the use of elements and principles of art and design in works of art

Create works of art that contain one or more symbols, themes, and metaphors

Evaluate the function of artwork in different cultures, careers, and historical periods

Analyze common characteristics of works of art and artifacts across time periods and among cultural groups to identify influences

Perform a variety of musical elements with appropriate understanding, expression and style individually and in a group

Improvise short melodies based on a chord pattern

Apply knowledge of music theory to compose and arrange music within specified guidelines

Analyze compositional devices and techniques

Critique music using specific criteria

Describe how various elements and roles of music integrate with other content areas

Analyze the significance of music and composers in various cultures and time periods

Create a script or scene incorporating characters, dialogue, scenery, props, costumes, lighting, and sound

Use collaboration and revision to develop and produce a play or scene

Analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters in texts and performances

Implement artistic choices for informal and formal productions

Develop and apply criteria to critique all aspects of a live theatrical production

Assess the role of the audience in relation to the overall live theatrical experience

Apply period style to dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions from various cultures and historical periods

Use all of the dance elements in creating dance sequences

Demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Analyze the effect of lifestyle choices on a dancer

Synthesize dance with other disciplines

Use movement choices to communicate abstract ideas in dance

Apply complex steps and patterns of dances from a number of styles, genres, and cultures