Tennessee State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Demonstrate and describe the following underlying principles of movement: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.

1.2. Demonstrate a combination of non-locomotor and locomotor skills in short movement patterns.

1.3. Transfer spatial patterns from the visual to the kinesthetic when working with a partner.

1.4. Develop a variety of rhythmic patterns and transfer to the kinesthetic.

1.5. Design and perform a variety of individual to group spatial relationships.

1.6. Memorize, reproduce and perform short dances.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate repetition.

2.2. Demonstrate the following partner skills: giving and taking weight.

2.3. Categorize and compare the choreographic elements of space, time and energy.

2.4. Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, and call and response.

2.5. Describe and reproduce the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Demonstrate the difference between pantomiming and creating abstract meaning through dance movement.

3.2. Create a dance that successfully communicates a chosen theme and teach to another dance student.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Establish and utilize aesthetic criteria for evaluation of dance.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Perform and compare folk and social dances from various cultures and historical periods.

5.2. Explain how dance is a reflection of its culture.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Describe how muscles relate to dance.

6.2. Design a health plan that will enhance one's ability to dance.

6.3. Explain how dance has improved one's personal health and wellness.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Demonstrate how dance and other art forms share the same themes and concepts.

7.2. Examine the connections between dance and other academic disciplines.

TN.1.0. Music: Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone and in unison.

1.2. Sing expressively using proper vocal technique.

1.3. Sing simple harmonies.

TN.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Demonstrate the ability to play simple rhythmic patterns.

2.2. Demonstrate the ability to play simple melodic patterns.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise a simple melody and variation.

3.2. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Create simple binary and ternary forms.

4.2. Create a simple arrangement of a familiar song.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Read selected melodic and rhythmic notation.

5.2. Write rhythmic and melodic patterns using traditional and non-traditional notation.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, simple binary, ternary, and rondo forms.

6.2. Recognize, aurally, introductions, interludes, and codas.

6.3. Recognize, aurally, the sounds of a variety of instruments, including voices.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Apply specific criteria in evaluating music and music performances.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Examine ways in which the principles of other art forms relate to those of music.

8.2. Examine ways in which the principles of other disciplines relate to those of music.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various cultures.

9.2. Discuss the correlation of events, composers and music from various historical periods.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level III)

1.1. Sensory perception - Use the senses to interpret experiences as actor and viewer

1.2. Emotional expression - Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to interact cooperatively with others in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to express thought, feeling, and character from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Use language to discover relationships with others through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice for conscious communication of thought, feeling, and character

1.7. Artistic discipline - Demonstrate self-discipline in dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Utilize concentration in the creation of drama

1.9. Self-concept - Discover self as effective in imagining, interacting, and reflecting in drama

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Develop skills of cooperation and interaction through dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Devise alternative resolutions to problems in a dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Explore improvisation through action and dialogue

1.13. Acting - Explore characterization in life and fantasy situations

1.14. Directing - Recognize the function of a group leader as a director

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Participate in playmaking by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems

1.16. Technical elements - Explore the effect of selected elements of technical theatre in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre management - Demonstrate knowledge of the functions of theatre management

1.18. Dramatic literature - Understand the relationship between dramatic literature and dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Explore theatre heritage and history

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore multicultural concepts through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Explore a variety of roles and occupations including theatre and other arts

1.22. Elements of drama - Identify and use elements of drama

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's responsibility

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore relationships between drama/theatre and other arts

1.25. Aesthetic response - Explore drama/theatre in order to understand and appreciate the creative process

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Use a variety of tools and materials to create a work of art.

1.2. Use a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect ideas, concepts, symbols and themes.

1.3. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.4. Demonstrate levels of craftsmanship.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Consistently recognize and identify elements and principles of art.

2.2. Use the elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.3. Discuss the functions of art in different environments.

2.4. Create art works to meet various functions.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Discuss subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art by others.

3.2. Utilize subject matter, symbols, and ideas in their own artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate works of art to different times, civilizations and places.

4.2. Demonstrate how art, history, and culture influence each other.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Understand that artists create work for a variety of purposes.

5.2. Discuss the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.3. Interpret different responses to art works.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Examine characteristics of visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.2. Practice making connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.