Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Writing Road

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Arts Education

Grade(s)

5

Overview

Students will analyze the painting "Streets of Mbari."  They will listen to and evaluate the musical elements of The Marketplace at Limoges by Modest Mussorgsky. They will write a narrative based on their impression of both the painting and music.  

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

    ELA21.5.34

    Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.5.34

    Vocabulary

    • Personal narratives
    • Fictional narratives
    • Literary elements
    • Characters
    • Plot
    • Setting
    • Conflict
    • Dialogue
    • Voice
    • Event sequences

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story.
    • A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made-up story.
    • A narrative story describes a sequence of plot events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end).
    • Narrative writing includes text elements, like characters, setting, and conflict.
    • Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters in a text.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story.
    • Write a narrative with a logical sequence of plot events.
    • Incorporate literary elements into their narrative writing, like characters, setting, and conflict.
    • Include dialogue in narrative writing.
    • Use a strong voice in writing by developing a personal writing style.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and characters, setting, and conflict.
    • Incorporating dialogue between the characters can add details to their narrative writing.
    • Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Music

    AE17.MU.5.16

    Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MU.5.16

    Vocabulary

    Rhythm
    Melody
    • Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic
    • Treble clef reading (choral octavos)
    • Grand staff
    • Bass clef
    • Accidentals
    • Major scale
    Harmony
    • Part singing/ playing
    • Chord progression (I, IV, V)
    • Arpeggio
    • Descant
    • Level bordun
    Form
    • Rondo form
    • 12-Bar blues
    Expression
    • Vibrato
    • Tremolo
    • Reggae
    • Blues
    • Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
    Other
    • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
    • Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5)

    Essential Questions

    EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
    EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

    Skills Examples

    Performing
    • Analyze the formal structure of music that is to be performed.
    • Identify elements of music to be performed for a specific context (for example, dynamic markings that are appropriate for a lullaby).
    Creating
    • Choose a literary work, such as a poem or story, to generate musical ideas for performance.
    Reading/ Writing
    • Examine performance music for expressive elements, and use correct notation to indicate placement.
    Responding/ Evaluating
    • Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing.
    • Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others.
    • Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers.
    • Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Music

    AE17.MU.5.19

    Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context, citing evidence from the elements of music.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MU.5.19

    Vocabulary

    Rhythm
    Melody
    • Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic
    • Treble clef reading (choral octavos)
    • Grand staff
    • Bass clef
    • Accidentals
    • Major scale
    Harmony
    • Part singing/ playing
    • Chord progression (I, IV, V)
    • Arpeggio
    • Descant
    • Level bordun
    Form
    • Rondo form
    • 12-Bar blues
    Expression
    • Vibrato
    • Tremolo
    • Reggae
    • Blues
    • Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
    Other
    • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
    • Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5)

    Essential Questions

    EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
    EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

    Skills Examples

    Performing
    • Analyze the formal structure of music that is to be performed.
    • Identify elements of music to be performed for a specific context (for example, dynamic markings that are appropriate for a lullaby).
    Creating
    • Choose a literary work, such as a poem or story, to generate musical ideas for performance.
    Reading/ Writing
    • Examine performance music for expressive elements, and use correct notation to indicate placement.
    Responding/ Evaluating
    • Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing.
    • Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others.
    • Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers.
    • Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Visual Arts

    AE17.VA.5.12

    Interpret art by analyzing visual qualities and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.VA.5.12

    Vocabulary

    • Cultural context
    • Formal & conceptual vocabulary
    • Genre
    • Linear perspective
    • Preserve
    • Principles of design
      • Movement
      • Emphasis
    • Relief
    • Vanishing point

    Essential Questions

    EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
    EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?

    Skills Examples

    • Compare and contrast artworks in terms of content, stylistic characteristics, and techniques.
    • Collaboratively observe, analyze, and interpret a body of artworks about places, focusing on content, style, and technique.
    • Identify and analyze the terracotta Army and its relationship to Chinese Culture.
    • Describe the relationship between works of art from different cultures being respectful and mindful of cultural sensitive themes.
    • Discuss differences in art of familiar and unfamiliar cultures.
    • Discuss the reasons and value of documenting and preserving works of art and objects for a culture.
    • Recognize what was learned and the challenges that remain when assessing a work of art.
    • Use criteria to assess works of art individually and collaboratively.
    • Use contextual cues to discuss notions of beauty and aesthetic value.
    • Compare and contrast different media and techniques.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
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