Kansas State Standards

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Kansas Music Standards

National content Standard #8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
  1. Students will respond to the subject matter of another discipline as it relates to the elements of music.
National Content Standard #9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
  • Form
  1. The student will hear, identify, and perform instrumental patterns which characterize cultures and/or historical periods.
  • Timbre
  1. The student will identify by name the instruments of various cultures and/or historical time periods.
  2. The student will hear and identify vocal timbers of various cultures and/or historical periods.
  3. The student will identify selected repertoire by genre, style, historical period and composer.
  4. The student will classify selected repertoire by genre, style, historical period, and composer.

Archdiocese Curriculum Goals for 6th Grade

The students will:

  • identifiy prominent composers and pieces of Western music
  • identify distinguishing musical characteristics of one world culture.

Writing Standards 2

Benchmark 1: A proficient writer uses ideas that are well developed, clear, and interesting.
The students:
  1. produce compostitions that have one main idea and support the main idea with details.
  2. understand and use strategies, which may include brainstorming, listing, webbing, working in pairs or cooperative groups, and gleaning information from print sources for generating ideas.
Benchmark 3: The proficient writer uses organization that enhances the reader's understanding.
    The students:
  1. write a coherent and cohesive piece with a clear introduction, supporting ideas, and a conclusion.
  2. write introductions that draw the reader in.
  3. write supporting details presented in a logical order.
  4. use transitions to allow ideas to flow smoothly within and between paragraphs.
  5. write conclusions that provide a sense of resolution.

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