Articulate personal thoughts and defend a position within a critique of their own artwork.
Choose props and/or costume items for dramatic play and creative dramatics activities.
Choreograph a short piece/phrase utilizing basic Labanotation.
Choreograph, notate and perform dance that explores a variety of movement qualities and characteristics.
Choreograph, notate and perform dance that uses transitions and simple choreographic structures to arrange ideas.
Create a detailed description of a work of art and identify aspects of the work that might affect its value.
Create a musical work that tells a story about personal experiences.
Create a personalized rehearsal schedule and predict how each element of the schedule will affect their skills.
Create an original play script inspired by the theme of a folktale.
Create and perform dance that tells a story and write or choose music to enhance the story.
Create and perform works that use social issues as inspiration.
Create backdrops as scenery for improvised puppet shows.
Create or choose a work of visual art and choreograph and perform a dance that tells a story related to the artwork.
Create, rehearse and revise a short improvised play with a partner by choosing and assigning characters and inventing dialogue and actions.
Define the roles and expectations of audience and actor.
Describe purposes for art-making.
Describe themes and ideas through listening and performance of a variety of musical styles, e.g. program music, theatrical music.
Distinguish between sound and silence in more complex melodies and rhythms.
Distinguish between sound and silence in simple melodies and rhythms.
Document the evolution of an idea by maintaining a process portfolio.
Document the processes they use to produce art and reflect on how the processes have evolved through time.
Document the rehearsal process and explain how it affects performance.
Document the rehearsal process and explain the effect it has on a dancer’s skills.
Engage in a repeated artistic process and explain the benefits of repetition.
Experience music written to communicate different themes and ideas and explain how these themes and ideas affect an audience’s perception of the works.
Experiment with different instrument/voice groupings and explain how those choices affect the music.
Explain how a choreographer’s or dancer’s choices affect an audience’s response.
Explain reasons for engaging in vocal exercises (for projection and articulation), stretching routines (for flexibility and strength), and theatre games and exercises (to engage and stretch imaginations).
Explore scripts and label dialogue, plot, conflict, character, setting and stage directions.
Given a theme, improvise a plot, characters, dialogue and actions with a partner, and record the dialogue and actions as a written play script.
Identify a contemporary work of art that would not have been considered art in another time, and describe the rationale for this choice.
Identify and analyze plot, character, setting and theme in plays.
Identify basic symbols used in Labanotation.
Identify different types of performing groups by sight and sound.
Identify specific elements of dance that can affect an audience’s response (setting, music, etc.).
Identify the story sequence in a familiar story and act it out.
Identify words commonly used when making and expressing ideas about art.
Imitate and communicate emotion in creative dramatics and creative play.
Imitate objects and actions from stories or their own experience while participating in creative dramatics activities.
Improvise scenery to show setting and mood of a scene using fabric, and found items and justify the choices made.
Improvise simple melodies and rhythms using voices and classroom instruments.
Make and analyze art that depicts the customs and traditions of a group of people.
Make art that communicates an idea about a contemporary event.
Move in place and through space in various pathways.
Move in place and through space inlonger movement sequences, paying attention to the various body planes.
Move in place and through space, paying attention to levels, direction and time.
Move to and perform melodies in various forms.
Notate simple rhythms and melodies.
Observe a body of work from one artist and analyze the work, citing characteristics that increase understanding of the artist’s life.
Perform and create dances and movement sequences that coordinate different body parts.
Perform and create dances that are based on events in their lives.
Perform and create music, focusing on the process of creating/recreating, rehearsing, reflecting and revising.
Perform and improvise melodies and rhythms using voices, instruments and found objects.
Perform simple melodies and rhythms using voices and classroom instruments.
Perform spontaneous movement and sound in response to stories, poems and songs.
Read and notate more complex rhythms and melodies.
Read iconic notation representing sound and silence.
Read musical notation representing short/long and high/low sounds.
Recreate a favorite story as an improvised drama.
Reflect with classmates on an in-process work of art and describe how that reflection affects the final product.
Rehearse and perform a memorized monologue, making voice and movement choices to bring the character to life.
Take turns as actor and audience, performing, critiquing, rehearsing and revising.
While engaged in the art-making process, document the phases of planning, creating, and refining, and describe the purposes of these steps.
