The Arts Curriculum Map

4^th Grade Music

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	GLE	CONTENT	SKILLS	ASSESSMENT	RESOURCE
Beat Rhythm	Understands, applies, and analyzes the elements of music while creating, performing and responding to music.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Creates and improvises rhythmic phrases. § Composes, performs and identifies compositions in duple and triple meter on pitched and non-pitched instruments. § Demonstrates eighth, quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes and rests. § Uses dotted quarter and eighth note patterns. § Creates basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters. § Demonstrates, experiences, and reads three eighth notes/triplets and four sixteenth notes in rhythmic and song selections.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.1 Pitch Melody		See Music Website for this years Content	§ Improvises and performs a melody. § Matches pitches within a music composition while singing in appropriate voice ranges. § Incorporates basic melodic patterns and simple melodies in musical compositions. § Uses steps and leaps within a major scale to create melodies. § Uses half and whole step intervals within pentatonic and major scale patterns. § Identifies and writes notes in the treble clef.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.1 Harmony Texture Timbre/ Tone Color		See Music Website for this years Content	§ Demonstrates unison and harmony through performance. § Categorizes a variety of musical instruments and human voice. § Identifies the families of the various instruments and human voices by sight and sound. § Understands that sounds are produced by vibrations. § Differentiates major and minor sounds in music with voices, and instruments.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.1 Form		See Music Website for this years Content	§ Identifies specific parts of form. § Identifies AB (verse/chorus, refrain), ABA, AABA, Rondo form ABACA, and Theme and Variation. § Identifies and performs various musical forms visually and aurally. § Examines, identifies, and expresses the form of music taught, rehearsed and/or performed. § Identifies repeat signs and 1^st and 2^nd endings § Performs call and response, echo songs, rounds and partner songs. § Understands and demonstrates the use of D.C. al fine and D.S. al Coda in multiple forms of music. §	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.1 Expression Dynamics Style Tempo Phrasing		See Music Website for this years Content	§ Understands and uses dynamic symbols such as pp, p, mp, mf, f, and ff. § Demonstrates accelerando and ritardando, rallentando in singing, playing instruments and moving to music. § Identifies musical phrases in a piece of music.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.2 Develops music skills and techniques. § Reading Music § Performing § Composing § Sight Singing/Reading § Playing Instruments § Singing § Improvising § Conducting	Analyzes, understands, and applies skills and techniques while creating, performing and responding.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Demonstrates music skills and techniques learning with teacher direction and assistance. § Demonstrates proper music skills and techniques while playing a pitched instrument. § Reading Music § Performing § Composing § Sight Singing/Reading § Playing Instruments § Singing § Improvising § Conducting	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.3 Understands and applies music genres and styles from various artists, cultures and times.	Understands and applies musical experiences from diverse genres, artists, cultures and/or times.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Summarizes the cultural and/or historical aspects of a musical performance. § Uses cultural and/or historical aspects in a musical performance. § Uses aspects of various artists, cultures and times to create a piece of music.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
1.4 Understands and applies audience conventions in a variety of arts settings and performances for music.	Remembers and applies audience conventions in a variety of musical settings and performances.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Demonstrates audience manners active listening and viewing skills in a performance setting.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
2.1 Applies the creative process in music. § Identifies audience and purpose. § Explores music elements through sensory experiences and information. § Gathers and interprets information from diverse sources § Uses ideas, skills/techniques and fundamentals to develop music. § Implements choices of music elements, skills/techniques and fundamentals. § Reflects for the purpose of self evaluation and improvement. § Refines work based on feedback, self- reflection and aesthetic criteria. Presents work to others in a performance or production.	Understands, applies, and creates using a creating process through music.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Explores music elements to create music. § Gathers and interprets information to create music. § Uses ideas, skills, Fundamentals, and techniques to create music through guided exploration. § Implements choices of music elements, principles, and skills to create music. § Reflects for the purposes of self-evaluation and improvement. § Refines music through feedback and self reflection. § Presents music to self and others.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
2.2 Applies a performance process in music. § Identifies audience and purpose § Selects repertoire to perform § Analyzes structure and aesthetics § Interprets meaning through personal understanding § Rehearses, adjusts, and refines through evaluation, reflection, and problem solving § Presents work for others Reflects and self-evaluates	Understands, applies, and creates using a performance process through music.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Selects artistic resources, materials, and/or repertoire to create, perform, and present. § Interprets meaning through personal understanding of the music and/or performance. § Rehearses, adjusts, and refines through evaluation, reflection, and problem solving. § Presents and produces music and/or performance for others. Reflects and self-evaluates music and/or performance to set goals.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
2.3 Applies a responding process in music. § Engages the senses § Describes what is experienced § Analyzes the use and organization of elements, principles, skills, fundamentals, and/or techniques § Interprets meaning based upon personal experience and knowledge Evaluates and Justifies using supportive evidence and aesthetic criteria.	Understands, applies, and creates using a responding process through music.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Engages the senses actively and purposefully while experiencing music. § Describes what is seen, felt, and/or heard (perceived/experienced). § Analyzes the use and organization of elements, principles, skills, fundamentals, and/or techniques. § Interprets meaning based on personal experiences and knowledge. § Evaluates and justifies using supportive evidence.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics

	GLE	CONTENT	SKILLS	ASSESSMENT	RESOURCE
3.1 Uses music to express and present ideas and feelings.	Understands, applies and creates music to be used to express and present ideas and feelings.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Explains how ideas and feelings are expressed through music.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
3.2 Uses music to communicate for a specific purpose.	Creates and evaluates how and that music communicates for a specific purpose.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Creates, performs and responds to music that communicates for a given purpose with teacher direction. § Interprets and contrasts how musical styles and genres can communicate for a specific purpose.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices.	Understands how personal aesthetic choices are reflected in music and/or performances with teacher direction.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Explains how personal aesthetic choices are reflected in music and/or performances with teacher direction. § Experiences how personal aesthetic choices in music are influenced by culture and history with teacher direction.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
4.1 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts disciplines – dance, music, theatre and visual arts.	Understands and applies skills, concepts and vocabulary common among the arts disciplines.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Describes skills, concepts and vocabulary common among arts disciplines. § Determines how arts processes of one arts discipline are similar to those of another. § Demonstrates skills and processes common among arts disciplines.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
4.2 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts and other content areas.	Applies and analyzes skills, concepts and vocabulary common to the arts and other content areas.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Identifies steps of processes common to the arts and other content areas.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
4.3 § Understands how the arts impact and reflect lifelong choices.	Understands how the arts impact personal and community choices.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Speculates and analyzes how music impacts consumer choices.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
4.4 Understands how the arts influence and reflect cultures/civilization, place and time.	Understands specific attributes of music that reflect culture and history.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Examines general attributes of music from a specific culture.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics
4.5 Understands how arts knowledge and skills are used in the world of work, including careers in the arts.	Remember career roles and how arts skills and work habits are used in the world of work.	See Music Website for this years Content	§ Identifies and defines career roles and how musical skills and work habits are used in the world of work. § Defines goals and practices meeting deadlines to complete work.	See Music Website for current unit assessments and rubrics