Grade by Grade
British Columbia · Grade 9

Arts Education

Creating, performing and responding in dance, drama, music and visual arts, including traditional and contemporary First Peoples arts

In Grade 9 schools offer Arts Education 9 or separate Dance 9, Drama 9, Music 9 and Visual Arts 9 courses.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

1Dance

Choreographic structures and compositional forms; elements and principles of dance

2Drama

Drama forms, conventions and vocabulary for creating mood and communicating ideas

3Music

Musical interpretation and the choices that affect performance; notation

4Visual arts

Image design strategies (elaboration, simplification, magnification, distortion…); personal narrative