Grade 5 Fine Arts Massachusetts Standards

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Describe and demonstrate personal artistic style and how to use it to maintain a positive body image (e.g., mindfulness, injury-prevention).

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.

Identify influential works of dance from different periods and how they impact current dance forms.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Generate interdisciplinary ideas that explore space (including direct and indirect), and time (including sudden and sustained) and force (including strong and light) as elements of dance.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Organize choreographed phrases using compositional forms (e.g., AB, ABA, canon, rondo, retrograde, theme-variations).

Record movements and choreography using proper dance terminology.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Refine a dance phrase by making changes in space, time, and energy/force. (5-6.D.Cr.03.a)

Create sequences of movement that demonstrate various technical elements such as unison, contrast, repetition, and climax.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop an artistic statement that explains their movement choices.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Demonstrate understanding of flexibility, alignment, initiation of movement, weight shift, and balance.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Formally present a short movement work to an audience.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Analyze how a movement work's form (e.g., ternary (ABA), rondo) supports the choreographer's intention.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Use specific vocabulary to identify details about a movement work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Apply a rubric to evaluate a dance work (e.g., a rubric that includes skills of performers, originality of movement, visual and/or emotional impact, variety, contrast and appropriateness of the artistic elements).

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Creating

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe and demonstrate one’s own artistic style, and preferences in media arts.

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify influential media works and how they impacted media arts.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate integrative approaches to produce content for different audiences.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Organize and plan an idea using a variety of self-selected strategies (e.g., storyboards, flowcharts, or prototypes).

Refine and complete artistic work. Refine a media arts idea by making changes in how images, interactivity, or sound are used.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Explain artistic choices by developing an artist statement.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Develop a visual plan for displaying a media artwork, analyzing where viewers will interact with the work and other needs of the viewer.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Formally present a media artwork piece that makes connections to other disciplines.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze how an artwork's form supports the artist's intention.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Use specific vocabulary to identify details about a media arts work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Apply a rubric to evaluate a media piece.

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Describe and demonstrate one’s personal musical style and preferences.

Generate interdisciplinary musical ideas using a variety of non-traditional sound sources (e.g., found sounds, digital technology, unusual voices).

Document original simple melodic ideas with standard notation.

Organize musical ideas using expanded forms such as rondo and theme and variations.

Improvise and compare different versions of a single musical idea (e.g., adding flourishes, altering rhythms).

Identify standard notation symbols and musical terms referring to dynamics, tempo, articulations, meter, and expression and apply them when performing.

Sing and play music written in 3 parts using appropriate technique.

Develop awareness of where the natural break in one’s singing range is located and how to cross the break and even out the voice in this range.

Sing and play in groups responding to cues from a conductor exhibiting stylistic elements.

Analyze how an artwork's form (e.g., use of repetition, contrasting patterns, phrases, and themes) supports the composer's intention.

Use specific vocabulary to identify details about a musical work.

Apply a rubric to evaluate a musical work (e.g. a rubric that includes accuracy, sound quality, and expressiveness).

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.

Responding

Refine and complete artistic work.

Connecting

Creating

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Performing

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Identify influential music from different periods and how they impacted music at the time and potentially today.

Responding

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Creating

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Performing

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.

Connecting

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Improvise short melodic and rhythmic ideas that reflect characteristics of different genres.

Record decisions about accuracy of written music (e.g., adding reminder of key signature, or indicating beat subdivisions for a difficult rhythm).

Refine musical interpretations exploring different elements (e.g. dynamics and articulations).

Identify basic strategies musicians use to practice and employ them in readying a musical work for performance.

Perform with accuracy and expression works from the vocal or instrumental literature with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6; or a comparable scale.

Match a musical performance with expressed intent (e.g., wanting the audience to identify with an emotion).

Analyze how cultures are reflected in a diverse range of musical works.

Explain how a musical work is connected to a particular cultural, historical context where it was created.

Develop criteria for a rubric for evaluating musical works (e.g., students create criteria for a performance that is juried by students).

Describe influences of one’s personal musical style and preferences.

Identify musical ideas from different cultures studied in history and social science (e.g., American native).

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe and demonstrate one’s own theatrical style and preferences.

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify influential theatrical works from different periods and how they affected theatre.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate interdisciplinary design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Develop essential events that make up the dramatic structure in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Articulate how characters might move, speak, and react to support a theatrical work.

Capture character dialogue and sensory details of imagined worlds and improvised stories in a script for a theatrical work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Explain character and design choices by developing an artist’s statement.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Develop effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work (e.g., altering voice, gestures, or posture).

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Contribute to the performance of a short theatrical work with an audience (e.g., acting, writing or supporting a technical element) that makes connections to other disciplines.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze how the structure of a theatrical work supports the artist's intent (e.g., using three similar repeating events).

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Use domain-specific vocabulary to identify details about a play or theatre work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Apply a rubric to evaluate a theatrical scene.

HSS Connection: Students develop their own spoken word scripts about the history of the 20th century Civil Rights movement.

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Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe and demonstrate personal artistic style and preferences.

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Identify influential works of art from different periods and their impact on the artistic world.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate artworks that integrate ideas with new materials, methods, and approaches.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Organize and plan an idea using a variety of self-selected strategies (e.g., sketches, prototypes, rough drafts).

Refine and complete artistic work. a. Refine an artistic work by making changes to specific elements, such as color, form, or space. (5-6.V.Cr.03.a) b. Investigate and invent new techniques and approaches using two- and three-dimensional materials. (5-6.V.Cr.03.b)

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Develop a title and artist statement that explain important information about a personal artwork.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Develop a visual plan for displaying works of art and the layout of the exhibit.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Formally present a piece of artwork (i.e., personally speak about the artwork, as opposed to just having the work displayed) that makes connections to other disciplines.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze how an artwork's form (e.g., portrait, sculpture, installation, textile art) compares and contrasts with others of the same type or period.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Use domain-specific vocabulary to identify details about an artistic work

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Evaluate a piece of artwork based on a predetermined list of criteria.

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