Master advanced vocal skills including articulation, vocal registers, pauses, texture, and diaphragmatic breathing, and integrate them into an expressive dramatic reading.

Learners will compare exemplary performances using technology and examine music from diverse genres, styles, periods, and cultures.

The learner will analyze and evaluate how dramatic elements such as theme, conflict, irony, language, and character arcs function within plays and live performances, and compare dramatic forms across cultural traditions.

Identify career and avocational choices in art such as design, museum, and fine arts fields.

Investigate artworks in venues outside the classroom and demonstrate proper exhibition etiquette.

Compare and contrast relationships between a society's art and its music, literature, and architecture.

The learner will apply gesture, choreography, pantomime, and ensemble movement techniques to create recognizable characters and communicate narratives through movement alone.

Compare and contrast the elements of art (line, shape, color, texture, form, space, value) in personal artworks using accurate vocabulary.

Compare and contrast the principles of design (emphasis, pattern, movement, contrast, balance, proportion, unity) in personal artworks using accurate vocabulary.

Use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery ethically when working from sources.

Create original artworks expressing ideas from direct observation, original sources, personal experiences, memory, identity, imagination, and community.

The learner will analyze and portray characters by developing distinct vocal and physical choices and examining how actions, dialogue, and relationships reveal character identity.

Use photographic and digital tools to create and edit images, and integrate multiple traditional and digital media into cohesive mixed-media artworks.

The learner will compare dramatic forms (comedy, tragedy, realism, non-realism) and analyze the conventions of major theatrical traditions from ancient Greece through modern entertainment.

Apply the art-making process to solve design problems and generate design solutions iteratively.