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Chesterfield Township Elementary School
Performing Arts
MUSIC
Curriculum Guide Grades
K-6
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Table of Contents
Rationale and Philosophy & NJ State Standards 2
Pacing Guide 6
Standards of Study by Grade Level
Kindergarten ____________________ 7
Grade 1 17
Grade 2 27
Grade 3 37
Grade 4 47
Grade 5 57
Grade 6 67
Scope and Sequence 77
Differentiation Guide 81
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RATIONALE AND PHILOSOPHY
“During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it
brought me great peace of mind. I have shared my love of music with people throughout this world,
while listening to the drums and special instruments of the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean,
and the Far North, and all of this started with the music appreciation course that I was taught in a third
grade elementary class in Princeton, New Jersey. What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where
music was not taught to children.”
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf — United States Army
Our philosophy is to expose students to musical experiences, and through those experiences for students to gain knowledge. All students shall be exposed to a variety of music, songs, dances, and performances from diverse cultures and genres as a part of the weekly music education. Students will engage in critical thinking through performance, listening, creating, analysis and critique, as a part of the regular music curriculum. Upon completion of the Chesterfield Township music program, students shall acquire general fundamental skills, appreciation of the arts, and the foundation for a well-rounded education.
NJ Standards and Strands Visual and Performing Arts
NJCCCS: Standard 1.1 The Creative Process: All students will demonstrate an
understanding of the elements and principles that govern the creation of works of art in
dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
By the end of grade 2, all students progress toward BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in MUSIC.
1.1.2.B.1 – Explore the elements of music through verbal and written responses to
diverse aural prompts and printed scores.
1.1.2.B.2 – Identify musical elements in response to diverse aural prompts, such as
rhythm, timbre, dynamics, form, and melody.
1.1.2.B.3 – Identify and categorize sound sources by common traits (e.g., scales,
rhythmic patterns, and/or other musical elements), and identify rhythmic notation up to
eighth notes and rests.
1.1.2.B.4 – Categorize families of instruments and identify their associated musical
properties.
By the end of grade 5, all students demonstrate BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in MUSIC.
1.1.5.B.1 – Identify the elements of music in response to aural prompts and printed
music notational systems.
1.1.5.B.2 – Demonstrate the basic concepts of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords,
and melodic and harmonic progressions, and differentiate basic structures.
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NJCCCS: Standard 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture: All students will understand
the role, development, and influence of the arts throughout history and across cultures.
By the end of grade 2, all students progress toward BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART.
1.2.2.A.1 – Identify characteristic theme-based works of dance, music, theatre, and
visual art, such as artworks based on the themes of family and community, from various
historical periods and world cultures.
1.2.2.A.2 – Identify how artists and specific works of dance, music, theatre, and visual
art reflect, and are affected by, past and present cultures.
By the end of grade 5, all students demonstrate BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART.
1.2.5.A.1 – Recognize works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art as a reflection of
societal values and beliefs.
1.2.5.A.2 – Relate common artistic elements that define distinctive art genres in dance,
music, theatre, and visual art.
1.2.5.A.3 – Determine the impact of significant contributions of individual artists in
dance, music, theatre, and visual art from diverse cultures throughout history.
NJCCCS: Standard 1.3 Performing: All students will synthesize skills, media, methods, and technologies that are appropriate to creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
By the end of grade 2, all students progress toward BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in MUSIC.
1.3.2.B.1 – Clap, sing, or play on pitch from basic notation in the treble clef, with
consideration of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and tempo.
1.3.2.B.2 – Demonstrate developmentally appropriate vocal production/vocal
placement and breathing technique.
1.3.2.B.3 – Demonstrate correct playing techniques for Orff instruments or equivalent
homemade instruments.
1.3.2.B.4 – Vocalize the home tone of familiar and unfamiliar songs, and demonstrate
appropriate posture and breathing technique while performing songs, rounds, or canons
in unison and with a partner.
1.3.2.B.5 – Improvise short tonal and rhythmic patterns over ostinatos, and modify
melodic or rhythmic patterns using selected notes and/or scales to create expressive
ideas.
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1.3.2.B.6 – Sing or play simple melodies or rhythmic accompaniments in AB and ABA
forms independently and in groups, and sight-read rhythmic and music notation up to
and including eighth notes and rests in a major scale
1.3.2.B.7 – Blend unison and harmonic parts and vocal or instrumental timbres while
matching dynamic levels in response to a conductor’s cues.
By the end of grade 5, all students demonstrate BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in MUSIC.
1.3.5.B.1 – Sing or play music from complex notation, using notation systems in treble
and bass clef, mixed meter, and compound meter.
1.3.5.B.2 – Sing melodic and harmonizing parts, independently and in groups, adjusting
to the range and timbre of the developing voice.
1.3.5.B.3 – Improvise and score simple melodies over given harmonic structures using
traditional instruments and/or computer programs.
1.3.5.B.4 – Decode how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety,
tension and release, and balance in musical compositions.
NJCCCS: Standard 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies: All students
will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to
works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
By the end of grade 2, all students progress toward BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART.
1.4.2.A.1 – Identify aesthetic qualities of exemplary works of art in dance, music,
theatre, and visual art, and identify characteristics of the artists who created them (e.g.,
gender, age, absence or presence of training, style, etc.).
1.4.2.A.2 – Compare and contrast culturally and historically diverse works of dance,
music, theatre, and visual art that evoke emotion and that communicate cultural
meaning.
1.4.2.A.3 – Use imagination to create a story based on an arts experience that
communicated an emotion or feeling, and tell the story through each of the four arts
disciplines (dance, music, theatre, and visual art).
1.4.2.A.4 – Distinguish patterns in nature found in works of dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
By the end of grade 5, all students demonstrate BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART.
1.4.5.A.1 – Employ basic, discipline-specific arts terminology to categorize works of
dance, music, theatre, and visual art according to established classifications
1.4.5.A.2 – Make informed aesthetic responses to artworks based on structural
arrangement and personal, cultural, and historical points of view.
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1.4.5.A.3 – Demonstrate how art communicates ideas about personal and social values
and is inspired by an individual’s imagination and frame of reference (e.g., personal,
social, political, historical context.)
By the end of grade 2, all students progress toward BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART
1.4.2.B.1 – Observe the basic arts elements in performances and exhibitions and use
them to formulate objective assessments of artworks in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
1.4.2.B.2 – Apply the principles of positive critique in giving and receiving responses to
performances.
1.4.2.B.3 – Recognize the making subject or theme in works of dance, music, theatre,
and visual art.
By the end of grade 5, all students demonstrate BASIC LITERACY in the following content
knowledge and skills in DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, and VISUAL ART.
1.4.5.B.1 – Assess the application of the elements of art and principles of design in
dance, music, theatre, and visual artworks using observable, objective criteria.
1.4.5.B.2 – Use evaluative tools, such as rubrics, for self-assessment and to appraise the
objectivity of critiques by peers.
1.4.5.B.3 – Use discipline-specific arts terminology to evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of works of dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
1.4.5.B.4 – Define technical proficiency, using the elements of the arts and principles of
design.
1.4.5.B.5 – Distinguish ways in which individuals may disagree about the relative merits
and effectiveness of artistic choices in the creation and performance of works of dance,
music, theatre, and visual art.
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PACING GUIDE
Kindergarten – Second Grade Rhythm Melody Harmony Timbre Expression Cultural
Connection
September ✓ ✓
October ✓ ✓ ✓
November ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
December ✓ ✓ ✓
January ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
February ✓ ✓ ✓
March ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
April ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
May/June ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Third Grade – Sixth Grade Rhythm Melody Harmony Timbre Expression Cultural
Connection
September ✓ ✓
October ✓ ✓ ✓
November ✓ ✓
December ✓ ✓
January ✓ ✓
February ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
March ✓ ✓
April ✓ ✓
May/June ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
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KINDERGARTEN RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● Math K.CC.A.1- Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
● Math K.MD.A.1- Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several
measurable attributes of a single object.
● SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
● SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we hear/feel
music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat/no beat
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats and rhythm patterns
4. To perceive and respond to long and short sounds
5. To play/clap repeated patterns
6. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various rhythmic
patterns
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations
• Self-assessment
• Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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KINDERGARTEN MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ● SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other
media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is
not understood. ● SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is
not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To differentiate between songs (melodic), chants (non-melodic), and rhymes (non-melodic) 2. To distinguish high and low tones
3. To distinguish upward and downward direction
4. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats
5. To identify and perform melodic patterns
6. To identify phrases
7. To read notational symbols
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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KINDERGARTEN HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
● SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the effect of a song with accompaniment vs. no accompaniment
2. To play and/or sing harmony parts
3. To perform an ostinato or counter-melody to a song
4. To identify rhythmic and melodic ostinatos and counter-melodies by clapping, playing an
instrument, and/or singing 5. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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KINDERGARTEN TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ● SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other
media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is
not understood. ● SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is
not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact how we hear/feel
music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener through tone color
and sound combinations, including vocal,
instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To perceive the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To distinguish between a single voice and several voices
4. To identify instruments by their timbre
5. To choose appropriate instruments for sound effects and accompaniments
6. To explore sounds of nature, machine sounds, and found sounds
7. To improvise with various vocal/instrumental timbres
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
●
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks: Teacher observation of student
participation
● Performance rubrics
●
Worksheets and classwork
●
Evaluations
●
Self-assessment
●
Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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KINDERGARTEN EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● NJSLSA.R4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical,
connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
● NJSLSA.R5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
● NJSLSA.R7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including
visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
● SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
● SL.K.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is
not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact how
we hear/feel music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To notice and respond to fast and slow music
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To perceive and respond to loud and soft sounds
5. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue (echo song),
verse-refrain, rounds, cannons, introductions, codas, ABA, AAAB, AABA, ABAB
6. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
7. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
8. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sound effects, and other
accompaniments to music
9. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play games using fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low • Play pattern games using a variety of shapes and colors
• Sing and perform songs, sing in a program • Dance, pantomime, create and improvise movement • Listen and critique
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 1 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.5 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.6 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.7 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.8 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat/no beat 3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats and rhythm patterns 4. To perceive and respond to long and short sounds 5. To play/clap repeated patterns 6. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various rhythmic
patterns
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 1 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.5 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.6 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.7 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.8 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To differentiate between songs (melodic), chants (non-melodic), and rhymes (non-melodic)
2. To distinguish high and low tones
3. To distinguish upward and downward direction
4. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats
5. To identify and perform melodic patterns
6. To identify phrases
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7. To read notational symbols
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 1 HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.5 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.6 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.7 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.8 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts
with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ● SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented
orally or through other media. ● SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information
or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the effect of a song with accompaniment vs. no accompaniment
2. To play and/or sing harmony parts
3. To perform an ostinato or counter-melody to a song
4. To identify rhythmic and melodic ostinatos and counter-melodies by clapping, playing an instrument,
and/or singing
5. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork
• Evaluations
• Self-assessment
• Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 1 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.5 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.6 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.7 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.8 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts
with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ● SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented
orally or through other media. ● SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information
or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact how we hear/feel
music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener through tone color
and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To perceive the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To distinguish between a single voice and several voices
4. To identify instruments by their timbre
5. To choose appropriate instruments for sound effects and accompaniments
6. To explore sounds of nature, machine sounds, and found sounds
7. To improvise with various vocal/instrumental timbres
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
●
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks: Teacher observation of student
participation
●
Performance rubrics
●
Worksheets and classwork
●
Evaluations
●
Self-assessment
●
Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 1 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.5 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.6 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.7 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.8 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● NJSLSA.R4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical,
connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
NJSLSA.R5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
● NJSLSA.R7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including
visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
● SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information
or clarify something that is not understood.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact how
we hear/feel music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To notice and respond to fast and slow music
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To perceive and respond to loud and soft sounds
5. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue (echo song), verse-refrain,
rounds, cannons, introductions, codas, ABA, AAAB, AABA, ABAB
6. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
7. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
8. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sound effects, and other accompaniments to
music
9. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play games using fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low • Play pattern games using a variety of shapes and colors
• Sing and perform songs, sing in a program • Dance, pantomime, create and improvise movement • Listen and critique
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
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color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment
• Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 2 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.9 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.10 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of
the arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.11 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate
to creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.12 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.2.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.2.2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat/no beat
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats and rhythm patterns
4. To perceive and respond to long and short sounds
5. To play/clap repeated patterns
6. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various
rhythmic patterns
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 2 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.9 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.10 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of
the arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.11 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate
to creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.12 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.2.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.2.2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To differentiate between songs (melodic), chants (non-melodic), and rhymes (non-melodic) 2. To distinguish high and low tones
3. To distinguish upward and downward direction
4. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats
5. To identify and perform melodic patterns
6. To identify phrases
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7. To read notational symbols
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 2 HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.9 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.10 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of
the arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.11 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate
to creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.12 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.2.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.2.2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
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Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the effect of a song with accompaniment vs. no accompaniment 2. To play and/or sing harmony parts
3. To perform an ostinato or counter-melody to a song
4. To identify rhythmic and melodic ostinatos and counter-melodies by clapping, playing an
instrument, and/or singing
5. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: ● Sing, dance, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation
● Match and differentiate pitch
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 2 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.2.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts
with peers and adults in small and larger groups. ● SL.2.2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally
or through other media. ● SL.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension,
gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact how we hear/feel
music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener through tone color
and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To perceive the timbre of voices 2. To produce a variety of timbres 3. To distinguish between a single voice and several voices 4. To identify instruments by their timbre 5. To choose appropriate instruments for sound effects and accompaniments 6. To explore sounds of nature, machine sounds, and found sounds 7. To improvise with various vocal/instrumental timbres
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
●
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks: Teacher observation of student
participation
●
Performance rubrics
●
Worksheets and classwork
●
Evaluations
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Self-assessment
●
Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 2 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● NJSLSA.R4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical,
connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
NJSLSA.R5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
● NJSLSA.R7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including
visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
● SL.2.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
● SL.2.2. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
● SL.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact how
we hear/feel music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To notice and respond to fast and slow music
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To perceive and respond to loud and soft sounds
5. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue (echo song), verse-refrain,
rounds, cannons, introductions, codas, ABA, AAAB, AABA, ABAB
6. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
7. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
8. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sound effects, and other accompaniments to music
9. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play games using fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low • Play pattern games using a variety of shapes and colors • Sing and perform songs, sing in a program • Dance, pantomime, create and improvise movement • Listen and critique
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 3 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher
led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
● SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat and rhythm
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats, rhythm patterns, and meter
4. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
5. To analyze rhythmic elements in a piece of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various
rhythmic patterns
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 3 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
● SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives:
1. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats, visually and aurally
2. To identify and perform melodic patterns, visually and aurally
3. To identify and analyze the contour of a melody
4. To recognize, define, and describe phrases in a song
5. To read, write and sing pitches from notational symbols
6. To aurally recognize major and minor tonality
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, pantomime, play recorder and play classroom instruments by rote and through reading
notation
• Create, notate, re-write, compose, and/or improvise a melody • Listen, analyze and critique melodic music • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
repetition, Give immediate positive reinforcement and feedback, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for
assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures
for speed or accuracy, alternate version of tests/worksheets
Students at Risk for Failure: Assistive technology, Extra time, Special seating, Student buddies, Stopping
and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow work to
be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 3 HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
● SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music? • Can you identify the origin of music by time and/or
location based on harmonic elements?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts • Each time period and/or culture has a specific use
for harmony
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To become aware of harmonic characteristics of different styles of music
2. To perform and/or create harmony by clapping, playing an instrument, and/or singing: ostinato,
counter-melody, descant, partner song, round, cannon
3. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
4. To understand tonality, chords, and harmonic progressions
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, listen, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation • Sing, play pitched percussion, and play recorder using counter melody, partner songs, cannons, rounds,
and straight harmony
• Listen to melody-alone vs. melody with chords • Play games
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 3 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
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Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
● SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • How can you identify various timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact the listener’s
perception of music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener’s perception of music
through tone color and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To examine the effects produced by different vocal combinations
4. To hear and perform various vocal timbre for different styles of music
5. To identify instruments by their timbre
6. To analyze music in terms of the instruments used
7. To determine the distinguishing characteristics of instruments alone and in a group including
Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, and Strings in an Orchestra/Band
8. To improvise and compose with various vocal/instrumental timbre
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
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Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 3 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● NJSLSA.R4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical,
connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
NJSLSA.R5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
● NJSLSA.R7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including
visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
● SL.3.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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● SL.3.2. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
● SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact
music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To experience and identify the effects of various tempi
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To recognize the relationship of dynamics to the character of a piece of music
5. To perform appropriate dynamics to an existing or original piece of music
6. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue, verse-refrain, rounds, cannons,
introductions, codas, theme and variation, binary form, ternary form, rondo form
7. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
8. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
9. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sounds and sound effects, and other accompaniments
to contribute to the style and mood of a piece of music
10. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
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11. To identify expressive elements that contribute to the style and mood of a piece
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play classroom instruments • Sing songs • Act out a story song using appropriate body language • Write original poem using form • Compose original song using form • Show form through patterned dance movements • Analyze listening selection for: tempo, dynamics, mood/style, form • Create a sound piece • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 4 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.4.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.4.2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and
formats (e.g.,visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.4.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.
CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat and rhythm
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats, rhythm patterns, and meter
4. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
5. To analyze rhythmic elements in a piece of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various
rhythmic patterns
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 4 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.4.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their
own clearly. ● SL.4.2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and
formats (e.g.,visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.4.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives:
1. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats, visually and aurally
2. To identify and perform melodic patterns, visually and aurally
3. To identify and analyze the contour of a melody
4. To recognize, define, and describe phrases in a song
5. To read, write and sing pitches from notational symbols
6. To aurally recognize major and minor tonality
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, pantomime, play recorder and play classroom instruments by rote and through reading
notation
• Create, notate, re-write, compose, and/or improvise a melody • Listen, analyze and critique melodic music • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 4 HARMONY
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Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.4.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.4.2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and
formats (e.g.,visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.4.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music? • Can you identify the origin of music by time and/or
location based on harmonic elements?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts • Each time period and/or culture has a specific use
for harmony
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To become aware of harmonic characteristics of different styles of music
2. To perform and/or create harmony by clapping, playing an instrument, and/or singing: ostinato,
counter-melody, descant, partner song, round, cannon
3. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
4. To understand tonality, chords, and harmonic progressions
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, listen, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation • Sing, play pitched percussion, and play recorder using counter melody, partner songs, cannons, rounds,
and straight harmony
• Listen to melody-alone vs. melody with chords • Play games
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation
• Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 4 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
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Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.4.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their
own clearly. ● SL.4.2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and
formats (e.g.,visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.4.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • How can you identify various timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact the listener’s
perception of music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener’s perception of music
through tone color and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To examine the effects produced by different vocal combinations
4. To hear and perform various vocal timbre for different styles of music
5. To identify instruments by their timbre
6. To analyze music in terms of the instruments used
7. To determine the distinguishing characteristics of instruments alone and in a group including Woodwind,
Brass, Percussion, and Strings in an Orchestra/Band
8. To improvise and compose with various vocal/instrumental timbre
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 4 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.4.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.4.2. Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g.,visually, quantitatively, and orally).
● SL.4.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
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21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact
music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To experience and identify the effects of various tempi
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To recognize the relationship of dynamics to the character of a piece of music
5. To perform appropriate dynamics to an existing or original piece of music
6. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue, verse-refrain, rounds, cannons,
introductions, codas, theme and variation, binary form, ternary form, rondo form
7. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
8. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
9. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sounds and sound effects, and other accompaniments
to contribute to the style and mood of a piece of music
10. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
11. To identify expressive elements that contribute to the style and mood of a piece
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play classroom instruments • Sing songs • Act out a story song using appropriate body language • Write original poem using form • Compose original song using form • Show form through patterned dance movements • Analyze listening selection for: tempo, dynamics, mood/style, form • Create a sound piece • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 5 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.5.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.5.2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.5.3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons
and evidence.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat and rhythm
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats, rhythm patterns, and meter
4. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
5. To analyze rhythmic elements in a piece of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various
rhythmic patterns
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 5 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
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Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.5.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their
own clearly. ● SL.5.2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.5.3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons
and evidence.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives:
1. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats, visually and aurally
2. To identify and analyze the contour of a melody
3. To recognize, define, and describe phrases in a song
4. To read, write and sing pitches from notational symbols
5. To aurally recognize major and minor tonality
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, pantomime, play recorder and play classroom instruments by rote and through reading
notation
• Create, notate, re-write, compose, and/or improvise a melody • Listen, analyze and critique melodic music • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
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grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 5 HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.5.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.5.2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.5.3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons
and evidence.
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21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music? • Can you identify the origin of music by time and/or
location based on harmonic elements?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody
and additional parts • Each time period and/or culture has a specific
use for harmony
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To become aware of harmonic characteristics of different styles of music
2. To perform and/or create harmony by clapping, playing an instrument, and/or singing: ostinato,
counter-melody, descant, partner song, round, cannon
3. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
4. To understand tonality, chords, and harmonic progressions
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, listen, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation • Sing, play pitched percussion, and play recorder using counter melody, partner songs, cannons, rounds,
and straight harmony
• Listen to melody-alone vs. melody with chords • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
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Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 5 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.5.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.5.2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally).
● SL.5.3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
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Essential Questions: • How can you identify various timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact the listener’s
perception of music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener’s perception of music
through tone color and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To examine the effects produced by different vocal combinations
4. To hear and perform various vocal timbre for different styles of music
5. To identify instruments by their timbre
6. To analyze music in terms of the instruments used
7. To determine the distinguishing characteristics of instruments alone and in a group including Woodwind,
Brass, Percussion, and Strings in an Orchestra/Band
8. To improvise and compose with various vocal/instrumental timbre
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
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color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 5 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.5.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.5.2. Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally). ● SL.5.3. Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons
and evidence.
Interdisciplinary Connections: 6.1 U.S. History: America in the World: All students will acquire the knowledge and skills to think analytically about how past
and present interactions of people, cultures, and the environment shape the American heritage. Such knowledge and skills
enable students to make informed decisions that reflect fundamental rights and core democratic values as productive citizens
in local, national, and global communities.
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21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact
music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To experience and identify the effects of various tempi
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To recognize the relationship of dynamics to the character of a piece of music
5. To perform appropriate dynamics to an existing or original piece of music
6. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue, verse-refrain, rounds, cannons,
introductions, codas, theme and variation, binary form, ternary form, rondo form
7. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
8. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
9. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sounds and sound effects, and other accompaniments
to contribute to the style and mood of a piece of music
10. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
11. To identify expressive elements that contribute to the style and mood of a piece
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play classroom instruments • Sing songs • Act out a story song using appropriate body language • Write original poem using form • Compose original song using form • Show form through patterned dance movements • Analyze listening selection for: tempo, dynamics, mood/style, form • Create a sound piece • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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GRADE 6 RHYTHM
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly. ● SL.6.2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively,
orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. ● SL.6.3. Deconstruct a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are
supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is rhythm? • In what ways does rhythm impact how we
hear/feel music? • Where can rhythm be found (musical/non-musical
sources)?
Enduring Understandings: • Rhythm is the short and long sounds and silences
in music • Rhythm and beat are not the same • Rhythm can be found/created within natural and
synthetic sources • Rhythm can be found in all music
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To respond to a beat with movement or rhythm instruments
2. To differentiate between steady beat and rhythm
3. To practice identifying and moving to strong beats, rhythm patterns, and meter
4. To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns, using notational symbols
5. To analyze rhythmic elements in a piece of music
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Read, write, create and perform rhythmic patterns • Sing, dance, clap, pantomime, conduct, play rhythm instruments/body percussion using various
rhythmic patterns
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Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 6 MELODY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and
visual art.
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Interdisciplinary Connections: ● SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-
led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.6.2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
● SL.6.3. Deconstruct a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is melody? • In what ways does melody impact how we
hear/feel music? • How does pitch affect the contour of a melody?
Enduring Understandings: • Melody is a pattern of pitch and duration in space
and time • Melody can be found and created in natural and
synthetic sources • Melodic contour is the movement of pitch in an
upward, downward or repeated direction, by steps
and leaps
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives:
1. To identify melodic steps, leaps and repeats, visually and aurally
2. To identify and perform melodic patterns, visually and aurally
3. To identify and analyze the contour of a melody
4. To recognize, define, and describe phrases in a song
5. To read, write and sing pitches from notational symbols
6. To aurally recognize major and minor tonality
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, pantomime, play recorder and play classroom instruments by rote and through reading
notation
• Create, notate, re-write, compose, and/or improvise a melody • Listen, analyze and critique melodic music • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
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grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 6 HARMONY
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.6.2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
● SL.6.3. Deconstruct a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
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21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is harmony? • In what ways does harmony impact how we
hear/feel music? • Can you identify the origin of music by time and/or
location based on harmonic elements?
Enduring Understandings: • Harmony is all pitched parts of a song other than
the melody • Harmony is the enhancement of a song through
chords, accompaniment, ostinato, countermelody and additional parts
• Each time period and/or culture has a specific use
for harmony
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To become aware of harmonic characteristics of different styles of music
2. To perform and/or create harmony by clapping, playing an instrument, and/or singing: ostinato,
counter-melody, descant, partner song, round, cannon
3. To practice singing an independent second vocal part
4. To understand tonality, chords, and harmonic progressions
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Sing, dance, listen, pantomime, and play instruments by rote and through reading notation • Sing, play pitched percussion, and play recorder using counter melody, partner songs, cannons, rounds,
and straight harmony
• Listen to melody-alone vs. melody with chords • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
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color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 6 TIMBRE
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
● SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.6.2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
● SL.6.3. Deconstruct a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • How can you identify various timbre? • In what ways does timbre impact the listener’s
perception of music?
Enduring Understandings: • Timbre is the unique tone used to identify a sound • Timbre impacts the listener’s perception of music
through tone color and sound combinations, including vocal, instrumental, environmental, and natural, encompassing all sound
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Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To identify the timbre of voices
2. To produce a variety of timbres
3. To examine the effects produced by different vocal combinations
4. To hear and perform various vocal timbre for different styles of music
5. To identify instruments by their timbre
6. To analyze music in terms of the instruments used
7. To determine the distinguishing characteristics of instruments alone and in a group including Woodwind,
Brass, Percussion, and Strings in an Orchestra/Band
8. To improvise and compose with various vocal/instrumental timbre
Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Listen to a variety of instruments and sounds • Sing songs and play classroom instruments alone and in a group • Listen to and analyze various vocal and instrumental works • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
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Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
GRADE 6 EXPRESSION
Core Content Standards: 1.1 The Creative Process All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that
govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.2 History of the Arts and Culture All students will understand the role, development, and influence of the
arts throughout history and across cultures. 1.3 Performance All students will synthesize those skills, media, methods, and technologies appropriate to
creating, performing, and/or presenting works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art. 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies All students will demonstrate and apply an
understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
Interdisciplinary Connections: ● ELA: RL.6.1. Cite textual evidence and make relevant connections to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
● RL.6.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details;
provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
● RL.6.9. Compare, contrast and reflect on (e.g. practical knowledge, historical/cultural context, and
background knowledge) texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels
and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics
● Social Studies:
● 6.1 U.S. History: America in the World: All students will acquire the knowledge and skills to think
analytically about how past and present interactions of people, cultures, and the environment shape
the American heritage. Such knowledge and skills enable students to make informed decisions that
reflect fundamental rights and core democratic values as productive citizens in local, national, and
global communities.
● SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
● SL.6.2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
● SL.6.3. Deconstruct a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
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21st Century Practices:
CRP1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. CRP2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. CRP4. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. CRP6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
Essential Questions: • What is form? • What is tempo? • What are dynamics? • How do form, tempo, and dynamics affect style
and mood? • In what ways do expressive elements impact
music? • In what ways does multi-ethnic music use
expression to represent individual culture?
Enduring Understandings: • Form is structure or outline of a piece of music • Tempo is the speed of a piece • Dynamics are the various volumes in music • Form, tempo and dynamics work together to
create an overall style and mood • Expressive elements provide the listener with the
tools to interpret a piece of music • Each culture uses unique and distinctive elements
of expression
Knowledge, Skills, and Instructional Objectives: 1. To experience and identify the effects of various tempi
2. To explore fast, slow and changing tempi
3. To hear how music can suggest feelings and images
4. To recognize the relationship of dynamics to the character of a piece of music
5. To perform appropriate dynamics to an existing or original piece of music
6. To discern and perform: call-response, solo-chorus, two-part dialogue, verse-refrain, rounds, cannons,
introductions, codas, theme and variation, binary form, ternary form, rondo form
7. To perceive and perform repeated and contrasting sections in music
8. To respond to the expressive qualities of a song
9. To create expressive movements, dramatizations, sounds and sound effects, and other accompaniments
to contribute to the style and mood of a piece of music
10. To discover and respond to the images created in various styles and moods of music
11. To identify expressive elements that contribute to the style and mood of a piece
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Recommended Instructional Activities/ Resources: • Play classroom instruments • Sing songs • Act out a story song using appropriate body language • Write original poem using form • Compose original song using form • Show form through patterned dance movements • Analyze listening selection for: tempo, dynamics, mood/style, form • Create a sound piece • Play games
Modification Strategies/Activities:
Special Education: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different color
paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
English Language Learners: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction,
Different color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible
grouping, Clear expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding,
Repetition, Allow use of manuscript, cursive, or typing for assignments, Leniency in spelling and neatness (to an
agreed upon level), Provide a copy of notes Avoid pressures for speed or accuracy, Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback, Alternate versions of tests/worksheet
Students at Risk For Failure: Provide additional cultural and pertinent background information, Assistive
technology, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Gifted and Talented: Adapt amount of work required, Use different forms of assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles, Allow different hands-on activities, and cooperative groups to learn new concepts, Allow
work to be completed in various formats
Students With 504 Plans: Assistive technology, Graphic organizers, Oral review after instruction, Different
color paper of copies for different things, Extra time, Following routines, Special seating, Flexible grouping, Clear
expectations of goals, Consistency, Student buddies, Stopping and checking for understanding
Suggested Assessments/ Benchmarks:
• Teacher observation of student participation • Performance rubrics • Worksheets and classwork • Evaluations • Self-assessment • Accommodated/modified assessments, if required by I.E.P., or 504 Plan
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Scope and Sequence Chart P = PREPARE Experience a new concept physically and aurally without labeling it
I=INTRODUCE Concept presented and practiced at an introductory level
D= DEVELOP Previously presented concept reintroduced and practiced
R=REINFORCE Concept practiced and extended toward mastery
RHYTHM K 1 2 3 4 5 6
To respond to a beat with movement or
rhythm instruments
P, I I, D I, D I, D D D, R D, R
To differentiate between steady/no beat P, I D R
To differentiate between steady beat and
rhythm
P, I I, D D,R
To practice identifying and moving to strong
beats and rhythm patterns
P P I
To practice identifying and moving to strong
beats and rhythm patterns and meter
I D D R
To perceive and respond to long and short
sounds
P, I I, D D, R R R
To play/clap repeated patterns P, I I, D D D D, R R R
To respond, recognize and perform rhythm patterns using notational symbols
P, I I, D D D D, R R R
To analyze rhythmic elements in a piece of
music
P I D D, R
MELODY K 1 2 3 4 5 6
To differentiate between songs (melodic),
chants (non-melodic), and rhymes
(nonmelodic)
P, I D R R R R R
To distinguish high and low tones P, I I, D D D D R R
To distinguish upward and downward
direction
P P, I I, D I, D D D D
To identify melodic steps, leaps, and repeats
aurally
P P P P, I I, D D D
To identify melodic steps, leaps, and repeats
visually
P P, I I I, D D D R
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To identify and perform melodic patterns
aurally
P, I I I, D D R R R
To identify and perform melodic patterns
visually
P P, I P, I I I, D D
To identify phrases P P, I I I I, D D D
To identify and analyze the contour of a melody P P P P, I I, D D
To recognize, define and describe phrases in a
song
P P P, I I I, D D
To read notational symbols P P, I I I, D D D
To read, write and sing pitches from notational
symbols
P P I I, D D
To aurally recognize major and minor tonality P P P P P I I
HARMONY K 1 2 3 4 5 6
To identify the effect of a song with
accompaniment vs. no accompaniment
P P P, I I, D D R R
To play and/or sing harmony parts P P P, I I, D I, D D D
To become aware of harmonic characteristics
of different styles of music
P P I I
To perform an ostinato or counter-melody P I I, D D D D D
To identify rhythmic and melodic ostinatos and
counter-melodies by clapping, playing an
instrument, and/or singing
P P P P, I
To perform and/or create harmony by clapping,
playing an instrument, and/or singing: ostinato,
counter-melody, descant, partner song, round,
cannon
P, I P, I I I, D
To practice singing an independent second
vocal part
P P P, I P, I I I I, D
To understand tonality, chords, and harmonic
progression
P P P, I I I, D
TIMBRE K 1 2 3 4 5 6
To perceive the timbre of voices P, I I, D D R R R R
To identify the timbre of voices P P P I, D D D, R R
To produce a variety of timbres P, I I, D D D R R R
To distinguish between a single voice and P, I I, D D D R R R
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several voices
To examine the effects produced by different
vocal combinations
P P P, I I I, D D
To hear and perform various vocal timbre for
different styles of music
P P, I P, I I I, D D
To identify instruments by their timbre P P I I, D D D, R R
To choose appropriate instruments for sound
effects and accompaniments
P P P, I I, D I, D D D
To explore sounds of nature, machine sounds,
and found sounds
P P, I P, I I I, D R
To analyze music in terms of the instruments
used
P P P, I P, I I I, D D, R
To determine the distinguishing characteristics
of instruments alone and in a group including
P P, I I, D D, R R
woodwinds, brass, percussion and strings in an
orchestra/band
To improvise with various vocal/instrumental
timbre
P P P, I I I, D D
To compose with various vocal/instrumental
timbre
P P, I I I
EXPRESSION K 1 2 3 4 5 6
To notice and respond to fast and slow music P, I P, I I, D I, D D D, R R
To experience and identify the effects of various
tempi
P P P, I I I, D D R
To explore fast, slow, and changing tempi P I I, D D D R R
To hear how music can suggest feelings and
images
P P P, I I, D D D R
To perceive and respond to loud and soft
sounds
P, I I I, D D R R R
To recognize the relationship of dynamics to the
character of a piece of music
P P, I P, I P, I I, D D R
To perform appropriate dynamics to an existing
or original piece of music
P P, I P, I P, I D R R
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To discern and perform: call-response,
solo/chorus, two-part dialogue (echo song),
verse/refrain, rounds, cannons, introductions,
codas, ABA, AAAB, AABA, ABAB
P P P, I P, I I D R
To discern and perform: theme and variation,
binary form, ternary form, rondo form
P P, I I D
To perceive and perform repeated and
contrasting sections in music
P, I I I, D I, D D D R
To respond to the expressive qualities of a song P, I I D R
To create expressive movements,
dramatizations, sound effects and other
accompaniments to music
P, I I, D D R
To create expressive movements,
dramatizations, sounds and sound effects and
other accompaniments to contribute to the
style and mood of a piece of music
P, I D D R R
To discover and respond to the images created
in various styles and moods of music
P P, I I, D I, D D R R
To identify expressive elements that contribute
to the style and mood of a piece of music
P P, I I, D D D
Materials
Making Music, Silver Burdett Ginn, 2003, 2005
World of Music Silver Burdett Ginn, 1999
From Bach to Rock
Music K-8 Magazine
Recorder Karate
Classroom Percussion Instruments, Recorders, Guitar, Piano, Band Instruments
Computer, iPod, Eno Board, CD Player
Manipulatives
Various Recordings
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DIFFERENTIATION ADAPTATIONS Areas for consideration when designing accommodations
Learning Environment Allow a “time out” or private
space for students to choose Use
preferential seating Provide
opportunities for movement Vary activities both in and out of
desk/table
Curriculum Adapt amount of work required
Use different forms of
assessments that demonstrate
different learning styles Allow
different visual aids, concrete
examples, hands-on activities,
and cooperative groups to learn
new concepts Allow work to be
completed in various formats
Teaching and Learning Styles Adapt the way instruction is
delivered to the learner- use
multiple teaching styles to teach
a new concept Use concrete
examples and move towards the
abstract Provide an overview of
lesson at beginning Monitor the rate and manner in
which the material is being
presented
Time Demands Allow extra time to complete tests Give different versions of tests Follow a routine Set specific time limits for test
Cooperative Learning Use flexible grouping Use student choice in grouping
Assign peer helpers to check in
on one another
Behavior Concerns Give clear expectations of
goals for the class period Be
consistent in follow through
with both positive and negative consequences Use of cues Give immediate positive
reinforcement and feedback
Avoid power struggle Allow for a time out or “cool off”
space in classroom for designated
amount of time
Attention/Focus Concerns Give notification of transitions Use of cues to refocus Seat near teacher or in area of less
distraction Introduce assignments in sequential steps Make sure books/materials are on the correct pages
Organization Give copy of notes Allow
student to leave
unnecessary materials in a
nearby area Color coded materials Use of binder system Use
a checklist for work in
smaller units
Written Expression Allow
use of manuscript, cursive,
or typing for assignments Leniency in spelling and neatness
(to an agreed upon level) Provide a copy of notes Avoid
pressures for speed or
accuracy
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Visual Processing Give highlighted/color coded
copy of notes Avoid copying notes from the
board Check in with student to be sure
that visuals are comprehended
from the beginning of lesson Avoided cluttered worksheets
keeping them clear and well
defined
Language Processing Give both written and verbal
directions Slow the rate of presentation
and paraphrase information
Keep statements short and to the
point Allow for extra wait time
Use student’s name before
asking a question Use of visuals and hands-on
materials Familiarize students with new
vocabulary before lesson
Audio Processing Provide a copy of notes Use of a checklist Keep statements short and to the point Use of eye contact Have
student sit closer to
instruction Use of student buddy to check in with sitting nearby
Use of visuals Stop
and check in for
understanding