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A Short History of Theater: From Greek Festivals to Realism
Students read an original overview of theater history and use it to complete fill-in, true/false and timeline tasks.
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Architecture on Paper: Scale Drawings, Floor Plans and Elevations
Students learn how architects use scale, solve scale conversion problems, and sketch a floor plan and a front elevation.
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Art Movements Field Guide: Six Big Ideas
Students use a field-guide table to learn six major art movements, solve matching clues and sketch the same object in Impressionist-inspired and Cubist-inspired styles.
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Building Major Scales with Whole and Half Steps
Students use the whole-step and half-step pattern to build G, D and A major scales from a list of the twelve note names.
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Camera Vocabulary: Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO
Students learn aperture, shutter speed and ISO in plain language, choose settings for scenes, and calculate how settings change the light.
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Careers in Music: More Than Performing
Students read about eight music careers, match jobs to descriptions, answer questions about training and plan two careers they might explore.
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Caring for Your Instrument and Your Voice: Habits and Routines
Students read about instrument care, vocal health and performance routines, judge good and risky habits, and plan their own routine.
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Character Analysis: What Do Actions Reveal About Imani?
Students read an original backstage scene and use the character’s words, actions and stage directions as evidence to analyze her traits and motivation.
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Character Design Sheet: Shapes, Silhouettes and Expressions
Students learn how shape language, silhouette and expression shape a character, then design an original character on a design sheet.
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Color Theory on Paper: Wheel, Schemes and Mood
Students use a reading, fill-in questions and sorting tables to learn primary, secondary and tertiary colors, complements, analogous colors and warm and cool colors.
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Color Wheel and Mood: Choosing a Palette
Students learn color wheel vocabulary, match palettes to moods and businesses, and draw a six-part color wheel.
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Color Wheel Lab on Paper: Mixing Chart and Labeled Wheel
Students complete a color-mixing chart, practice color vocabulary, and draw and label a 12-part color wheel using words or colored pencils.