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 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts 
 

Achievement Standard: Students identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music (e.g., foreign languages: singing songs in various languages; language arts: using the expressive elements of music in interpretive readings; mathematics: mathematical basis of values of notes, rests, and time signatures; science: vibration of strings, drum heads, or air columns generating sounds used in music; geography: songs associated with various countries or regions)

National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)

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

Achievement Standard: Students imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their environments

 

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

 

McRel National Education Standards 

Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

 

1. Uses descriptive words to convey basic ideas

 

1. Uses descriptive language that clarifies and enhances ideas (e.g., common figures of speech, sensory details)

Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

 

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

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) 

McRel National Education Standards