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Identify, compare, and categorize various
historic art and craft forms by their historical era,
region, characteristics, and roles
•
Recognize that art can reflect the relationship
between artists and their culture by examining
personal, political, socioeconomic, religious,
geographic, and other issues (e.g., identify the
cultural function of masks including spiritual,
dramatic, celebrant, and protective functions)
•
Recognize that structures reflect the
technological advancement of a civilization’s
prevalent styles and materials
Aesthetic Valuing
•
Use selected criteria as the basis for making
judgments about their own works of art as well
as artworks from various artists, eras, and
cultures
•
Refer to qualities that can be seen directly (art
elements and design principles) and identify
expressive qualities when describing a personal
preference or critically judging a work of art
•
Express ideas about the literal and expressive
content of works of art using appropriate art
vocabulary
•
Identify and compares multiple purposes for
creating works of art
Connections and Applications
•
Identify connections between art and other
disciplines
•
Apply what he/she learns in visual arts to other
disciplines
•
Create works of visual art that are inspired by
dance, music, or theatre
•
Recognize the impact of visual communication
in our lives
•
Explore communication media to develop an
appreciation for commercial art
MUSIC
Beat Pattern
•
Read and identify different beat patterns from
selected musical pieces
•
Play varied rhythms on traditional and
nontraditional sources
•
Compose and arrange simple rhythm patterns
in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 time signatures
•
Compose and arrange simple melodies
•
Direct increasingly more challenging
conducting patterns of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time
signatures
Ear Training
•
Identify, discuss, and explore major and
minor scales and chords, intervals (half steps,
whole steps and octaves), time signatures, and
sharps and flats in selected pieces
•
Identify varied tempos in selected musical
pieces
•
Identify forms of music including theme and
variation
Music Reading
•
Demonstrate the ability to identify, define, and
write/draw musical symbols and characters (e.g.,
staffs, notes, rests, etc.) with technical proficiency
•
Explore, notate, and perform rhythmic
patterns with complex notes including sixteenth
notes, dotted eighth notes, and dotted eighths
followed by a sixteenth
•
Sight read rhythm patterns with a variety of
notes and rests in 2/4 and 4/4 time signatures
and simple rhythm patterns in 3/4 time signature
Song Singing
•
Demonstrate the ability to sing and perform
with confidence songs of increasing difficulty,
alone and with others, in rhythm, on pitch, with
good breath control, and with clear tone quality
•
Sing rounds and accompanied pieces with
technical accuracy alone and with others
•
Sing simple harmonies (music written in two
parts) with confidence
•
Sing selections with appropriate expression
•
Sing, with stylistic accuracy, a diverse repertoire
representing various cultures, historical periods,
and genres
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Technology and Instruments
•
Perform increasingly more complex pieces
using traditional sound sources (e.g., recorder,
xylophone, rhythm sticks, etc.), alone and with
others
•
Perform increasingly more complex pieces
using nontraditional sound sources (e.g.,
classroom items, body sounds, electronic
sounds), alone and with others
•
Perform independent instrumental parts while
other students sing or play contrasting parts
•
Improvise simple rhythmic accompaniments
and melodies
•
Compose simple pieces for traditional and
nontraditional sound sources
Movement to Music
•
Demonstrate continued development of folk,
line, square, and ballroom dance through
enthusiastic participation
•
Choreograph and perform a group piece
Performance Etiquette
•
Demonstrate the ability to perform with
appropriate stage presence (character, role
playing, dramatic interpretation, dynamics, and
vocal ability)
•
Demonstrate the ability to memorize
expressions in a character piece with confidence
•
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
during performances/events
Music Appreciation and Connections
•
Devise sophisticated criteria for evaluating music
performances (their own and others) that explains
personal preferences as well as musical elements
•
Study Broadway musicals and the roles of a
composer, lyricist, producer, choreographer,
director, and librettist (the writer of a dramatic
musical)
•
Classify selected exemplary works from various
historical periods and cultures by genre, style,
and composer
•
Describe the impact of regional traditions and
historical events on generating various types of
music
•
Compare and contrast the connections
between music and other disciplines
SPANISH
Oral Language
•
Ask and answer questions using appropriate
new and previously taught vocabulary about
relevant topics such as family, friends, shopping
(money, prices), school, events, introductions,
celebrations, and vacations
•
Describe people, places, and things with detail
•
Learn occupational vocabulary and tells what
he/she is going to be in the future
•
Use appropriate directional vocabulary to
identify and name places in the neighborhood
and in cities
•
Learn and use vocabulary for health or other
emergencies and describes symptoms of
illnesses
•
Use new vocabulary to identify marine life and
things on the shoreline
•
Express likes and dislikes and provide
explanation for those choices
•
Name and use numbers from 1 to 1000+
•
Use vocabulary to sequence events or describe
a process such as ordinal numbers and adverbs
•
Use adjectives and other vocabulary to make
descriptions such as describing the size, shape,
and color of an object or describing
personalities
•
Tell a short original story
Reading
•
Read or listen to a variety of grade appropriate
Spanish materials
•
Retell, summarize, and respond to literary
materials
Writing
•
Write for a variety of purposes including
information, explanation, description, narration
•
Write a short paragraph to provide information
•
List the steps required to complete a process
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