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 personal experiences and knowledge that relate to character experiences in a dramatic work.
- Connect personal experiences and knowledge to experiences of characters in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., a commercial, a video, a skit, etc.).
- Identify connections to community in a dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Identify connections to social issues in a dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Perform problem-solving activities with students to prepare them for character roles.
- Familiarize oneself with a classic story such as Cinderella then explore versions of the tale as told by different cultures.
- Note the differences and similarities between the fairytales of different cultures, such as German, Japanese, and Dutch fairytales.
- Collaborate to improvise a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source.
Vocabulary
Research
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
- community
- society
- social issues
- culture
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
- improvisation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
