Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5
AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.
1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.
1.1.2. Students will combine two or more loco motor movements traveling in different directions.
1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.
1.1.4. Students will create a sequence using non-loco motor/axial movements.
1.1.5. Students will combine loco motor steps in sequences.
1.1.6. Students will demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in uneven meters.
1.1.7. Students will perform movements at high, middle, and low levels from the floor.
1.1.8. Students will maintain personal space while moving through general space using a combination of straight lines, curving lines, zigzag lines, and segmented lines.
1.1.9. Students will heighten kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.1.10. Students will demonstrate dance from two different disciplines.
1.1.11. Students will transfer the movement in a work of art from the visual to the kinesthetic.
1.1.12. Students will define appropriate dance vocabulary.
1.1.13. Students will describe and demonstrate elements used in a dance.
1.1.14. Students will perform movement sequences without assistance
AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.
1.2.15. Students will define terminology associated with choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
1.2.16. Students will demonstrate consistency in including a beginning, middle, and ending to all choreography.
1.2.17. Students will demonstrate contrasting choreographic principles.
1.2.18. Students will demonstrate improvisation, leading, following, and mirroring.
1.2.19. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with others in learning partnering skills in dance.
1.2.20. Students will demonstrate AB, ABA, canon, and narrative structures.
1.2.21. Students will discuss the purposes of dance.
1.2.22. Students will demonstrate the difference between pantomime and dance.
1.2.23. Students will explain how different forms of accompaniments, (sound, music, words) affect the meaning of a dance.
1.2.24. Students will explain how lighting and costumes contribute to the meaning of a dance.
1.2.25. Students will create a dance that communicates a topic of personal significance or experience.
1.2.26. Students will choose the most interesting ending to a dance problem and explain reasons for the choice.
1.2.27. Students will discuss opinions about dance compositions with peers in an objective, positive, and constructive manner.
1.2.28. Students will contrast dance compositions using the elements of dance. (Space (range and focus); Time (meter and accent); Force (bound and free))
1.2.29. Students will identify aesthetic criteria for evaluating dance performance. (Skill of performers; Originality; Emotional preference; Variety; Contrast)
AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.
1.3.30. Students will use dance to make connections to American history.
1.3.31. Students will study a culture from another country emphasizing the importance of dance.
AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.
1.4.32. Students will explain the relationship between dance and a healthy body through the development of strength, flexibility, muscular and cardiovascular fitness, endurance, coordination, balance, body composition, and posture.
1.4.33. Students will explain ways to prevent dance injuries.
1.4.34. Students will explain the effects that proper warm-up has on the body and the mind.
1.4.35. Students will discuss how all the arts are incorporated into dance.
1.4.36. Students will discuss the relationships between dance and a narrative dance.
AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.
1.5.37. Students will explore the use of multi-media computer programs for creating shapes, patterns, and forms that can be used in student compositions.
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; Breath control)
2.1.3. Students will sing songs representing diverse cultures and genres.
2.1.4. Students will use age-appropriate vocal range.
2.1.5. Students will sing expressively. (Technical accuracy; appropriate dynamics; Phrasing; Interpretation; Vocal timbres blended)
2.1.6. Students will respond to the cues of a conductor.
2.1.7. Students will sing ostinatos, descant, partner songs, rounds, two-part songs, and counter melodies.
AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.
2.2.8. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing position.
2.2.9. Students will perform steady, strong and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.
2.2.10. Students will perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments. (To music from diverse cultures; to movement; to poems, stories)
2.2.11. Students will perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.
2.2.12. Students will echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.
2.2.13. Students will perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.
2.2.14. Students will respond to the cues of the conductor.
2.2.15. Students will perform rhythmic accompaniments to movement.
2.2.16. Students will perform simple songs by sight.
AL.2.3. General Music: Read, Notate.
2.3.17. Students will read rhythmic patterns in regular meters.
2.3.18. Students will recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms. (Meter; Rhythm; Pitch; Dynamics; Tempo; Articulation; Form)
2.3.19. Students will describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap or as staying the same.
2.3.20. Students will use a system (syllables, numbers, or letters) to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.
2.3.21. Students will identify notation on the staff by line and space names.
AL.2.4. General Music: Listen, Analyze, and Describe.
2.4.22. Students will identify melodies of familiar songs by name.
2.4.23. Students will describe melodic contours.
2.4.24. Students will analyze meters.
2.4.25. Students will recognize and perform simple forms.
2.4.26. Students will recognize melodic sequence.
2.4.27. Students will recognize instruments by sight and sound. (Band instruments; orchestral instruments)
AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.
2.5.28. Students will create rhythmic and melodic variations and harmonic accompaniments.
2.5.29. Students will improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources and unpitched instruments.
2.5.30. Students will improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases. (Pentatonic scale; Major/minor scales)
2.5.31. Students will explore timbres of electronic, environmental, and invented sound sources.
2.5.32. Students will compose simple melodies and ostinato accompaniments.
2.5.33. Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.
2.5.34. Students will compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.
2.5.35. Students will compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.
2.5.36. Students will use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements. (Melody; Rhythm; Harmony; Texture; Form; Timbre/Tone color; Expressive elements)
AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.
2.6.37. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.
2.6.38. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.
2.6.39. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own performances and the performances of others.
AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.
2.7.40. Students will identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.
2.7.41. Students will correlate music in relation to history and culture.
AL.3.1. Theatre: History.
3.1.1. Students will discover common subjects and ideas in stories from different cultures through dramatic activities.
3.1.2. Students will engage in dramatic activities that depict characters from diverse historical periods and cultures.
3.1.3. Students will identify ways theatre reflects the artistic and social values and accomplishments of civilization.
3.1.4. Students will identify some authors who have written for the theatre.
3.1.5. Students will use cultural and historical information to improvise and script scenes.
AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.
3.2.6. Students will articulate and explain emotional responses to the whole, as well as the parts, of dramatic performances.
3.2.7. Students will identify the who, what, where, when, and why in theatre experiences.
3.2.8. Students will describe characters, their relationships, and their environments found in dramatic literature.
3.2.9. Students will articulate goals and feelings of characters.
3.2.10. Students will describe the effects of publicity, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances.
3.2.11. Students will compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.
AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.
3.3.12. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.
3.3.13. Students will describe and compare the functions and interaction of performing and visual artists and of audience members in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance, music, and visual arts.
3.3.14. Students will analyze how movement, music, or visual elements enhance the mood of dramatizations.
AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.
3.4.15. Students will identify ways lighting, costumes, sound effects, makeup, props, and sets enhance dramatic presentations.
3.4.16. Students will work collaboratively and safely to select and create elements of scenery, properties, lighting, and sound to signify environments, costumes, and makeup to suggest character.
3.4.17. Students will collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for dramatizations.
3.4.18. Students will create tension and suspense in characters, environments, and actions individually and in small groups.
3.4.19. Students will collaborate to plan and rehearse improvisations.
3.4.20. Students will demonstrate various ways of staging dramatizations.
3.4.21. Students will assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience, heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
3.4.22. Students will demonstrate acting skills, such as memorization of lines, concentration, enunciation, body movement, and voice, to develop characterizations.
3.4.23. Students will apply research from print and non-print sources to script writing, acting, and design choices.
3.4.24. Students will collaborate to plan and rehearse dramatic presentations. (See Theatre-Related Resources-Suggested Plays.)
3.4.25. Students will demonstrate ability to cooperate with a director.
3.4.26. Students will make simple costumes and accessories from available materials and supplies.
AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.
4.1.1. Students will compare different periods of art.
4.1.2. Students will recognize symbols different cultures use to portray common themes.
4.1.3. Students will analyze lives and times of artists using the subject matter of their art work.
4.1.4. Students will discuss subject matter in works of art. (Still life; Landscape; Portrait; Genre pieces)
4.1.5. Students will compare subject matter in different types of art work. (Drawing; Painting; Sculpture; Printmaking; Architectural forms; Photography)
4.1.6. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Line; Proportion; Movement; Form; Composition Unity/Harmony; Color; Proportion; Two-dimensional; Texture; Foreground; Three-dimensional; Pattern; Middle ground; Rhythm/Repetition; Space; Background; Value; Shape)
4.1.7. Students will associate styles used by individual artists with the artist.
4.1.8. Students will describe ways artists use ideas and feelings to create works of art.
4.1.9. Students will compare differences in artistic styles.
4.1.10. Students will explain how art reflects and records history in various cultures.
4.1.11. Students will describe ways that people are involved in the visual arts within a community.
AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.
4.2.12. Students will describe the function of art within the total environment.
4.2.13. Students will describe the various aspects in a work of art.
4.2.14. Students will analyze the composition in a work of art.
4.2.15. Students will identify specific media in a work of art.
4.2.16. Students will observe and discuss the content in a variety of works of art.
4.2.17. Students will use art terms to evaluate a work of art.
AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.
4.3.18. Students will examine ways value, harmony, balance, and unity make a work of art aesthetically pleasing.
4.3.19. Students will discuss the relationships among works of art, individuals, and the societies in which they are created.
4.3.20. Students will analyze ways art is created as a response to images, forms, nature, and experiences.
4.3.21. Students will describe different effects of positioning objects.
4.3.22. Students will discuss ways society expresses through art forms changes in values and beliefs.
4.3.23. Analyze the use of art in everyday life.
4.3.24. Students will compare and contrast different interpretations of the same subject or theme in art.
4.3.25. Students will identify visual and tactile qualities of the world around them.
4.3.26. Students will describe visual characteristics of forms that are natural and man-made.
4.3.27. Students will discuss feelings generated by a work of art.
4.3.28. Students will use technology to investigate visual images.
AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.
4.4.29. Students will recognize color schemes. (Analogous; Intermediate; Complementary; Warm; Cool)
4.4.30. Students will experiment with mixing colors.
4.4.31. Students will create different visual and actual textures.
4.4.32. Students will produce graphic symbols, signs, and posters to communicate ideas and feelings.
4.4.33. Students will organize elements of art and principles of design in a work of art.
4.4.34. Students will investigate the different careers in the visual arts. (See Arts-Related Careers.)
4.4.35. Students will describe different media used in production.
4.4.36. Students will produce art using different two-dimensional media and processes.
4.4.37. Students will produce art with a variety of three-dimensional media and processes.
4.4.38. Students will use multimedia and other technology to create visual imagery and design.