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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Museum
of Fine Art Houston: Pre-Columbian Art 
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Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School
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Social Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis,
interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and
to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history
and its uses in contemporary situations.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:- Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts,
and documents represent links to the past and that they are sources
of data from which historical accounts are constructed.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Analyze historical documents, artifacts, and other materials for
credibility, relevance, and point of view.
- Examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society,
or theme; analyze change over time; and make logical inferences
concerning cause and effect.
Curriculum Standard 18
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significant
developments of world history including the study of ancient,
medieval, and modern Europe (Western civilization) with particular
emphasis on those developments that have shaped the experience
of the entire globe over the last 500 years and those ideas, institutions,
and cultural legacies that have directly influenced American thought,
culture, and politics.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to: - Demonstrate a basic understanding of the origin, development,
and distinctive characteristics of major ancient, classical, and
agrarian civilizations including the Mesopotamian, Ancient Hebrew,
Egyptian, Nubian (Kush), Greek, Roman, Gupta Indian, Han Chinese,
Islamic, Byzantine, Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Civilizations.
The Arts: Visual Art
Curriculum Standard 4
Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Know that the visual arts have both a history and a specific
relationship to various cultures.
- Identify specific works of art in particular cultures, times,
and places.
- Describe how history, culture, and visual arts influence each
other.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Compare the characteristics of works of art representing various
cultures, historical periods, and artists.
- Describe and place a variety of art objects by style and artist,
and by historical and cultural contexts
.
- Describe how a given work of art can be interpreted differently
in various cultures and time.
- Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place
influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to
a work of art.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts
in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.
- Analyze relationships among works of art in terms of history,
aesthetics, and culture, using their observations to inform their
own art making.
- Understand various critical models of interpreting works from
several historical periods and cultures.
- Analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across
time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations,
and interpretations of meaning.
Curriculum Standard 5
Analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others’ artwork.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Identify various purposes for creating works of art.
- Describe how people’s experiences influence the development
of specific art works
.
- Understand that people may respond in different and equally valid
ways to specific art works.
- Describe their personal responses to specific works of art using
visual art terminology.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.
- Analyze the meanings of contemporary and historic artworks.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others’
work by using specific criteria.
- Describe their own responses to, and interpretation of, specific
works of art.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able
to:
- Research and analyze historic meaning and purpose in various works
of art.
- Defend personal interpretations to better understand specific
works of art.
- Reflect critically on various interpretations to better understand
specific works of art.
- Analyze and interpret art works identifying relationships among
form, context and purposes.
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