Year 8 The Arts — AC v9

Achievement standard (what coverage means)

• •They describe respectful approaches to composing, performing and/or responding to music.
• •They manipulate elements of music and compositional devices to compose music that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •They present their work to an audience.
• •By the end of year 8, students analyse the use of media arts concepts to construct representations that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in media arts works they produce and/or experience.
• •They evaluate the ways that visual artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning through their visual arts practice.
• •By the end of Year 8, students analyse how elements of drama and/or conventions are manipulated in drama they create and/or experience.
• •Students work collaboratively to manipulate elements of drama and conventions to shape and sustain dramatic action in improvised, devised and/or scripted drama.
• •They produce media arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •They describe respectful approaches to creating, performing and/or responding to dance.
• •They demonstrate safe dance practice when choreographing and performing dance.
• •Students manipulate the elements of dance and choreographic devices to choreograph dance that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •They evaluate the ways music from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •They describe respectful approaches to creating and/or responding to artworks.
• •Students select and manipulate media languages and media technologies, and use production processes to construct representations.
• •They curate and present exhibits and/or displays of their own and/or others’ artworks and/or visual arts practice for audiences.
• •They evaluate use of media arts concepts in media arts works from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
• •They evaluate the ways that dance works and/or performances in a range of styles and/or from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •By the end of Year 8, students analyse how the elements of dance, choreographic devices and/or production elements are manipulated in dance they create and/or experience.
• •By the end of Year 8, students analyse how visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated in artworks they create and/or experience.
• •They manipulate elements of music when performing their own and/or others’ music.
• •They employ performance skills to convey dramatic action and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when performing drama to audiences.
• •By the end of Year 8, students analyse how the elements of music and/or compositional devices are manipulated in music they compose, perform and/or experience.
• •They describe respectful approaches to creating, performing and/or responding to drama.
• •They reflect on their visual arts practice.
• •They evaluate the ways drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •Students demonstrate listening and aural skills when composing and performing.
• •Students generate, document and develop ideas for artworks.
• •They select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
• •They demonstrate performance skills when performing music for audiences.
• •They employ technical and expressive skills and, as appropriate, genre- or style-specific techniques when performing dances for audiences.
• •They plan where and how they could distribute their work using responsible media practice.
• •They describe respectful approaches to creating and/or responding to media arts works.
• •They notate, document and/or record the music they compose.