Relationship to Standards

Common Core State Standards

Reading Standards for Informational Text: Key Ideas and Details

1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details

     1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answer. 

Reading Standards for Literature: Craft and Structure

4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.

Visual and Performing Arts

Theatre
2.0 Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Theatre

Development of Theatrical Skills
2.1 Participate in cooperative scriptwriting or improvisations that incorporate the five w’s (who, what, where, when, and why).  

Creative/Invention in Theatre
2.2 Create for classmates simple scripts that demonstrate knowledge of basic blocking and staging areas.  

3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Theatre

Role and Cultural Significance of Theatre
3.1 Identify the cultural and geographic origins of stories.

History of Theatre
3.3 Describe the roles and responsibilities of audience and actor.  

Visual Arts
1.0 Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to the Visual Arts  

Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary

1.2 Describe how artists use tints and shades in painting.

1.3 Identify and describe how foreground, middle ground, and background are used to create the illusion of space.

2.0 Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Visual Arts

Skills, Process, Materials, and Tools
2.2 Mix and apply tempera paints to create tints, shades, and neutral colors.

3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of the Visual Arts 

Role and Development of the Visual Arts
3.3 Distinguish and describe representational, abstract, and nonrepresentational works of art. 

 Diversity of the Visual Arts
3.4 Identify and describe objects of art from different parts of the world observed in visits to a museum or gallery (e.g., puppets, masks, containers). 

Music
2.0 Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music 

Composing, Arranging, and Improvise
2.4 Create short rhythmic and melodic phrases in questions-and-answer form. 

3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Music 

Role of Music
3.1 Identify the uses of music in various cultures and time periods. 

Diversity of Music
3.3 Play memorized songs from diverse cultures. 

5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What is Learning in Music to Learning in Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers

Careers and Career-Related Skills
5.2 Identify what musicians and composers do to create music.