- Guiding Principles
- 1. The Arts are essential to the education of all students.
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- 2. Students exercise and display multiple intelligences through the Arts.
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- 3. Understanding of human growth and development shapes effective Arts curriculum,
instruction, and assessment.
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- 4. Comprehensive and sequential Arts programs that begin in preschool and continue
throughout high school provide the foundation for life-long learning in the Arts.
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- 5. Comprehensive and sequential Arts programs encourage learners to make multicultural
and interdisciplinary connections.
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- 6. Authentic assessment in the Arts is designed to demonstrate what students know and
can do; it provides a model for assessing all complex learning.
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- 7. Creating and sustaining high-quality Arts programs requires partnerships among all
faculty and between school and community.
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- Habits of Mind
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- 1. Imaginative Thinking
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- 2. Reflective Thinking
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- 3. Analytical Thinking
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- 4. Heightened Perceptual Awareness
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- 5. Organization, Curiosity and Persistence
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- 6. Personal and Social Responsibility
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- 7. Respect for Creativity in Others
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- Content
- The student will:
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- 1. Demonstrate an understanding of 2, 3, 4 beat meters and silent beats.
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- 2. Identify similar rhythmic patterns.
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- 3. Identify and participate in these song forms:
- rounds, partner songs, ostinati
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- 4. Identify the solfege syllables: la, so, do, re.
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- 5. Identify absolute pitch names in treble clef.
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- 6. Demonstrate ability to play B A G C D' D E on recorder.
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- 7. Identify these forms:
- Introduction/CODA
- Theme and Variations, D.C. al fine
- rondo, repeat signs.
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- 8. Identify and apply to performance expressive notation:
- pp, ff, fermata, cresc, descresc.
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- 9. Identify the Pentatonic Scale.
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- Strands & Standards
- Creating & Performing
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- 1. Use the Arts to express ideas, emotions, and beliefs.
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- 2. Acquire and apply essential skills and literacy unique to each art form.
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- Thinking & Responding
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- 3. Use imaginative and reflective thinking during all phases of creating and performing.
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- 4. Use analytical and creative thinking to respond to works of art.
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- Connecting & Contributing
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- 5. Investigate the cultural and historical contexts of the Arts.
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- 6. Integrate the Arts and make connections among the Arts and other disciplines.
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- 7. Use technology in order to create, perform, and conduct research in the Arts.
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- 8. Participate in the community's cultural and artistic life.
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