North Dakota State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5

ND.1. Dance: Movement Elements: Students understand the role of movement elements and skills in dance.

8.1.1. Understand the characteristics of various dance movements and the underlying principles common to all movement.

8.1.2. Know basic dance steps, body positions, and spatial patterns for dances from various styles or traditions.

8.1.3. Understand the process of transferring a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic.

8.1.4. Understand the process of transferring a rhythmic pattern from auditory to kinesthetic.

8.1.5. Know a range of dynamics/movement qualities.

8.1.6. Use kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.

8.1.7. Use dance vocabulary to describe the action and movement elements in a dance.

ND.2. Dance: Choreography: Students understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

8.2.1. Understand the relationship of principles of creative design to dance.

8.2.2. Understand the significance of the processes of reordering and chance.

8.2.3. Understand the importance of dance structures or forms.

8.2.4. Understand the importance of working cooperatively in a small group during the choreographic process.

8.2.5. Know partner dance skills.

8.2.6. Know performance etiquette and stage terms.

ND.3. Dance: Dance and Meaning: Students understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

8.3.1. Understand the difference between pantomiming and miming.

8.3.2. Understand how different accompaniments can affect the meaning of dance.

8.3.3. Communicate feelings, ideas, and needs through dance.

ND.4. Dance: Dance and Thinking Skills: Students apply critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

8.4.1. Solve movement problems.

8.4.2. Know the critical elements that contribute to a dance in terms of space, time, and force.

8.4.3. Know the possible aesthetic criteria for evaluating dance.

ND.5. Dance: Dance, History, and Culture: Students understand the historical development of dance and its relationship to various cultures.

8.5.1. Know the similarities and differences in steps and movement styles from various cultures.

8.5.2. Know social and theatrical dances from a broad spectrum of 20th Century America.

8.5.3. Know the role of dance in various cultures and time periods.

8.5.4. Know appropriate audience response to dance performances.

ND.6. Dance: Dance and Personal Wellness: Students understand the connection between dance and personal wellness.

8.6.1. Know strategies to prevent dance injuries.

8.6.2. Understand the value of personal health goals for dance improvement.

ND.7. Dance: Dance and Other Disciplines: Students understand the connections between dance and other disciplines.

8.7.1. Know how various dance concepts and principles relate to other disciplines.

8.7.2. Know the aesthetic impact of performance.

ND.1. Drama: Dramatic Literature: Students comprehend a wide variety of dramatic literature.

8.1.1. Know a variety of significant works from various major playwrights.

8.1.2. Know themes of dramatic literature.

8.1.3. Understand the construction elements of dialogue and action.

8.1.4. Understand elements of improvised and scripted scenes.

ND.2. Drama: Acting: Students use fundamental acting skills.

8.2.1. Know resource elements that help create character motivations.

8.2.2. Develop a character's behavior through a combination of movement, vocal pitch, and tone.

8.2.3. Interact in an ensemble.

ND.3. Drama: Production: Students use fundamental production skills.

8.3.1. Know the technical elements of a scene or play.

8.3.2. Know publicity and house management duties.

ND.4. Drama: Cultural Context of Drama: Students understand drama's role in cultural and human experiences.

8.4.1. Know the historical, social, and cultural factors that influence theatre.

8.4.2. Know aspects of dramatic genres from a variety of cultures.

ND.5. Drama: Consumer of Theatre: Students understand how to be knowledgeable consumers of theatre.

8.5.1. Use appropriate audience behaviors.

8.5.2. Prepare for selected theatrical events.

8.5.3. Use knowledge of production elements to respond to a theatrical event.

ND.6. Drama: Drama and Human Development: Students understand the role of drama in human development.

8.6.1. Use drama to demonstrate creative thinking skills.

8.6.2. Use drama to demonstrate critical thinking skills.

8.6.3. Use drama to demonstrate social skills.

ND.7. Drama: Drama and Other Disciplines: Students understand the connections between drama and other disciplines.

8.7.1. Know the relationship of the other fine arts to drama.

8.7.2. Know how concepts expressed through drama can be expressed differently through other art disciplines.

8.7.3. Know the relationship of other disciplines outside of the arts to drama.

ND.1. Music: Singing: Students sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

8.1.1. Sing accurately and with good breath control throughout their singing ranges, alone and in small and large groups.

8.1.2. Sing with expression and technical accuracy a repertoire of vocal literature.

8.1.3. Sing music representing diverse genres and cultures.

8.1.4. Sing music written in two and three parts.

ND.2. Music: Instrumental Performance: Students perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

8.2.1. Perform on an instrument, alone and in small and large groups.

8.2.2. Perform with expression and technical accuracy on a string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

8.2.3. Perform music representing diverse genres and cultures.

8.2.4. Play by ear simple melodies on a melodic instrument and simple accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.

ND.3. Music: Improvisation: Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

8.3.1. Improvise simple harmonic accompaniments.

8.3.2. Improvise melodic embellishments and simple rhythmic and melodic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

8.3.3. Improvise short melodies, unaccompanied and over given rhythmic accompaniments.

ND.4. Music: Composition: Students compose and arrange music with specified guidelines.

8.4.1. Compose short pieces containing the appropriate elements of music.

8.4.2. Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written.

8.4.3. Use a variety of sound sources when composing and arranging.

ND.5. Music: Reading Music: Students read and notate music.

8.5.1. Read complex rhythms in simple and compound meters.

8.5.2. Sight-read simple melodies in both the treble and bass clefs.

8.5.3. Know standard notation symbols.

ND.6. Music: Listening: Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

8.6.1. Understand appropriate terminology to describe specific music events.

8.6.2. Know the uses of the elements of music in the analysis of compositions representing diverse genres and cultures.

ND.7. Music: Evaluating Music: Students evaluate music and music performances.

8.7.1. Know how to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music and music performances.

8.7.2. Know how to apply specific criteria when offering constructive suggestions for improving the performance of self and others.

ND.8. Music: Music and Other Disciplines: Students understand the relationship between music, the other arts, and other disciplines.

8.8.1. Know how relationships expressed through music can be expressed differently through other art disciplines.

8.8.2. Know how principles and concepts of other disciplines are related to those of music.

ND.9. Music: Music, History and Culture: Students understand music in relation to history and culture.

8.9.1. Know characteristics of music genres and styles from a variety of music cultures.

8.9.2. Know exemplary musical works from a variety of genres and styles.

8.9.3. Know the functions of music, the roles of musicians, and the conditions of performance in several cultures of the world.

ND.1. Visual Arts: Visual Art Media, Techniques, and Processes: Students understand and apply visual art media, techniques, and processes.

8.1.1. Understand differences between visual art media.

8.1.2. Understand how different techniques are used to create visual art.

8.1.3. Understand differences between visual art processes.

8.1.4. Understand how different visual art materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses.

8.1.5. Understand how different visual art media, techniques, and processes are used to communicate ideas, experience, and stories.

8.1.6. Use visual art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

ND.2. Visual Arts: Structure and Function: Students understand how works of art are structured and how visual art has a variety of functions.

8.2.1. Know the effects of visual art structures and functions.

8.2.2. Understand visual art organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or ineffective in the communication of ideas.

ND.3. Visual Arts: Subject Matter, Themes, Symbols, and Ideas in Visual Art: Students know a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

8.3.1. Understand how to apply subjects, themes, symbols and ideas in visual art to communicate ideas.

ND.4. Visual Arts: Visual Art History and Culture: Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

8.4.1. Understand the characteristics of works of art in various eras and cultures.

ND.5. Visual Arts: Merits of Works of Visual Art: Students understand the characteristics and merit of one's own work of art and the works of art of others.

8.5.1. Understand multiple purposes for creating works of art.

8.5.2. Understand how one's own work of art may elicit a variety of responses.

ND.6. Visual Arts: Connections: Students make connections between the visual arts and other disciplines.

8.6.1. Understand the similarities between visual art and other arts disciplines (performing arts, literature, practical arts) that share common themes, historical period, or cultural context.

8.6.2. Understand the relationship between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.