"Aida" and its relevance to the world today

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Music Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — General Music/All Other High School Electives

• Goal 4: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.
  • Objective 4.01: Compose and arrange music incorporating appropriate voicings and ranges.
  • Objective 4.02: Plan logical steps and organize resources necessary to create compositions in varied styles.
  • Objective 4.03: Synthesize the study and characteristics of several styles/genres of music to create original compositions.
  • Objective 4.04: Use a variety of sound, notational, and technological sources to compose and arrange music.
  • Objective 4.05: Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.
• Goal 6: The learner will listen to, analyze, and describe music.
  • Objective 6.01: Identify musical forms representing various historical periods and cultures.
  • Objective 6.02: Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
  • Objective 6.03: Discuss a variety of compositional techniques.
  • Objective 6.04: Show respect while listening to and analyzing music.
• Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
  • Objective 8.01: Apply rules of standard written English to explain the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts areas (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) in different historical periods and cultures.
  • Objective 8.02: Identify and explain ways in which the concepts and skills of other content areas outside the arts are related to those of music.
  • Objective 8.03: Discuss the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.
• Goal 9: The learner will understand music in relation to history and culture.
  • Objective 9.01: Identify representative examples of music using distinguishing characteristics to identify genre, style, culture and/or historical periods.
  • Objective 9.02: Examine situations to determine conflict and resolution in relation to music in history and cultures.
  • Objective 9.03: Recognize and identify ways that music reflects history.
  • Objective 9.05: Show respect for music from various cultures and time periods.

Social Studies (2003)

Grades 11–12 — Geography in Action

• Goal 2: The learner will identify major tourist flows in the world and locate various countries, major cities, natural attractions, and historic sites of tourist importance.
  • Objective 2.02: Identify different types of movement; differentiate between permanent migration and temporary travel patterns, including tourism.
  • Objective 2.04: Identify the location and characteristics, physical and human, of important tourist places for each region of the world.
• Goal 3: The learner will use maps and other geographic tools, such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to identify, describe, and interpret major international travel patterns as related to the United States.
  • Objective 3.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the various types of thematic maps.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand mental maps and recognize how mental maps shape people's willingness and unwillingness to travel to certain places.
  • Objective 5.01: Define concept of mental map and identify different types
  • Objective 5.02: Identify factors that shape a person's mental map such as the mass media, geographic education, prejudices, and travel experience.
  • Objective 5.03: Explain how and why a positive or negative mental map of a place can affect a person's decision to travel.
• Goal 6: The learner will understand the importance of place images in tourism, how places are sold or represented as tourist destinations, and how these shape people's perception and interaction with the world.
  • Objective 6.01: Define the concept of "place image" and identify different types.