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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: Theatre artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.
Essential Question(s): How, when, and why do theatre artists’ choices change?
Process Component(s): Develop

Performance Standard(s):
a. Collaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided drama experience. b. Contribute ideas and make decisions as a group to advance a story in a guided drama experience.

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. Propose potential new details to plot and story in a guided drama experience.b. Identify ways in which voice and sounds may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiencesc. Collaborate with peers to conceptualize scenery in a guided drama experience.

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: 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: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate knowledge of expressive qualities and how they support creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music.

Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Explain and demonstrate how personal interests and experiences influence musical selection for specific purposes.

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 music for a specific purpose with expression. b. Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the purpose.