an idea or emotion or fulfilling a
practical purpose
•
Develop criteria for interpreting meaning and
applies criteria to their own artwork to
determine its success
•
Identify multiple purposes and meanings of art
Connections and Applications
•
Reflect on how the knowledge and skills
learned in visual arts applies to their future
•
Assess the ways art enhances all aspects of life
•
Assess the criteria to pursue visual arts as a
profession
•
Interpret and analyze connections, similarities,
and differences between the visual arts and
other disciplines
•
Demonstrate various ways the art elements
and design principles interrelate within all
arts disciplines
•
Compare and contrast characteristics of visual
arts within a particular historical period or style
with ideas, issues, or themes in other disciplines
•
Apply various technologies in order to affect
visual arts and other disciplines
MUSIC
Beat Pattern
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Demonstrate proficiency in identifying
increasingly complex beat patterns through
verbal response and performance compositions
•
Compose and arrange a piece demonstrating
how the elements of music are used to achieve
unity and variety, tension and release, and
balance
•
Use a variety of sound sources for composing
pieces with specified guidelines
Ear Training
•
Demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles
of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and
harmonic progression
•
Play a simple melody or accompaniment by ear
•
Investigate forms, styles, sounds, and genre
through listening, discussing, writing, and
performing
Music Reading
•
Sight read melodies in both the treble and
bass clefs
•
Demonstrate the ability to identify, define,
write/draw musical symbols, terms, and
characters (e.g., staffs, notes, rests, staccato,
legato, piano forte, etc.) with technical
proficiency
•
Read notes and rests with accuracy in 2/4, 3/4,
4/4, 3/8, and 6/8 time signatures
•
Use standard musical notations to record own
musical ideas
Song Singing
•
Demonstrate the ability to sing and perform
with confidence songs of increasing difficulty,
alone and with others (including small
ensembles), in rhythm, on pitch, with good
breath control, clear tone quality, and
appropriate expression
•
Sing songs of increasing difficulty, including
harmonies (music in two and three parts) with
confidence
•
Sing solo with expression and technical
accuracy
•
Sing a varied repertoire of music
Technology and Instruments
•
Play one instrument accurately and
independently (alone and in small ensembles)
•
Play by ear simple melodies and
accompaniments on a harmonic instrument
•
Identify and play various genres and styles of
music, including those from different cultures,
with appropriate expression
•
Improvise simple harmonic accompaniments
Movement to Music
•
Choreograph and perform a group piece
•
Identify and participate in dance and
movement to music using various genres and
styles of selected pieces, including those from
other cultures and periods
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Performance Etiquette
•
Direct and produce a skit/musical piece alone
or in a group with confidence
•
Demonstrate appropriate behavior as a
performer and as an audience member
Music Appreciation and Connections
•
Devise and apply a sophisticated set of
criteria for evaluating music performances,
their own and others, that explains personal
preferences as well as musical elements
•
Offer constructive suggestions for
improvement on the compositions of others
•
Describe the historical significance of music in
various cultures
•
Describe specific musical events using
appropriate terminology
•
Describe the basic events of a musical
composition including change of tempo,
dynamics, meter, and instruments
•
Explore, compare, and describe connections
between music and other disciplines (e.g.,
rhythm in music and poetry, patterns in music
and math, historical events, and movements
chronicled through music)
•
Investigate the function, role, and
characteristics of music in various time periods
and cultures
SPANISH
Oral Language
•
Generate and respond to questions, phrases,
and sentences using appropriate new and
previously taught vocabulary about relevant
topics such as sports, traveling, and
entertainment
•
Engage in spontaneous and directed small and
large group discussions in Spanish
•
Discuss and describe, in detail, events in the
past and present
•
Restate and complete multistep oral directions
•
Provide reasons for opinions, orally and in writing
•
Negotiate a compromise
•
Use formal and informal commands
appropriately when giving directions
•
Create and perform coherent oral speeches in
a variety of formats such as in an informal
debate
Reading
•
Read or listen to a variety of grade
appropriate Spanish materials
•
Read grade appropriate materials with fluency,
accuracy, and understanding
•
Preview, predict, retell, summarize, and
respond to literature
Writing
•
Write for a variety of purposes including
information, explanation, description, narration
(e.g., write the embassy of a Spanish country
and learn what documents are needed to enter
the country)
•
Complete a variety of forms (e.g., complete a
visa application form from a Spanish
government country)
Connections
•
Reinforce and further their knowledge of other
disciplines through the Spanish language (e.g.,
demonstrate an awareness of the differences
between literal and figurative writing through
Spanish literature)
•
Acquire information and viewpoints through
Spanish resources (e.g., compare the accuracy
of information reported in an age-appropriate
Spanish news article with known facts; use a
map from a Spanish book to locate rainforests
and volcanoes; read want ads in his/her city
newspaper; and find out what jobs require the
knowledge of Spanish)
Language Use and Structure
•
Use the form and function of words in phrases,
sentences, and more complex writing, such as
paragraphs, to communicate effectively
•
Note that English words that closely resemble
Spanish words can have different meanings
•
Note that English word order is more fixed than
Spanish word order
•
Discuss the fact that inanimate objects have
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