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ES Performing Arts: Grade 5

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Central Idea:

For all performing artists, the challenge is to develop a range of individual and ensemble skills while singing or playing instruments.

Lines of Inquiry:

What is harmony singing
What makes an effective ensemble performer
How practicing a range of techniques is essential to performing artists

Essential Questions:

What is singing?
How can physical elements affect a voice?
How can what is heard be used to develop a voice?
How can we communicate with an audience using an expressive voice?

Central Idea:

Performing artists pass along culture and tradition.

Lines of Inquiry:

Why practicing a range of techniques is essential
Aural traditions

Essential Questions:

What is the role of performing artists in passing along culture and tradition?
What are the basic drumming techniques and rhythms?
How is aural tradition important in drumming?
What is the history of Biegu drumming?
How can drumming be used to communicate and express culture and tradition?

Central Idea:

Composers create music that challenges and communicates with their audience.

Lines of Inquiry:

The significance of audience response to a composer's choices and expression or emotion
The tools and techniques available for composers to create meaningful music
How composers communicate messages

Essential Questions:

How would you combine different sounds and why do you choose them?
How do composers communicate effectively?
Why do composers use different techniques and tools?
Why is an audience important to a composer?

Central Idea:

Artists can inspire and challenge others to take action.

Lines of Inquiry:

The process artists go through to create their products
Interpreting messages through a variety of media
Techniques artists use to inspire and challenge others to take action

Essential Questions:

What is the purpose of the arts?
What are different ways artists inspire and challenge?
What techniques do artists use to evoke emotion?
What is the process that artists go through to express themselves?

Central Idea:

Performing artists can use exaggeration to communicate ideas dramatically.

Lines of Inquiry:

Different ways we can use exaggeration in a performance
Effective communication between performing artists and with an audience

Essential Questions:

What is the history of melodrama?
What are the conventions of melodrama?
How does melodrama differ from other types of drama?
What elements make melodrama unique?

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