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Enduring Understanding: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and community experiences expand dance literacy?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
Watch and/or perform a dance from a different culture and discuss or demonstrate the types of movement danced.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
Essential Question(s): How are complex media arts experiences constructed?
Process Component(s): Integrate

Performance Standard(s):
Combine varied academic, arts, and media content in media artworks, such as an illustrated story.

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. Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life, such as popular media and connections with family and friends. b. Interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering rules, and fairness.

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. With limited guidance, create musical ideas (such as answering a musical question) for a specific purpose. b. With limited guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters (such as duple and triple).

Enduring Understanding: 4.1 Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Essential Question(s): How do performers select repertoire?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.

Enduring Understanding: 4.2 Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Essential Question(s): How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. With limited guidance, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour) in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance. b. When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns using iconic or standard notation.

Enduring Understanding: 4.3 Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do performers interpret musical works?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance Demonstrate and describe music’s expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics and tempo) that support the creators’ expressive intent.

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):
With limited guidance discuss connections between music and culture.

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 choices characters could make in a guided drama experience.b. Identify ways in which gestures and movement may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences.c. Collaborate with peers to conceptualize costumes and props in a guided drama experience.