The images presented in previous posts will be used to address the following Grade Level Expectations for the state of Missouri; those which relate to Artistic Perceptions and more specifically, Aesthetics. Although the various items are assigned to particular grade levels, the VTS Curriculum I am designing will easily address all. This is because, although each item is assigned to a specific grade level of students, it is certainly acceptable and even preferable that it be introduced to them earlier. The Grade Level Expectations simply indicate the grade level at which particular skills/understandings will be assessed and it is certainly beneficial for students to have multiple opportunities to deal with assessed items in the lessons and years leading up to that assessment!
Grade Level Expectations
Strand III: Artistic Perceptions (AP)
A. Aesthetics
1.
Investigate the nature of art and discuss responses to artworks
·
Grade 3 – Compare different responses students
may have to the same artwork
·
Grade 4 – Discuss & develop answers to
questions about art such as:
o What
is art?
o What
is beauty?
·
Grade 5 –Discuss and develop answers to
questions about art such as:
o Who
decides what makes works of art valuable, special, and good?
·
Grade 6
o Discuss
how different cultures have different concepts of beauty
o Explain
how responses (feelings or ideas) to artworks from various cultures are based
on both personal experience and group beliefs
