Grades K-5
Visual Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools

Kindergarten
2.0 Creative Expression
2.6 Use geometric shapes/forms in a work of art.

3.0 Historical and Cultural Context
3.3 Look at and discuss works of art from a variety of times and places.

4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
4.2 Describe what is seen (including both literal and expressive content) in selected works of art.  

Grade 1
2.0 Creative Expression
2.1 Use texture in two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art. 
2.7 Use visual and actual texture in original works of art. 

Grade 2
2.0 Creative Expression
2.1 Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of basic tools and art-making processes. 
2.2 Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of art media, such as oil pastels, watercolors and tempera.  

Grade 3
5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications
5.3 Look at images in figurative works of art and predict what might happen next, telling what clues in the work support their ideas.  

English–Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools

Kindergarten
Reading
2.0 Reading Comprehension
2.2 Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
3.3 Identify characters, setting and important events

Listening and Speaking
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
1.1 Understand and follow one-step oral directions.  
2.0 Speaking Applications
2.1 Describe people, places, things and actions. 

Grade 1
Reading
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
3.1 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and character(s) in a story, as well as the story’s beginning, middle and ending. 

Grade 2
Listening and Speaking
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
1.8 Retell stories, including characters, setting and plot.   

Grade 3
Writing
2.0 Writing Applications
2.1 Write narratives. 

Grade 4
Writing
2.0 Writing Applications
2.1 Write narratives. 

Grade 5
Writing
2.0 Writing Applications
2.1 Write narrative:  Establish a plot, point of view setting and conflict; show, rather than tell, the events of the story. 

Grades 6-8
Visual Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools

Grade 6
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
4.1 Construct and describe plausible interpretations of what they perceive in works of art. 

Grade 7
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
4.2. Analyze the form (how a work of art looks) and content (what a work of art communicates) of works of art. 

Grade 8
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
4.1 Construct an interpretation of a work of art based on the form and content of the work. 

Theater Content Standards for California Public Schools

Grade 6
2.0 Creative Expression
2.1 Participate in improvisational activities, demonstrating an understanding of text, subtext and context. 

Grade 7
2.0 Creative Expression
2.1 Use improvisation in rehearsal to discover character and motivation

Grade 8
2.0 Creative Expression
2.2 Perform character-based improvisations, pantomimes, or monologues, using voice, blocking and gesture to enhance meaning.  

Grades 9-12
Visual Arts Standard for California Public Schools

Skills, Processes, Materials, and Tools 
2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view.

Grades 9-12
History–Social Science Standards for California Public Schools

10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. 
7. Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., the novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.