JCPS Core Curriculum
Kentucky Opera education programs are designed with JCPS core content requirments in mind. See below how our activities can supplement your arts or humanities lesson plans.
Humanity in the Arts
The arts reflect the beliefs, feelings and ideas of those who create them. Experiencing the arts allows one to experience time, place and/or personality. By experiencing the arts of various cultures, students can actually gain insight into the beliefs, feelings and ideas of those cultures. Students also have the opportunity to experience how the arts can influence society through analysis of arts in their own lives and the arts of other cultures and historical periods. Studying the historical and cultural stylistic periods in the arts offers students an opportunity to understand the world past and present and to learn to appreciate their own cultural heritage. Looking at the interrelationships of multiple arts disciplines across cultures and historical periods is the focus of humanities in the arts.
Purposes for Creating the Arts
The arts have played a major role throughout the history of humans. As the result of the power of the arts to communicate on a basic human level, they continue to serve a variety of purposes in society. The arts are used for artistic expression to portray specific emotions or feelings, to tell stories in a narrative manner, to imitate nature and to persuade others. The arts bring meaning to ceremonies, rituals, celebrations and commemorations. Additionally, they are used for recreation and to support recreational activities. Students experience the arts in a variety of roles through their own creations and performances and through those of others. Through their activities and observations, students learn to create arts and use them for a variety of purposes in society.
Processes in the Arts
There are three distinctive processes involved in the arts. These processes are creating new works, performing works for expressive purposes and responding to artworks. Each process is critical and relies on others for completion. Artists create works to express ideas, feelings or beliefs. The visual arts capture a moment in time while the performing arts (music, dance, drama/theatre) are performed for a live audience. The audience responds to the artistic expressions emotionally and intellectually based on the meaning of the work. Each process enhances understanding, abilities and appreciation of others. Students involved in these processes over time will gain a great appreciation for the arts, for artists past and present and for the value of artistic expression.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORE CURRICULUM
MUSIC
AH-EP-1.1.1Students will begin to recognize and identify elements of music using musical terminology.
AH-EP-1.3.1
Students will observe dramatic productions and describe literary elements, technical elements and/or performance elements using drama/theatre terminology.
AH-EP-3.1.1
Students will experience music created for a variety of purposes
DRAMA/THEATRE
AH-EP-1.3.3
Students will identify a variety of creative dramatics (improvisation, mimicry, pantomime, role playing and storytelling).
AH-04-1.3.1
Students will identify or describe elements of drama in dramatic works.
AH-05-1.3.1
Students will analyze or explain the use of elements of drama in dramatic works.
AH-EP-3.3.1
Students will experience dramatic works created for a variety of purposes.
VISUAL ARTS
AH-05-2.4.1
Students will identify how visual art has been a part of cultures and time periods throughout history
MUSIC
AH-06-1.1.1
Students will identify or describe the use of elements in a variety of music.
AH-06-1.1.2
Students will identify instruments according to classifications.
Family - brass, woodwind, string, percussion
Voices - soprano, alto, tenor, bass
Folk - instruments used in folk music
Orchestral - instruments used in contemporary orchestral settings
AH-06-2.1.1
Students will analyze or explain how diverse cultures and time periods are reflected in music
AH-08-3.1.1
Students will compare or explain how music fulfills a variety of purposes
DRAMA / THEATRE
AH-06-1.3.1
Students will identify or describe the use of elements of drama in dramatic works
AH-06-2.3.1
Students will analyze or explain how diverse cultures and time periods are reflected in drama/theatre
AH-07-1.3.2
Students will describe how the technical elements (scenery, props, lighting, sound, costumes, make-up) communicate setting and mood
AH-07-1.3.3
Students will explain how performance elements (e.g., acting, speaking, movement) can create a believable character
AH-07-1.3.4
Students will identify and describe the types of stages (arena, thrust, proscenium)
AH-08-3.3.1
Students will compare or explain how drama/theatre fulfills a variety of purposes
AH-08-4.3.1
Students will create and perform using elements of drama. (Literary, Technical, Performance)
AH-08-4.3.3
Students will engage in dramatic activities that reflect historical times and cultures
AH-08-4.3.4
Students will identify the skills necessary for jobs associated with theatre (playwright, director, actor, actress, designers, scenery, props, lighting, sounds, costume, make-up)
VISUAL ARTS
AH-06-1.4.2
Students will identify a variety of art media and art processes
AH-06-2.4.1
Students will analyze or explain how diverse cultures and time periods are reflected in visual arts
AH-06-3.4.1
Students will identify or explain how art fulfills a variety of purposes
MUSIC
AH-HS-1.1.1
Students will analyze or evaluate the use of elements of music in musical compositions
AH-HS-1.2.2
Students will describe or analyze the relationship among music, costumes, lighting, props/scenery and choreography
AH-HS-4.1.4
Students will identify skills and training necessary for a variety of careers related to music
DRAMA / THEATRE
AH-HS-1.3.1
Students will analyze or evaluate the use of technical elements, literary elements and performance elements in a variety of dramatic works
AH-HS-2.1.1
Students will analyze or evaluate how factors such as time, place and ideas are reflected in music.
AH-HS-2.3.1
Students will analyze or evaluate how factors such as time, place and ideas are reflected in drama
AH-HS-4.3.2
Students will identify skills and training necessary for a variety of careers related to drama
VISUAL ARTS
AH-HS-1.4.1
Students will analyze or evaluate the use of the elements of art and principles of design in a variety of artworks
