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Curriculum Overview
In the Grade 8 arts curriculum, learners are encouraged to be creative every day.
- In grade 8 Dance, students refine their kinesthetic awareness and use all the elements of dance (body, space, time, energy, relationship) to create dance works that express a point of view about a variety of issues, concepts and themes.
- In grade 8 Drama, students continue to focus on role play and the development of believable characters as foundational components of both process drama and theatre performance.
- In grade eight Music, students perform in a variety of ensembles and use musical knowledge, musicianship, and creative abilities to create musical works for specific purposes.
- In Grade 8 Visual Arts, students’ own art making becomes infused with a variety of images and approaches. They are very aware of elements from popular culture and eager to incorporate them into their art.
The arts curriculum is divided into four strands:
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
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Learning Activities
Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.
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Resources for Learning
Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.
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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.
Apply the Learning
Choose from the following to consolidate learning across The Arts.
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Imagine you are a theatre critic. Write a critique of a movie or theatre production you have reviewed. What voices are present in the piece? Whose are missing and why?
- Create a mask or visual effect to represent the moods of different characters in your favourite play or drama.
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Why might theatrical performances be important to in times when very few people could read and write? Why might theatrical performances be important to language learners?
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Think about your exposure to music from when you were born until now. How has the role of music in your life changed?
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Consider the music that you notice or enjoy in your environment. What factors might influence someone to compose a particular type of music?
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Write a review or critique of a song or album that explain how successful it was in engaging the audience and portraying an overall theme or message.
- Explore the idea of cultural appropriation by historical and contemporary artists. How can artists incorporate the work of other artists or cultural traditions to make original art while also showing respect for others?
- Explore how stereotypes can be reinforced or challenged in art works.
- Create a stop motion animation that tells a simple story and demonstrates the principle of movement through sequential images in which the character or object moves in relation to the frame.
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Explore and interpret images of social issues that are explored in historical arts works, contemporary art works and media works.
Vocabulary
Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.
Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
action
fluidity
freeze
inaction
isolation of body parts
levels
opposition
percussion
performance space
shape
stillness
weight transfer
corridor of voices
character
role on the wall
improvisation
soundscape
role play
tension
major/ minor tonality
chromatic scale
tone colour
monophonic
homophonic
polyphonic
minuet
musical notation
time and place
directional lines
foreshortening
gradation in size
illusionary space
illusionary texture
motifs
one point perspective
real texture
tertiary colours
two point perspective
weights of forms
