Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theatre work.
EQ: How are the theatre artist's processes and the audience's perspectives impacted by analysis and synthesis?
EQ: How are the theatre artist's processes and the audience's perspectives impacted by analysis and synthesis?
Skills Examples
- Have the students develop a list of rules for audience behavior and discuss the reason for each rule.
- Make observations that explain why artistic choices were made in a guided drama experience (e.g., being able to explain how movement, props, and other technical elements affect mood).
- Students observe or participate in a dramatic/ theatrical work with appropriate behavior (e.g., applauding, remaining attentive, avoiding distracting behaviors, etc.).
- Describe emotions caused by viewing an age-appropriate theatre performance. Explain how these emotions reveal a personal preference (favorite show, favorite scene, favorite character, etc.).
- Identify the motivations behind character actions.
- Use pictures to describe how a character's emotions and actions may differ from personal emotions and actions.
- Collaborate using an improvisation game to build on other's ideas.
- Identify props and costumes that would best suit a certain character and/or play.
- Use props and costumes to build a scene and character in an improvisation game.
- Identify a character's emotions in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., excitement by bouncing in a seat, anger in slamming a door or yelling, etc.).
- Make connections between oneself and the character's emotions in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., being able to connect the work to a personal memory or being able to explain how the student might respond similarly or differently in a similar situation in the student's own life).
- Using a characterization chart, compare and contrast the actions of characters in a guided drama experience.
Vocabulary
Research
Analysis
Voice
Characterization
Design
Theatrical production
Analysis
Voice
- enunciation
Characterization
- motivation
Design
Theatrical production
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
