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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):
Demonstrate and justify how the analysis of structures, contexts, and performance decisions inform the response to music.

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):
Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

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):
Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the music and the specified purpose and context.

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):
Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

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, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal. b. Preserve draft compositions through standard notation and improvisations through audio recording.

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 arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal. b. Preserve draft compositions through standard notation, and improvisations through audio or video recording.

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 composed and improvised ideas into draft musical works organized for a variety of purposes and contexts. b. Preserve draft musical works through standard notation, and audio or video recording.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.
Essential Question(s): How, when, and why do theatre artists’ choices change?
Process Component(s): Develop

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in drama/theatre works from western or non-western theatre traditions. b. Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and their interdependent roles in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.
Essential Question(s): How, when, and why do theatre artists’ choices change?
Process Component(s): Develop

Performance Standard(s):
a. Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a drama/theatre in western or non-western theatre traditions. b. Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.
Essential Question(s): How, when, and why do theatre artists’ choices change?
Process Component(s): Develop

Performance Standard(s):
a. Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and western or non-western theatre traditions. b. Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.