This challenge is not just a theoretical exercise, but a real-world opportunity to apply your music composition skills and explanatory writing. Activites align with the Next Generation and Common Core Standards for Literacy and Writing as well as the National Standards for Music Education of Theory & Composition under the proficient performance level. The experience philosophy is taught with International Baccalaurete with an emphasis on transdisciplinary, student choice, and critical analysis.

**IS THIS CLASS FOR ME?**
> Looking for real-world experience in creating compositions?
> Have a competitive spirit and want to try your hand at music composition?
> Looking to write your composition for ABRSM personal choice performance? 
> Interested in learning how to write your melodies and work on a team in music production?

**EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES**
Build your expertise to create, evaluate, respond to, and connect musical products from creation and communication. 

Your learning leader will:
> Evaluate your response against the identified criteria
> Award your performance
> Respond with evaluation communication in writing or video format 

Develop your unique responses to the following essential questions:

> How do musicians make creative decisions?
> How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work? 
> When is a performance judged ready to present? 
> How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding? 
> How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music? 

**HOW THE CLASS WORKS**
This one- time experience is a part of a continued experience where you can join 1-time competitions or larger week-long experiences. Use the challenge packet to craft responses to musical and thought prompts. The challenge criteria map not only give you the guidelines on how to craft your responses, but includes interactive video shorts to support inquiries. 

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
1. Read the evaluation criteria and decide whether to compete for the Bronze - Silver -or Gold!

2. Complete the prompt by assembling and organizing sounds according to the rules in the exercise where the music has been left out or unfinished. 

3. Detail a written or video analysis responding to the analysis questions about your creative process.

This single puzzle challenge is estimated to take between 30-40 minutes (disclaimer: time estimations are also learner experience dependent; some students may complete the challenge faster while others may dive in more deeply and more time is needed) (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2 and Music Standard: Create & Present)

**CHOICE OF YOUR CHAMPIONSHIP**
What would a challenge be without awards?!

Each puzzle has a self-evaluation of submissions by leveled criteria:
Gold - Silver - Bronze.

In your entry, you will choose which level you are submitting, and your criteria will be reviewed by the learning leader at that expectation level. See the rubric with each puzzle for guidance on choosing your level.

The designed experience is a competition against yourself and creative development according to the set of teacher-developed criteria and then by your chosen submission level (self-assessed graded criteria). (STANDARD: Perform & Present)

**EVALUATION**
Once you have completed the response and decided which level you are competing for, SAVE and SUBMIT your puzzle response back through the OutSchool Classroom! Awards will be delivered virtually within 1-2 days.


AT-A-GLANCE PRIORITIZED STANDARDS 
COMMON CORE LITERACY
CCRS.W.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

CCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

CCRA.W.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

CCRA.W.6 
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

MUSIC - CREATE
MU: Cr2.1.C.1a: Assemble and organize sounds or short musical ideas to create initial expressions of selected experience, moods, images, or storylines.

MU:Cr3.2.C.Ia  Share music through the use of notation, performance, or technology, and demonstrate how the elements of music have been employed to realize expressive intent. 

MUSIC - RESPOND
MU:Re7.1.C.Ia  Apply teacher-provided criteria to select music that expresses a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, binary), and describe the choices as models for composition. 

MU:Re9.1.C.Ia  Describe the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of fundamentals of music theory. 

MUSIC - PERFORM
MU:Pr6.1.C.Ib   Identify how compositions are appropriate for an audience or context, and how this will shape future compositions. 

MUSIC - CONNECT
MU:Cn10.0.Ia  Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.  

MU:Cn11.0.Ia Demonstrates understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.