Students will explore their personal responses to the following essential questions:

1. How do musicians make creative decisions? 
Produce a musical product and 

2. How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?  
Utilize and develop an understanding of the creative process.

3. When is a performance judged ready to present? 
Build confidence in creating and communicating musical experiences.

4. How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding? 
Produce musical composition using standard notation.
Produce a written or spoken response discussing the use of the creative process and language of music.

5. How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music? 
Produce a written or spoken response discussing the use of the creative process and language of music.

0 - 1 hours per week outside of class
Homework
Frequency: included
Feedback: included
Details: There are 2 assignments: music composition and reflective statement. There are student choice response levels: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Each response level details the criteria for evaluation and the teacher will grade against the student assessed level. This is a competition against oneself with feedback and awards being delivered 1-2 days after the learner submits.
Assessment
Frequency: included
Details: This challenge class offers a choice of learning leader assessment: bronze - silver - or - gold. Each level increases with difficulty, increased precision, expectations, quality/quantity, and/or depth of thought and engagement.
Grading
Frequency: included
Details: A certificate of completion is provided upon completion along with a written or video evaluation to the student. For meeting defined criteria, virtual achievement certificates will be awarded.