Grade 5 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, cultural, and historical).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.

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

Demonstrate selected and developed musical ideas for improvisations arrangements, or compositions 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 two-chord 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, and explain rationale for changes.

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

Present the final version of personal created music to others that demonstrates craftsmanship, and explains 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, and context, as well as their personal and others' 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, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance.

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

Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

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, timbre, and articulation/style).

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

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

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities to address challenges, and show improvement over time.

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, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

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

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

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

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

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation) 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, citing evidence from the elements of music.

Identify how the local community and theatre programs affect each other.

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

Explain how contextual aspects are impacted by 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 the multiple job opportunities connected to theatre.

Develop ability to fulfill production responsibilities.

Explain how creative skills gained in theatre can be applied to other content areas.

Explain how and why other content areas are 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

Analyze and evaluate the dramatic elements that work and why in performances.

Describe the reasons for the creator's choices in production elements using theatrical vocabulary.

Compare and contrast the differences between live theatre and video performances. Analyze a personal reaction to a performance.

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 on 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

Present a theatrical work to an audience.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Produce/Present

Warm-ups: Demonstrate vocal and physical warm-ups.

Voice: demonstrate projection, diction, inflection.

Review and critique creative works to improve their quality.

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

Craft/Refine

Recognize and use the environment and available resources for a production.

Complete the sequence of events leading up to a production.

Generate character and design interpretations from a script.

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

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Identify responsibilities of production team.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Read script: Differentiate dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

Recognize the differences between dramatic genres and realistic and non-realistic styles of theatre.

Identify and describe basic story elements.

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

Organize/Plan

Develop/Perform

Demonstrate concentration on task at hand.

Demonstrate active listening.

Demonstrate the give and take essential to effective collaboration.

Recognize unintended occurrences and apply them in a positive way.

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

Experience

Integrate and or adapt to unexpected circumstances/information.

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

Apply curiosity, questioning, and problem solving to develop artistic work.

Share ideas.

Demonstrate open minded acceptance of new ideas. Improvise dialogue while role playing a character. Improvise and role-play a real or fictional character. Visualize a setting appropriate to a story.

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

Apply normal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art making.

Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.

Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.

Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.

Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.

Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.

Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.

Create artists statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.

Define the roles and responsibilities of a curator, explaining the skill and knowledge needed in preserving, maintaining, and presenting objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Develop a logical argument for safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork.

Cite evidence about how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.

Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.

Identify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery.

Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

Recognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.