Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5

GA.1. Fine Arts: Band

1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct playing position and posture for chosen instrument.

1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct breathing, embouchure, articulation, vibrato and technical skills appropriate to the chosen instrument and developmental level.

1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates effectively as a member of performing ensembles.

1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs class repertoire at the expected competency level.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs music reading skills, including sight-reading, at the expected competency level.

1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups, and as a member of the total ensemble.

1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Tunes instrument accurately with assistance and demonstrates an increasing awareness of good intonation.

1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates understanding of phrase and melody through performance.

1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes harmonic structure and demonstrates an awareness of its role in performance.

1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of selected repertoire and performs appropriate scales and arpeggios.

1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the timbre of band instruments.

1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal and performance of music.

1.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to access music information.

1.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs interpretations and/or improvisations of music repertoire.

1.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates, notates and performs a simple melody for his or her instrument.

1.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of vibrato on chosen instrument.

1.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds appropriately to conducting techniques used by the director.

1.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with characteristic tone quality at the expected competency level.

1.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates knowledge of form in music repertoire.

1.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques music performed by the ensemble and suggests ways to improve.

1.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Identifies and compares performance styles from various historical eras of music.

1.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected music repertoire and the historical/cultural context of works being performed.

1.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the evolution and history of band instruments.

GA.2. Fine Arts: Choral Music

2.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct posture for singing.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct breathing techniques for vocal production.

2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings accurate pitches and rhythms.

2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings scales, arpeggios and vocalizes from memory.

2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings with clear vowel sounds, proper diction and appropriate tone quality.

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings the assigned part in an ensemble, with and without accompaniment.

2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proficiency in sight-reading at the expected competency level.

2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs selected music repertoire at the expected competency level.

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups and as a member of the total ensemble.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of music performed.

2.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies and discusses media, techniques, and processes used to create crafts.

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies differences in scales and harmonies from aural and visual examples.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies various types of voices heard in choral performances.

2.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal and performance of music.

2.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to locate definitions of musical terms and to translate foreign language texts.

2.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings from memory selected music for public performance.

2.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds appropriately to conducting techniques used by the director.

2.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes how technology is used to transcribe, edit, compose and perform music on a computer station.

2.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Interprets meaning of texts in repertoire.

2.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes relationship of text to music elements in repertoire (e.g., rhythm, melody, harmony, form, tempo, dynamics, phrase, and tonality).

2.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates appropriate understanding of form in literature performed.

2.22. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies the characteristics of performance styles of music being rehearsed and performed.

2.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected repertoire and the historical/ cultural context of works being performed.

2.24. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains the importance of contributions of various ethnic cultures to selected repertoire.

GA.3. Fine Arts: Dance

3.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates and understands the need for warm-up and its use in preventing injuries.

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs more complex combinations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in dance techniques requiring greater control and clarity of movement (e.g., moving in parallel and turned-out positions, moving with constant flow), control of force/energy, and skills of elevation, turning, balancing, and changing direction.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased knowledge of spatial concepts, shapes (symmetrical, asymmetrical, wide, narrow), pathways (straight, curved, zig zag), levels, dimension, and relationships combined with knowledge of force (energy).

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explores thoughts, ideas, and feelings through structured improvisation.

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates and performs more complex dance compositions.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates expanded range and application of dance terminology.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates concentration skills necessary for performance.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies positive work habits and self-discipline through dance activities.

3.10. Connections: Demonstrates knowledge of rhythmic concepts (e.g., syncopation, and simple counterpoint).

3.11. Connections: Identifies the correlation between dance and other subjects.

3.12. Connections: Demonstrates an awareness of technical resources available in dance (e.g., video and software).

3.13. Connections: Demonstrates an understanding of dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

3.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies characteristics unique to various types of theatre dance (e.g., ballet, jazz, tap, modern, etc.).

3.15. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in folk dances representing various cultures.

3.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Understands historical perspectives of different styles of dance in a variety of cultures.

3.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Explores the various roles of dance in society, in different cultures, and in historical periods.

GA.4. Fine Arts: General Music

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to music in a variety of instrumental and vocal styles and origins through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes the expressive effect of music in terms of its elements: melody, dynamics, rhythm, harmony, timbre, and texture.

4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies major and minor tonalities.

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies orchestral families and their members by sight and sound.

4.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies a variety of instruments (e.g., folk, ethnic, acoustic, and electronic).

4.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting sections and formal structures -- AB, ABA, AABA, and ABACA, theme and variations.

4.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings unison, simple harmonic songs, and rounds with attention to tone quality, pitch accuracy, style, diction, blend, and balance.

4.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple accompaniments in a variety of media.

4.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs accompaniments from simple notation using classroom melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments.

4.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Discriminates between simple and compound meters: 2's, 3's, 4's and 6's.

4.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates developing skills in folk dances from a variety of cultures.

4.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates new texts for familiar songs.

4.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates improvised accompaniments to pentatonic songs on melodic instruments.

4.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs from notation simple scale patterns.

4.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level.

4.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates sound compositions, sound stories, and sound collages using body percussion, environmental sounds, and classroom instruments.

4.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains and follows text for multiple-stanza songs.

4.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes and names frequently used musical symbols such as treble clef, notes, rests, and 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meter signatures.

4.19. Connections: Understands and explains that other art forms may inspire musical compositions.

4.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes personal response to listening selections.

4.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Compares music of an era or a nation with other art forms of that era or nation.

4.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Expands knowledge of selected famous composers and their music.

4.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Uses print and nonprint media to locate information about music and musicians.

4.24. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes career opportunities in the field of music.

4.25. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the instruments and style of folk and ethnic music from America and other countries.

GA.5. Fine Arts: String Orchestra

5.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct playing position and posture for chosen instrument.

5.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct pizzicato, bowing, and left hand techniques appropriate to chosen instrument and developmental level.

5.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates effectively as a member of performing ensembles.

5.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs selected music repertoire at the expected competency level.

5.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Reads music to the expected competency level of the class.

5.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups, and as a member of the total ensemble.

5.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Tunes instrument accurately with assistance and demonstrates an increasing awareness of good intonation.

5.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with characteristic tone quality at the expected competency level.

5.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of vibrato.

5.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of phrase and melody through performance.

5.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of selected repertoire and performs appropriate scales and arpeggios.

5.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes harmonic structure and demonstrates an awareness of its role in performance.

5.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the timbre of orchestral stringed instruments.

5.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal, and performance of music.

5.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to access music information.

5.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs interpretations and/or improvisations of music repertoire.

5.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates, notates, and performs a simple melody for his or her instrument.

5.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates appropriate understanding of form in selected music repertoire.

5.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques music performed by the ensemble and suggests ways to improve.

5.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected music repertoire and the historical/cultural context of works being performed.

5.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the evolution and history of orchestral string instruments.

5.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Recognizes contributions by composers and/or performers of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

5.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Performs music from various historical periods with correct style.

GA.6. Fine Arts: Theatre Arts

6.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Expands and uses basic drama and artistic theatre vocabulary (e.g., plot, theme, choice, conflict, dialogue, and improvisation).

6.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Constructs and uses a behavior checklist to evaluate group cooperation in drama activities.

6.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses sensory and emotional recall to communicate an experience to others.

6.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses physical and verbal action to communicate mental images.

6.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and applies observation skills to drama activities.

6.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops a character using appropriate body movement.

6.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses appropriate stage movement in drama activities.

6.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and uses vocal elements of pitch, rate, articulation, volume, projection and relaxation.

6.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates characters using physical and social attributes of character.

6.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses physical and verbal actions to communicate character objectives.

6.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes the role and responsibilities of the designer/technician in drama activities.

6.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Designs, creates, and uses simple technical elements in drama activities.

6.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Researches information that supports drama activities.

6.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and applies dramatic elements of plot, setting, character dialogue, and theme in drama activities.

6.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Adapts selected material, such as poems, narratives, stories, monologues, diaries, published plays, and broadcast and print media to script form.

6.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses the Play Writing Process: Step One: Pre-writing (generate story ideas, create situations, develop characters, explore environments, develop themes); Step Two: Drafting (develop narrative with dialogue, structure in play format); Step Three: Revision (present a reading, make revisions); Step Four: Edit (correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, create final draft); Step Five: Share/Publish (present a formal or informal reading or production).

6.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the steps in the directing process: selection of material, casting, rehearsal, collaboration, and design.

6.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates a dramatic presentation using dramatic form based on personal choice including stories, dramas, short scripts and plays, pantomime, puppetry, monologue, readers' theatre and poetry theatre, storytelling, process drama, and tableau.

6.19. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in and communicates through the creative drama process in a group setting: Pre-Playing (participates in warm-up activities, generates ideas about story, topic or theme); Preparation (listens to story and discusses ideas, determines drama elements: who, when, where, and what; sequence of actions); Playing (assumes roles in drama); Evaluation/Reflection (critiques playing, discusses meaning); Replay (builds on suggestions, enhances with simple technical elements); Sharing (shares drama with the group).

6.20. Connections: Recognizes and describes how the arts play an important role in the everyday life of a community.

6.21. Connections: Uses existing technology to support drama/theatre activities.

6.22. Connections: Uses other disciplines such as social studies, language arts, foreign languages, physical education and science for ideas and content for drama.

6.23. Connections: Creates drama based on ideas, concepts, and events from the Social Studies curriculum topic, The United States: Reconstruction to the Present.

6.24. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Establishes and uses simple criteria for evaluating dramatic presentations.

6.25. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes explicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

6.26. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes implicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

6.27. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Responds to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about dramatic presentations.

6.28. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes and demonstrates the role and responsibilities of the audience.

6.29. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community, and professional resources for theatre experiences.

6.30. Historical and Cultural Context: Compares and contrasts cultures through drama activities

6.31. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates an awareness that drama comes from all cultures throughout time.

6.32. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates an awareness of theatre styles from different historical periods and cultures.

GA.7. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

7.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Produces artworks and graphic designs that use selected subject matter, including symbols and ideas, to communicate a message.

7.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plans, organizes, and creates artworks using: form, color expressing emotion, linear perspective, proportion, contrast.

7.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, fiber arts, mixed media, and digital images.

7.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates a separate work of art that imitates nature (Realism), is concerned with design and composition (Structuralism/Formalism), expresses a feeling or emotion (Emotionalism/ Expressionism).

7.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.

7.6. Connections: Researches historical events and uses these as sources of ideas for artworks.

7.7. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes color relationships (e.g., complementary, analogous, and monochromatic).

7.8. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Define characteristics of form as open or closed.

7.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Examines how artists use linear perspective (one- and two-point) to achieve depth in artworks.

7.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Analyzes proportion in artworks as the relationship of one part to another or in the whole.

7.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Illustrates how elements of art and principles of design are used in combination to create contrast in artwork.

7.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies specific media and techniques used to produce selected artworks.

7.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes how artists use selected subject matter, including symbols and ideas, to communicate a message.

7.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques artworks in sequence of: description, analysis of design or a composition, interpretation of meaning, and judgment based on evidence/clues observed in artworks.

7.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops, judges, and communicates personal decisions about artwork.

7.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Supports a personal position on the 'big' questions about art (e.g., Why do people create art? Why are certain objects considered art and others are not considered art? How do we justify judgments about what is art? Must art be beautiful? Does art have to be functional? If it is in an art museum, does that make it art?).

7.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Interprets artworks from selected periods of art based on historical facts, theories, and other information compiled by historians.

7.18. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the similarities and differences between two works of art of the same style but produced by two different artists, such as Picasso and Braque.

7.19. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains how particular technological advances change the way an artist works, such as the invention of steel and the architect; the computer and digital artist, architect, and graphic designer; the camera and the photographer.