Within the given time frame (12 or 18 sessions), this program aims to address the following arts learning standards:
Music
Pr4.1.3a. Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context. d. Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (for example, dynamics, tempo).
Pr5.1.3a. Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.
Pr6.1.3a. Perform music with expression and technical accuracy. b. Perform appropriately for the audience and purpose.
Re8.1.3a. Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (for example, dynamics, tempo) are used in performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
Cn10.1.3a. Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music as developmentally appropriate.
Cn11.1.3a. Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life as developmentally appropriate.
Theatre
Cr1.1.3a. Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama/theatre work. b. Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a drama/theatre work. c. Imagine how a character might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.
Cr2.1.3a. Devise original ideas focused on character and plot for a drama/ theatre work. b. Contribute ideas and accept/incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising a drama/theatre work.
Cr3.1.3a. Contribute to the adaptation of the plot and dialogue in a drama/theatre work. b. Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work. c. Practice and refine design and technical choices to support a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.
Pr4.1.3a. Identify major dramatic elements in a drama/theatre work. b. Use body, face, gestures, and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a scene.
Pr5.1.3a. Participate in a variety of improvisational exercises. b. Identify the basic technical elements that can be used in drama/theatre work.
Pr6.1.5a. Communicate for a specific purpose through a drama/theatre work to an invited audience.
Re8.1.3a. Describe a personal experience that relates to a moment in a drama/theatre work. b. Explore folk tales or stories from multiple cultures through drama/ theatre experience. c. Examine characters’ feelings and make connections to personal feelings in a drama/ theatre work.
Cn10.1.4a. Identify the ways drama/theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.
Cn11.1.4a. Respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in drama/theatre work.
Cn11.2.3a. Explore how stories are adapted from literature to drama/theatre work.
C11.2.4a. Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling in drama/ theatre work. b. Identify historical sources that explain drama/theatre terminology and design conventions.
Dance
Cr1.1.2a. Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.
Cr2.1.2b. Choose movements that express a main idea, or emotion or follow a musical phrase. Explain reasons for movement choices.
Pr4.1.1a. Demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, levels, and facings. Move in straight, curved, and zigzagged pathways. Find and return to place in space. Move with others to form straight lines and circles. b. Relate quick, moderate, and slow movements to duration in time. Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat.
Pr5.1.2a. Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning, and dance sequences that require moving through space using a variety of pathways. b. Move safely in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space and exploring levels, directions, and pathway designs. c. Repeat movements with an awareness of self and others in space. Self adjust and modify movements or placement upon request.