Grade 9 - Arts Education

Big Ideas

Exploring and creating

Reasoning and reflecting

Communicating and documenting

Connecting and expanding

Content

Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through arts experiences.

The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.

Creative arts experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.

Dance, drama, music, and visual arts each use their own unique sensory language for creating and communicating.

Create artistic works both collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play

Explore materials, environments, tools, and techniques by combining and arranging elements, processes, and principles

Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts in relation to the arts

Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through artistic experiences

Select and combine elements and principles of the arts to intentionally create a particular mood, effect, or meaning

Describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists use tools, processes, technologies, materials, and environments to create and communicate ideas

Develop, refine, document, and critically appraise ideas, processes, and technical skills to improve the quality of works of art

Adapt and apply learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences

Compose, interpret, and expand ideas using symbolism, imagery, and elements

Revise, refine, analyze, and document creative works and experiences to enhance presentation and/or performance in a variety of ways

Reflect on works of art and creative processes to make connections to personal learning and experiences

Take creative risks to experience and express thoughts, emotions, ideas, and meaning

Demonstrate respect for themselves, others, and the audience

Collaborate through reciprocal relationships during creative processes

Create personally meaningful bodies of artistic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts

Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content

for each of the arts disciplines  dance, drama, music, and visual arts the specific elements, principles, techniques, vocabulary, and symbols that can be used to create mood and convey ideas

the roles of performers and audiences in a variety of contexts

traditional and contemporary Aboriginal worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through artistic works

contributions of innovative artists from a variety of genres, communities, times, and places

personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding in the arts

the ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism