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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Music Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — General Music/All Other High School Electives

• Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
  • Objective 8.01: Apply rules of standard written English to explain the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts areas (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) in different historical periods and cultures.
  • Objective 8.02: Identify and explain ways in which the concepts and skills of other content areas outside the arts are related to those of music.
  • Objective 8.03: Discuss the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.
  • Objective 8.04: Demonstrate the character traits of responsibility, self-discipline, and perseverance while informally or formally participating in music.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — Visual Arts Electives

• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Demonstrate the use of life surroundings and personal experiences to express ideas and feelings visually.
  • Objective 4.03: Invent original and personal imagery to convey meaning and not rely on copying, tracing, patterns or duplicated materials.
  • Objective 4.04: Explore how artists develop personal imagery and style.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
  • Objective 5.05: Recognize the existence of universal theme in art throughout history.
  • Objective 5.06: Recognize that cultures have different aesthetics and each individual is a product of his or her culture.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
  • Objective 6.02: Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks.
  • Objective 6.03: Accept other's work and ideas as unique expression of themselves.
  • Objective 6.05: Critique artwork through the use of: proper vocabulary, art elements and design principles, meaning, feeling, mood and ideas, oral and written expression.
  • Objective 6.06: Understand there are varied responses to specific artworks.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 12 — English IV

• Goal 1: The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text as well as to personal experience.
  • Objective 1.01: Compose reflective texts that give the audience:
    - an understanding of complex thoughts and feelings.
    - a sense of significance (social, political, or philosophical implications).
    - a sense of encouragement to reflect on his or her own ideas.
  • Objective 1.02: Respond to texts so that the audience will:
    - empathize with the voice of the text.
    - make connections between the learner's life and the text.
    - reflect on how cultural or historical perspectives may have influenced these responses.
    - examine the learner's own response in light of peers' responses.
    -recognize features of the author's use of language and how the learner relates these features to his/her own writing.
• Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by exploring general principles at work in life and literature.
  • Objective 2.01: Locate, process, and comprehend texts that explain principles, issues, and concepts at work in the world in order to:
    - relate complex issues from a variety of critical stances.
    - discern significant differences and similarities among texts that propose different ideas related to similar concepts.
  • Objective 2.02: Analyze general principles at work in life and literature by:
    - discovering and defining principles at work in personal experience and in literature.
    -predicting what is likely to happen in the future on the basis of those principles.
  • Objective 2.03: Compose texts (in print and non-print media) that help the audience understand a principle or theory by:
    - researching experience for relevant principles that relate to themes in literature and life.
    - presenting a thesis, supporting it, and considering alternative perspectives on the topic.
    -adjusting the diction, tone, language, and method of presentation to the audience.
• Goal 4: The learner will analyze and critique texts from various perspectives and approaches.
  • Objective 4.01: Develop critiques that enable an audience to judge claims and arguments by:
    -establishing and applying clear, credible criteria for evaluation.
    - substantiating assessments with reasons and evidence.
  • Objective 4.02: Develop critiques that give an audience:
    - an appreciation of how themes relate among texts.
    -an understanding of how authors' assumptions, cultural backgrounds, and social values affect texts.
    -an understanding of how more than one critical approach affects interpretation.
• Goal 5: The learner will deepen understanding of British literature through exploration and extended engagement.
  • Objective 5.01: Explore British literature by:
    - recognizing common themes that run through works, using evidence from the texts to substantiate ideas.
    - relating the cultural and historical contexts to the literature and identifying perceived ambiguities, prejudices, and complexities.
    - making associations between historical and current viewpoints.
    -understanding how literary movements influence writers.
  • Objective 5.02: Extend engagement with selected works of British literature by:
    - observing how the imaginative experience of literature broadens and enriches real life.
    - relating style, meaning, and genre (including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry).
    - applying literary, grammatical, and rhetorical terms of literature.
    - demonstrating in various print and non-print media the significance of works.
    -discerning the effect of interpreting literature from various critical perspectives.