Visual Arts & Music

Unit 1

• Describe, create, and perform dance movements
• Create and perform dance movements, individually and with a partner
• Understand the physical processes and discipline associated with dance
• Identify melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre in musical selections
• Respond to sounds and sound patterns with body movements
• Compose, improvise, and perform basic musical patterns
• Listen to, describe, and respond to a variety of music

Unit 2

• Read and write patterns with musical notes and rhythmic notation
• Read, write, and perform diatonic scales
• Identify some common musical instruments by sight and sound
• Identify and sing a variety of kinds of music and musical forms
• Improvise dramatizations of stories or ideas
• Take part in writing scripts, designing sets, and performing group dramas
• Create costumes and props for a performance

Unit 3

• Observe patterns in nature and works of art
• Identify and describe elements in works of visual art (line, color, texture, shapes/form, space, value [color], etc.)
• Create original works of visual art in various media and dimensions
• Express observations, ideas, or feelings through music, drama, or visual art
• Identify and discuss some well-known works of dance, drama, music, or visual arts and some artists, actors, writers, musicians, choreographers, or composers
• Describe and analyze a variety of works of art according to their elements
• Apply evaluative skills to movies and video

Unit 4

• Learn and use vocabulary of dance, music, drama, and visual arts
• Describe techniques for a given form of art
• Compare and contrast two works of art
• Identify purposes, effects, influences, and historical contributions of art
• Understand how culture affects art and how art reflects culture
• Demonstrate appropriate audience skills for live artistic performances
• Identify and describe careers in the arts