The Complete Core

Fine Arts and Creative Thinking in the Common Core

Melody Chua, Julia McCarren, Madeline Whitesell

What is the Common Core?

•Mathematics & English Language Arts

•Results

•What to teach, but not how to teach it.

Kindergarten Standards

High School Standards

Fine Arts in the Common CoreVisual Art, Music, Theatre

Visual Arts in the Common Core

•Creativity

•Synthesis

•Expression

Main components of the Visual Arts Curriculum

•Current Issues

Project•Period-style

painting and

sculpting•Art ‘Critique’•Art Show•Art Museum•Interdisciplinary

Project

Current Issues Project

Unknown: Mural of Mother Losing Son to Gun Violence

Period Style Painting and Drawing

Claude Monet:

Water Lily Pond(c.1920)

Art Show

Art Museum

Interdisciplinary Project

Interlochen Arts Collage, 2013

Theatre Arts in the Common Core

Goals:

*Make students comfortable in front of an audience*Developing Improvisational skills*developing creative problem solving methods*Using creative thinking to interpret a piece of theatre*Forming individual opinions

Blank Scenes

http://arvonderlohe.wikispaces.com/file/view/Blank%20Scenes.pdf/263750946/Blank%20Scenes.pdf

Vladimir Kush (b. 1965): African Sonata