Fifth Grade

Creating

Students will conceive & develop new musical ideas and work.

Generate:

• 5:I can improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas

Organize and Develop:

• 5:I can create a musical composition and explain connections to purpose and context

Refine and Complete:

• 5:I can present the final version of a musical composition to others and explain connection to expressive intent

Presenting

Students will realize musical ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Select, Analyze, Interpret:

• 5:I can demonstrate knowledge of musical form, read notation, and describe how context can inform a performance

Develop and Refine:

• 5:I can apply teacher provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musicianship of a performance

Convey Meaning:

• 5:I can perform music with expression and technical accuracy, and demonstrate performance and audience etiquette

Responding

Students will understand and evaluate how music conveys meaning.

Analyze:

• 5:I can describe, citing evidence, how specific musical concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music

Interpret:

• 5:I can demonstrate and describe how expressive qualities are used in the performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent

Evaluate:

• 5:I can apply teacher provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

Connecting

Students will relate musical ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.

Synthesize:

• 5:I can make connections between music and my own life

Relate:

• 5:I can identify connections between music and other disciplines