Tennessee State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5

TN.1.0. Dance: Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.1. Apply the following underlying principles of movement in the execution of a dance sequence: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.

1.2. Perform combinations of non-locomotor and locomotor skills of increasing length and complexity.

1.3. Utilize the full range of personal space in movement.

1.4. Transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic in trios or small groups.

1.5. Transfer multiple rhythmic patterns from sound to the kinesthetic.

1.6. Design and perform a variety of group to group spatial relationships.

1.7. Identify the technical vocabulary for given dance movements.

TN.2.0. Dance: Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.1. Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate contrast.

2.2. Demonstrate the partner skills of balance and counter balance.

2.3. Compose dances using the choreographic elements of space, time, and energy.

2.4. Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, call and response, theme and variation, and narrative.

2.5. Analyze the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD and support that position.

TN.3.0. Dance: Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

3.1. Experiment with transforming pantomime to abstract movement.

3.2. Create a dance that successfully communicates multiple themes, teach the dance to another student and perform.

TN.4.0. Dance: Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.1. Present and support a personal critique of a dance.

TN.5.0. Dance: Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.1. Research and perform a folk or social dance from a chosen culture.

5.2. Compare dances from two different cultures and explain how each is reflective of its culture.

5.3. Discuss the basic evolution of a dance form.

TN.6.0. Dance: Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.1. Discuss how the skeleton and muscles work together.

6.2. Implement an effective health plan through review and revision.

6.3. Improve one's personal health and wellness through dance.

TN.7.0. Dance: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

7.1. Analyze how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in other art forms.

7.2. Examine the connections between dance and three or more other academic disciplines.

TN.1.0. Music: Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.1. Demonstrate the ability to sing alone and in unison.

1.2. Demonstrate the ability to sing expressively using proper vocal technique.

1.3. Demonstrate the ability to sing in parts.

TN.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.1. Play syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms.

2.2. Play question and answer phrases.

2.3. Demonstrate skill in playing simple harmonies.

TN.3.0. Music: Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.1. Improvise upon a simple melody vocally and/or instrumentally.

3.2. Improvise a simple variation vocally and/or instrumentally.

3.3. Improvise a simple accompaniment.

TN.4.0. Music: Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.1. Compose a simple piece within specified guidelines.

4.2. Create a simple arrangement of a composition.

TN.5.0. Music: Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

5.1. Demonstrate skills in interpreting musical notation including rhythm, melody and harmony.

5.2. Demonstrate skills in notating music including rhythm, melody, and harmony.

TN.6.0. Music: Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

6.1. Recognize, aurally, music with theme and variations.

6.2. Recognize, aurally, major and minor tonalities in music.

6.3. Recognize, aurally, music from different genres.

TN.7.0. Music: Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.1. Examine and evaluate, aurally and visually, selected music examples.

7.2. Evaluate the quality of music performances.

TN.8.0. Music: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.1. Compare characteristics of two or more arts.

8.2. Demonstrate ways in which the principles of other disciplines relate with those of music.

TN.9.0. Music: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.1. Identify and discuss music from different historical periods.

9.2. Identify and discuss music from different genres and cultures.

TN.1.0. Theatre Art (Level III)

1.1. Sensory perception - Use the senses to interpret experiences as actor and viewer

1.2. Emotional expression - Use emotional recall to interpret and communicate experiences as actor and viewer

1.3. Imagination - Use imagination to interact cooperatively with others in dramatic activities

1.4. Movement - Use movement to express thought, feeling, and character from life, literature, and history

1.5. Language - Use language to discover relationships with others through dramatic activities

1.6. Voice - Use voice for conscious communication of thought, feeling, and character

1.7. Artistic discipline - Demonstrate self-discipline in dramatic activities

1.8. Concentration - Utilize concentration in the creation of drama

1.9. Self-concept - Discover self as effective in imagining, interacting, and reflecting in drama

1.10. Ensemble and interpersonal skills - Develop skills of cooperation and interaction through dramatic activities

1.11. Problem solving - Devise alternative resolutions to problems in a dramatic context

1.12. Improvisation - Explore improvisation through action and dialogue

1.13. Acting - Explore characterization in life and fantasy situations

1.14. Directing - Recognize the function of a group leader as a director

1.15. Playmaking and playwriting - Participate in playmaking by structuring the development and resolution of dramatic problems

1.16. Technical elements - Explore the effect of selected elements of technical theatre in dramatic activities

1.17. Theatre management - Demonstrate knowledge of the functions of theatre management

1.18. Dramatic literature - Understand the relationship between dramatic literature and dramatic activities

1.19. Theatre history and heritage - Explore theatre heritage and history

1.20. Drama/Theatre in a multicultural society - Explore multicultural concepts through dramatic activities

1.21. Roles and careers - Explore a variety of roles and occupations including theatre and other arts

1.22. Elements of drama - Identify and use elements of drama

1.23. Audience - Respond to live theatre and understand the audience's responsibility

1.24. Theatre and other arts - Explore relationships between drama/theatre and other arts

1.25. Aesthetic response - Explore drama/theatre in order to understand and appreciate the creative process

TN.1.0. Visual Arts: Media, Techniques, and Processes - Students will understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.

1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of tools and materials used to create a work of art.

1.2. Develop skills in a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect ideas, concepts, symbols and themes.

1.3. Use tools and materials in a safe and responsible manner.

1.4. Demonstrate levels of craftsmanship.

TN.2.0. Visual Arts: Structures and Functions - Students will use knowledge of structures and functions.

2.1. Use the elements and principles of art to communicate ideas.

2.2. Discuss and analyze the functions of art in different environments.

2.3. Create artworks to meet various functions.

TN.3.0. Visual Arts: Evaluation - Students will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.1. Discuss artistic intent by evaluating subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art by others.

3.2. Experiment with subject matter, symbols, and ideas to create meaning in their own artworks.

TN.4.0. Visual Arts: Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.1. Relate works of art to different times, civilizations and places.

4.2. Demonstrate how art, history, and cultures influence each other.

4.3. Recognize how artists are influenced by cultures, history and movements in art.

TN.5.0. Visual Arts: Reflection and Assessment - Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.1. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

5.2. Appraise the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

5.3. Examine different responses to artworks.

TN.6.0. Visual Arts: Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

6.1. Find relationships between the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.2. Examine ways in which other disciplines are interrelated with the visual arts.