Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Arts 10/20/30

Module One: History in the Making

Overall Expectations

Convey and explore their own ideas, personal experiences and cultural perspectives through their arts expressions.

Specific Expectations

Drama

  • Make purposeful choices among processes, strategies, language and dramatic elements to direct the course and quality of the work

Visual Art

  • Choose and explore appropriate media, technology, forms and methods for their visual expression
  • Reflect on and discuss the intentions, development and interpretations of their own and their peers’ work

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Overall Expectations

Increase their understanding of developments, innovations, and outstanding individuals and groups in the arts, within the respective cultural and historical contexts

Specific Expectations

Drama

  • Demonstrate critical thought and support interpretations and opinions when responding to works of dramatic art
  • Examine environmental, historical and social factors and issues that have influenced developments and innovations in works of dramatic art
  • Identify how works of dramatic art can transmit or question cultural and societal traditions, values and ideas

Music

  • Demonstrate critical thought and support interpretations and opinions when responding to music
  • Examine environmental, historical and social factors and issues that have influenced developments and innovations in music
  • Identify how music can transmit or question cultural and societal traditions, values and ideas

Visual Art

  • Demonstrate critical thought and support interpretations and opinions when responding to visual art
  • Develop an understanding of how symbols and images are used by various artists to express ideas, feelings, social and political positions, etc.
  • Examine environmental, historical and social factors and issues that have influenced developments and innovations in visual art
  • Identify how works of visual art can transmit or question cultural and societal traditions, values and ideas

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Module Three: Tell It Like It Is!

Overall Expectations

Continue to explore various sources of ideas and develop and convey their ideas through the arts

Specific Expectations

Drama

  • Continue to develop an understanding of how dramatic artists acquire and develop ideas
  • Explore, develop and convey their ideas through drama
  • Demonstrate co-operative effort and a willingness to accept the ideas of others, recognizing that drama combines many individual ideas and contributions to form a whole artistic expression

Visual Art

  • Continue to develop an understanding of how visual artists acquire and develop ideas
  • Explore, develop and convey their ideas through visual art
  • Continue to demonstrate understanding of the ways in which the elements of art, principles of design, manipulation of visual images and media affect expression and meaning

MediaSmarts Resources

Overall Expectations

Examine how various artists have represented or interpreted ideas that relate to those being explored by the students

Specific Expectations

Drama

  • Develop an understanding of various ways that human experience is reflected in their own work and that of their peers
  • Continue to demonstrate critical thinking and support opinions using appropriate language and vocabulary when responding to works of dramatic art
  • Examine, analyse and interpret the work of dramatic artists within the works’ cultural and historical context

Music

  • Examine, analyse and interpret the work of musicians and composers within the works’ cultural and historical context

Visual Art

  • Examine, analyse and interpret the work of artists within the works’ cultural and historical context

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Module Four: Film and Video

Overall Expectations

Increase their understanding of the language, techniques and creative processes of film and video as art forms

Specific Expectations

  • Continue to develop an understanding of the elements of filmmaking
  • Examine techniques and special effects in film
  • Increase awareness of the various roles of individuals and the collaborative process involved in filmmaking

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Overall Expectations

Develop and convey their ideas through film and video

Specific Expectations

  • Apply their knowledge of the language and processes of filmmaking to create films and/or videos
  • Increase and apply technical skills
  • Explore and express their own ideas and points of view through the art of film and video

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Overall Expectations

Increase their understanding of historical developments in film and video, considering a film’s cultural and historical context

Specific Expectations

  • Develop a critical understanding of several film genres
  • Develop an awareness of significant influences and issues in the history of film

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Overall Expectations

Develop an understanding of the ideas and work of various film and video artists

Specific Expectations

  • Examine films and videos that reflect varied perspectives and representations
  • Develop criteria with which to evaluate and respond to the aesthetic qualities of film and video

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Module Five: The Arts and Popular Culture

Overall Expectations

Create arts expressions that refer to images, symbols, experiences, objects or events drawn from popular culture

Specific Expectations

Create art works that incorporate images, symbols, objects or events related to popular culture

MediaSmarts Resources

Overall Expectations

Examine ways that the dominant popular culture of a society is a construction of reality that may represent or misrepresent real-life experiences

Specific Expectations

  • Examine various constructions of reality in print and media advertising and in popular prime time television programs that are directed at a teenage audience
  • Examine ways that women and minority groups have been portrayed on television and in popular films

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Overall Expectations

Examine popular culture through the ages at various times and places, exploring social, historical and artistic forces that shape popular culture

Specific Expectations

  • Analyse the effects of popular music, dance, drama and visual images on daily life
  • Explore the influence of role models in popular culture through the ages

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Module Six: Expanding Horizons: The Arts in Canada

Overall Expectations

Understand ways in which the arts in Canada identify, preserve and create a diverse Canadian culture

Specific Expectations

Examine the factors that influence cultural identity, both within and outside of Canada

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Module Seven: Global Connections

Overall Expectations

Examine ways that artists may choose to address global issues through their work

Specific Expectations

  • Explore the role of arts as social commentary
  • Gain an understanding of contemporary Indigenous peoples’ ideas and sociopolitical aspirations expressed through the arts – national and global

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Overall Expectations

Create arts expressions in response to global concerns

Specific Expectations

Respond to global issues through the creation of their own art works

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