Texas State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

TX.117.14 (4.1.) Art: Perception: The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment.

4.1. (A) The student is expected to communicate ideas about self, family, school, and community, using sensory knowledge and life experiences.

4.1. (B) The student is expected to choose appropriate vocabulary to discuss the use of art elements such as color, texture, form, line, space, and value and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity.

TX.117.14 (4.2.) Art: Creative expression/performance: The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill.

4.2. (A) The student is expected to integrate a variety of ideas about self, life events, family, and community in original artworks.

4.2. (B) The student is expected to design original artworks.

4.2. (C) The student is expected to invent ways to produce artworks and to explore photographic imagery, using a variety of art media and materials.

TX.117.14 (4.3.) Art: Historical/cultural heritage: The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and culture as records of human achievement.

4.3. (A) The student is expected to identify simple main ideas expressed in art.

4.3. (B) The student is expected to compare and contrast selected artworks from a variety of cultural settings.

4.3. (C) The student is expected to identify the roles of art in American society.

TX.117.14 (4.4.) Art: Response/evaluation: The student makes informed judgments about personal artworks and the artworks of others.

4.4. (A) The student is expected to describe intent and form conclusions about personal artworks.

4.4. (B) The student is expected to interpret ideas and moods in original artworks, portfolios, and exhibitions by peers and others.

TX.117.15 (4.1.) Music: Perception: The student describes and analyzes musical sound and demonstrates musical artistry.

4.1. (A) The student is expected to categorize a variety of musical sounds, including children's and adults' voices; woodwind, brass, string, percussion, keyboard, and electronic instruments; instruments of various cultures.

4.1. (B) The student is expected to use standard terminology in explaining music, music notation, musical instruments and voices, and musical performances.

4.1. (C) The student is expected to identify music forms presented aurally such as AB, ABA, and rondo.

TX.117.15 (4.2.) Music: Creative expression/performance: The student performs a varied repertoire of music.

4.2. (A) The student is expected to sing or play a classroom instrument independently or in groups.

4.2. (B) The student is expected to sing songs from diverse cultures and styles or play such songs on a musical instrument.

TX.117.15 (4.3.) Music: Creative expression/performance: The student reads and writes music notation.

4.3. (A) The student is expected to read and write music notation, using a system (letters, numbers, syllables).

4.3. (B) The student is expected to incorporate basic rhythmic patterns in simple meters in musical compositions.

4.3. (C) The student is expected to identify music symbols and terms referring to dynamics and tempo, interpreting them appropriately when performing.

TX.117.15 (4.4.) Music: Creative expression/performance: The student creates and arranges music within specified guidelines.

4.4. (A) The student is expected to create rhythmic and melodic phrases.

4.4. (B) The student is expected to create simple accompaniments.

TX.117.15 (4.5.) Music: Historical/cultural heritage: The student relates music to history, to society, and to culture.

4.5. (A) The student is expected to identify aurally-presented excerpts of music representing diverse genres, styles, periods, and cultures.

4.5. (B) The student is expected to perform music and movement from diverse cultures.

4.5. (C) The student is expected to perform music representative of American and Texas heritage.

4.5. (D) The student is expected to identify connections between music and the other fine arts.

TX.117.15 (4.6.) Music: Response/evaluation: The student responds to and evaluates music and musical performance.

4.6. (A) The student is expected to apply basic criteria in evaluating musical performances and compositions.

4.6. (B) The student is expected to justify, using music terminology, personal preferences for specific music works and styles.

4.6. (C) The student is expected to practice concert etiquette as an actively involved listener during live performances.

TX.117.16 (4.1.) Theatre: Perception: The student develops concepts about self, human relationships, and the environment, using elements of drama and conventions of theatre.

4.1. (A) The student is expected to relate sensory and emotional responses to theatre.

4.1. (B) The student is expected to develop body awareness and spatial perceptions, using rhythmic and expressive movement.

4.1. (C) The student is expected to respond to sounds, music, images, and the written word, using movement.

4.1. (D) The student is expected to express emotions and ideas, using interpretive movements, sounds, and dialogue.

4.1. (E) The student is expected to imitate and synthesize life experiences in dramatic play.

4.1. (F) The student is expected to represent environment, characterization, and actions.

TX.117.16 (4.2.) Theatre: Creative expression/performance: The student interprets characters, using the voice and body expressively, and creates dramatizations.

4.2. (A) The student is expected to demonstrate safe use of the voice and body.

4.2. (B) The student is expected to describe clearly characters, their relationships, and their surroundings.

4.2. (C) The student is expected to develop characters and assume roles in short improvised scenes, using imagination, personal experiences, heritage, literature, and history.

4.2. (D) The student is expected to dramatize literary selections in unison, pairs, and groups and create simple stories collaboratively through imaginative play in improvisations and story dramatizations, describing the characters, their relationships, and their environments and demonstrating a logical connection of events.

TX.117.16 (4.3.) Theatre: Creative expression/performance: The student applies design, directing, and theatre production concepts and skills.

4.3. (A) The student is expected to demonstrate the safe use of props, costumes, and visual elements, defining character, environment, action, and theme.

4.3. (B) The student is expected to alter space to create suitable environments for play-making.

4.3. (C) The student is expected to plan brief dramatizations collaboratively.

4.3. (D) The student is expected to interact cooperatively with others in brief dramatizations.

TX.117.16 (4.4.) Theatre: Historical/cultural heritage: The student relates theatre to history, society, and culture.

4.4. (A) The student is expected to explain theatre as a reflection of life in particular times, places, and cultures.

4.4. (B) The student is expected to identify the role of live theatre, film, television, and electronic media in American society.

TX.117.16 (4.5.) Theatre: Response/evaluation: The student responds to and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.

4.5. (A) The student is expected to identify and apply appropriate audience behavior at performances.

4.5. (B) The student is expected to define visual, aural, oral, and kinetic aspects of informal play-making and formal theatre and discuss these aspects as found in art, dance, and music.

4.5. (C) The student is expected to compare and contrast the ways ideas and emotions are depicted in art, dance, music, and theatre and select movement, music, or visual elements to enhance classroom dramatizations.

4.5. (D) The student is expected to compare theatre artists and their contributions.