North Carolina State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5

NC.1. Dance: The learner will identify and demonstrate elements and skills in dance.

1.01. Apply and utilize kinesthetic awareness in development of movement skills and dance techniques.

1.02. Combine the elements of space, time, and energy/dynamics to create dance sequences with a variety of themes and concepts.

1.03. Observe and describe the dance elements in various dance movement studies using appropriate movement/dance vocabulary.

NC.2. Dance: The learner will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.01. Use improvisation to create dance sequences.

2.02. Identify and utilize transitions in dance sequences.

2.03. Demonstrate the ability to work alone and cooperatively in a small group during the choreographic process.

2.04. Improvise, create, and perform dances based on own ideas and concepts from other sources.

2.05. Identify and explore various compositional structures and/or forms of dance.

NC.3. Dance: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.

3.01. Create and perform movement sequences that convey meaning.

3.02. Identify and examine factors which can affect the interpretation of a dance.

3.03. Identify and demonstrate differences between gesture/pantomime/acting, and dance.

NC.4. Dance: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.01. Compare, contrast, and demonstrate multiple solutions to a given dance movement problem.

4.02. Examine multiple solutions to a dance movement problem and choose one solution based on given criteria.

4.03. Analyze a dance composition in terms of more than one element of dance.

4.04. Select and utilize ways to evaluate dance.

NC.5. Dance: The learner will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.01. Explain the impact of historical events and significant contributors on the development of dance.

5.02. Explain aspects of dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.03. Create a dance reflecting characteristics of a particular culture or historical period.

NC.6. Dance: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.01. Summarize multiple examples of healthy practices in dance.

6.02. Select and monitor a personal goal to improve oneself as a dancer.

NC.7. Dance: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.

7.01. Summarize two or more concepts which occur across dance and more than one other content area.

7.02. Create a dance project that integrates understanding of a concept or idea from another content area.

7.03. Respond to dance using another art form; justify the relationship between the dance and the response.

7.04. Use technology as a tool for exploring and creating dance.

NC.8. Dance: The learner will understand dance as an art form with a range of opportunities for involvement.

8.01. Define and explain the role of an audience and performer in dance.

8.02. Identify and explore various opportunities for involvement with dance.

NC.1. Music: The learner will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.01. Sing with pitch and rhythmic accuracy.

1.02. Match pitch within a developmentally appropriate vocal range, using head tones.

1.03. Demonstrate the proper use of breath control while singing a phrase or simple song.

1.04. Respond to the cues of a conductor.

1.05. Sing with proper vocal technique including head tones, clear diction, and correct posture.

1.06. Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

1.07. Demonstrate part-singing skills through singing ostinati, partner songs, rounds, and countermelodies.

1.08. Blend vocal timbres and match dynamics while singing in a group.

1.09. Sing music representing diverse styles, genres, and cultures.

1.10. Show respect for the singing efforts of others.

NC.2. Music: The learner will play on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.01. Play with pitch and rhythmic accuracy.

2.02. Play with appropriate technique and posture.

2.03. Play expressively using appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

2.04. Play independent instrumental parts while others sing and/or play rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic parts.

2.05. Respond to the cues of a conductor.

2.06. Play music representing diverse styles, genres, and cultures.

2.07. Show respect for the instrumental playing efforts of others.

NC.3. Music: The learner will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.01. Improvise rhythmic and melodic question and answer phrases.

3.02. Improvise rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.

3.03. Improvise simple major and minor pentatonic and diatonic melodies.

3.04. Improvise rhythmic variations and melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.

3.05. Improvise increasingly complex songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources, including electronic media.

3.06. Show respect for the improvisational efforts of others.

NC.4. Music: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.01. Create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations.

4.02. Compose short pieces for voices or instruments using major and minor pentatonic and diatonic scales and varied rhythmic values.

4.03. Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments.

4.04. Use a variety of sound, notational, and technological sources to compose and arrange music.

4.05. Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.

NC.5. Music: The learner will read and notate music.

5.01. Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.

5.02. Read melodic notation in the treble clef.

5.03. Identify notated pitches in the treble and/or bass clef.

5.04. Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to expressive qualities including dynamics and tempo.

5.05. Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in patterns.

5.06. Show respect for the reading and notating efforts of others.

NC.6. Music: The learner will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.01. Identify music forms when presented aurally including AB, ABA, AABA, Call and Response, Rondo, Theme and Variations, Ballad, and Introduction/Coda.

6.02. Demonstrate perceptual skills by conducting, moving to, answering questions about, and describing aural examples of varied musical styles and cultures.

6.03. Use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances.

6.04. Identify visually and aurally a variety of instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures.

6.05. Identify solo and group vocal timbres including children's voices, and male/female adult voices.

6.06. Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music events while listening to music.

6.07. Show respect while listening to and analyzing music.

NC.7. Music: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.

7.01. Devise and use criteria for evaluating performances and compositions of self and others.

7.02. Explain, using appropriate music terminology, personal reactions to specific musical works and styles.

7.03. Show respect for the musical efforts and opinions of others.

NC.8. Music: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.

8.01. Identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts including line, color, texture, form/shape, rhythm, pattern, mood/emotion, theme, and purpose.

8.02. Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other content areas taught in the school are related to those of music.

8.03. Demonstrate the character traits of responsibility, self-discipline, and perseverance while informally or formally performing music.

NC.9. Music: The learner will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.01. Identify the style of aural musical examples from various historical periods and cultures.

9.02. Describe in simple terms how elements of music are used in music examples from various cultures in the world.

9.03. Identify various uses of music, and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

9.04. Identify and describe roles of musicians in various musical settings and cultures.

9.05. Show respect for music from various cultures and historical periods.

NC.1. Theatre: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.01. Participate in partner and small group playwriting.

1.02. Create and enact short stories, poetry or personal experiences.

1.03. Describe lessons related through multicultural literature.

1.04. Expand upon and use creative drama vocabulary.

1.05. Utilize playwriting skills to indicate the sequence of events.

1.06. Create dialogue in which characters attempt to resolve conflicts.

1.07. Apply playwriting skills by writing monologues, dialogues and short scenes.

NC.2. Theatre: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.

2.01. Identify characters and cast roles from a variety of scripts.

2.02. Use vocal expression to demonstrate the thoughts and feelings of real and non-real characters.

2.03. Participate in dramatic activities that deal with conflict and emotions.

2.04. Create characters and events to use in the dramatic process.

2.05. Utilize improvisational skills to create a scene based on a script.

2.06. Utilize gestures, blocking and movement to display ideas and emotions.

2.07. Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.

2.08. Refine improvisational skills through dramatic exercises.

2.09. Define the significance of the beginning, middle and end of a story or play.

NC.3. Theatre: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.01. Participate in making artistic choices in a small group.

3.02. Employ the basic concepts of time, space, and action in the dramatic process.

3.03. Collaborate to create simple scenery and costumes for acting out dramas.

3.04. Use blocking to non-verbally convey character, mood and actions to the audience.

3.05. Respond to and build upon ideas of others on stage.

3.06. Integrate the technical theatre elements of sound, props, costumes, scenery, stage management and directing.

3.07. Identify the technical theatre roles in a production.

NC.4. Theatre: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.

4.01. Recite or adapt dialogue from a script to show different interpretations.

4.02. Demonstrate responsible behavior such as sharing, flexibility, leadership, negotiating and teamwork.

4.03. Make decisions and accept responsibilities in the dramatic process.

4.04. Apply sound and movement to display character, mood and actions.

4.05. Compromise with peers in small group decision making about artistic choices.

4.06. Enact monologues, dialogue and asides within a story or drama.

4.07. Use the role of narrator to guide, prompt and assist actors

4.08. Understand characters' thought processes during dramatic scenes.

4.09. Recognize ways to display characters' thought processes.

4.10. Use rehearsal time effectively to brainstorm, experiment, plan and rehearse.

4.11. Recognize diversity within a group contributes to artistic growth.

NC.5. Theatre: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.

5.01. Express through characterization meaning inferred from a text.

5.02. Articulate how artistic choices support the portrayal of the character.

5.03. Adapt and use information about character traits derived from a text.

5.04. Organize parts of a story to be used as dialogue or narration.

5.05. Reference stories to determine and justify technical needs to support the character or story.

5.06. Investigate text to determine Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.

5.07. Reference various forms of literature other than scripts to support dramatic presentations.

5.08. Use emotional recall as the basis for character choices.

NC.6. Theatre: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.01. Adapt music, sound, movement, dance, and design into the dramatic process.

6.02. Incorporate the art forms of puppetry, pantomime and mask making into simple dramas.

6.03. Understand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.

6.04. Observe that different art forms reflect upon the diversity of society.

6.05. Read with dramatic expression a variety of simple scripts.

NC.7. Theatre: The learner will analyze, critique, and construct meaning from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.01. Display skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.

7.02. Question artistic choices in order to understand the dramatic process.

7.03. Justify artistic choices.

7.04. Listen to constructive criticism and react in a positive way.

7.05. Realize that the character and actor may have different personalities.

7.06. Correlate personal experiences to stage experiences.

7.07. Communicate emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

7.08. Show that cause and effect teach characters and audience members life lessons.

7.09. Suggest and implement alternative characters, settings or events after viewing or participating in a performance.

NC.8. Theatre: The learner will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and present.

8.01. Understand and describe the role of theatre at different times.

8.02. Discuss the role of film and television.

8.03. Discuss the role of technology and electronic media.

8.04. Experience live or recorded performances.

8.05. Discuss the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

8.06. Discuss the similarities and differences between acting for the theatre and camera.

8.07. Participate in presentations.

NC.1. Visual Arts: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.

1.01. Use the imagination as a source for symbolic expression.

1.02. Practice a variety of methods of observation from different points of view to explore spatial relationships.

1.03. Use current events as a catalyst for the discussion and production of art.

NC.2. Visual Arts: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.

2.01. Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include: Drawing - charcoal; Printmaking - easy cut, mixed media, collographs; 3-D - wire; Photography - pin-hole cameras.

NC.3. Visual Arts: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.

3.01. Recognize and apply the elements of art in an aesthetic composition.

3.02. Recognize and apply the design principles used in composition.

3.03. Develop repetition to create unity in one's own work.

3.04. Use variations to create interest in a composition.

3.05. Critique his or her own work and that of others in terms of design principles.

3.06. Recognize the validity of one's feelings and impressions when solving visual problems.

3.07. Recognize the value of intuitive perceptions in the problem-solving process when creating art.

NC.4. Visual Arts: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.

4.01. Compare and contrast the work of various artists' styles and cultures.

NC.5. Visual Arts: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

5.01. Begin to recognize that art is the visual record of the history of mankind.

5.02. Identify selected characteristics that make art of a particular culture unique.

5.03. Apply a knowledge of belief systems of selected cultures as reflected in the artwork of those cultures.

5.04. Compare art of one culture to that of another culture or time.

5.05. Recognize selected individual style characteristics of an artist.

5.06. Compare and contrast selected major artists and artwork.

5.07. Demonstrate a sense of history (what came before and after) regarding cultures and works of art.

5.08. Recognize there are many universal themes in art throughout history.

NC.6. Visual Arts: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

6.01. Respond to questions relating to purpose and appropriateness of works including: Why do you think this artist painted this way? How do the materials the artist used help get across the idea of the artwork?

6.02. Critique artwork in relation to design principles: emphasis, movement, repetition, space, balance, value, unity.

NC.7. Visual Arts: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

7.01. Identify similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.

7.02. Appreciate and speculate about how technology will precipitate additional artistic developments in the future.

7.03. Compare current technology to that of the past.

NC.8. Visual Arts: The learner will develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession.

8.01. Examine the choice of art as a profession.

8.02. Recognize that art provides an opportunity for life long learning.

8.03. Begin to recognize that the creation of art requires creative and critical thinking skills that are used throughout life.