Assessment Package

The assessment package is designed to help you meet the intermediate Minnesota Graduation Rule Standard for the Arts: Creativity, Performance and Expression.

The following assessment package integrates visual arts, music, dance and theater. You must assess your students in three of these art areas to meet the required arts standard. The tasks provided will complement performances taking place in October.

The Lola and Rudy Perpich Minnesota Center for Arts Education endorses this assessment package and contributed to its development. Contact Dr. Pamela Paulson, Director RAC at the MN Center for Arts Education, at 612-591-4708 about this package or for additional information on the education standards.

Adventures in Theatre
Content Standard: Arts: Artistic Creativity, Performance and Expression
Level: Intermediate

The MN Office of Technology and the ITU Host Committee would like to thank the following teachers and specialists for contributing their time, energy and expertise in the writing and development of the asessment package:

Dave Beaman, MN Technology High School, St. Paul, MN (Visual Art tasks and lesson and compilation of entire package)

Marcia Chapman, Dance Partners, Ballet Arts Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Dance tasks and lesson)

Joanna Cortright, Joanna Cortright and Associates - Arts Education Consulting, St. Paul, MN (Music tasks and lesson)

Matt Miller, West Metro Inter-District Downtown School, Minneapolis, MN (Theater tasks and lessons)

Cheryll Ostrom, Ostrom & Elliott Consulting, Brooklyn Park, MN (Assistance with overall compilation of package)