Standards
Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to artistic endeavors.
Generate resourceDemonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as identifying pieces of music that are important to one’s family or how music is used in daily life).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context.
Generate resourceDemonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as the connection between fractions and rhythm values).
Generate resourceUse pentatonic melodies in major/minor, simple accompaniments, introductions, codas, or question/answer phrases to improvise rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as social, cultural, historical, etc.).
Generate resourceUse parameters such as improvising/composing a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using grade appropriate note values in binary/ternary form to generate musical ideas within a given tonality, form, and/or rhythmic set.
Generate resourceUsing musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas for arrangement, improvisation, or composition.
Generate resourceUse notation and/or recording technology to document personal musical ideas (such as grade-appropriate rhythm/melodic pattern, simple harmonies, introduction, coda, interlude, etc.).
Generate resourceInterpret and apply feedback, using vocabulary such as introduction, sequence, interlude, coda, and grade-appropriate musical characteristics, to revise personal music.
Generate resourceDemonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate (through performance) and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.
Generate resourceDemonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation (including treble clef) with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments.
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of solo/ensemble rehearsals/performances.
Generate resourceRehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceSing, alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation*.
Generate resourceUsing body percussion or instruments, perform instrumentally (pitched/unpitched), alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation*.
Generate resourcePerform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.
Generate resourceDemonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts (such as how music listening is influenced by interests, etc.).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how specific music concepts (such as form, timbre, etc.) are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as social and cultural contexts) through various means (such as manipulatives, movement, and/or pictorial representation).
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understanding of the elements of music applied to a listening example using teacher-given vocabulary (such as different sections of complex forms, teacher-selected orchestral instruments, etc.).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe how music concepts are used by performers to reflect intent (such as describing the mood of a piece of music using descriptive adjectives or demonstrating an understanding of how dynamics and tempo affect the mood of a piece through drawing, writing, or discussing).
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Generate resourceExamine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceExamine and show how emerging presentation formats shape meanings, situations, and/or culture.
Generate resourceIdentify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and how they can influence values.
Generate resourceExamine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering ethics, rules, and fairness.
Generate resourceBrainstorm goals and original approaches for media artworks using a variety of methods.
Generate resourceDiscuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals of the presentation.
Generate resourceStructure and arrange various content, components, and sets of associated principles to convey purpose and meaning.
Generate resourceDemonstrate emphasizing elements for a purpose when revising media artworks.
Generate resourceDemonstrate how multiple academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.
Generate resourceEnact identified roles to practice foundational design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, and collaboration in media arts productions.
Generate resourcePractice foundational innovative abilities in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExplain the presentation conditions, and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceExplain how reactions to and interpretations of media artworks are influenced by purpose and context.
Generate resourceIdentify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context.
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