Standard (Curriculum)

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Standard 1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills

1.1.1 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Elements (pitch, rhythm, expression, dynamics, style, tempo, phrasing and timbre)
* Reads, writes, and creates using rhythms including half and whole notes, and rests (rhythm)
* Understands and uses crescendo/decrescendo
1.1.2 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Principles of Organization (notation, form, melody, and harmony)
* Identifies and uses the following musical notation: barline, measure, time signature, fermata, repeat sign (notation)
* Identifies and performs simple musical forms (e.g., verse-refrain, round/canon) (form)
* Understands how combinations of steps, leaps, and repeated notes make up a melody (melody)
* Aurally discriminates between same and different melodic phrases (melody) and between unison and harmony (harmony)

1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
* Sings rounds and partner songs
* Aurally recognizes rhythmic sets of twos and threes
* Plays various unpitched percussion instruments showing appropriate care

1.3 Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
* Describes the differences in style between two artworks

1.4 Applies audience skills in a variety of arts settings and performances
* Demonstrates audience response skills

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Standard 2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes

2.1 Applies a creative process in the arts
* Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process

2.2 Applies a performance process in the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and problem-solving
* Present work for others; reflects, and evaluates
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

2.3 Applies a responding process to an arts presentation
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

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Standard 3. The student communicates through the arts

3.1 Uses the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
* Identifies how ideas are expressed through the arts

3.2 Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (e.g., inform, motivate)

3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
* Recognizes that aesthetic choices are influenced by environment and experience

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Standard 4. The student makes connections within and across the arts, to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work

4.1 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts disciplines
* Identifies common compositional elements through arts disciplines (e.g., beginning-middle-end, thematic developments, ABA, motif)

4.2 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections between the arts and other content areas
* Applies arts knowledge and skills to reinforce learnings in other content areas

4.3 Understands how the arts impact lifelong choices
* Identifies how the arts impact choice of activities outside of school

4.4 Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and history
* Recognizes that artworks reflect culture

4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world of work
* Identifies career roles in the arts
* Meets goals and deadlines to complete work

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