2 - THE BALLET

What is a ballet?

What are the elements of dance?

Who are the people that

make and perform ballets?

For Teachers

Learning Objectives and Standards (Entire Course)

Arizona Music Standards (4th Grade)

MU.PR.6.4b. Demonstrate performance and audience decorum appropriate for the occasion.

MU.RE.7.4b. Demonstrate and explain how musical concepts and contexts affect responses to music.

MU.RE.8.4a. Demonstrate and describe expressive attributes and how they support creators’/ performers’ expressive intent.

MU.RE.9.4a. Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

MU.CN.11.4a. Explore and describe relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).

Arizona ELA Standards

SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

L.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.