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Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Generate rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases and variations over harmonic accompaniments within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that convey expressive intent.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Perform the music, alone or with others with technical accuracy and stylistic expression to convey the creator’s intent. b. Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for venue, purpose, and context.

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Apply collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Investigate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work. b. Envision and describe a scripted or improvised character’s inner thoughts and objectives in a drama/theatre work. c. Explain and present solutions to design challenges in a drama/ theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience in diverse cultures.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists and audiences share a creative experience?
Process Component(s): Share, Present

Performance Standard(s):
Create through improvisation a drama/theatre work that will be shared with an audience.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists apply criteria to understand, explore, and assess drama and theatre work.
Essential Question(s): How do analysis and synthesis impact the theatre artist’s process and audience’s perspectives?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explain preferences using supporting evidence and criteria to develop a personal aesthetic to evaluate drama/theatre work. b. Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience. c. Analyze and evaluate the aesthetics of the technical theatre elements in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists apply criteria to understand, explore, and assess drama and theatre work.
Essential Question(s): How do analysis and synthesis impact the theatre artist’s process and audience’s perspectives?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Respond to a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria. b. Assess the impact of a drama/theatre work on a specific audience. c. Differentiate the effect of technical theatre elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience in diverse cultures.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists and audiences share a creative experience?
Process Component(s): Share, Present

Performance Standard(s):
Perform a rehearsed, scripted scene from a drama/theatre work for an audience.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems in a drama/ theatre work. b. Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character’s inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a drama/theatre work. c. Imagine and explore solutions to design challenges of a performance space in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Apply appropriate personally developed criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.