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Standard Identifier: Nov.MU:E.Cr2

Grade Range: Novice
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: Ensembles
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan and Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Select and develop draft melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal. b. Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Standard Identifier: Int.MU:E.Cr2

Grade Range: Intermediate
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: Ensembles
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan and Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Select and develop draft melodies and rhythmic passages that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal. b. Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Standard Identifier: 5.TH:Pr5

Grade: 5
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

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. Choose acting exercises that can be applied to a drama/theatre work. b. Demonstrate the use of technical theatre elements in a drama/theatre work.

Standard Identifier: 5.TH:Re9

Grade: 5
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

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. Develop multiple criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work. b. Analyze and evaluate a character’s circumstances in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective. c. Assess how technical theatre elements represent the theme of a drama/theatre work.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Cr2.1

Grade: 5
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 2.1 Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Essential Question(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Process Component(s): Investigate

Performance Standard(s):
Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Cr2.2

Grade: 5
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 2.2 Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Essential Question(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the free
Process Component(s): Investigate

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Cr2.3

Grade: 5
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 2.3 People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Process Component(s): Investigate

Performance Standard(s):
Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Pr5

Grade: 5
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

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):
Develop a logical argument for safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Re9

Grade: 5
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Recognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.

Standard Identifier: Nov.MU:E.Pr5

Grade Range: Novice
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: Ensembles
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

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):
Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.

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