Center for the Visual and Performing Arts

Suitland High School

Do you . . .
  • Consider yourself creative and innovative?
  • Enjoy museums, plays, and concerts?
  • Enjoy participating in music or the theater?
  • Express your thoughts through art or writing?
  • Enjoy participating dance activities?
  • Prefer to work independently?
  • Like to write stories, poems or journals?
  • Find color, shape, and material important?
  • Like to take pictures?
  • Like to perform for people or entertain?

Related Careers:

Acoustic Engineer; Actor/Actress; Advertising Agent; Animator; Architect: Art Gallery/Museum Curator; Art Historian; Artist; Broadcast Technician; Choreographer; Comedian; Commentator; composer; Copywriter; Dancer; Director/Producer; Disc Jockey; Drama Teacher; Editor/Proofreader; Fashion Designer; Industrial Designer; Illustrator; Industrial Designer; Interior Decorator; Journalist; landscape Architect; Lighting Director; Lithographer; Mark-up Artist; Multimedia Designer; Musician; Novelist; Photographer; Pubic Relations; Radio/TV Announcer; Recording Engineer; Reporter/Correspondent; Script Writer; Set Designer; Singer.

Four Year Plan

(Existing Grade 8 or 9 students’ applications and auditions accepted only.)

Grade 9

Grade 10

Grade 11

Grade 12

English 9

English 10

English 11

English 12

Math (Algebra 1)

Math (Geometry)

Math

Elective

LSN Government

World History

U.S. History

Elective

Science

Science

Science

Elective

PE/Health or Foreign Language

Technology Education+ or Foreign Language

Foreign Language

Foreign Language

VPA Major (at least 3 related classes)

VPA Major (at least 3 related classes)

VPA Major (at least 4 related classes)

VPA Major (at least 4 related classes)

 
Grade 9

Grade 10

Grade 11

Grade 12

Performing Arts

(Music)

Applied Music 09

Piano Theory 09

Applied Music 10

Piano Theory 10

Major Ensemble 10

Applied Music 11

Piano Theory 11

Major Ensemble 11

Applied Music 12

Major Ensemble 12

Piano Theory 12 or

AP Piano

Performing Arts (Dance)

Modern Dance 1

Ballet 1

Jazz 1

Modern Dance 2

Ballet 2

Jazz 2

Modern Dance 3

Ballet 3

Ethnic Dance

Choreography

Modern Dance 4

Ballet 4

Repertory Dance

Choreography

Dance History

Performing Arts

(Theatre)

Acting Studio 1 (DP)

Intro to Theatre

Acting Studio 2 (DP)

Theatre Survey

Performance Styles (DP)

Theatric Design

Theatre Topics

Repertory (DP)

Playwright (DP)

Visual Arts

Intro to Art

Intro to Drawing

Intro to Photography

Art History

Intro to Painting

Intro to Sculpture

Intro to Printmaking

Select 4 credits (2 each):

Draw/Painting 1

Commercial Illustration 1

Printmaking 1

Sculpture 1

Computer Graphics 1

Photography 1

Select 4 credits from 11 or 12:

Draw/Painting 2

Commercial Illustration 2

Printmaking 2

Sculpture 2

Computer Graphics 2

Photography 1

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