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Anchor Standard

Connect

Students explore another culture through music — synthesizing personal experience with history, social science, and the universal human impulse to make art.

National Arts Anchor Standards

  • 1.Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
  • 2.Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Blueprint overview

The Connect Blueprint is for teachers who would like their students to experience another culture through targeted discussion of specific cultural elements, including but not limited to music. This blueprint puts more emphasis on integrating with important curriculum areas such as History, Social Science, and English Language Arts. All exchanges are led by instructors who embody the culture being discussed. Classroom teachers can choose from a variety of frameworks that include topics like ancient civilizations, religion, politics, and key historical movements. This blueprint is the broadest entry point into Culture Connect — designed to work across departments and grade levels.

Format

Students can connect remotely from home or share the same space with their classmates. No instruments or special equipment required.

Requirements

No minimum exchange requirement. Content covered is at the discretion of the classroom teacher.

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MA State Music Standards

Grades 3–4

3-4.M.Co.01Distinguish one's own preferences in music from those of others (e.g., friends or family).
3-4.M.Co.02Describe ways music is different from other forms of everyday sounds (i.e. what is the role of artistic intent).

Grades 5–6

5-6.M.Co.10Describe and demonstrate one's personal musical style and preferences.
5-6.M.Co.11Identify influential music from different periods and how they impacted music at the time and potentially today.

Grades 7–8

7-8.M.Co.01Describe and demonstrate influences of one's personal musical style and preferences.
7-8.M.Co.02Identify how musical ideas and traditions migrate with the people who originated them to affect other cultures, historical periods, and musical genres.

Grades 9–12

AG.M.Co.10Explain the development of one's musicality or musical style and how it relates to a composition.
AG.M.Co.11Identify the social, cultural, and personal influences on one's musical style as a composer or musician.

English Language Arts, History & Social Science Anchor Standards

SL.PK-12.1Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.PK-12.2Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL.PK-12.3Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.