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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):
Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists apply criteria to understand, explore, and assess drama and theatre work.
Essential Question(s): How do analysis and synthesis impact the theatre artist’s process and audience’s perspectives?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work. b. Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama/theatre work. c. Identify the technical theatre elements used in a drama/theatre work to justify aesthetic choices.

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. Explain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work. b. Identify cultural contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work. c. Identify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama/ theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

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. Identify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work. b. Experiment with various physical choices to communicate character in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Select from teacher provided criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

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):
Describe a personal interpretation of how creators’ and performers’ application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.

Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. Describe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces. b. Identify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Select music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

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):
Perform a selected piece of music demonstrating how interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities (such as articulation/style, and phrasing) convey intent.