Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 2

AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.

1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.

1.1.2. Students will demonstrate moving in different directions using various loco motor movements. (Forward; Backward; Sideward; Circularly; Diagonally)

1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.

1.1.4. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor/axial movement qualities using a variety of energy/force.

1.1.5. Students will move with accuracy to a musical beat responding to changes in tempo.

1.1.6. Students will create shapes with the body at high, middle, and low levels from the floor.

1.1.7. Students will move in personal space (axial) and general space (loco motor) using a variety of pathways.

1.1.8. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.

1.1.9. Students will define appropriate dance vocabulary.

AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.

1.2.10. Students will create sequences that have a beginning, middle, and ending.

1.2.11. Students will improvise movement sequences.

1.2.12. Students will perform choreography using ABA form.

1.2.13. Students will discuss and show emotions using basic loco motor and non-loco motor patterns to express feelings.

1.2.14. Students will discuss how dance is different from other movement.

1.2.15. Students will identify the relationships between beginnings and endings in dances.

1.2.16. Students will compare the use of elements in dances. (Time; Space; Force)

1.2.17. Students will discuss opinions about dance composition. (Emotional reaction; Time; Space)

AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.

1.3.18. Students will compare and perform folk dances from various cultures.

1.3.19. Students will compare and perform dances from various time periods.

AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.

1.4.20. Students will explain the relationship of healthy eating, resting, and exercising to dance performance.

1.4.21. Students will explain the effect that dance as an exercise has on the body.

1.4.22. Students will create dances using math concepts.

1.4.23. Students will create dances from poems and narratives (reading).

1.4.24. Students will create dances based on themes from science.

AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.

1.5.25. Students will explore the use of technology through various media for dance accompaniment and interaction.

AL.2.1. General Music: Sing.

2.1.1. Students will sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.

2.1.2. Students will sing with proper vocal technique. (Pure head tone; Good diction; Good posture; on pitch; in rhythm)

2.1.3. Students will sing songs representing diverse cultures.

2.1.4. Students will use age-appropriate vocal range.

2.1.5. Students will sing expressively with technical accuracy and appropriate dynamics.

2.1.6. Students will respond to the cues of a conductor.

AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.

2.2.7. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing positions.

2.2.8. Students will perform steady, strong, and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.

2.2.9. Students will perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and choral patterns on classroom instruments.

2.2.10. Students will perform accompaniment on pitched and unpitched instruments. (To music from diverse cultures; to movement; to poems, nursery rhymes)

2.2.11. Students will echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.

2.2.12. Students will perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.

2.2.13. Students will respond to the cues of the conductor.

AL.2.3. General Music: Read and Notate.

2.3.14. Students will read simple rhythmic patterns. (Half notes and half rests; whole notes and whole rests; Quarter notes and rests; eighth notes and rests)

2.3.15. Students will recognize and use standard notation and terms.

AL.2.4. General Music: Listen, Analyze, and Describe.

2.4.16. Students will identify by name melodies of familiar songs.

2.4.17. Students will demonstrate the difference between high and low sounds and upward and downward melodic direction.

2.4.18. Students will describe melodic contours.

2.4.19. Students will respond to a melody through movement.

2.4.20. Students will distinguish between duple and triple meters.

2.4.21. Students will recognize melodic direction on the staff.

2.4.22. Students will recognize like and unlike phrases (music thoughts).

2.4.23. Students will recognize and perform melodic and rhythmic motives.

2.4.24. Students will recognize and perform simple song forms.

2.4.25. Students will recognize various vocal and instrumental timbres. (Male and female voices; Instrumental families; Classroom instruments)

2.4.26. Students will categorize instruments according to how the sound is produced.

AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.

2.5.27. Students will improvise answers to given rhythmic phrases.

2.5.28. Students will express musical ideas using creative movement, body percussion, classroom instruments, body sounds, and vocal sounds.

2.5.29. Students will compose simple melodies and obstinate.

2.5.30. Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.

AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.

2.6.31. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.

2.6.32. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.

AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.

2.7.33. Students will recognize relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.

2.7.34. Students will consider music in relation to history and culture.

AL.3.1. Theatre: History.

3.1.1. Students will compare dramatic situations with real life.

3.1.2. Students will discover common subjects and ideas in stories from different cultures through dramatic activities.

3.1.3. Students will engage in dramatic activities that depict characters from diverse historical periods and cultures.

AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.

3.2.4. Students will recognize emotions evoked by a performance.

3.2.5. Students will identify the who, what, and where in theatre experiences.

3.2.6. Students will describe the appearance and actions of the characters.

3.2.7. Students will give reasons for characters' choices.

3.2.8. Students will explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their own.

3.2.9. Students will describe the sensory elements of a dramatic performance. (Visual; Aural; Oral; Kinetic)

3.2.10. Students will suggest alternatives for settings and endings of dramatic presentations.

AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.

3.3.11. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.

3.3.12. Students will respond to sensory stimuli in all the arts.

3.3.13. Students will begin to identify the arts that are used to make a theatre production.

AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.

3.4.14. Students will collaborate to establish environments for classroom dramatizations.

3.4.15. Students will select and safely organize available materials that suggest scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

3.4.16. Students will select movement, music, or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.

3.4.17. Students will collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

3.4.18. Students will apply concepts of beginning, middle, and ending to stories and story dramatization.

3.4.19. Students will collaborate to plan and rehearse improvisations.

3.4.20. Students will demonstrate various ways of staging classroom dramatizations.

3.4.21. Students will use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history.

3.4.22. Students will assume roles based on personal experience and heritage.

AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.

4.1.1. Students will compare art associated with various cultures.

4.1.2. Students will compare differences in artistic styles.

4.1.3. Students will describe what is observed in selected works of art.

4.1.4. Students will identify subject matter in works of art. (Still Life; Landscape; Portrait; Genre pieces)

4.1.5. Students will identify different art forms. (Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture)

4.1.6. Students will explain ways art reflects and records history.

4.1.7. Students will discover ways people are involved in the visual arts within a community.

4.1.8. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Subject; Object; Line; Shape; Color; Texture; Pattern)

AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.

4.2.9. Students will use vocabulary associated with looking at and talking about art.

4.2.10. Students will observe and discuss art in nature and in the environment.

4.2.11. Students will observe, describe, and identify features, similarities, and differences in art work.

4.2.12. Students will identify media used in works of art.

4.2.13. Students will identify aesthetic qualities (moods, feelings, ideas, emotions) in both natural and man-made environments.

4.2.14. Students will observe and describe balance and repetition in forms that are natural and man-made.

AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.

4.3.15. Students will express feelings generated by a work of art.

4.3.16. Students will observe and describe the effect of varying conditions on objects.

4.3.17. Students will use resources in the community to discuss art work.

4.3.18. Students will use technology to explore art work.

4.3.19. Students will develop an awareness of visual and tactile qualities of the world around them.

4.3.20. Students will observe and discuss the visual characteristics of forms that are natural and man-made.

AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.

4.4.21. Students will identify basic tools and materials used in art production.

4.4.22. Students will use a variety of two-dimensional processes and materials.

4.4.23. Students will use a variety of three-dimensional processes and materials.

4.4.24. Students will recognize colors. (Red; Yellow; Blue; Green; Orange; Violet)

4.4.25. Students will experiment with mixing colors.

4.4.26. Students will recognize neutrals. (Black; White; Gray; Brown)

4.4.27. Students will experiment with mixing neutrals. (Grays; Browns)

4.4.28. Students will recognize and use different kinds of lines and shapes. (Curved; Straight; Regular; Irregular; Round; Oval; Square; Rectangle; Triangle)

4.4.29. Students will use different kinds of patterns and textures in creating works of art.

4.4.30. Students will investigate line, shape, form, texture, and color through observation and manipulation.

4.4.31. Students will explore the use of symbols and signs to communicate ideas and feelings.

4.4.32. Students will use art forms to express ideas, feelings, and moods. (Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture)

4.4.33. Students will use visual relationships in creating a work of art.

4.4.34. Students will combine shapes to create new shapes.

4.4.35. Students will use technology to create visual images.