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 comparing how music is used in various cultures and performing it).
Generate resourceUse modal/scale based melodies in major/minor, simple/complex rhythms, and accompaniments 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 modal/scale-based melody, or an extended rhythm pattern using grade-appropriate note values in various forms 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, two-chord harmonies, introduction, coda, interlude, etc.).
Generate resourceInterpret and apply collaboratively developed feedback to revise personal music over time, such as the efficacy of a created introduction, sequence, or coda, use of form, two-part composition, or other characteristics of a created piece of music.
Generate resourceDemonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, movement, or two-part created pieces through performance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate 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 elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance.
Generate resourceExplain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation in treble clef with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments.
Generate resourceRehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges, showing improvement.
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, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social, cultural, and historical) 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 explain how music concepts are used by performers to reflect intent (such as instrument selection by a composer/arranger).
Generate resourceEvaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, citing evidence from the elements of music; with teacher guidance, create a rubric for evaluating music performances.
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Generate resourceAccess and use internal and external resources, such as interests, knowledge, and experiences, to create media artworks.
Generate resourceExamine and show how news and cultural events shape meanings, situations, and cultural experiences.
Generate resourceExplain verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.
Generate resourceExamine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering ethics, rules, and media literacy.
Generate resourceEnvision and combine original ideas to generate an innovative plan for media arts.
Generate resourceDevelop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.
Generate resourceCreate content and combine components and sets of associated principles to convey expression, purpose, and meaning.
Generate resourceDetermine and revise how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and purpose.
Generate resourceCreate media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.
Generate resourceEnact various roles to practice fundamental ability in design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, production, and collaboration in media arts productions.
Generate resourcePractice foundational creative and innovative abilities in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceExamine how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways.
Generate resourceCompare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceDetermine and compare personal and group interpretations of media artworks, considering intention and context.
Generate resourceDetermine and apply criteria for evaluating media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context.
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