Delaware State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.A. Students will sing alone with accuracy (on pitch, and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo) using good breath control and within their singing ranges.

1.B. Students will sing expressively (with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation) a varied repertoire of solo and choral literature with a difficulty level of 1, including some songs performed from memory.

1.C. Students will sing music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression standard for the work being performed, some in the original language.

1.D. Students will sing ostinatos (repeated patterns), partner songs, and rounds.

1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.A. Students will perform accurately on at least one instrument, in solo and groups, with appropriate technique.

2.B. Students will perform expressively, with dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

2.C. Students will perform music representing diverse genres and cultures, with expression, and on instruments appropriate for the work being performed.

2.D. Students will perform by ear melodies on a melodic instrument and accompaniments on a harmonic instrument.

2.E. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

2.F. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.

3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions.

3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.

DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.

DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.

5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in a variety of simple, compound, and complex meters.

5.B. Students will read and perform pitch notation using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.

5.C. Students will identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression and interpret them when performing.

5.D. Students will use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.

DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.

6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.

6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.

6.C. Students will identify specific music events in a given aural example using appropriate terminology.

6.D. Students will analyze the elements of music in aural examples.

6.E. Students will identify song forms aurally (e.g., AB, ABA, canon).

6.F. Students will describe music notation, instruments, voices, and performances using appropriate terminology.

DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.A. Students will develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing.

7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.

7.C. Students will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music.

7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.

DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.

8.A. Students will compare similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.

8.C. Students will identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

8.D. Students will identify the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.

DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times, and places.

9.A. Students will identify aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures by genre or style.

9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music examples.

9.C. Students will identify and describe roles of musicians in various cultures.

DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.

1.A. Students will identify various media, techniques, and processes used to create works of art.

1.B. Students will describe how the effects created by two-dimensional media, techniques, and processes differ from those produced with three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes.

1.C. Students will explore and apply the characteristics of a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media to develop manipulative skills.

1.D. Students will select and use the different characteristics of two and three dimensional art media, techniques, and processes in creating works of art to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.

1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.

2.A. Students will illustrate how the visual components of art and design work together to create expressive qualities in works of art.

2.B. Students will illustrate how the organizational components of art and design work together to communicate ideas.

2.C. Students will plan and create works of art that show the development of ideas across time.

2.D. Students will employ the relationships between visual and organizational components of art and design and expressive qualities or functions to improve communication of ideas in their own works.

DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.

3.A. Students will identify subjects, symbols, and ideas as possible sources for content in their own works of art.

3.B. Students will analyze and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.

4.A. Students will identify the roles of artists in society across cultures, times and places.

4.B. Students will examine the relationships of the visual arts to various cultures, times, and places.

4.C. Students will classify specific artists and works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

4.D. Students will identify and illustrate ways that cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.

4.E. Students will compare various functions or purposes of works of art and design across various cultures, times, and places.

DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.

5.A. Students will identify and describe how the visual arts are forms of communication that are used to express ideas, actions, and emotions.

5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing, describing, and analyzing works of art.

5.C. Students will analyze works of art to determine why they were created.

5.D. Students will explore how experiences as an individual and as a member of groups influence the creation of works of art.

5.E. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to characteristics of the same works of art.

DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.

6.A. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines (e.g., pattern, rhythm, balance, shape, space).

6.B. Students will identify and illustrate similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios and/or plays.

1.A. Students will recognize the structure of a play in a written format.

1.B. Students will understand how play making is based on personal and shared experience and imagination.

1.C. Students will record the improvised movement and/or dialogue of a play through writing, taping, or other means.

1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.

1.E. Students will identify, compare, and contrast different forms of plays.

DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in formal or informal presentations.

2.A. Students will explore the dialogue and actions of characters in a dramatic text.

2.B. Students will develop the skill of concentration to enact a created character.

2.C. Students will use variations of movement, gesture, and vocal expression (e.g., pitch tempo, and tone) to create different characters.

2.D. Students will examine how characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.

DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.

3.A. Students will imagine, design, and construct environments to communicate locale and mood.

3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting for improvised scenes.

3.C. Students will select, organize, and invent appropriate costumes and makeup for scripted scenes.

DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing improvised or scripted scenes.

4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey the meaning of improvised scenes.

4.C. Students will identify character relationships in scenes.

4.D. Students will identify elements of dialogue (e.g., dialect, regionalism, rhythm, meter, connotation) in scenes.

4.E. Students will develop directorial vision and production concept.

DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.

5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize successful house and front-of-house activities (e.g., tickets, programs, ushers, and sales) for informal or formal productions.

5.B. Students will investigate methods for advertising (e.g., print, electronic media, etc.) formal or informal productions.

DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.

6.A. Students will discuss how the characteristic elements of the various art forms express ideas and emotions.

6.B. Students will incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual art forms in an informal presentation.

6.C. Students will identify the differences between a live performance of a play and an electronic presentation of it.

6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.

7.A. Students will explore how dramatic elements combine successfully to make a whole.

7.B. Students will examine how and why individuals respond differently to dramatic presentations.

DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.

8.A. Students will explore the specific relationships of theatre arts to various cultures, times, and places.

8.B. Students will classify specific theatre pieces as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

8.C. Students will identify and illustrate ways cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.

8.D. Students will understand the importance of role playing in daily communication.

8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.

DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.A. Students will demonstrate the following movement skills: skeletal alignment, balance, initiation of movement, isolation of body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery.

1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from two different styles or traditions.

1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a more complex musical beat (e.g., syncopation, polyrhythms).

1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.

1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to maintain personal space.

1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences.

1.G. Students will identify skeletal landmarks and explain how they are used in performing dance movements.

1.H. Students will make self adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.

DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.A. Students will create group shapes (e.g., geometric).

2.B. Students will use improvisation to solve movement problems.

2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and end to a rhythmic accompaniment. Repeat it. Identify each of the parts of the sequence.

2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on concepts from various sources (e.g., paintings, books, poetry).

2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: creating contrasting and complimentary shapes, taking and supporting weight.

DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.

3.A. Students will observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement (e.g., sports, everyday gestures).

3.B. Students will explore solutions to a movement problem, choose their favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.

3.C. Students will discuss their interpretations of and reactions to a dance seen both live and on film and/or video.

3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of space, time, or force/energy.

3.E. Students will use dance terminology to describe movement.

3.F. Students will express their opinions about dances in a constructive way.

DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.

4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical); describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles.

4.B. Students will learn and share a dance or dance movements from resources in their own community (e.g., people, books, videos); describe the cultural and/or historical context.

DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

5.A. Students will demonstrate the integrated components of the arts in dance production.

5.B. Students will create a movement study that reveals similarities and differences between dance and other art forms.

5.C. Students will observe, demonstrate and/or explain how lighting, costuming, spoken text, and music can affect the meaning of a dance.

5.D. Students will make connections between dance and wellness by explaining how healthy/unhealthy practices affect the body.

5.E. Students will demonstrate how similar concepts (such as balance, shape, pattern) are used in dance and another discipline outside the arts.