Middle School Music Targeted Benchmarks
Standard 06: Listening
Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

MUS-MS.6.01 Understand appropriate terminology to describe specific music events.

Student Learning Targets:

Rubric - Resources

Content: Choir		Grade Level: 6
Standard: MUS-MS.6.01 Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music and music performances.
Score 4.0	In addition to Score 3.0, in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught, such as: make many specific and appropriate references to musical elements in the performance.		Sample Activities
			Write a critique of a choir concert performance.
	3.5 In addition to score 3.0 performance, in-depth inferences and applications with partial success.
Score 3.0	The student: makes appropriate references to musical elements in the performance.
	2.5 No major errors or omissions regarding 2.0 content and partial knowledge of the 3.0 content.
Score 2.0	The student: recognizes general concepts in relation to musical elements in the performance.
	1.5 Partial knowledge of the 2.0 content, but major errors or omissions regarding the 3.0 content.
Score 1.0	The student: struggles recognizing and describing the musical elements involved in a performance.
	0.5 With help, a partial understanding of the 2.0 content, but not the 3.0 content.