Creative & Aesthetic Expression
Objectives
- D07.S1.10.01 Develop a personal style by making a body of work and explain how it reflects their ideas and influences.
- D07.S1.10.02 Distinguish cultural appreciation from appropriation in art, citing examples, and explain how to honor living traditions respectfully.
- D07.S2.10.01 Compose and record an original piece that expresses a clear idea or feeling, and explain the techniques used.
- D07.S2.10.02 Distinguish respectful engagement with a musical tradition from appropriation, and explain how to honor living musicians and communities.
- D07.S3.10.01 Devise and perform an original piece that develops a clear concept and demonstrates craft in movement and expression.
- D07.S3.10.02 Distinguish respectful engagement with a dance or dramatic tradition from appropriation, and explain how to honor living practitioners.
- D07.S4.10.01 Design and make something that serves a community need with attention to sustainability and fairness, and document the decisions.
- D07.S4.10.02 Distinguish responsible and sustainable design from design that harms people or the environment, citing examples.
Essential questions
- How do I develop a personal style through a body of work, and how do I tell cultural appreciation from appropriation in art?
- How do I compose, record, devise, and perform original work with craft, and honor living traditions respectfully?
- How do I design and make something that serves a community need with sustainability and fairness, and tell responsible design from harmful design?
Big ideas
- A personal style grows from a body of work, and honoring living traditions means distinguishing appreciation from appropriation.
- Original work in music, movement, and drama demonstrates craft and a clear concept, while respecting the living people and communities behind traditions.
- Design that serves a community need attends to sustainability and fairness, and responsible design is told apart from design that harms people or the environment.
Lessons
- 1 A Body of Work: Finding My Creative Voice 55 minutes
- 2 Appreciation, Not Appropriation: Honoring Living Visual Traditions 55 minutes
- 3 The Artist's Explanation: Style, Influences, and Honest Credit 55 minutes
- 4 Composing an Idea: Sound That Says Something 55 minutes
- 5 Recording Craft: Capturing and Shaping Sound 55 minutes
- 6 Honoring Living Musicians: Engagement, Not Appropriation 55 minutes
- 7 Devising a Concept: Movement That Means Something 55 minutes
- 8 Craft in Rehearsal: Timing, Expression, Ensemble 55 minutes
- 9 Honoring Living Practitioners: Movement and Drama 55 minutes
- 10 Designing for a Community Need 55 minutes
- 11 Sustainability and Fairness: Designing with the Whole System 55 minutes
- 12 Responsible or Harmful? Judging Design — and My Portfolio 55 minutes
Assessment plan
A body of artwork with an artist's explanation of personal style and influences; an appreciation-versus-appropriation reflection in visual art; an original composed and recorded piece with a techniques explanation; a respectful-engagement reflection in music; an original devised and performed piece; a respectful-engagement reflection in movement or drama; and a documented community design with a sustainability-and-fairness rationale, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 7 — Creative & Aesthetic Expression
Overview
This unit gives craft and an ethical eye to the imagination now that formal reasoning has matured, building on Grade 9’s digital and mixed-media work, music, performance, and design. Learners develop a personal style by making a body of work and explain how it reflects their ideas and influences, and distinguish cultural appreciation from appropriation in art, citing examples and explaining how to honor living traditions respectfully. They compose and record an original piece that expresses a clear idea or feeling and explain the techniques used, and distinguish respectful engagement with a musical tradition from appropriation. They devise and perform an original piece that develops a clear concept and demonstrates craft in movement and expression, and distinguish respectful engagement with a dance or dramatic tradition from appropriation. They design and make something that serves a community need with attention to sustainability and fairness and document the decisions, and distinguish responsible and sustainable design from design that harms people or the environment. The arts of other cultures are met as living traditions to honor with respectful questions, never as specimens.
Essential questions
- How do I develop a personal style through a body of work, and how do I tell cultural appreciation from appropriation in art?
- How do I compose, record, devise, and perform original work with craft, and honor living traditions respectfully?
- How do I design and make something that serves a community need with sustainability and fairness, and tell responsible design from harmful design?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Body of Work: Finding My Creative Voice | D07.S1.10.01 |
| 2 | Appreciation, Not Appropriation: Honoring Living Visual Traditions | D07.S1.10.02 |
| 3 | The Artist’s Explanation: Style, Influences, and Honest Credit | D07.S1.10.01, D07.S1.10.02 |
| 4 | Composing an Idea: Sound That Says Something | D07.S2.10.01 |
| 5 | Recording Craft: Capturing and Shaping Sound | D07.S2.10.01 |
| 6 | Honoring Living Musicians: Engagement, Not Appropriation | D07.S2.10.02 |
| 7 | Devising a Concept: Movement That Means Something | D07.S3.10.01 |
| 8 | Craft in Rehearsal: Timing, Expression, Ensemble | D07.S3.10.01 |
| 9 | Honoring Living Practitioners: Movement and Drama | D07.S3.10.02 |
| 10 | Designing for a Community Need | D07.S4.10.01 |
| 11 | Sustainability and Fairness: Designing with the Whole System | D07.S4.10.01 |
| 12 | Responsible or Harmful? Judging Design — and My Portfolio | D07.S4.10.02 |