Standards
J&D addresses the following standards in 5th Grade:
History-Social Science (United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation)
Historical Interpretation:
3. Students identify and interpret the multiple causes and effects of historical events.
5.7 Students describe the people and events associated with the development of the U.S. Constitution and analyze the Constitution’s significance as the foundation of the American republic.
3. Understand the fundamental principles of American constitutional democracy, including how the government derives its power from the people and the primacy of individual liberty.
4. Understand how the Constitution is designed to secure our liberty by both empowering and limiting central government and compare the powers granted to citizens, Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court with those reserved to the states.
5. Discuss the meaning of the American creed that calls on citizens to safeguard the liberty of individual Americans within a unified nation, to respect the rule of law, and to preserve the Constitution.
Visual and Performing Arts - Music
1.0 Artistic Perception
Listen to, Analyze, and Describe Music
1.4 Analyze the use of music elements in aural examples from various genres and cultures.
1.6 Identify and describe music forms, including theme and variations and twelve-bar blues.
2.0 Creative Expression
Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing a varied repertoire of music, including rounds, descants, and songs with ostinatos and songs in two- part harmony, by oneself and with others.
2.2 Use classroom instruments to play melodies and accompaniments from a varied repertoire of music from diverse cultures, including rounds, descants, and ostinatos and two part harmony, by oneself and with
others.Compose, Arrange, and Improvise
2.3 Compose, improvise, and perform basic rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns independently on
classroom instruments.
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context
Role of Music
3.1 Describe the social functions of a variety of musical forms from various cultures and time periods (e.g.,
folk songs, dances).Diversity of Music
3.3 Sing and play music from diverse cultures and time periods.
3.4 Describe the influence of various cultures and historical events on musical forms and styles.
3.5 Describe the influences of various cultures on the music of the United States.
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
Analyze and Critically Assess
4.1 Identify and analyze differences in tempo and dynamics in contrasting music selections.
Derive Meaning
4.2 Develop and apply appropriate criteria to support personal preferences for specific musical works.
5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications
Connections and Applications
5.1 Explain the role of music in community events.
J&D addresses the following standards in 8th Grade:
History-Social Science (United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict)
Historical Interpretation
1. Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time
and place.
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the
long- and short-term causal relations.
4. Students recognize the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.
5. Students recognize that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.
8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the
enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.
3. Evaluate the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate
resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the
rights of individuals and states (later addressed by the addition of the Bill of Rights), and the status of
American Indian nations under the commerce clause.6. Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.
8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens
participate in it.
6. Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for
citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of
elections, political parties, interest groups).
Visual and Performing Arts - Music
2.0 Artistic Perception
Listen to, Analyze, and Describe Music
1.5 Analyze and compare the use of musical elements representing various genres, styles, and cultures, with an emphasis on chords and harmonic progressions.
1.7 Explain how musical elements are used to create specific music events in given aural examples.
2.0 Creative Expression
Compose, Arrange, and Improvise
2.6 Improvise melodic and rhythmic embellishments and variations in major keys.
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context
Role of Music
3.1 Compare and contrast the functions music serves and the place of musicians in society in various
cultures.3.2 Identify and explain the influences of various cultures on music in early United States history.
3.3 Explain how music has reflected social functions and changing ideas and values.
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
Analyze and Critically Assess
4.1 Use detailed criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of musical performances and
compositions and apply the criteria to personal listening and performing.4.2 Apply detailed criteria appropriate for the genre and style of the music to evaluate the quality and
effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, by oneself and others.Derive Meaning
4.3 Explain how and why people use and respond to specific music from different musical cultures found in the United States.
4.4 Compare the means used to create images or evoke feelings and emotions in musical works from a
minimum of two different musical cultures found in the United States.
J&D addresses the following standards in 11th Grade:
History-Social Science (United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the 20th Century)
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1. Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and
determining the lessons that were learned.
2. Students analyze how change happens at different rates at different times; understand that some aspects can
change while others remain the same; and understand that change is complicated and affects not only
technology and politics but also values and beliefs.
Historical Interpretation
2. Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the limitations on determining
cause and effect.
11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the
philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
2. Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
2. Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including
Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.
Visual and Performing Arts - Music
3.0 Artistic Perception
Listen to, Analyze, and Describe Music
1.5 Identify and explain a variety of compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity, variety, tension, and release in aural examples.
1.6 Analyze the use of form in a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres, styles, and cultures.
2.0 Creative Expression
Compose, Arrange, and Improvise
2.10 Improvise original melodies over given chord progressions.
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context
Role of Music
3.1 Identify the sources of musical genres of the United States, trace the evolution of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with them.
3.2 Explain the various roles that musicians perform, identify representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and explain their activities and achievements.
Diversity of Music
3.4 Perform music from various cultures and time periods.
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
Analyze and Critically Assess
4.1 Develop specific criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply those criteria in personal participation in music.
Derive Meaning
4.4 Describe the means used to create images or evoke feelings and emotions in musical
works from various cultures.