Grade 2 Fine Arts Tennessee Standards

Connect

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to artistic endeavors.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as expressing personal preferences in music or how music is used in daily life).

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as exploring the connections between art and music).

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Use pentatonic melodies, short rhythms, movement, and vocal/instrumental timbres to improvise rhythmic/melodic patterns and movement.

Use body percussion, instruments, movement, singing, and/or vocal timbres to generate musical ideas (such as rhythm patterns, pentatonic melodies, etc.).

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Using short musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas.

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas (such as four beat rhythm/melodic patterns, introduction, coda, etc.).

Refine and complete artistic work.

Interpret and apply feedback, using vocabulary such as voices/instruments, same/different, introduction sequence, and coda, to revise personal music.

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for performance.

Demonstrate and explain personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections (such as performing songs and dances from various cultures and historical periods).

Using voices, instruments, or movement, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

Demonstrate understanding of music’s expressive qualities and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments using iconic or standard notation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.

Apply established criteria to judge student rehearsal and/or performance.

Rehearse, identify, and apply strategies to address performance challenges.

Convey and express meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Sing, alone and with others, with expression and skill*.

Using body percussion or instruments, perform, alone and with others, with expression and skill*.

Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Identify and explain how personal interests and experience influence musical selection; list and explain personal musical interests.

Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music; demonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (such as meter and timbre).

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Demonstrate knowledge of how expressive qualities and music concepts support a musical creation/performance (such as recognizing same/different sections, classroom and/or selected orchestral instruments, or how tempo and dynamics affect the mood of a piece).

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Apply personal preferences in the evaluation of music; discuss a musical performance using grade-appropriate music vocabulary.

Connect

Respond

Produce

Create

Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.

Identify how media artworks shape meanings, situations, and/or culture.

Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life found in popular media and connections with family and friends.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering safety, rules, and fairness.

Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to media arts.

Choose ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.

Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles.

Test and describe expressive effects when altering and revising media artworks.

Practice combining multiple academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks.

Enact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration in media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools.

Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the experience of the presentation of media artworks, and share feedback of presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.

Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

Describe how purpose and meaning of media artworks are shaped by context.

Discuss the effectiveness of and improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

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Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for producing.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for production.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.