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4th Grade Advanced Math

Reading: Fiction

Reading: Nonfiction

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Word Work

Science

Social Studies

PE

Music

Art

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Number and Operations - Fractions

Measurement and Data

Geometry

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Number and Operations - Fractions

Geometry

Fiction: Text Features and Structures

Thinking about Characters

Plot and Setting

Themes and Ideas

Text Features and Structures

Main Topics and Ideas

Key Details

Structure

Development (Craft and Elaboration)

Language Conventions

Comprehension and Collaboration

Synthesize and analyze words through meaning, structure, morphological and etymological relatives, and pronunciation (e.g., telegraph, photograph, graphite, autobiographical, cartographer).

Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) and exploration of base/meaning to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, as clues to the meaning of a word or phrase. 

Consult reference materials (e.g., Oxford English Dictionary, Etymology Online, Latin Dictionary, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning and etymology of key words and phrases. 

Explain the meaning of common similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.

Explain the meaning of provided idioms and adages/proverbs.

Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their synonyms and antonyms.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology. 

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Plant and Animal Structures

Processes that Shape the Earth

Waves and Light

Changes in Energy

Map Skills

Northeast Region

Southeast Region

Midwest Region

Southwest Region

West Region

Interdependence of US Regions

Cooperation, participation and appropriate use of materials.

Demonstrates grade level appropriate PE skills and knowledge.

Cooperation, participation and appropriate use of materials.

Demonstrates grade level appropriate skills while creating, performing, or responding to music.

Cooperation, participation and appropriate use of materials.

Demonstrates grade level appropriate skills while creating, presenting, and responding to art.

Write and interpret a multiplication real world problem when given two single digit factors and the product in which one quantity is multiplied to get another quantity.

Identify all factor pairs for whole numbers with products up to 100.

Determine whether a given whole number is prime or composite for numbers between 1-100, by using divisibility rules for 2,3,4,5,6,9,10. 

Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features in the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself and explain the pattern.

Solve problems that include a parentheses- for example: 27 / (12-9)= 9.

Multiply or divide to solve real world problems using drawings and equations with a variable for the unknown number including equations with parentheses.

 Solve multi-step word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole- number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

Represent equations with a variable standing for an unknown quantity, and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

Read and write negative numbers up to 100, while comparing the numbers value in relation to zero on the number line.

Add positive and negative single-digit numbers (positive + positive, negative + negative, positive + negative, and negative + positive) using a number line or manipulatives. 

Solve multi-step real world problems posed with whole numbers and decimals using addition and subtraction.

Use place value to round multi-digit numbers to any place, including decimals up to the thousandths.

Read and write multi-digit whole numbers (using names and expanded forms) and decimals to the thousandths and compare multi-digit numbers based on the meaning of the digits using >, < and = to compare the numbers. 

Move the decimal point one place to the right for multiplication by 10 and oneplace to the left for division by 10.

Fluently multiply and divide facts with factors up to 12.

Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by one-digit whole number, and multiply two-digit numbers by two-digit numbers.

Solve division problems with whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors.

Solve multiplication problems with a decimal up to the thousandths place times a single digit number.

Add numbers with any number of digits and decimals up to the thousandths.

Subtract using regrouping with numbers from thousands to the thousandths place. For example, 3,456.223 – 2,345.442

Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite 0.62 as 62/100; describe a length 0.62 meters; locate 0.62 on a number line diagram.

Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages for “easy” fractions(1/4, 2/4, ¾, ½, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5) and any fraction that has a denominator of 10 or 100.

Compare two decimals to hundredths, using comparison symbols (<, > =) by using a visual model and recognize the comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole.

Given the results of a survey with 5 data points, report the results as a fraction, decimal, and percentage. 

Locate and place mixed numbers and fractions (up to eighths) on a number line.

Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way up to eighths, using a visual fraction model. For example, 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 = 3/8; 3/8 = 1/8 + 2/8.

Express a fraction with denominator 10 as equivalent fraction with denominator 100. For example, 3/10= 30/100, and add 3/10+4/100= 34/100. 

Use the symbols (<, >, =) to compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction like ½, and justify reasoning.

Use a visual fraction model to show why fraction a/b is equivalent to fraction (n x a) / (n x b). For example, 1/6 = (6*1)/(6*6)=6/36 (4.NF.1) 

Generate equivalent fractions for real world problems. For example, when taking a test with 25 questions, students will be able to convert fractions into an equivalent fraction with 100 as the denominator.

Solve addition and subtraction of fractions by joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.

Add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators, by replacing each unlike denominator with a common denominator.

Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators.

Solve real world problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators. 

Use a visual fraction model to represent a fraction a/b as a multiple of 1/b.

Use a visual model to show a multiple a/b as a multiple of 1/b, and use this to multiply a fraction by a whole number. For example, 3*(2/5) as 6*(1/5), recognizing this product as 6/5.

Solve real world problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number. 

Measure angles in whole number degrees using a protractor (full circle and half circle).

Construct angles of a specified measure, and identify the angle as acute, obtuse, right or straight.

Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram and be able to use an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure.

Decompose an angle of n degrees into n one degree angles.

Define that a circle is 360 degrees and is made up of 360 one degree angles.

Read and interpret data on a given line plot.

Create a line plot using data that has fractional parts (1/8, ¼, ½) and solve problems using addition and subtraction of fractions.

Identify the maximum, minimum, and range when given a set of data (line plot, bar graph, tally chart, or list).

Read an ordered pair and plot it in the first quadrant, and when given a plotted point, name the location (x,y).

Find the maximum, minimum, and range when given a set of data that is based on a real world problem.

Convert units of linear measurement within the metric system. (km, m, dm, cm, mm).

Convert units of linear measure within the customary system (yd., ft. in.).

Convert units of volume (l.,ml.).

Convert units of volume using gallons, quarts, pints, cups. For example, 1 quart = 2 pints = 4 cups = 32 ounces.

Identify equivalent units of time (hr. min., sec).

Convert units of mass using kg., g.. 

Convert units of mass using lb, oz.

Solve real world problems with conversions using all four operations involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects. 

Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles to solve mathematical and real world problems. 

Classify shapes as polygons or non-polygons using its characteristics (closed sides/no curves)

Distinguish between convex and concave polygons.

Compare the number of sides, angles, and vertices in order to name a pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon. 

Name a pyramid or prism after identifying the shape of the base. Example) Hexagonal prism, pentagonal prism, rectangular prism 

Draw and distinguish the difference between rays, parallel and perpendicular lines.

When given a two-dimensional shape, students will draw a figure that is congruent to the original.

Create a circle with a compass and label the radius and diameter.

Draw a set of concentric circles around a central point using a compass and analyze the similarities.

Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry on previously introduced 2-dimensional figures.

Plan an architectural circle design that includes a diameter, radius, and three sections split within the circular design.

Use parentheses, brackets (or braces), exponents, and all four operations in numerical expressions in order to solve problems that involve order of operations with whole numbers.

Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers and interpret numerical expressions (including sum, difference, quotient, and product).

Simplify expressions with up to three operations, with and without variables.

Given mathematical and real world situations, students will select an equation that uses variables to best represent the situation and solve it.

Use visual models (ex. Hands on Equations and pan balances) to solve equations with up to three steps using a variable as part of the solution.

Given two rules, create two numerical patterns (x and y values) and form ordered pairs from the pattern and graph the ordered pairs, and describe the relationship between the two sequences.

Read and write whole numbers to the trillions place and decimal numbers to the millionths place in standard and expanded notation.

Use place value to round decimals to any place value, trillions through millionths.

Compare two decimals to the millionths place based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >,<,= symbols to record the results of comparisons.

Identify the base and exponent in exponential notation, represent as repeated factors, and translate between exponential notation and standard notation with and without the use of technology.

Solve problems using the square root and square of a whole number up to 122=144 and 144=12 without a calculator, and larger numbers with a calculator.

Convert a number that is in standard notation into expanded notation using powers of ten and exponential notation.

Compare the values of a given digit in multi-digit numbers by explaining that a digit in one place represents 10 times the value of the digit to its right and 1/10 of the value of the digit to its left.

Explain and apply patterns in the placement of the the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10.

Translate between standard notation and scientific notation using positive and negative powers of ten between 10-12 and 1012.

Given a real world situation convert and write numbers in a variety of forms (standard, expanded, exponential, scientific)

Estimate and solve problems that involve multiplication of whole number and decimals (to any place value) by a three digit number using the traditional multiplication algorithm.

Use the rules of divisibility for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 to determine if one number is divisible by another for numbers over 100.

Find the prime factorization of a two or three digit number and express it as a string of factors or in exponential form.

Find the greatest common factor (“GCF”) of a set of two or three numbers and use the GCF to solve mathematical and real-world problems. 

Use the traditional algorithm to divide positive four-digit dividends with and without decimals by one and two-digit whole number divisors. 

Check that the quotient of a division problem is accurate by creating and solving the corresponding multiplication problem.

Add positive and negative integers up to 1,000 without manipulatives positive+positive, negative+negative, positive+negative, and negative+positive). 

Solve mathematical and real world problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (of positive decimals to the thousandths place in the dividend) using traditional algorithms.

Compare fractions with like and unlike denominators using any denominator.

Find the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two or three numbers and use the LCM to solve mathematical and real-world problems.

Use the LCM to calculate the Least Common Denominator (“LCD”) of fractions and use the LCD to add and subtract fractions in mathematical and real world problems.

Reduce fractions to their simplest form.

Convert from improper fractions to mixed numbers and mixed numbers to improper fractions.

Solve problems that involve addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators, including problems that involve regrouping and state the solution in simplest form.

Solve real world problems with addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators (with and without regrouping), and state the solution in simplest form.

Rewrite a fraction as a division problem with the numerator divided by the denominator and solve (round to the nearest hundredth). a/b = a divided by b.

Apply (a/b) x (c/d) = ac/bd to solve problems involving multiplication of fractions.

Solve problems that involve multiplication of a fraction by a fraction or mixed number.

Use the concept of multiplication to explain that when one factor of a multiplication problem is modified, the final product is modified accordingly.

Use the concept of multiplication of fractions to prove that multiplying a factor by another factor greater than one will result in a larger product, and multiplying by a factor less than one will result in a smaller product.

Depict division of a unit fraction by a non-zero whole number, and compute such quotients. For example, create a story context for (1/3) divided by 4, and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient.

Depict division of a whole number by a unit fraction, and compute such quotients.

Solve real world problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fraction. 

Compute the area of triangles (both right and other triangles), rectangles, and parallelograms with whole-number and fractional side lengths. 

Identify polygons (both irregular and regular) based on the number of sides, length of sides (congruent and not congruent), and types of angles (acute, obtuse, and right) and draw polygons (triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons).

Identify angle and side relationships in triangles and quadrangles.

Compare and contrast the attributes belonging to categories of two-dimensional figures and subcategories of two-dimensional figures. For example: All rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles; all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

Organize two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on their properties.

Use a pair of perpendicular number lines (X and Y axes) to construct a four quadrant grid, with the intersection of the lines (origin) arranged to coincide with 0 on each line.

Explain that the first number in the ordered pair indicates how far to travel from the origin on the X axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel on the Y axis.

Locate and plot a given point in the coordinate plane using an ordered pair of numbers (coordinates).

Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from numerical patterns, graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane, and analyze data.

Determine which quadrant, in a four quadrant grid, an ordered pair lies using the signs of the coordinates.

When given two ordered pairs, differing only by signs, identify which axis or axes the points are reflected across.

Draw polygons on a 4-quadrant coordinate plane given some or all coordinates for the vertices, and find the length of a side by determining the distance between coordinate points, when only one of the coordinates changes.

Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane, and interpret the values of coordinate points in the context of the situation.

Construct, memorize, and apply the formula for area of a triangle.

LA.4.5.5 Explain differences between poems, drama and prose. Refer to structural elements when speaking and writing. (RL.4.5)

LA.4.5.7 Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. (RL.4.7)

LA.4.5.4 (Characters) Describe characters, settings, or events using text evidence. (RL.4.3) (Characters)

LA.4.5.6 Compare/contrast points of view. (RL.4.6)

Summarize the text including key details.

(Plot and Setting) Describe characters, settings, or events using text evidence.(Plot and Setting)

Draw inferences while referring to details and examples from the text.

Determine a thematic topic (e.g. friendship, perseverance) of a story, drama or poem from details in the text.

Compare/contrast themes and topics and patterns of events in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

Describe the overall text structure (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information. 

Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g. charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, animations, or interactive elements on web pages) to explain how the information contributes to the understanding of the text in which it appears.

Determine the main idea of a text and how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

Compare and contrast a first- or second-hand account of the same event; describe differences in focus and information provided.

Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the topic.

Explain what the text says explicitly and draw inferences from the text, referring to details and examples in a text.

Use specific information in a text to explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why.

Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points.

Write an introduction that hooks the reader, clearly states a claim and previews the reasons.(Opinion)

Group ideas into paragraphs to create an organizational structure that supports the writer's purpose. (Opinion)

Link opinion and reasons using transitions words and phrases.(Opinion)

Provide a concluding section that restates the claim and reasons and provides a wrap-up statement.(Opinion)

Plan, revise and edit to develop and strengthen writing.(Opinion)

Write an introduction that hooks the reader, introduces a topic clearly and previews the sections.(Informational)

Group related information in paragraphs or sections; include formatting when useful to aid comprehension.(Informational)

Link ideas within categories of information using transitional words and phrases.(Informational)

Provide a concluding section that restates the topic and reasons and includes a wrap-up statement.(Informational)

Hook the reader, introduce a narrator and/or characters, hint at the problem of the story, and establish the setting.(Narrative)

Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.(Narrative)

Signal the sequence of events with a variety of transitional words and phrases.(Narrative)

Write a section that logically concludes the narrated experiences or events.(Narrative)

LA.4.2.3 Support the reasons with evidence from informational texts including relevant facts and details. (W.4.1.B) (W.4.9) (Opinion)

LA.4.2.5 Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. (W.4.2.D) (Opinion)

LA.4.3.4 Support the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations and examples from informational text. (W.4.2.B) (Informational)

LA.4.3.5 Use precise language and content-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. (W.4.2.D) (Informational)

LA.4.3.6 Include drawings, captions, or diagrams when useful to aid comprehension. (W.4.2.A) (Informational)

LA.4.4.4 Describe what happens to characters internally and externally through dialogue and description. (W.4.3.B) (Narrative)

LA.4.4.5 Convey experiences and events precisely using sensory details and figurative language. (W.4.3.D) (Narrative)

LA.4.1.1 Use relative pronouns (e.g., who, whose, whom, which, that) (e.g., Jen is my friend who is very kind). (L.4.1.A)

LA.4.1.2 Form and use the progressive verb tenses (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking). (L.4.1.B)

LA.4.1.3 Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions (e.g., May I use the restroom?). (L.4.1.C)

LA.4.1.4 Use adjectives correctly (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag). (L.4.1.D)

LA.4.1.5 Form and use prepositional phrases. (L.4.1.E)

LA.4.1.6 Produce complete sentences (simple, compound, complex), identifying and correcting fragments and run-ons. (L.4.1.F)

LA.4.1.7 Use frequently confused words correctly (e.g., to, too, two; there, their). (L.4.1.G)

LA.4.1.8 Capitalize correctly throughout a sentence. (L.4.2.A)

LA.4.1.9 Include commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and citations from a text. (L.4.2.B)

LA.4.1.10 Check and correct spelling. (L.4.2.D)

Explicitly draw on information from text and background knowledge to explore ideas under discussion.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.

Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow-up on information and make comments to contribute.

Explain own ideas and understanding after reviewing key ideas expressed.

Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats.

Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.

S.4.1.1 Identify and explain the function and purpose of internal and external body structures for support, survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

S.4.1.2 Describe different types of information that animals receive through their senses and different ways that animals respond to that information.

S.4.1.3 Classify animals based on internal and external structures. (vertebrate, invertebrate, mammal, bird, reptile, fish, amphibian)

S.4.1.4 Identify and explain the function and purpose of seed and plant structures for survival, growth, and reproduction. 

S.4.1.5 Develop a model that shows how an organism uses its structures and senses to gather information from its environment.

S.4.1.6 Construct an argument supported by evidence that plants and animals have structures to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns in Earth’s features. (maps can include topographic maps of Earth’s land and ocean floor, as well as maps of the locations of mountains, continental boundaries, volcanoes, and earthquakes)

Identify evidence for changes in landscape over time, using patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers.

Identify living and nonliving factors that contribute to weathering and erosion.

Diagram the rock cycle and explain the processes that form each type of rock.

Identify evidence from text, media, and experimentation that living things can affect the physical characteristics of their regions.

Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. (variables to test could include angle of slope in the downhill movement of water, amount of vegetation, speed of wind, relative state of deposition, cycles of freezing and thawing of water, cycles of heating and cooling, and volume of water flow)

Explain the impact of Earth’s processes on humans, and evaluate existing solutions that reduce the impact of these processes on humans.

Generate a solution and compare to existing solutions to reduce Earth’s impact on humans, given a specific Earth process.

Identify examples of waves in the natural world (ocean, moving grass, etc.).

Observe and describe the regular patterns of motion of waves in water and that waves can cause objects to move.

Define amplitude and wavelength and relate them to patterns of motion in water.

Model waves in water showing various amplitudes and the resultant movement of objects in the water.

Describe a light wave using the vocabulary amplitude and wavelength and explain that amplitude affects brightness and wavelength affects color.

Design a controlled experiment to investigate how light interacts with other objects (absorbed, redirected, bounced back, passed through).

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

Compare and contrast the models of water waves and light.

Identify sources of stored energy. (potential energy (term not assessed) - battery, food, lifting something against gravity)

Provide evidence based on observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Construct open and closed circuits and describe the flow of energy in these circuits.

Describe ways that energy is converted from one form to another. (i.e., connecting a battery to a light, to a motor, etc.)

Construct an explanation using evidence that relates the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in moving (kinetic - term not assessed) energy that occur when objects collide.

Design experiments to test a question posed in 4.4.6 to demonstrate the changes in moving (kinetic) energy.

Design, test, and refine a circuit to convert electrical energy into motion, sound, heat, or light and explain what processes are taking place. 

Define lines of longitude and latitude, and differentiate whether they are east/west or north/south based on the prime meridian and the equator.

Use longitude and latitude lines to locate specific locations on a world map.

 Apply the cardinal and intermediate directions to design routes from one location to another.

 Apply the symbols of a map key to identify specific landforms, cities, roads, and distances between two points on a map.

SS.4.2.1 Analyze landforms and natural resources to determine their impact on the economy.

SS.4.2.2 Evaluate the significance of the Revolutionary War and its impact on the development of the United States government.

SS.4.2.4 Identify and label each Northeastern state and its abbreviation.

SS.4.3.1 Analyze landforms and natural resources to determine their impact on the economy.

SS.4.3.2 Evaluate the significance of slavery and the Civil War and their impact on the government and culture of the United States.

SS.4.3.3 Identify and label each Southeastern state and its abbreviation.

Analyze landforms and natural resources to determine their impact on the economy.

Evaluate the significance of the Louisiana Purchase and its impact on the geography of the United States.

Relate Lewis and Clark’s Expedition to the expansion of the region.

Describe the Industrial Revolution including the significance of Henry Ford and the assembly line.

Identify and label each Midwestern state and its abbreviation.

Deduce the reasons immigrants came to America and describe their life once they arrived.

Analyze landforms and natural resources to determine their impact on the economy.

Evaluate the importance of the Native American and Spanish influences on the culture and government of the region and country.

Describe the significance of the Dust Bowl within the context of the Great Depression and its repercussions on the region and country.

Identify and label each Southwestern state and its abbreviation.

Analyze landforms and natural resources to determine their impact on the economy.

Evaluate the significance of the Gold Rush and its influence on Westward Expansion.

Explain the role of women in westward development and the right of women to vote.

Identify and label each Western state and its abbreviation.

Define geographic and cultural regions within the United States and provide examples of interdependence among U.S. geographic and cultural regions.

Define and explain the concepts of: supply and demand, consumer and producer, free enterprise system, human resources, natural resources, and capital resources.

Describe the components of a democracy including the three branches of government that unite all regions.

Compare and contrast the landforms and natural resources within each region to determine their impact on the economy of the United States.

Identify large U.S. cities and justify the importance of their location in relation to water.

Exhibits responsible personal and social behaviors that respects self and others

Demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns

Applies knowledge of concepts/strategies related to movement and performance

Demonstrates the knowledge and and skills to achieve and maintain a healthy level of physical activity and fitness

Recognizes the value of physical activity for health enjoyment, challenge, self expressions and/or social interactions

Create - Develop, organize and evaluate personal musical ideas.

Perform - Rehearse musical pieces in order to perform with understanding.

Respond - Evaluate musical pieces or performances in order to discuss them.

Connect - Connect music to personal experience, history and culture.

Creating and Connecting: generate, develop, and refine artistic ideas/work that can relate to personal experiences, society, cultural, or historical context. 

Presenting and Responding: analyze/interpret/ evaluate techniques of artwork both personally and professionally

Skills and Techniques: demonstrate appropriate art skills, craftsmanship skills, and knowledge in the creation of artwork.