Standards

Content Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Achievement Standard: Students create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations Students use a variety of sound sources when composing

Content Standard 5: Reading and notating music 

Achievement Standard: Students use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns presented by the teacher

Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Achievement Standard: Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

National Standards for Arts Education

Content Standard 1: Script writing by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history 
 

Achievement Standard: Students improvise dialogue to tell stories, and formalize improvisations by writing or recording the dialogue

 

Content Standard 2: Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations 

Achievement Standard: Students use variations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters

 

Students assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process 

 

8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)

5. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, organization, point of view; determines knowledge and interests of audience) to write for different audiences (e.g., self, peers, teachers, adults)

6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)

 

1. Makes contributions in class and group discussions (e.g., reports on ideas and personal knowledge about a topic, initiates conversations, connects ideas and experiences with those of others)

1. Contributes to group discussions

7. Makes basic oral presentations to class (e.g., uses subject-related information and vocabulary; includes content appropriate to the audience; relates ideas and observations; incorporates visual aids or props; incorporates several sources of information)

Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media 

 

1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)

 

1. Understands different messages conveyed through visual media (e.g., main ideas and supporting details; facts and opinions; main characters, setting, and sequence of events in visual narratives)