1. Students develop interpersonal skills and problem-solving capabilities through group interaction and artistic collaboration.
a. Understanding the balance between personal and group needs
b. Incorporate ideas to unify a group product
c. Communicating artistic choices, describing reasons, and offering alternatives to solve problems and to build consensus
d. Adapting the activity based on constructive criticism
2. Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of story telling, playwriting, acting, and directing.
a. Demonstrating the ability to interpret character analysis and apply stage directions
b. Demonstrating sensory recall, concentration, pantomime, and body alignment to develop believable character
c. Developing vocal skills of clarity, volume, and vocal variety through reading aloud and interpreting characters
d. Creating improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences, heritage, imagination, literature, and history
3. Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of design and technical production.
a. Analyzing dramatic text to suggest season, time, and period through setting, sound, properties, lighting, makeup, and costume
b. Assembling and using elements of technical theatre to represent time and place, establish character, enhance theme and mood, and create dramatic environments
4. Students understand and relate the role of theatre arts to culture and history.
a. Examining and comparing characteristics of theatrical works from various cultures throughout history
b. Exploring historical and cultural concepts through dramatic activities.
5. Students analyze and assess the characteristics, merits, and meanings of traditional and modern forms of dramatic expression.
a. Understanding and using appropriate plot, theme, character, and spectacle
b. Identifying and analyzing dramatic elements of theatre
c. Expressing and comparing personal reactions to comedy, tragedy, and other dramatic forms
d. Using specified criteria to describe, analyze, and evaluate artistic choices in dramatic presentations
6. Students know and apply connections between theatre and other disciplines.
a. Explaining how theatre is interrelated with other disciplines
b. Demonstrating through dramatizations the interaction between theatre and other disciplines
c. Understanding and using technology to enhance classroom activities and dramatizations
