Making, Performing & Designing
Objectives
- D07.S1.07.01 Create an artwork that communicates a personal message and revise it after feedback.
- D07.S1.07.02 Explain how perspective, framing, or emphasis shapes what a viewer notices and feels about an image.
- D07.S2.07.01 Perform a piece with attention to dynamics, phrasing, and ensemble, and revise after listening to a recording.
- D07.S2.07.02 Explain how sound is used in media such as film, games, and ads to shape mood and meaning.
- D07.S3.07.01 Perform a scene or dance with attention to timing, expression, and ensemble, and revise after feedback.
- D07.S3.07.02 Explain how gesture, posture, and spacing communicate meaning without words, using examples from performance or daily life.
- D07.S4.07.01 Design something with accessibility in mind so more kinds of people can use it, and test it for barriers.
- D07.S4.07.02 Explain how a design choice trades off cost, materials, function, and environmental impact.
Essential questions
- How do I create an artwork with a personal message and revise it after feedback?
- How do dynamics, sound, gesture, and spacing shape what an audience notices and feels?
- How do I design for everyone, and weigh cost, materials, function, and environmental impact?
Big ideas
- Art communicates through perspective, framing, and emphasis, and is sharpened by revision.
- Sound in media and gesture in performance shape mood and meaning without words.
- Good design includes accessibility and weighs the trade-offs among cost, materials, function, and impact.
Lessons
- 1 Art with a Message: Finding My Personal Voice 50 minutes
- 2 Perspective, Framing, Emphasis — and Revising After Feedback 55 minutes
- 3 Sound in Media: How Film, Games, and Ads Shape Mood and Meaning 55 minutes
- 4 Performing with Dynamics, Phrasing, and Ensemble — and Revising by Recording 55 minutes
- 5 Gesture, Posture, Spacing: Speaking Without Words 50 minutes
- 6 Performing a Scene or Dance: Timing, Expression, Ensemble — and Revising by Feedback 55 minutes
- 7 Designing for Everyone: Accessibility and Testing for Barriers 55 minutes
- 8 The Trade-Offs: Cost, Materials, Function, and Environmental Impact 50 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of creation, performance, and revision after feedback; an artwork with a documented revision, a sound-in-media analysis, a performance-reflection, and an accessibility design test as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 7 — Making, Performing & Designing
Overview
This unit gives craft to the imagination at the moment abstract reasoning emerges, building on Grade 6’s full design cycle and its comparing of arts across cultures. Learners create an artwork that communicates a personal message and revise it after feedback, and explain how perspective, framing, or emphasis shapes what a viewer notices and feels about an image. They perform a piece with attention to dynamics, phrasing, and ensemble and revise after listening to a recording, explain how sound is used in media — film, games, ads — to shape mood and meaning, perform a scene or dance with attention to timing, expression, and ensemble and revise after feedback, and explain how gesture, posture, and spacing communicate meaning without words. They design something with accessibility in mind so more kinds of people can use it and test it for barriers, and explain how a design choice trades off cost, materials, function, and environmental impact. The arts of other cultures are met as living traditions to honor with respectful questions, never as specimens.
Essential questions
- How do I create an artwork with a personal message and revise it after feedback?
- How do dynamics, sound, gesture, and spacing shape what an audience notices and feels?
- How do I design for everyone, and weigh cost, materials, function, and environmental impact?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art with a Message: Finding My Personal Voice | D07.S1.07.01 |
| 2 | Perspective, Framing, Emphasis — and Revising After Feedback | D07.S1.07.02, D07.S1.07.01 |
| 3 | Sound in Media: How Film, Games, and Ads Shape Mood and Meaning | D07.S2.07.02 |
| 4 | Performing with Dynamics, Phrasing, and Ensemble — and Revising by Recording | D07.S2.07.01 |
| 5 | Gesture, Posture, Spacing: Speaking Without Words | D07.S3.07.02 |
| 6 | Performing a Scene or Dance: Timing, Expression, Ensemble — and Revising by Feedback | D07.S3.07.01 |
| 7 | Designing for Everyone: Accessibility and Testing for Barriers | D07.S4.07.01 |
| 8 | The Trade-Offs: Cost, Materials, Function, and Environmental Impact | D07.S4.07.02 |