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Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
With prompting and supports, express an emotional response to characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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):
With prompting and supports, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided drama experience and share with others.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.
Essential Question(s): What can I do to fully prepare a performance or technical design?
Process Component(s): Prepare

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, understand that voice and sound are fundamental to dramatic play and guided drama experiences. b. With prompting and supports, explore and experiment with various technical theatre elements in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists make strong choices to effectively convey meaning.
Essential Question(s): Why are strong choices essential to interpreting a drama or theatre piece?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports identify characters and setting in dramatic play or 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):
With guidance share connections between music 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):
With guidance share how personal interests 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):
With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

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):
With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect 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):
With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used 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):
With guidance, list personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some music selections over others.