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Standard Identifier: PK.MU:Pr4.2

Grade: TK
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

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 substantial guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of musical contrasts such as high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow.

Standard Identifier: PK.MU:Pr4.3

Grade: TK
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

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).

Standard Identifier: PK.MU:Pr6

Grade: TK
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

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.

Standard Identifier: PK.MU:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With substantial guidance, explore music’s expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Cr1

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

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. With prompting and supports, transition between imagination and reality in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.b. n/ac. With prompting and supports, use non-representational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Pr4

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

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.

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Pr6

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

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.

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Re8

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists’ interpretations of drama/theatre work are influenced by personal experiences, culture, and aesthetics.
Essential Question(s): How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, explore preferences in dramatic play, guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.b. With prompting and supports, name and describe characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.c. With prompting and supports describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: TK
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

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):
Engage in self-directed or collaborative exploration with a variety of arts materials.

Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: TK
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

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):
Engage in self-directed, creative artmaking.

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