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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. Build on others’ ideas in a guided drama experience. b. Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in a guided drama experience. c. Identify props and costumes that might be used in a guided drama experience.

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. Collaborate on a scene in a guided drama experience. b. Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience. c. Use a prop or costume in a guided drama experience to describe characters, settings, or events.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists transform and edit their initial ideas?
Process Component(s): Rehearse

Performance Standard(s):
a. Contribute to the adaptation of dialogue in a guided drama experience. b. Use and adapt sounds and movements in a guided drama experience. c. independently generate multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.

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 personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes.

Enduring Understanding: 3.2 Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s): When is creative work ready to share?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Convey expressive intent for a specific purpose by presenting a final version of personal musical ideas to peers or informal audience.

Enduring Understanding: 3.1 Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Process Component(s): Evaluate and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
Interpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal musical ideas.

Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Discuss the effectiveness of components and possible improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

Enduring Understanding: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
Essential Question(s): What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists refine their work?
Process Component(s): Construct

Performance Standard(s):
a. Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic aesthetic principles, such as positioning and attention. b. Test and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.

Enduring Understanding: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
Essential Question(s): What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists refine their work?
Process Component(s): Construct

Performance Standard(s):
a. Construct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of aesthetic principles, such as movement and force. b. Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks and production processes, considering possible improvements and their context.