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Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate

Performance Standard(s):
Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Make art or design with various art materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.

Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Brainstorm to generate multiple approaches to an art or design problem.

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. Identify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided drama experience. b. Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source in a guided drama experience.

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. Determine appropriate skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas to apply in a guided drama experience. b. Use appropriate responses to react to 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’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan & Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Demonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting patterns and ideas for music that represent expressive intent. b. Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.

Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose. b. Generate musical patterns and ideas within the context of a given tonality (such as major and minor) and meter (such as duple and triple).