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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 substantial guidance, explore music’s expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo).

Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Process Component(s): Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
a. With substantial guidance, practice and demonstrate what they like about their own performances. b. With substantial guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to refine performances.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. With substantial guidance, perform music with expression. b. With substantial guidance, demonstrate performance decorum appropriate for the audience.

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):
With substantial guidance explore how personal interests connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists make strong choices to effectively convey meaning.
Essential Question(s): Why are strong choices essential to interpreting a drama or theatre piece?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports identify characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.
Essential Question(s): What can I do to fully prepare a performance or technical design?
Process Component(s): Prepare

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, understand that imagination is fundamental to dramatic play and guided drama experiences. b. With prompting and supports, explore and experiment with various technical theatre elements in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience in diverse cultures.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists and audiences share a creative experience?
Process Component(s): Share, Present

Performance Standard(s):
With prompting and supports, engage in dramatic play or a guided drama experience and share with others.

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):
With prompting and supports, identify similarities between a story and personal experience in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Question(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Process Component(s): Select, Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
Identify reasons for saving, and displaying objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
Essential Question(s): What methods, processes and criteria are considered when preparing artwork for presentation, preservation, portfolio, or collection? How does assessing choices for presentation affect its meaning to the viewer?
Process Component(s): Prepare

Performance Standard(s):
Identify places where art may be displayed or saved.