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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):
Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.

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):
Form and apply defensible evaluations in the constructive and systematic critique of media artworks and production processes.

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):
Independently develop rigorous evaluations of, and strategically seek feedback for, media artworks and production processes, considering complex goals and factors.

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. Examine a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines. b. Formulate a deeper understanding and appreciation of a drama/ theatre work by considering its specific purpose or intended audience. c. Analyze and evaluate the aesthetics and effect 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. Analyze and assess a drama/theatre work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria. b. Justify how a drama/theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience. c. Construct meaning in a drama/theatre work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of technical theatre elements, while respecting others’ interpretations.

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. Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choices. b. Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences. c. Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of technical theatre elements for the same 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):
Evaluate works and performances based on personally- or collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis of the structure 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):
Evaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally- and collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure 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):
Develop and justify evaluations of music, programs of music, and performances based on criteria, personal decision-making, research, and understanding of contexts.

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):
a. Describe the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of fundamentals of music theory. b. Describe the way(s) in which critiquing others’ work and receiving feedback from others can be applied in the personal creative process.