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Using the State Curriculum: Theatre, Grade 5

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Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Theatre:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, perform, and respond to the development of a variety of dramatic forms over time and the aesthetic qualities they reflect.

Indicator

  • 1. Describe ways that theatre depicts themes and stories
Objectives
  1. Identify characteristics of melodrama and farce
  2. Describe themes and issues addressed in dramatic works
  3. Identify and describe how conflict (problem/solution) is depicted in dramatic works and improvised scenes

Indicator

  • 2. Identify, describe, and apply the visual, aural, oral, and kinesthetic elements (literary, technical, and performance) of dramatic performances
Objectives
  1. Describe ways in which other art forms contribute to theatrical efforts, effects, and structures
  2. Compare ways in which the script, properties, scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound communicate character, time, place, and mood in productions and improvised scenes
  3. Describe cultural and historical contexts of representative plays by selected playwrights that are read, performed, and attended

November 5, 2008