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Grade 8 Fine Arts Maine Standards

111 standards - Maine standards

These are the official Grade 8 Fine Arts Maine standards — the exact codes and student expectations grade 8 teachers are required to teach and Maine state test assesses. Browse every standard below, then generate a print-ready, standards-aligned worksheet, lesson plan, exit ticket, or assessment for any of them in seconds.

Standards

N-10LEE

Students choose suitable media, tools, techniques, and processes to create original art works.

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N-11LW2

Impact of the Arts on Lifestyle and Career

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N-125XH

Students combine and demonstrate the technical skills of skeletal alignment, strength, agility, and coordination.

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N-1263J

Explain and compare different purposes of artists and art work in the context of time and place.

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N-127K6

Following established rules/etiquette for observing/listening to art

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N-12RG0

Students use movement to express and communicate a story, a piece of music, an artwork, or an emotion.

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N-13YEZ

Students replicate a dance phrase.

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N-14LLS

Students move to complex rhythm patterns and syncopation.

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N-14UGB

Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and 3/8 meter signatures.

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N-15OHI

Creation, Performance, and Expression - Dance: Students create, perform, and express ideas through the art discipline.

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N-175U7

Time

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N-17RM5

Respecting differences

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N-18E5C

Style/Genre

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N-18QCU

Read simple melodies in both the treble and bass clefs.

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N-1B1TO

Students compare and analyze art forms.

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N-1BEQ9

Solving Challenges

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N-1BNZ1

Students demonstrate development of a character's attitude and point of view by adjusting voice timing and tone/level and using non-verbal techniques.

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N-1C2LY

Students identify and describe the dance terms of time, composition, and style/tradition.

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N-1CLUF

Music Difficulty

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N-1CU85

Identify and describe time: complex meters.

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N-1DDMZ

Space

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N-1DXSM

Students apply space concepts in a repeatable movement phrase.

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N-1E0W6

Students perform music of various styles and genres that includes changes of tempo, key, and meter in modest ranges with moderate technical demands accurately applying the accumulated knowledge and skills of: proper posture and technique; musical notation; symbols; and terminology.

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N-1FCMK

Demonstrating safe behavior

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N-1H64D

Create and develop dance sequences based on personal ideas or concepts from other sources.

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N-1HEAN

Locomotor and Non-Locomotor Movement

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N-1HK7V

Students explain skills and concepts that are similar across disciplines.

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N-1HVO6

Students apply accumulated knowledge of musical notation, symbols, and terminology to a music performance.

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N-1JFGY

Creative Problem Solving: Students approach artistic problem-solving using multiple solutions and the creative process.

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N-1KTDU

Communication

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N-1L1QQ

Compare and analyze art forms by applying grade span appropriate concepts, vocabulary, skills, and processes as referenced in Standard A: Disciplinary Literacy.

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N-1NGNY

Compare Elements of Art: color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.

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N-1NKTI

Making Meaning

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N-1NZGJ

Students describe and participate in a performance from pre-show through strike.

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N-1ONFZ

Listening and Describing

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N-1OQ5Y

Identify and describe style/tradition: specific dances students learn from different cultures and/or their own.

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N-1QFE8

Application of Creative Process

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N-1RT9Q

Students use Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create original art works that demonstrate different styles in paintings, three-dimensional objects, drawings from imagination and real life, and a variety of other media and visual art forms.

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N-1SUJ7

Disciplinary Literacy - Visual Arts: Students show literacy in the art discipline by understanding and demonstrating concepts, skills, terminology, and processes.

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N-1TO85

Students accurately perform music that includes changes of tempo, key, and meter in modest ranges with moderate technical demands, modeling proper posture and technique, alone or with others.

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N-1TQWF

Compositional Forms

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N-1UPAF

Media Skills

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N-1VSGJ

Terminology

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N-1VTAZ

Disciplinary Literacy - Dance: Students show literacy in the discipline through understanding and demonstrating concepts, skills, terminology, and processes.

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N-1VZ08

Communicate a variety of ideas, feelings, and meanings.

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N-1WANW

Getting along with others

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N-1WJ8Z

The Arts and Other Disciplines

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N-1WM50

Improvisation

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N-1WZRT

Students improvise through theatre games by using blocking, relationships, props, and movement.

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N-1XPEP

Students create art works that communicate an individual point of view.

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N-1Y2ZY

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students describe analyze, interpret, and evaluate art (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts).

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N-1YCF4

Notation and Terminology

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N-2CIFG

Creation, Performance, and Expression - Music: Students create, perform, and express through the art discipline.

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N-2ELT9

The Arts and History and World Cultures

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N-2QK7K

Students create and develop dance sequences.

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N-35YE5

Compare Principles of Design including balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity.

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N-3NR5H

Character

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N-41PF6

Build scenic elements or props to fit production design.

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N-4DHHE

Students identify and explain theatre terms and concepts including stage business, ad-libbing, conflict, action/reaction, focus, and stage directions.

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N-50ODZ

Working as a team/ensemble

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N-5G5GB

Disciplinary Literacy - Music: Students show literacy in the discipline by understanding and demonstrating concepts, skills, terminology, and processes.

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N-6L8DB

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

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N-71SHS

Experiment with lighting, sound, and costume in scene development.

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N-8Z61X

Media, Tools, Techniques, and Processes

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N-9DLB9

Artist's Purpose

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N-B2ZKK

Students describe and apply creative-thinking skills that are part of the creative problem-solving process.<ol type="a"><li>Fluency</li><li>Flexibility</li><li>Elaboration</li><li>Originality</li><li>Analysis</li></ol>

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N-B5CZC

Students compare features of composition both within an art work and among art works.

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N-BPDYK

Accepting responsibility for personal behavior

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N-BQ4KD

Movement

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N-CDKY1

Students explain the impact of artistic and career choices on self, others, and the natural and man-made environment.

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N-D40FK

Students select and prepare art works for display in the classroom, school, or other community location, and articulate an artistic justification for their selection.

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N-D66TL

Students listen to and compare elements of music, including pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, form, timbre, texture, harmony, style, and compound meter.

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N-E29B5

Energy

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N-F8AXT

Students identify and select light, costume, or sound changes to enhance a dance phrase.

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N-F8KCU

Students explain the effects of media and their associated tools, techniques, and processes, using elements, principles, and expressive qualities in art forms and genres.

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N-FM74A

Terminology

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N-GE3MH

Sequencing

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N-GEOB3

Students explain and compare different purposes of artists and their artwork, in the context of time and place.

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N-HZQFC

Exhibition

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N-IUL0G

Apply notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

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N-J796D

Managing conflict

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N-LUP4Q

Technical Aspects

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N-M67W6

Creation, Performance, and Expression - Visual Arts: Students create, express, and communicate through the art discipline.

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N-MTO4C

Identify and describe composition: phrasing.

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N-MTQPX

Students set goals related to time management, interpersonal interactions, or skill development that will lead to success in the arts.

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N-N38ZS

Identify and explain the roles of production staff.

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N-N7GBK

Demonstrating ethical behavior

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N-NGKK1

Composition Skills

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N-NTXR4

Goal-Setting

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N-O1VI3

Disciplinary Literacy - Theatre: Students show literacy in the art discipline by understanding and demonstrating concepts, skills, terminology, and processes.

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N-OXR0M

Demonstrate skills in the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

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N-PG1I1

Aesthetics and Criticism

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N-PIF6H

Accepting/giving/using constructive feedback

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N-PISDJ

Production

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N-Q4CV2

Students explain and incorporate bound/free, tension/relaxation, indirect/direct movements to show differences in energy qualities.

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N-Q8KI9

Compare the effectiveness of selected media, techniques, and processes in communicating ideas.

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N-R3R2V

Students use improvisation to discover and invent movement sequences and solve movement challenges with one or more partners.

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N-S2RYG

Interpersonal Skills

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N-THA8G

Students compare products of the visual/performing arts to understand history and/or world cultures.

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N-U3I0C

Creation, Performance, and Expression - Theatre: Students create, perform and express through the art discipline.

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N-U41ZW

Describe basic technical needs for a theatre production, including lights, sound, props, makeup, and costumes.

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N-VBIPM

Design and select props, costumes and stage pieces, and use them appropriately and safely.

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N-VIO57

Visual and Performing Arts Connections: Students understand the relationship among the arts, history and world culture; and they make connections among the arts and to other disciplines, to goal-setting, and to interpersonal interaction.

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N-X8LVD

Reproduce a more complex or pre-existing choreographed movement sequence as a solo or in a small group.

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N-XMMTN

Demonstrate knowledge of visual art concepts.

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N-XOWU4

Compare the quality and effectiveness of art works using multiple criteria from observations, print and/or non-print resources.

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N-Y7EMG

Students apply gesture, movement, and stage business in the portrayal of a role.

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N-YE6P0

Students demonstrate positive interpersonal skills and analyze how interpersonal skills affect participation in the arts.

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N-Z77P8

Direct or stage-manage a scene.

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N-ZPMQD

Composition

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N-ZZF8B

Students compare musical ideas expressed in their own compositions or the compositions of others.

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