Grade 7 Fine Arts SCOS Standards

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Analyze the development of music throughout historical time periods.

Evaluate how skills honed in music strengthen work in other academic or professional areas.

Implement effective strategies for preventing, managing, and overcoming physical and psychological health issues that affect musicians.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Compare the differing requirements necessary to pursue various careers in music.

Analyze how extended techniques, technological developments, and new media impact the field of music.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise melodies in various keys.

Compose an original musical idea for two or more voices using an appropriate standard notation system.

Adapt musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Arrange an existing piece of music for an ensemble of 3-4 homophonic parts within given parameters.

Compare how parody, adaptation, and artificial intelligence relate to copyright and fair use of music.

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Analyze the effectiveness of a strategy used to improve musical technique.

Execute musical technique appropriate to the style and genre of performed music.

Demonstrate the ability to sing or play familiar audiated musical phrases accurately.

Sight-read music written for two or more voices.

Sing or play blues scales, multiple key changes, hemiolas, and swing rhythms in a variety of meters, including asymmetrical meters in challenging homophonic or polyphonic repertoire.

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols, terminology and advanced conducting patterns and gestures when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in accomplished repertoire.

Develop musical performances.

Develop a vision for a musical performance that engages a specified audience and supports the purpose of the performance.

Make recommendations to improve active listening and etiquette appropriate for various music performances.

Select the elements of design, production, or equipment for developing a music performance.

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze how form is used to structure compositions of various historical and cultural genres.

Analyze how musicians make creative decisions to convey their artistic intent.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Describe the impact of commercial marketing on personal preferences for musical works.

Generate strategies to improve the quality and effectiveness of musical performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations.

CONNECT - Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE - Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT - Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND - Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Analyze how the global expansion of music from the 19th century to the present impacts both current and future music trends, styles, and artists.

Analyze the interdisciplinary connections inherent in music creation and performance and their relevance across different fields.

Compare the effectiveness of strategies for preventing, monitoring, and overcoming physical and psychological health issues that affect musicians.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Identify the training, skills, and plan of action necessary for success in a selected career in music.

Analyze how music tools, ideas, and innovations are expanding opportunities in business, career, and life.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise melodies over changing harmonic accompaniment.

Compose original music with melodic and harmonic components using an appropriate standard notation system.

Adapt musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Arrange an existing piece of music for an ensemble of 3-4 polyphonic parts within given parameters.

Explain how to gain the legal right to use another artist's music.

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Create effective rehearsal strategies based on feedback.

Embody appropriate musical technique naturally in an automatic, intuitive way.

Demonstrate the ability to sing or play unfamiliar audiated musical phrases by sight.

Sight-read music containing multiple rhythmic/harmonic components.

Sing or play difficult homophonic or polyphonic repertoire with globally diverse tonalities and those with mixed meters.

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols and advanced conducting patterns and gestures when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in advanced repertoire.

Develop musical presentations.

Produce a musical program that engages a specified audience and supports the purpose of the performance.

Model active listening and etiquette appropriate in both formal and informal performances.

Execute the setup of the design, production, or equipment for developing a music performance.

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze the interaction of elements that make works of music unique, interesting, and expressive.

Evaluate the effectiveness with which a musician conveys intent.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Justify personal preferences for musical works acknowledging the influence of history, society, culture, and commercial music.

Critique musical performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations in terms of aesthetic qualities, including how music is used to evoke feelings and emotions.

CONNECT - Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE - Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT - Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND - Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

CONNECT - Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE - Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Identify the influences and contributions the music of North Carolina and the United States has had on the broader music community.

Explain how music skills and processes can be applied to solve a variety of musical problems.

Identify activities that could cause physical and psychological health issues for musicians.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Identify music skills, characteristics, and behaviors needed to create, produce, design, and market music.

Identify how various tools, innovations, and processes influence the development of music.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise short melodic phrases.

Compose simple original melodic ideas in a given clef using an appropriate standard notation system.

Arrange an expanded musical variation on a given musical phrase.

Explain how to share works of music legally and ethically, both in physical and digital spaces.

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Apply the evaluations from instructor, peers, and self to improve a musical technique or performance.

Demonstrate appropriate musical technique with support.

Distinguish the auditory differences between consonant and dissonant tonalities.

Sight-read rhythms and melodies.

Sing or play various scales, accidentals, small intervals, ties within a measure, and anacrusis in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters in unison or multi-part repertoire.

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols, terminology, and gestures of a conductor, when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in developing repertoire.

Develop musical presentations.

Compare the advantages and disadvantages of repertoire when selecting from provided options for a musical performance.

Demonstrate active listening and etiquette appropriate for both formal and informal performances.

Generate ideas for the elements of design, production, and equipment for developing a music performance.

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze form, dynamics, and phrasing in aural and written works of music.

Explain how a musician's artistic choices are influenced by personal experience, culture, and environment.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Explain how culture, environment, and diverse types of music influence personal preference.

Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of musical performances, compositions, and improvisations using specific criteria appropriate for the genre.

PRESENT - Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND - Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Analyze how individuals and groups of musicians have influenced various cultures.

Identify musical skills and processes that are a part of, and can be applied to, daily life.

Explain why musical choices are made to evoke sensory, emotional, personal, or intellectual responses in media.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Identify musical skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in college, career, and post-secondary skills.

Identify how various tools and innovations can be used to create, edit, and present music.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise short melodic patterns over a rhythmic or harmonic accompaniment.

Compose original rhythmic ideas and melodic ideas using simple musical forms through notation or recording that incorporate grade-level appropriate rhythms and pitches.

Adapt original musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Arrange a rhythmic variation on a given musical phrase.

Identify the legal and ethical issues for creating arrangements of music.

Perform music from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Apply feedback from instructor, peers, and self to refine musical presentations, compositions.

Read standard notation to perform or produce music in treble or bass clef in mixed meters where the beat remains consistent.

Perform or produce a variety of music in two-part harmony focused on a monophonic texture.

Demonstrate the meaning of symbols and terminology for changes in tempos, dynamics, and articulations in an expanded range of forms with appropriate technique when performing or producing music.

Develop musical presentations.

Compare selections for a musical presentation based on a distinct purpose or context.

Use student-generated criteria to evaluate audience or performer etiquette appropriate for a variety of contexts.

Analyze musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres including response through moving, singing, playing instruments, or content-specific vocabulary.

Identify symbols and terminology for changes in tempos, dynamics, and articulations in an expanded range of forms in aural and written musical works.

Describe how personal experiences and perspectives influence interpretations of music.

Classify a variety of instruments and voices by timbre, including those heard in diverse types of traditional, contemporary, and world music.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Compare personal preferences for multiple musical works.

Evaluate personal musical presentations, compositions, and musical ideas, using given criteria.

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

CONNECT - Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE - Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Explain how musicians, trends, and styles are impacted by societal, cultural, and historical events.

Apply skills and knowledge gained from other content areas or personal experiences to solve musical challenges.

Identify effective strategies for recognizing and preventing physical and psychological health issues that affect musicians.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Compare the advantages and disadvantages of exploring music as a vocational, educational, or professional choice.

Analyze the impact of contemporary media on the creation, notation, and production of music.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise on an existing melody.

Compose an original countermelody or harmonic accompaniment for given melodies using an appropriate standard notation system.

Adapt musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Arrange an existing piece of music for an ensemble of 2-3 parts.

Evaluate the ethics of making, producing, and distributing original, transcribed, and arranged music.

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Set personal goals for improving music performance based on feedback.

Demonstrate appropriate musical technique consistently without support.

Sing or play audiated rhythmic/melodic patterns or intervals in tune.

Sight-read countermelodies or rhythmic/harmonic accompaniments.

Sing or play chromatic, major, or minor scales with simple key changes, triplets, and ties across the bar line in a variety of meters, including 2/2 and simple meter changes in homophonic or polyphonic repertoire.

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols, terminology, and gestures of a conductor when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in intermediate repertoire.

Develop musical presentations.

Justify chosen musical programming for a specified audience.

Identify personal goals to improve active listening and etiquette appropriate in various music performances.

Identify components and practices necessary to facilitate an effective performance.

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze how tempo changes and form are used to structure compositions.

Describe how the musician's intent impacts how an audience interprets music.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Explain how personal preferences impact the ability to view musical works objectively.

Critique musical performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, generating suggestions for improvement.

PRESENT - Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND - Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

CONNECT - Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE - Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Explain how music expresses and reflects the values of civilizations around the world.

Explain how concepts from other content areas can inspire the development of musical ideas.

Name potential physical and psychological health issues that affect musicians.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Identify musical skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to post-secondary education and career readiness.

Compare how various innovative tools and ideas have been used in a variety of musical works.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise short rhythmic phrases.

Compose simple original rhythmic ideas using an appropriate standard notation system.

Adapt musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Arrange a simple musical variation on a given musical phrase.

Describe how fair use, copyright, public domain, open source, and creative commons affect the ability of musicians to create original, transcribed, and arranged music.

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Identify strategies to improve personal musical technique based on feedback.

Reproduce appropriate musical technique with support.

Sing or play audiated rhythms and pitches accurately.

Sight-read musical patterns.

Sing or play simple scales, syncopated rhythms, whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters in unison or two-part repertoire.

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols, terminology, and gestures of a conductor when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in novice repertoire.

Develop musical presentations.

List the processes that are a part of programming a musical performance.

Define active listening and etiquette appropriate in both formal and informal performances.

Identify the elements of design, production, and equipment as it pertains to developing a music performance.

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Identify form and dynamics in aural and written works of music.

Identify the artistic choices made by peers and others.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Compare personal responses to a variety of music.

Evaluate musical performances, compositions, and technique using specific criteria.

PRESENT - Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND - Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

7.CN.1 Relate dance ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Relate theatrical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Relate visual arts ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Analyze how individuals and groups of dancers have influenced various cultures.

Analyze how theatre influenced various developing cultures around the world from the 1400s to the present.

Analyze how individuals and groups of artists have in?uenced various cultures.

Identify dance skills and processes that are both a part of, and can be applied to, academic study and daily life.

Identify how theatrical skills and processes are connected to other content areas and daily life.

Identify how the application of skills and information from other content areas can aid in solving different types of artistic problems.

Evaluate strategies to improve anatomical alignment and decrease psychological stressors encountered by dancers.

7.CN.2 Explore advancements in the field of dance.

Explore advancements in the field of theatre arts.

Explore advancements in the ?eld of visual arts.

Identify dance skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in post-secondary education and career readiness.

Identify theatrical skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in post-secondary education and career readiness.

Identify art skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to success in post-secondary education and career readiness.

Describe the use of digital media in a variety of dance performances.

Analyze various theatre tools and innovations used in creative, technical, and business roles.

Identify how various tools and innovations can be used to create, edit, and present visual images for media or the immediate environment.

7.CR.1 Create original dance movements and works that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, or images, independently and collaboratively.

Create original theatrical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Create original visual arts ideas and 2-D and 3-D artworks, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ?bers, sculpture, ceramics, and digital media, using tools safely and appropriately, independently or collaboratively.

Improvise movement in response to cues from a partner or group.

Improvise characters and situations for developing original scripts or devised theatre.

Use methods and approaches in media, techniques, and processes in both traditional and non-traditional ways.

Create dance phrases using selected sequences of abstract movement and simple choreographic forms.

Create original works using elements of dramatic structure.

Create original art emphasizing selected Elements of Art and Principles of Design to express ideas, feelings, or personal experiences.

Document an original dance sequence using pictures or symbols, writing, or media technology.

Create a variety of simple props and set pieces to support and enhance dramatic presentations.

7.CR.2 Adapt original dance ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Adapt original theatrical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Adapt original visual arts ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Adapt a dance phrase by changing the dynamics of the movement.

Adapt stories using a variety of theatrical styles or genres for theatre.

Adapt imagery of another artist's work by changing the tools or media.

Identify the legal and ethical issues for creating dance inspired by the ideas of others.

Identify the legal and ethical issues for creating works inspired by other artists.

Identify the legal and ethical issues for creating derivative art.

7.PR.1 Perform dance works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Perform theatrical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Present visual artworks.

Use feedback from peers, instructors, and self to refine dance performance quality.

Refine choices in devised or scripted performances based on objective feedback and criteria.

Revise artwork by applying instructor or peer feedback.

Embody technical dance skills with muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.

Communicate character and story using physical and vocal control, observation, and concentration during theatrical performances.

Create an artist statement considering multiple perspectives.

Demonstrate clarity of movement and movement qualities.

7.PR.2 Develop dance presentations.

Develop theatrical presentations.

Develop visual arts presentations.

Develop a relevant theme or topic, including music selection, for a group performance.

Apply dramatic styles to formal or informal performances.

Organize personal artwork that illustrates a variety of skills.

Identify the expected safe and respectful behaviors for participants, performers, and observers in various cultural contexts.

Compare the expectations of an audience in different venues.

Compare how different methods of display in?uence the experience of the viewer.

Compare a variety of possible production elements that would strengthen the artistic intent of a dance, using production terminology.

Present a variety of simple technical elements to reflect dramatic styles and choices in theatrical productions.

Compare the theatrical modifications needed by performers in different venues.

7.RE.1 Analyze dance from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze theatrical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Analyze visual artworks from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-speci?c vocabulary.

Explain how the elements of dance are used in various dance genres.

Compare dramatic structures in various genres and styles.

Identify the de?ning characteristics of contemporary art that distinguish it from other art movements or periods.

Describe how personal experiences and perspectives influence interpretations of dance works.

Recognize the creative choices made in theatrical works crafted by peers and others.

Describe how visual literacy skills and personal experiences in?uence interpretations of visual artworks.

7.RE.2 Evaluate dance works using content-specific vocabulary.

Evaluate theatrical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Evaluate visual artworks using content-speci?c vocabulary.

Explain how personal preferences for dance change when considering multiple viewpoints.

Compare personal preferences in theatrical works as it relates to social or cultural background.

Compare personal preferences for multiple works of art.

Identify strengths and areas for improvement based on student-generated criteria when viewing dance performance and choreography.

Evaluate choices made in devised or scripted performance, based on objective criteria.

Critique artwork based on given criteria.

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.