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Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance, discuss how personal interests connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance discuss connections between music and culture.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Describe connections between music, society, and culture.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Describe how personal interests, and experiences connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Observe a dance and relate the movement to the people or environment in which the dance was created and performed.

Enduring Understanding: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
Essential Question(s): How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Describe, create, and/or perform a dance that expresses personal meaning and explain how certain movements express this personal meaning. b. Respond to a dance work using an inquiry-based set of questions. Create movement using ideas from responses and explain how certain movements express a specific idea.

Enduring Understanding: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
Essential Question(s): How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Compare the relationships expressed in a dance to relationships with others. Explain how they are the same or different. b. Ask and research a question about a key aspect of a dance that communicates a perspective about an issue or event. Explore the key aspect through movement. Share movements and describe how the movements help to remember or discover new qualities in these key aspects.

Enduring Understanding: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Find a relationship between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived. Explain what the movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or community.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Identify and demonstrate how personal interests, experiences, and ideas relate to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Identify and demonstrate connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts.