Integrated Subjects:
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• Music
• Theater
• Language Arts
• Social Studies

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Music (5-8)
Standard 3: Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

Music (5-8)
Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Music (5-8)
Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Music (5-8)
Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Theater (5-8)
Standard 7: Analyzing, evaluating, and constructing meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

Theater (5-8)
Standard 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the community and in other cultures

Other National Standards:

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

Language Arts III (6-8) Standard 10: Understands the characteristics and components of the media

World History III (7-8) Standard 41: Understands the causes and global consequences of World War II