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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):
Identify and demonstrate how personal interests, experiences, and ideas relate to creating, performing, and responding to music.

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. Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama/theatre work. b. Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work. c. Refine design choices and technical theatre elements to support a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

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):
Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Discuss, reflect, and add details to enhance an artwork’s emerging meaning.

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):
Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

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: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

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: 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. Revise and refine an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work through rehearsal and collaborative review. b. Develop physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work. c. Collaborate on solutions to design and technical theatre element problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.

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.