Jack Britt High – Orchestra-Advanced

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

# Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12 Course Code: 52435X0 Prerequisite: Successful completion of profi cient level orchestra course and Placement Audition Credit: 1 unit, Weight: $+ . 5$ Orchestra-Advanced is an advanced honors level performing ensemble for highly skilled and motivated high school orchestra students focusing on music literature at levels V-VI. This course promotes advanced technical and interpretive skill, the ability to perform in various meters, keys, unusual meters, complex rhythms, and subtle dynamic requirements. This course is aligned to the Essential Standards music curriculum at the advanced level and provides instruction for advanced profi ciencies in performance, conducting, listening, appreciation, history, analyzing, composing, the use of current technology, and research. Students create and maintain portfolios that contain a combination of written, audio, or visual examples of their work for evaluation. Focuses include orchestral techniques, instrumental pedagogy, music theory, music history, improvisation, composition, analysis and evaluation of musical experiences and ensemble skills. Students develop personal aesthetic criteria for analysis and evaluation. Participation in daytime, evening and weekend rehearsals, concerts and events is required. Students may enroll in the same arts education course for multiple semesters or until approved for the next level by the instructor. # ART APPRECIATION (Visual Arts SpecializationBeginning) Through the study of signifi cant artists and artworks, students gain an appreciation of the elements of art, design principles and creative processes involved in visual arts. Students expand their use of art terminology as they view, analyze and critique artwork from various cultures and historical periods. Students use oral and written analysis and evaluation of artworks to develop critical thinking skills to gain an understanding of the connections that the visual arts have to culture, history, other disciplines and careers. Course content is aligned to the Essential Standards visual arts curriculum at the beginning level.