Curriculum+Level+6+The+Arts

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Six The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Explore, investigate, and describe the features and backgrounds of a variety of dance genres and styles. • Develop and demonstrate skills in selected dance genres and styles and explore the use of a variety of technologies. • Select and use choreographic devices, structures, processes, and technologies to develop and give form to dance ideas. • Prepare, rehearse, and perform a range of dances and demonstrate an understanding of the performance requirements of the genres and contexts. • Describe, explain, and respond to the ways that dance uses elements, devices, structures, performance skills, and production technologies to communicate images, themes, feelings, and moods.

Drama
Students will: • Investigate the forms and purposes of drama in different historical or contemporary contexts, including New Zealand drama. • Select and use techniques, conventions, and technologies in a range of dramatic forms. • Research, evaluate, and refine ideas in a range of dramatic forms to develop drama. • Perform and respond to drama and make critical judgments about how elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies are used to create form and meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Analyse music from a range of sound environments, styles, and genres, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. • Consider and reflect on the influence of music in their own music making and in their lives. • Apply knowledge of expressive features, stylistic conventions, and technologies through an integration of aural perception and practical and theoretical skills and describe how they are used in a range of music. • Create, structure, refine, and represent compositions using the elements of music, instruments, technologies, and conventions to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings. • Reflect on composition processes and presentation conventions. • Prepare, rehearse, interpret, and present performances of music individually and collaboratively, using a range of performance skills and techniques. • Refl ect on the expressive qualities of music and evaluate their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Investigate and analyse the relationship between the production of art works and the contexts in which they are made, viewed, and valued. • Consider and reflect on the contexts underlying their own and others’ work. • Apply knowledge of a range of conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures. • Generate, develop, and clarify ideas, showing some understanding of established practice. • Sequence and link ideas systematically as they solve problems in a body of work, using observation and invention with an appropriate selection of materials. • Identify and analyse processes and procedures from established practice that influence ways of communicating meaning. • Investigate, analyse, and evaluate ideas and interpret artists’ intentions in art works.