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Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

Enduring Understanding: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Question(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Enduring Understanding: 11.2 Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.
Essential Question(s): In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
Process Component(s): Research

Performance Standard(s):
a. Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling in drama/theatre work. b. Compare the drama/theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Enduring Understanding: 11.1 Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
Process Component(s): Interrelate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in drama/theatre work. b. Use responsible practices for creating and adapting drama/theatre works.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists allow awareness of interrelationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
Process Component(s): Empathize

Performance Standard(s):
Imagine and identify the ways drama/theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

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 and demonstrate connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts.

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 and demonstrate how personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge relate to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explain verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas, such as fantasy and reality and technology use, relate to everyday life and culture. b. Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.

Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Examine and use personal and external resources , such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks. b. Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Explain the presentation conditions, audience response, and improvements for presenting.