Grade 8 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.

8.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.

Identify the influence of North Carolinian styles and dancers on the broader dance community.

Identify the influence of theatre in North Carolina and the nation on history, culture, and community.

Explain why and how the visual arts in?uence ideas, beliefs, and experiences in North Carolina.

Explain how dance skills and processes can be applied to solve a variety of problems in academic study and daily life.

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

Analyze relevant skills and information from visual arts and other content areas to solve a variety of problems.

Demonstrate effective strategies to increase anatomical awareness and limit psychological stressors encountered by dancers.

8.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.

Explain how creativity in dance relates to post-secondary, college, and career readiness.

Explain how theatrical skills, characteristics, and behaviors contribute to success in a broad range of careers.

Explain the connections between the creative design process and college and career readiness.

Compare effective uses of technology in enhancing dance performances.

Evaluate how theatre tools and innovations are expanding opportunities in business, career, and life skills beyond the theatrical world.

Describe various innovative tools and technological products used to create visual images in the media.

8.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 using multiple dance elements to fulfill a movement score.

Improvise conflict and resolution scenarios for original scripts or devised theatre.

Experiment with techniques and processes to plan and create art.

Organize dance phrases into simple dances using a variety of choreographic forms.

Create original characters and situations using background knowledge and research.

Create original art that conveys one or more ideas or feelings.

Reconstruct a given dance sequence documented in pictures, symbols, writing, or media technology.

Create simple lighting and sound designs to support and enhance dramatic presentations.

8.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 one dance element.

Adapt historical or current events applying background knowledge and research to develop character and situations for theatre.

Combine imagery from multiple sources to create personal artwork.

Explain how to share works of dance, including musical accompaniments, legally and ethically in both physical and digital spaces.

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

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

8.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.

Integrate self-assessment, instructor, and peer feedback in the process of refining dance performance.

Apply critical elements of objective feedback and criteria for improvement in performance.

Re?ne artwork based on given criteria.

Execute technical skills with precision using muscular strength, alignment, flexibility, stamina, and coordination.

Communicate various styles of character, conflict, and resolution through blocking as given by directors or indicated by playwrights.

Create an artist statement that communicates the meaning and purpose of personal art.

Refine clarity of movement and movement qualities.

8.PR.2 Develop dance presentations.

Develop theatrical presentations.

Develop visual arts presentations.

Refine a relevant theme, topic, or music for a group performance.

Develop various styles of literature into formal or informal presentations.

Organize a portfolio to show exemplary artwork.

Demonstrate safe and respectful behaviors for various cultural contexts as a dance participant, performer, and observer.

Embody audience etiquette appropriately as a participant in productions.

Engage with art venues and productions appropriately.

Design a production element that would strengthen the artistic intent of a dance performed in various situations, using production terminology.

Employ technical elements in various theatrical presentations.

Demonstrate performance etiquette during theatrical experiences.

8.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 and choreographic forms are used in various genres of dance.

Analyze theatrical works using knowledge of historical and cultural contexts.

Identify how the Elements of Art and Principles of Design are used to differentiate movements, styles, and themes in art.

Compare meanings interpreted from dance with the original artistic intent inferred from contextual information.

Explain how theatre artists’ choices are influenced by culture and environment.

Explain how a visual artist�s artistic choices are in?uenced by personal experience, culture, and environment.

8.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 are influenced by experience, culture, and media.

Explain the impact of culture and environment on personal perspective.

Describe personal responses to visual qualities in works of art.

Provide guidance for the improvement of a dance performance using established criteria.

Evaluate theatrical work of others with a specific plan for improvement.

Critique artwork based on given and self-generated 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.

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

Identify the influence of North Carolinian styles and musicians on the broader music community.

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

Choose music that evokes specific personal emotions.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Explain how musical skills, characteristics, and behaviors contribute to success in a broad range of careers.

Describe various tools, innovations, or processes that could be used in the creation of musical works.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Improvise extended melodies 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 melodic or harmonic accompaniment to go with an existing piece of music.

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

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

Apply feedback from peers or self based on provided criteria to refine musical presentations, compositions, or ideas.

Read standard notation to perform or produce music with ledger lines and all previously learned rhythms in new metrical contexts, including 3/8 and alla breve.

Perform or produce a variety of music in two or three-part harmony with polyphonic textures.

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.

Develop criteria for selecting music and production elements for a distinct purpose or context.

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

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

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

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

Describe the customary instrumental and vocal timbres heard in diverse traditional, contemporary, and world music.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Explain how personal preferences are influenced by culture, environment, and commercial music.

Evaluate musical presentations, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music.

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.