Core Standards of the Course
Strand: CREATE (5.D.CR.)
Students will conceptualize, generate, develop, and organize artistic ideas and work. They will complete and refine dance works (Standards 5.D.CR.1-5).
Standard 5.D.CR.1:
Demonstrate willingness to try new ideas, methods, and approaches when creating dance.
Standard 5.D.CR.2:
Use a variety of stimuli and solve multiple movement problems to develop choreographic content.
Standard 5.D.CR.3:
Develop a dance study, creating original movement that expresses and communicates a main idea.
Strand: PERFORM (5.D.P.)
Students will analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for performance. They will develop techniques and concepts to refine artistic work and express meaning through the presentation of dance works (Standards 5.D.P.1-10).
Standard 5.D.P.1:
Establish spatial relationships with other dancers while safely using levels, directions, focus, and pathway designs in near-, mid-, and farrange movement.
Standard 5.D.P.2:
Integrate still and moving shapes and floor and air pathways into dance sequences.
Standard 5.D.P.3:
Develop self-awareness and apply safe movement principles and practices and discuss how these practices promote strength, flexibility, endurance, and injury prevention.
Standard 5.D.P.5:
Differentiate and perform movement with metric and irregular phrasing and accents; respond to tempo changes as they occur in dance and music.
Standard 5.D.P.6:
Analyze, refine and perform movement phrases using contrasting energy and dynamic changes.
Standard 5.D.P.7:
Collaborate with peer ensemble members to repeat sequences, synchronize actions, and refine spatial relationships to improve performance quality.
Strand: RESPOND (5.D.R.)
Students will perceive and analyze artistic work and process. They will interpret intent and meaning and apply criteria to evaluate artistic work and process (Standards 5.D.R.1-2).
Strand: CONNECT (5.D.CO.)
Students will synthesize and relate knowledge from personal and collaborative experience to make and receive art. They will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding (Standards 5.D.CO.1-3).
Standard 5.D.CO.1:
Compare and contrast two dances with different themes, discuss feelings and ideas evoked by each, and relate to personal experience.
Strand: CREATE (5.T.CR.)
Students will conceptualize, generate, develop, and organize artistic ideas and work. They will complete and refine drama works (Standards 5.T.CR.1-7).
Standard 5.T.CR.3:
Write or record simple dramas that include the five Ws of who, what, where, when, and why.
Standard 5.T.CR.4:
Define roles, identify responsibilities, and participate in group decision making.
Standard 5.T.CR.5:
Create character through physical movement, gesture, sound and/or speech and facial expression with age-appropriate outcomes.
Strand: PERFORM (5.T.P.)
Students will analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for performance. They will develop techniques and concepts to refine artistic work, and express meaning through the presentation of dramatic works (Standards 5.T.P.1-9).
Standard 5.T.P.1:
Analyze the character, setting, and essential events (plot) in a story that make up the dramatic structure and use choices to enhance the story in a drama/theatre work.
Standard 5.T.P.2:
Perform as a productive and responsible member of an acting ensemble in both rehearsal and performance situations.
Standard 5.T.P.3:
Observe, listen, and respond in character to other actors throughout a scripted or improvised scene.
Standard 5.T.P.5:
Communicate meaning using the voice through volume, pitch, tone, rate, and clarity.
Standard 5.T.P.7:
Select materials to be used for scenery, properties, costumes, lighting, and sound effects for informal classroom presentations.
Strand: RESPOND (5.T.R.)
Students will perceive and analyze artistic work and process. They will interpret intent and meaning, and apply criteria to evaluate artistic work and process (Standards 5.T.R.1-6).
Standard 5.T.R.1:
Demonstrate audience skills of observing attentively and responding appropriately.
Standard 5.T.R.2:
Justify responses based on personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.
Standard 5.T.R.3:
Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience.
Standard 5.T.R.4:
Give and accept constructive and supportive feedback; analyze and describe strengths and weaknesses of own work.
Strand: CONNECT (5.T.CO.)
Students will synthesize and relate knowledge from personal and collaborative experience to make and receive art. They will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding (Standards 5.T.CO.1-3).
Strand: CREATE (5.M.CR.)
Students will conceptualize, generate and organize artistic ideas and work. They will complete and refine musical works (Standards 5.M.CR.1-7).
Standard 5.M.CR.3:
Generate musical ideas using specific tonalities, meters and simple chord changes.
Standard 5.M.CR.4:
Select and demonstrate developed musical ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions, and explain intent and connection to purpose and context.
Standard 5.M.CR.5:
Organize personal musical ideas using iconic notation or recordings to combine and/or sequence personal rhythmic, melodic and harmonic ideas.
Strand: PERFORM (5.M.P.)
Students will analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for performance. They will develop techniques and concepts to refine artistic work, and express meaning through the presentation of musical works (Standards 5.M.P.1-11).
Standard 5.M.P.1:
Explain how the selection of performance music is influenced by personal interest, purpose, context, knowledge, and skills.
Standard 5.M.P.2:
Explore and demonstrate possible interpretations of a piece by varying tempo, dynamics, timbre, articulations and/or phrasing.
Standard 5.M.P.4:
Sing folk, traditional, and rounds in tune, with good vocal tone and clear diction.
Standard 5.M.P.5:
Respond to visual representations of melodic patterns using pentatonic and diatonic scales.
Standard 5.M.P.6:
Perform two- and three-part rounds, partner songs, descants, and layered ostinatos.
Standard 5.M.P.7:
Perform and identify rhythm patterns in two-, three-, and four-beat meters using body percussion, voice, and simple instruments.
Strand: RESPOND (5.M.R.)
Students will perceive and analyze artistic work and process. They will interpret intent and meaning, and apply criteria to evaluate artistic work and process (Standards 5.M.R.1-9).
Standard 5.M.R.2:
Listen for and identify form, meter, rhythm, timbre, mood, tempo, melody, texture, and harmony/tonality.
Standard 5.M.R.5:
Identify possible intent of a music selection, and the elements used to convey it.
Standard 5.M.R.6:
Explore/express feelings conveyed by a music selection through movement, drawing, or writing.
Strand: CONNECT (5.M.CO.)
Students will synthesize and relate knowledge from personal and collaborative experience to make and receive art. They will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding (Standards 5.M.CO.1-5).
Standard 5.M.CO.1:
Describe how music relates to personal, social, emotional, and intellectual development.
Standard 5.M.CO.2:
Draw upon interests, knowledge, and skills developed to inspire and inform the creating, performance, and appreciation of music.
Strand: CREATE (5.V.CR.)
Students will generate artistic work by conceptualizing, organizing, and completing their artistic ideas. They will refine original work through persistence, reflection and evaluation (Standards 5.V.C.1-3).
Strand: PRESENT (5.V.P.)
Students will analyze, interpret, refine, and select artistic work for presentation. They will convey meaning in the manner in which the art is presented (Standards 5.V.P.1-3).
Standard 5.V.P.1:
Define the roles and responsibilities of a curator, and explain the skills and knowledge needed in preserving, maintaining, and presenting objects, artifacts, and artwork.
Strand: RESPOND (5.V.R.)
Students will understand, evaluate, and articulate how works of art convey meaning for the observer as well as the creator (Standards 5.V.R.1-2).
Strand: CONNECT (5.V.CO.)
Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context (Standards 5.V.CO.1-2).