Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists allow awareness of interrelationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.
EQ: What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
EQ: What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
Skills Examples
- 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).
- Design backgrounds and costumes for a chosen artistic work using techniques that have been gained from art class.
- View a theatrical work from another culture (such as kabuki theatre from Japan).
- Read or familiarize oneself with a story from one's own community.
- Read or familiarize oneself with a fairytale such as "Rapunzel."
- Collaborate on the creation of a short scene from the fairytale.
Vocabulary
Research
Analysis
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Analysis
Voice
Movement
Characterization
- emotion
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Directing
Design
Theatrical production
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
