Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 6
AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.
1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment and placement.
1.1.2. Students will create dance phrases using loco motor and nonlocomotor movements and a variety of levels, floor patterns, movement qualities, and changing tempo.
1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.
1.1.4. Students will demonstrate increased kinesthetic awareness and concentration in performing movement skills.
1.1.5. Students will use dance vocabulary to describe the elements and skills of dance.
1.1.6. Students will demonstrate proficiency in a variety of dance disciplines.
1.1.7. Students will perform memorized movement sequences.
1.1.8. Students will demonstrate appropriate warm-up techniques for dance skill development.
1.1.9. Students will compare different dance disciplines.
AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.
1.2.10. Students will create dance sequences using a variety of compositional forms.
1.2.11. Students will create dance sequences in a small group, in a large group, and with a partner.
1.2.12. Students will create dance sequences using the choreographic processes of improvisation, reordering, and chance.
1.2.13. Students will choreograph dance sequences using rhythmic variations generated from both internal and external sources.
1.2.14. Students will communicate personal feelings and ideas through dance sequences.
1.2.15. Students will explore dance as a form of nonverbal communication as an observer and as a participant.
1.2.16. Students will explain ways in which a work of art from the past expresses an idea, feeling, or belief.
1.2.17. Students will correlate choreography to other art forms.
1.2.18. Students will create dance sequences that express a point of view about social, political, or moral issues.
1.2.19. Students will create movement problems demonstrating multiple solutions.
1.2.20. Students will compare dance compositions using elements of dance. (Space; Time; Force/energy; Structure of piece; Relationships of dancers)
1.2.21. Students will use established choreographic criteria to evaluate works in progress and finished pieces of self and others. (Variety; Contrast; Spatial design; Time/Rhythm)
AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.
1.3.22. Students will perform folk and/or classical dances from various cultures.
1.3.23. Students will discuss similarities and differences in steps and movement styles of dances from various cultures.
1.3.24. Students will identify the role of dance in a variety of cultures and time periods.
1.3.25. Students will share dances from resources in the community and discuss the cultural and historical context of the dance.
1.3.26. Students will research the historical development of the various forms of dance.
AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.
1.4.27. Students will explain strategies to prevent dance injuries.
1.4.28. Students will communicate ways that lifestyle choices, such as nutrition and health-enhancing behaviors, affect the dancer.
1.4.29. Students will apply principles of anatomy and kinesiology (the study of movement) to facilitate safe use of the body.
1.4.30. Students will discuss the relationships between dance and physical and emotional health.
1.4.31. Students will create interdisciplinary presentations incorporating dance, drama, visual arts, music, and literature.
1.4.32. Students will create presentations incorporating concepts of math, science, social studies, and language arts.
1.4.33. Students will explain similarities and differences among artistic disciplines.
AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.
1.5.34. Students will explore the use of technology in the creation of dance composition.
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; Intonation; in rhythm; Articulation; Tonal production)
2.1.3. Students will sing expressively. (Technical accuracy; appropriate dynamics; Phrasing; Interpretation; Vocal timbres blended)
2.1.4. Students will use age-appropriate vocal range.
2.1.5. Students will sing songs representing diverse cultures.
2.1.6. Students will respond to the cues of a conductor.
2.1.7. Students will maintain simple harmony part.
2.1.8. Students will sing descants, ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, and two-part songs.
AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.
2.2.9. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music using good posture and playing positions.
2.2.10. Students will perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments. (To music from diverse cultures; to movement; to choral literature; to poems, stories)
2.2.11. Students will perform with technical accuracy. (Pitch; Rhythms; Tempo; Dynamics; Phrasing; Balance; Tone; Articulation)
2.2.12. Students will blend timbres, sing accurate pitches, and respond to the cues of the conductor. (Dynamics; Tempo; Articulation)
AL.2.3. General Music: Read and Notate.
2.3.13. Students will recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms. (Meter; Rhythm; Pitch; Dynamics; Tempo; Articulation; Form)
2.3.14. Students will use a system to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major, minor, and/or pentatonic keys.
2.3.15. Students will sight read and perform rhythmic patterns using unpitched and pitched instruments.
2.3.16. Students will read at sight simple melodies in treble clef.
2.3.17. Students will use standard notation to record simple musical ideas.
AL.2.4. General Music: Listen, Analyze, and Describe.
2.4.18. Students will identify music forms when presented
2.4.19. Students will describe using correct terminology music events heard in a listening example.
2.4.20. Students will demonstrate knowledge of musical elements through analysis of music.
AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.
2.5.21. Students will Improvise and create variations and harmonic accompaniments for songs, books, stories, and poems.
2.5.22. Students will improvise vocal and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources.
2.5.23. Students will improvise on given pentatonic, major and minor scales.
2.5.24 Students will explore timbres of traditional instruments and voices.
2.5.25. Students will compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.
2.5.26. Students will compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.
2.5.27. Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.
2.5.28. Students will use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements. (Melody; Rhythm; Harmony; Form; Texture; Expressive elements; Timbre)
AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.
2.6.29. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.
2.6.30. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.
2.6.31. Students will develop and apply criteria for evaluating music performances and compositions.
2.6.32. Students will assess the quality and effectiveness of their own performances and performances of others.
AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.
2.7.33. Students will identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.
2.7.34. Students will correlate music in relation to history and culture.
AL.3.1. Vocal, Choral Music Levels I and II: Sing, and Read.
3.1.1. Students will sing a varied repertoire employing proper vocal techniques. (Posture; Breath control; Tonal production; Diction; Articulation; Intonation)
3.1.2. Students will interpret note, rest values and meter signatures.
3.1.3. Students will interpret standard symbols and terms related to: (Pitch; Dynamics; Tempo; Articulation; Expression)
3.1.4. Students will listen , sing, and describe changes in musical events of a musical score using standard terminology.
3.1.5. Students will sight-sing simple melodies and rhythms.
3.1.6. Students will sing whole and half-step patterns of the major and minor scales.
3.1.7. Students will sing forms that represent interpretive and expressive qualities of diverse genres, cultures, and languages.
AL.3.2. Vocal, Choral Music Levels I and II: Analyze, Describe.
3.2.8. Students will compare the use of musical elements of diverse genres, stylistic periods, cultures, and languages.
3.2.9. Students will distinguish various combinations of vocal sounds.
AL.3.3. Vocal, Choral Music Levels I and II: Create, Improvise, and Compose.
3.3.10. Students will improvise simple melodic embellishments to a given melody.
3.3.11. Students will compose vocal rhythmic and melodic variations of given melodies.
3.3.12. Students will compose harmonic accompaniment to be sung with a melody using I, IV, V, VI chords.
3.3.13. Students will compose songs using standard symbols and terms to establish balance, unity and contrast, tension and release.
3.3.14. Students will compose melodies to be sung over rhythmic ostinatos.
AL.3.4. Vocal, Choral Music Levels I and II: Evaluate.
3.4.15. Students will evaluate vocal performance using established criteria of vocal technique.
3.4.16. Students will develop criteria to evaluate vocal technique and various styles.
3.4.17. Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.
3.4.18. Students will exhibit appropriate performance behavior.
AL.3.5. Vocal, Choral Music Levels I and II: Connect.
3.5.19. Students will relate music to history and culture.
3.5.20. Students will recognize and sing a variety of vocal styles and forms from various historical periods and ethnic cultures.
3.5.21. Students will introduce the relationship between music, the other arts and the disciplines outside the arts.
3.5.22. Students will relate ways ideas in songs are found in other arts disciplines.
3.5.23. Students will relate musical skills and concepts to concepts of other core disciplines.
3.5.24. Students will discuss distinguishing characteristics of songs (Style; Language; Composer)
3.5.25. Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.
3.5.26. Students will exhibit appropriate performance behavior.
AL.4.1. Instrumental Music Level I: Read.
4.1.1. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted notes and rests in and allay breve meter signatures.
4.1.2. Students will sight-read accurately simple melodies.
4.1.3. Students will sight-read appropriate clefs.
AL.4.2. Instrumental Music Level I: Perform.
4.2.4. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument alone and in large and small ensembles with good posture, good playing position, and good breath as well as bow or stick control.
4.2.5. Students will perform a varied repertoire of beginning instrumental literature on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument.
4.2.6. Students will perform with proficiency solo and ensemble literature appropriate to the individual developmental level.
4.2.7. Students will demonstrate basic knowledge of fundamental musical structure through performance of scales, arpeggios and rudiments.
AL.4.3. Instrumental Music Level I: Listen, Describe.
4.3.8. Students will demonstrate awareness of basic expressive musical symbols.
4.3.9. Students will analyze and describe significant changes in a musical score. (Reading; listening)
AL.4.4. Instrumental Music Level I: Create.
4.4.10. Students will improvise simple melodic embellishments to a given melody.
4.4.11. Students will compose harmonic accompaniment to be played with a melody.
AL.4.5. Instrumental Music Level I: Evaluate.
4.5.12. Students will discuss the musical means used by a performed instrumental work to evoke feelings and emotions.
4.5.13. Students will evaluate the quality of self and others' performances using established criteria. (Tone; Intonation; Technique; Balance; Blend)
4.5.14. Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.
4.5.15. Students will exhibit appropriate performance behavior.
AL.4.6. Instrumental Music Level I: Connect.
4.6.16. Students will relate music to history and culture.
4.6.17. Students will discuss ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of instrumental music.
4.6.18. Students will recognize multicultural musical styles as they relate to various historical periods and their relationships to beginning instrumental performance literature.
AL.5.1. Instrumental Music Level II: Read.
5.1.1. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in and alla breve meter signatures.
5.1.2. Students will sight-read accurately and expressively simple melodies.
5.1.3. Students will sight-read appropriate clefs while keeping a steady beat.
AL.5.2. Instrumental Music Level II: Perform.
5.2.4. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument alone and in large and small ensembles with good posture, good playing position, and good breath as well as bow or stick control.
5.2.5. Students will perform a varied repertoire of intermediate level instrumental literature on at least one string, wind, or percussion instrument.
5.2.6. Students will perform with proficiency solo and ensemble literature appropriate to the individual developmental level.
5.2.7. Students will demonstrate basic knowledge of fundamental musical structure through performance of scales, arpeggios and rudiments.
AL.5.3. Instrumental Music Level II: Listen, Describe.
5.3.8. Students will demonstrate awareness of basic expressive musical symbols.
5.3.9. Students will aurally discriminate pitches.
5.3.10. Students will analyze and describe significant changes in a musical score. (Listening; Performing; Reading)
AL.5.4. Instrumental Music Level II: Create.
5.4.11. Students will improvise melodic embellishments to a given melody.
5.4.12. Students will create and perform rhythmic and melodic variations.
5.4.13. Students will compose harmonic accompaniment to a melody.
AL.5.5. Instrumental Music Level II: Evaluate.
5.5.14. Students will discuss the musical means used by a performed instrumental work to evoke feelings and emotions.
5.5.15. Students will evaluate the quality of self and others' performances using established criteria. (Tone; Intonation; Technique; Balance; Blend)
5.5.16. Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.
5.5.17. Students will exhibit appropriate performance behavior.
AL.5.6. Instrumental Music Level II: Connect.
5.6.18. Students will relate the importance and roles of instrumental music in other cultures.
5.6.19. Students will discuss ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of instrumental music.
5.6.20. Students will recognize multicultural musical styles as they relate to various historical periods and their relationships to intermediate performance literature.
AL.6.1. Instrumental Music Level III: Read.
6.1.1. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in and alla breve meter signatures.
6.1.2. Students will sight-read accurately and expressively advanced melodies and middle school performance literature.
6.1.3. Students will sight-read appropriate clefs while keeping a steady beat.
6.1.4. Students will recognize and demonstrate standard terms. (Pitch; Dynamics; Rhythm; Tempo; Articulation; Expression)
AL.6.2. Instrumental Music Level III: Perform.
6.2.5. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument alone and in large and small ensembles with good posture, good playing position, and good breath as well as bow or stick control.
6.2.6. Students will perform with proficiency a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a level of difficulty appropriate to middle school instrumental programs.
6.2.7. Students will perform with proficiency solo and ensemble literature appropriate to the individual developmental level.
6.2.8. Students will perform a variety of styles and forms from various time periods and ethnic groups.
AL.6.3. Instrumental Music Level III: Listen, Describe.
6.3.9. Students will demonstrate awareness of basic expressive musical symbols.
6.3.10. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of fundamental musical structure through performance of scales/arpeggios and/or rudiments.
6.3.11. Students will aurally discriminate pitches.
6.3.12. Students will analyze and describe significant changes in a musical score. (Listening; Performing; Reading)
AL.6.4. Instrumental Music Level III: Create.
6.4.13. Students will improvise melodic embellishments to a given melody.
6.4.14. Students will create and perform rhythmic and melodic variations.
6.4.15. Students will compose harmonic accompaniment to a melody.
6.4.16. Students will utilize technological advancements to enhance performance and composition.
AL.6.5. Instrumental Music Level III: Evaluate.
6.5.17. Students will evaluate the musical means used by a performed instrumental work to evoke feelings and emotions.
6.5.18. Students will evaluate a given musical work and performance in terms of its aesthetic qualities.
6.5.19. Students will evaluate the quality of personal and others' performances using established criteria. (Tone; Intonation; Technique; Balance; Blend; Interpretation)
6.5.20. Students will exhibit appropriate audience behavior.
6.5.21. Students will exhibit appropriate performance behavior.
AL.6.6. Instrumental Music Level III: Connect.
6.6.22. Students will analyze multicultural musical styles as they relate to various historical periods and their relationships to middle school performance literature.
6.6.23. Students will discuss ways in which the principles and subject matter outside the arts are interrelated to those of instrumental music.
6.6.24. Students will describe the elements of music and expressive instrumental devices in the music of diverse genres, cultures, and languages.
AL.7.1. Instrumental Music Level IV: Read.
7.1.1. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, thirty-second, and dotted notes and rests in and alla breve meter signatures.
7.1.2. Students will sight-read accurately and expressively advanced melodies and high school performance literature.
7.1.3. Students will interpret standard terms related to (Pitch; Dynamics; Rhythm; Tempo; Articulation; Expression)
AL.7.2. Instrumental Music Level IV: Perform.
7.2.4. Students will perform on at least one instrument accurately alone and in large and small ensembles. (Posture; Breath control; Tonal production; Diction; Articulation; Intonation)
7.2.5. Students will perform with proficiency a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a level of difficulty appropriate to high school band programs.
7.2.6. Students will perform with proficiency solo and ensemble literature appropriate to the individual developmental level.
7.2.7. Students will perform a variety of instrumental styles and forms from various time periods and ethnic groups.
AL.7.3. Instrumental Music Level IV: Listen, Describe.
7.3.8. Students will demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of expressive musical symbols through instrumental performance.
7.3.9. Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of fundamental musical structure through performance of scale, arpeggios, and rudiments.
7.3.10. Students will describe pitches aurally.
7.3.11. Students will analyze and describe significant changes in a musical score. (Listening; Performing; Reading)
AL.7.4. Instrumental Music Level IV: Create.
7.4.12. Students will improvise simple melodic embellishments to a given melody.
7.4.13. Students will compose instrumental rhythmic and melodic variations of given melodies.
7.4.14. Students will compose harmonic accompaniment to a melody using I, IV, V, VI chords.
7.4.15. Students will utilize technological advancements to enhance performance and composition.
AL.7.5. Instrumental Music Level IV: Evaluate.
7.5.16. Students will evaluate the musical means used by a performed instrumental work to evoke feelings and emotions.
7.5.17. Students will evaluate a given musical work and performance in terms of its aesthetic qualities.
7.5.18. Students will evaluate the quality of personal and others' performances using established criteria. (Tone; Intonation; Technique; Balance; Blend; Interpretation)
7.5.19. Students will recognize and practice appropriate audience behavior.
7.5.20. Students will recognize and practice appropriate performance behavior.
AL.7.6. Instrumental Music Level IV: Connect.
7.6.21. Students will analyze multicultural musical styles as they relate to various historical periods and to high school instrumental literature.
7.6.22. Students will explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of high school instrumental literature.
7.6.23. Students will relate musical skills and concepts to concepts of other core disciplines.
AL.8.1. Theatre: History.
8.1.1. Students will discuss various acting styles.
8.1.2. Students will discuss the use of historical character types as a dramatic technique.
8.1.3. Students will discuss legal and ethical implications of the use of another's work.
AL.8.2. Theatre: Criticism.
8.2.4. Students will discuss the parts of dramatic structure. (Character; Plot; Setting; Theme)
8.2.5. Students will discuss standard plot components. (See Theatre-Related Resources-Form and Structure of Scripts.) (Initial incident; Rising action; Conflict; Crisis; Falling action; Conclusion)
8.2.6. Students will discuss reasons for separating audience spaces from playing spaces.
8.2.7. Students will analyze the connection between the production and the director, playwright, actors, and technical crews.
8.2.8. Students will analyze the relationship of set design, lighting, and costumes with production concept.
AL.8.3. Theatre: Aethrioscopes.
8.3.9. Students will demonstrandum appropriate audience etiquette.
AL.8.4. Theatre: Production.
8.4.10. Students will participate in playwriting in groups to create, tell, and enact original scripts.
8.4.11. Students will create dialogue that imitates real conversation.
8.4.12. Students will recognize the unique formatting of dialogue in a play.
8.4.13. Students will write scripts using formats for stage directions.
8.4.14. Students will use observation of others to create characterizations.
8.4.15. Students will utilize mannerisms, facial expressions, and body movement to depict characters.
8.4.16. Students will develop vocal clarity in performance. (Volume; Inflection; Pitch; Enunciation)
8.4.17. Students will describe basic stage positions.
8.4.18. Students will discuss the importance of memorizing lines on deadline.
8.4.19. Students will discuss the basic rules of stage movement. ('4th wall'; Planes; Levels; Stage positions)
8.4.20. Students will respond appropriately to basic blocking directions.
8.4.21. Students will follow appropriate etiquette for rehearsals and performances.
8.4.22. Students will identify basic technical elements used in theatrical productions. (Lighting; Costumes; Properties; Special effects)
8.4.23. Students will select and create formal and informal playing spaces.
8.4.24. Students will identify basic set requirements.
8.4.25. Students will identify materials necessary for preparation/construction of a set.
8.4.26. Students will devise costumes, props, and other technical necessities from available materials.
8.4.27. Students will discuss various acting styles. (Method; Classical; Improvisation;)
8.4.28. Students will work cooperatively with director and production staff members.
8.4.29. Students will understand and demonstrate how set, lighting, and costumes affect each other and the whole production.
8.4.30. Students will utilize societal characteristics as a basis for play development.
8.4.31. Students will credit authors in an appropriate manner.
8.4.32. Students will utilize improvisation and acting exercises to enhance development of characterization skills.
8.4.33. Students will discuss the use of vocal mechanisms in characterization. (Articulation; Volume; Inflection; Basic dialects)
8.4.34. Students will discuss the use of voice in drama.
8.4.35. Students will work cooperatively with a technical and design crew to create and develop sets and environments.
8.4.36. Students will examine ways to devise costumes, props, and other technical necessities from available materials.
8.4.37. Students will discuss duties and responsibilities of a director.
8.4.38. Students will identify the duties of production staff members.
8.4.39. Students will demonstrate ability to cooperate with a director and supervise members of the production staff to enhance production.
AL.9.1. Visual Arts: History.
9.1.1. Students will analyze art work originating in major cultures of the world.
9.1.2. Students will contrast unique features of particular art styles.
9.1.3. Students will analyze themes and symbols in art of different cultures.
9.1.4. Students will analyze ways that culture influences works of art.
9.1.5. Students will research various uses of the visual arts in business and industry.
9.1.6. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Elements of Art; Principles of Design; Analogous Colors; Vanishing Point; Monochromatic Colors; Horizon Line; Complementary Colors; Perspective; Tone; Contour drawing; Shading; Modified contour drawing; Cast shadow; Blind contour drawing; Assemblage; Realism; Found objects; Value; Sculpture; Caricature)
9.1.7. Students will analyze a variety of art works.
9.1.8. Students will evaluate the work and style of a selected artist.
9.1.9. Students will use a variety of media to research the life of a selected artist.
9.1.10. Students will analyze the impact of the life of a selected artist on culture, history, politics, and economy.
9.1.11. Students will interpret ways artists achieve different effects with the elements of art and principles of design.
9.1.12. Students will investigate different art careers.
AL.9.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.
9.2.13. Students will evaluate the roles art works play in the environment.
9.2.14. Students will apply criteria in judging works of art. (Craftsmanship; Originality; Composition)
9.2.15. Students will make finer discriminations about the elements of art and principles of art when responding to various art forms.
AL.9.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.
9.3.16. Students will analyze aesthetic qualities (meaning, purpose, and role) that exist in both natural and man-made objects.
9.3.17. Students will evaluate ways value, harmony, balance, and unity make a work of art pleasing.
9.3.18. Students will connect the visual arts with other content areas.
9.3.19. Students will describe imaginative ways of perceiving the environment.
9.3.20. Students will examine mood and feeling generated by art forms.
9.3.21. Students will compare various artistic solutions to environmental and social problems.
AL.9.4. Visual Arts: Production.
9.4.22. Students will apply steps artists use in the production of art. (Inception of an idea; Elaboration and refinement of an idea; Execution in a medium; Evaluation of the product)
9.4.23. Students will use a variety of ideas and personal experiences as sources of subject matter for art production.
9.4.24. Students will create art using the elements of art and principles of design.
9.4.25. Students will use various visual relationships in creating original art productions.
9.4.26. Students will produce art using a variety of two-dimensional production methods and materials.
9.4.27. Students will produce art using a variety of three-dimensional production methods and materials.
9.4.28. Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of art techniques to create artwork.
9.4.29. Students will use multimedia and other technology to create visual imagery and design.
9.4.30. Students will produce graphic art symbols, signs, posters, and wall designs for specific purposes.