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Enduring Understanding: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures
Essential Question(s): What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
Process Component(s): Critique

Performance Standard(s):
Compare artistic intent, content and context from dances to examine the characteristics of genre, style, or cultural movement practice. Based on the comparison, refine artistic criteria using genre-specific dance terminology.

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):
Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions, such as an interactive video game, that convey consistent perspectives and narratives.

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. Describe, compare, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and content in media artworks. b. Describe, compare, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks interact with personal preferences in influencing audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
Essential Question(s): How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Develop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.

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):
Apply collaboratively developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program with a specific purpose and/or context and, after discussion, identify expressive qualities, technical challenges, and reasons for choices.

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. Explain and demonstrate the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance and how elements of music are used. b. When analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch articulation, dynamics, tempo, and form. c. Identify how personal, social, cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different musical effects.

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 contrasting pieces of music demonstrating interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as articulation/style, and phrasing) convey intent.

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 contrasting music to listen to and compare the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

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. Classify and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces. b. Identify and compare the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

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):
Apply collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.