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Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and explain the qualities of and relationships between the components, form and content, aesthetics, intentions and contexts of a variety of media artworks. b. Analyze and explain how diverse media artworks manage audience experience and create intention and persuasion through multimodal perception.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components and the audience impact in a variety of media artworks. b. Examine diverse media artworks, analyzing methods for managing audience experience, creating intention and persuasion through multimodal perception, and systemic communications.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks, focusing on personal and cultural contexts.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings, and influence of a variety of media artworks, based on personal, societal, historical, and cultural contexts.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Analyze the intent, meanings and impacts of diverse media artworks, considering complex factors of context and bias.

Enduring Understanding: 3.2 Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s): When is creative work ready to share?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Perform final versions of improvisations, compositions, and three-or more -chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/ improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Enduring Understanding: 3.2 Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s): When is creative work ready to share?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Perform final versions of compositions, improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Enduring Understanding: 3.2 Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s): When is creative work ready to share?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Perform final versions of a collection of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/ improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Enduring Understanding: 3.1 Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Process Component(s): Evaluate and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions and three-or more -chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Enduring Understanding: 3.1 Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Process Component(s): Evaluate and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions, improvisations, and accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.