State Curriculum - Theatre

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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.: 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.: 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.:
1. Describe and interpret characteristics of dramatic forms
1. Describe and interpret characteristics of dramatic forms
1. Describe and interpret characteristics of dramatic forms
a. Describe and compare the characteristics of melodrama and farce
a. Analyze the characteristics of melodrama, farce, tragedy, and comedy
a. Compare the characteristics of melodrama, farce, tragedy, comedy, and mixed forms
b. Compare themes and issues addressed in two or more dramatic works
b. Compare the rendering of themes by analyzing dramatic form in a variety of dramatic works
b. Interpret themes and issues addressed in dramatic works and compare them to personal experiences or historical events
c. Analyze sources of conflict in improvisations and dramatic works
c. Explain ways in which conflict and action are used to develop characters and plot in dramatic works
c. Use selected forms, themes, conflicts, and action to create improvised and scripted dramatic works
2. Describe ways that the manipulation of theatrical elements influences aesthetic response
2. Describe ways that the manipulation of theatrical elements influences aesthetic response
2. Describe ways that the manipulation of theatrical elements influences aesthetic response
a. Compare the communication of ideas and themes in theatre, dance, music, and visual arts
a. Describe the visual, aural, or kinesthetic elements of a theatrical production using vocabulary from dance, music, and visual arts
a. Apply vocabulary from dance, music, and visual arts, to discuss the visual, aural, or kinesthetic elements of a theatrical production
b. Identify ways in which the script, properties, scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound communicate character, time, place, mood, and theme in theatrical productions
b. Explain and demonstrate ways in which the script, properties, scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound communicate character, time, place, mood, and theme in theatrical productions
b. Analyze and illustrate ways in which the script, properties, scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound are manipulated to communicate character, time, place, mood, and theme in theatrical productions
c. Identify ways in which dramatic forms, characters, settings, and action are communicated in theatre, film, video, television, and radio
c. Describe techniques and conventions used in the presentation of characters, settings, and action in film, video, television, and radio
c. Interpret the application of techniques and conventions used in the presentation of characters, settings, and action in film, video, television, and radio
 

 

November 5, 2008