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Arts Program

Art

Through the Middle School Visual Arts Curriculum, students:

  • Develop increasingly sophisticated creative strategies, skills, and habits of mind through artistic practices.
  • Apply design literacy to a wide variety of traditional and new media.
  • Acquire increasing complex procedural knowledge, skill and craftsmanship in art making while exploring an expanded range of media.
  • Develop more sophisticated aesthetic judgment that supports the making and understanding of rich meaning in art.
  • Explore a wide range of notions about the meaning and purpose of visual art.
  • Form a broader knowledge and understanding of our rich and diverse historical and cultural heritage through art.

Theatre Skills/Drama

There are many opportunities for Theatre and  Drama education offered at Hoover.

  • Drama I - Students have the option to register for this one semester class in the 7th and/or 8th grade. During this semester students will refine their acting skills, develop stories, make decisions about characters, and demonstrate awesome audience behaviors. Drama I will culminate with a public performance of short scenes.
  • Beginning Theatre Skills - Students in any grade can take the full-year Beginning Theatre Skills class.  In this class students develop a beginning understanding of conventions of theatre, impovisation, character development, 

Hoover also offers weekly Drama Club after school for all Hoover students. Our club attends and performs at the George Nason Drama Showcase Festival in November.

All Hoover students can audition for our annual school play which is performed in March in the Eldorado PAC. Details of the play are announced in January.

Band, Choir, Orchestra

Band supplies can be found on the Supply Lists page

Band resources can be found on the Learning Resources page