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Grade 8 Fine Arts Minnesota Standards

140 standards - Minnesota standards

These are the official Grade 8 Fine Arts Minnesota standards — the exact codes and student expectations grade 8 teachers are required to teach and Minnesota 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

1.8.2.2

Generate and develop original artistic ideas.

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1.8.2.2.1

Develop movement to support artistic intent from a variety of stimuli for a dance study.

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1.8.2.2.2

Apply personal movement preferences to express artistic intent in a dance study.

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1.8.2.3

Create original artistic work.

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1.8.2.3.1

Collaborate to select and apply a variety choreographic devices and dance structures to create an original dance study.

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1.8.2.3.2

Create a dance study that communicates personal, societal, historical, or cultural meaning. Develop an artistic statement that supports the artistic intent and identifies source materials.*

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1.8.2.4

Revise and complete original artistic work.

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1.8.2.4.1

Revise choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others.

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1.8.2.4.2

Compare and contrast recognized systems of dance documentation and notation, considering intellectual property rights.**

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1.8.3.5

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.

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1.8.3.5.1

Synthesize technical dance skills to accurately execute challenging dance phrases.

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1.8.3.5.2

Collaborate with others to develop and apply strategies for performance accuracy, clarity, and expressiveness.

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1.8.3.6

Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through performance.

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1.8.3.6.1

Analyze location and audience in relation to dance production elements that support the artistic intent of a dance work.

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1.8.3.6.2

Make personal performance choices to express a choreographer's or community's intent in dance.

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1.8.4.7

Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

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1.8.4.7.1

Analyze movement and choreographic choices from a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices and their relationship to possible artistic intent.

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1.8.4.7.2

Compare and contrast characteristics from a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices, using genre-specific dance terminology.

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1.8.4.8.1

Use criteria to determine what makes an effective performance, considering content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice.

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1.8.5.10

Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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1.8.5.10.1

Analyze how personal context influences understanding of dances from a variety of cultures, societies, and historical time periods, including those of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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1.8.5.10.2

Research the historical development of a dance genre or style. Create a dance study that evokes the essence of the style or genre's development.

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1.8.5.9

Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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1.8.5.9.1

Identify one’s own movement preferences and an opposite preference or quality. Use that opposite preference or quality in creating or performing, and assess changes to one’s personal movement preferences.

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1.8.5.9.2

Evaluate personal healthful practices in dance, including nutrition and injury prevention.

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1.A.1.1

Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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2.8.2.2

Generate and develop original artistic ideas.

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2.8.2.2.1

Structure and critique ideas and solutions for original media artworks, using divergent thinking and identified generative methods. For example: Compare and contrast App-based animation platforms; repeatedly abstract an object for a 2D design.

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2.8.2.3

Create original artistic work.

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2.8.2.3.1

Create media artworks using transdisciplinary or transmedia production, to express emotion and meaning. For example: Original sound design (such as an experiential design incorporating a podcast) considering theme, movement and unity; simple web page design considering positioning with multimodal perception.

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2.8.2.4

Revise and complete original artistic work.

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2.8.2.4.1

Refine media artworks, resisting closure while intentionally altering stylistic conventions based on specific goals and personal choices. For example: Edit video game level design considering interactive components after receiving feedback.

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2.8.3.5

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

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2.8.3.5.1

Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of media artwork for presentation. For example: Create survey for a focus group; participate in forum on media artwork presentation.

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2.8.3.6

Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through presentation.

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2.8.3.6.1

Evaluate and implement improvements in the presentation of media artworks, considering personal and local impacts. For example: Research the changes to personal or corporate branding over time.

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2.8.4.7

Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

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2.8.4.7.1

Analyze the relationships between media arts components, and explain how transdisciplinary or transmedia productions communicate and affect audience experience. For example: Compare the experience of platforms with interactivity (such as experiential design) with the experience of traditional art mediums.

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2.8.4.8

Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.

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2.8.4.8.1

Evaluate media artworks and production processes with developed criteria at multiple stages in the creation process, including criteria related to fair use and copyright.** For example: Plagiarism; appropriation; intellectual property; creative commons media; public domain; and legal.

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2.8.5.10

Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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2.8.5.10.1

Explain different ways media arts are used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect culture or group identity. For example: Use of memes and viral video in systematic communications.

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2.8.5.9

Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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2.8.5.9.1

Evaluate the cycle of producing media artworks to make meaning of and respond to local and global events, and the power of media arts to affect social change. For example: Artmaking in response to natural disaster; political and social campaigns.

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2.A.1.1

Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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3.8.2.2

Generate and develop original artistic ideas.

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3.8.2.2.1

Generate rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic musical ideas that include expressive elements. For example: Dynamics, articulation, timbre.

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3.8.2.3

Create original artistic work.

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3.8.2.3.1

Develop a composition in a specific form that includes expressive elements using notation or recording technology.**

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3.8.2.4

Revise and complete original artistic work.

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3.8.2.4.1

Revise a composition draft into a completed work.

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3.8.3.5

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.

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3.8.3.5.1

Demonstrate persistence and cooperation in refining musical selections for performance.

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3.8.3.6

Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through performance.

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3.8.3.6.1

Perform music for an audience with technical accuracy and stylistic expression to convey the composer's possible intent. For example: Audience being a classmate, friend, online platform, or a large group.

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3.8.4.7

Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

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3.8.4.7.1

Analyze and discuss the use of elements in musical selections to convey meaning or possible intent including cultural or historical contexts.

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3.8.4.8

Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.

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3.8.4.8.1

Identify and describe the musical and technical skills evident in a performance.

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3.8.5.10

Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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3.8.5.10.1

Describe how music connects individuals and societies to history, culture, heritage, and community.

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3.8.5.9

Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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3.8.5.9.1

Describe how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices in the creation or performance of music.

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3.A.1.1

Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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4.8.2.2

Generate and develop original artistic ideas.

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4.8.2.2.1

Choose and justify multiple solutions to staging challenges for a work.

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4.8.2.2.2

Identify design challenges of a specific performance space and create solutions to present a work.

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4.8.2.2.3

Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character’s thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a work.

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4.8.2.3

Create original artistic work.

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4.8.2.3.1

Apply critical analysis, background knowledge, research, and historical and cultural context to the development of an original work.

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4.8.2.3.2

Collaborate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a work.

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4.8.2.4

Revise and complete original artistic work.

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4.8.2.4.1

Analyze and rehearse to revise a devised or scripted work.

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4.8.2.4.2

Refine effective physical, vocal, and physiological traits of characters in an improvised or scripted work, based on self-reflection and feedback.

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4.8.2.4.3

Implement and refine a planned technical design (using available technology) during the rehearsal process for devised or scripted work.**

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4.8.3.5

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.

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4.8.3.5.1

Demonstrate different pacing to generate clear character communication in a work.

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4.8.3.5.2

Apply various character objectives and tactics to overcome an obstacle in a work.

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4.8.3.6

Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through performance.

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4.8.3.6.1

Apply acting techniques to develop skills in a rehearsal or performance, including adjusting to audience response and unforeseen situations that arise.

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4.8.3.6.2

Apply a variety of technical elements (using available technology) to create a design for a rehearsal or production.**

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4.8.4.7

Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

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4.8.4.7.1

Analyze how artistic choices and personal aesthetics and preferences impact meaning and the audience.

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4.8.4.8

Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.

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4.8.4.8.1

Respond to a work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.

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4.8.4.8.2

Apply the production elements used in a work to assess aesthetic choices.

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4.8.5.10

Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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4.8.5.10.1

Research the context(s) of different theater works and connect them with personal, societal, cultural, historical or global issues, including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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4.8.5.9

Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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4.8.5.9.1

Examine a community issue through multiple perspectives in a work.

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4.A.1.1

Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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5.8.2.2

Generate and develop original artistic ideas.

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5.8.2.2.1

Develop and document multiple ideas for artwork criteria to guide art making.

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5.8.2.2.2

Innovate and take risks with ideas, form and content, or methods to shape intent for an artwork.

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5.8.2.3

Create original artistic work.

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5.8.2.3.1

Apply visual literacy strategies to create artwork that communicates ideas.

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5.8.2.3.2

Apply ethics of appropriation, fair use, creative commons, open sources, and copyright to the creation of artwork.**

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5.8.2.4

Revise and complete original artistic work.

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5.8.2.4.1

Make revisions to a work of art after seeking feedback from multiple sources.

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5.8.3.5

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

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5.8.3.5.1

Collaboratively apply appropriate methods to prepare and present selected artwork for display.

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5.8.3.6

Make artistic choices in order to convey meaning through presentation.

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5.8.3.6.1

Develop and apply criteria for evaluating a collection of artwork for presentation.

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5.8.3.6.2

Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

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5.8.4.7

Analyze and construct interpretations of artistic work.

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5.8.4.7.1

Explain how personal preferences and aesthetic choices impact both the creation and perception of artwork.

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5.8.4.8

Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.

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5.8.4.8.1

Compare and contrast contexts in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

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5.8.4.8.2

Create a convincing and logical argument to support one's own evaluation of art.

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5.8.5.10

Demonstrate an understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

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5.8.5.10.1

Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.

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5.8.5.9

Integrate knowledge and personal experiences while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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5.8.5.9.1

Justify how contextual information contributes to one's understanding of an artwork.

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5.A.1.1

Use foundational knowledge and skills while responding to, creating, and presenting artistic work.

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Connect

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Perform

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Create

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Evaluate artistic work by applying criteria.

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Present

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Present

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Foundations

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Respond

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Perform

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