Grade 4 Fine Arts Kansas Standards

Responding – Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.

Performing – Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Creating – Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.

Imagine: Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.

Plan and Make: Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts.

Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

Evaluate and Refine: Evaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet appropriate criteria.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

Present: Share creative musical work that coveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Select: Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill, and context.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Analyze: Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).

Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluate and refine personal and ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Present: Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.

Select: Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context.

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Analyze: Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response.

Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social and cultural).

Interpret: Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate: Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

Identify local theaters and how they are a part of the community.

Develop acceptance of individuals in their theatrical community and the community as a whole.

Respond to the feelings/emotions within self and other's discovered through drama work and theatre experiences to demonstrate an understanding of the human experience.

Acceptance/Respect

Recognize how theatre communicates ideas about past and present cultural and social context.

Recognize the contextual aspects of performances from various cultures, times, and places.

Communicate the relationships between theatre and the world to make meaning and deepen understanding of cultural, global, and historical contexts.

Contextualize

Identify jobs related to theatre production.

Identify other content areas used in theatre.

Recognize elements and skills from other content areas used in theatre and use skills developed through theatre in other content and occupational areas.

Cross Curricula/Careers

Connect/Integrate

Identify how dramatic elements communicate meaning and elicit emotions.

Describe how theatre artists manipulate theatrical elements.

Describe the elements of live theatre. Identify how dramatic elements communicate meanings and elicit emotions in stories, performances, and electronic media.

Interpret and articulate perspectives on theatre experiences in one's own work and the work of others by using criteria such as aesthetics, beliefs, contexts, and critical perspectives.

Analyze/Critique/Evaluate

Appreciate/Respond

Identify and reflect upon personal meaning and emotional responses to performances and apply ideas to self and society.

Create a personal response to a performance and apply those ideas to self and society.

Reflect

Display appropriate emotional behavior throughout the production process.

Demonstrate active listening.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior.

Use self-control and active listening to appreciate and respond to a performance.

Etiquette/Respect

Appreciate/Respond

Share stories about personal experiences.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Produce/Present

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

Create a setting appropriate to a story.

Maintain a safe space for experimentation and risk taking for the development, revision, and refinement of new work, ideas, and perspectives.

Craft/Refine

Improvise a play using available materials.

Use improvisation to create dialogue for a script.

Sequence the steps needed for creating a project.

Identify and distinguish the various roles and responsibilities necessary for theatrical production.

Develop a performance from story book.

Listen to script, differentiating dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

List and describe the basic elements of a story.

Acquire the information and skills necessary for the planning and preparation of a theatrical work.

Organize/Plan

Develop/Perform

Collaborate with peers to perform a classroom dramatization.

Demonstrate active listening.

Problem solve with others.

Concentrate on the task at hand for a specific period of time.

Work with others.

Adjust playmaking to incorporate unintended occurrences.

Engage in creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences both individually and collaboratively.

Experience

Engage in collaborative, imaginative play.

Apply personal observation, knowledge, and experience to shape a work.

Improvise a character and setting from a story.

Engage in imaginative play. Problem solve when the unexpected happens.

Engage in self-directed play. Try new things. Improvise a character and dialogue. Improvise a setting appropriate for a story. Communicate through physical action and reaction.

Explore and imagine through creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences to discover diverse creative ideas.

Envision

Discover/Create

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Connecting

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Presenting

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Creating

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments.

Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussions.

Analyze how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Analyze the various considerations for presenting and protecting art in various locations, indoor or outdoor settings, in temporary or permanent forms, and in physical or digital formats.

Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.

Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.

Interpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.