YHSC 50 - Youth English & Art

1 to 15 Credits
This contextualized course integrates reading and writing instruction with instruction focused on visual and performing arts. Possible topics include but are not limited to: art history, artistic processes, and design principles. Students will create and share art in a variety of possible disciplines, including but not limited to: drawing, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, photography, voice, dance, music, and theater. This competency-based class allows students to demonstrate skills and knowledge, and earn possible high school credit equivalents in Art, English, and/or elective credits.

Course Outcomes
English Language Arts

Develop written and oral arguments
Use a variety of evidence and sources to support claims
Interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary and informational text, and media
Develop and strengthen writing and presenting as needed by planning, organizing, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach
Gather relevant information from print and digital sources, assess the credibility, bias, and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism
Utilize technology to gather and communicate information and to interact and collaborate with others

Fine Arts

Apply arts concepts and vocabulary
Develop knowledge in arts genres and styles of various artists, cultures, and times
Respond to and interpret arts performances and/or presentation of dances, music, theatre, and visual arts
Use the arts to express feelings and present ideas
Develop and defend personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
Explore the connections among the different art forms
Develop an awareness of how the arts influence and reflect culture, place, and time