State Curriculum - Theatre

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Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to apply theatrical knowledge, principles, and practices to collaborative theatre presentations.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to apply theatrical knowledge, principles, and practices to collaborative theatre presentations.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to apply theatrical knowledge, principles, and practices to collaborative theatre presentations.:
1. Apply a variety of dramatic structures to theatrical presentations
1. Apply a variety of dramatic structures to theatrical presentations
1. Apply a variety of dramatic structures to theatrical presentations
a. Apply dramatic narrative conventions to perform improvised or written scenes based on personal experiences that involve conflict
a. Use dramatic narrative conventions to improvise, write, and perform monologues or scenes based on real or imagined situations that are based on personal experiences, real or improvised situations, or historical events
a. Use dramatic narrative conventions to write and perform monologues, scenes, and plays that are based on personal experiences, real or improvised situations, or historical events
b. Identify and use dramatic narrative conventions to adapt scenes from folktales and short stories
b. Identify and use dramatic narrative conventions to adapt scenes from prose and other forms of literature
b. Manipulate dramatic narrative conventions to create and perform dramatic works based on original ideas
c. Use formal elements of performance to improvise scenes from original or given ideas that feature characters in comic or dramatic conflicts
c. Use formal elements of performance to create improvisational scenes from original ideas that feature believable characters, settings, conflicts, and resolutions
c. Use formal elements of performance to create improvisational scenes using original ideas and a specific dramatic form
d. Write and perform monologues based on personal experiences that incorporate storytelling conventions such as beginning, middle, end, and conflict
d. Use the principle of cause and effect to create and perform improvised or written narrative scenes
d. Select a variety of sources, e.g. original ideas, fictional or non-fictional works, theatrical structures, and theatrical elements to create and produce dramatic works.
2. Develop performance and production skills required for theatrical performance
2. Develop performance and production skills required for theatrical performance
2. Develop performance and production skills required for theatrical performance
a. Use selected posture, movement, expression, and vocal skills to enact characters drawn from selected sources
a. Use selected behaviors, vocal skills, posture, and movement to create original characters and to enact characters drawn from dramatic literature
a. Use selected behaviors, vocal skills, posture, movement, and techniques to create sustained and believable original characters and characters drawn from the dramatic literature of a variety of cultures and historical periods
b. Use collaborative theatre processes to create, perform, and revise scenes and plays based on themes drawn from selected sources
b. Use given theatre genres and styles and collaborative theatre processes to create, perform, and revise scenes and plays
b. Select a theatre genre and style and use collaborative theatre processes to create, perform, and revise scenes and plays
c. Describe how scenic elements and props are used as symbols and signs to suggest character and establish time (period), place, and mood
c. Explain and illustrate ways in which props, costumes, or environments might communicate a character's social status, behavior, and personality
c. Analyze and describe representational and presentational environments that communicate the intent of dramatic works
d. Design scenic elements, props, costumes, and environments that communicate character and establish time period, place, and mood
d. Design scenic elements, props, costumes, and environments that communicate a character's social status, behavior, and personality
d. Design and construct representational and presentational environments that communicate the intent of dramatic works
 

 

November 5, 2008