Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists' interpretations of drama/theatre work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics
EQ: How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
EQ: How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
Skills Examples
- Participate in or observe a dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Reflect on artistic choices that reveal the purpose, mood, and theme of a dramatic/ theatrical piece.
- Explain reactions to artistic choices made in the dramatic/ theatrical piece and justify response with evidence.
- Participate in or observe a dramatic/ theatrical work which presents different cultures.
- Respond to the differing cultures and explain personal responses to differences. Find commonalities amidst the differences.
- Using theater games and observation, study the effects of emotions on posture.
- Using theater game and observations, study the effects of emotions on gesture.
- Using theater games and reflection, study the effects of emotions on breathing.
- Using the theater games and reflection, study the effects of emotions on vocal intonation.
- Transfer what has been learned through the study of emotion to study the effects of these skills on a dramatic/ theatrical work that a student has seen or in which the student has participated. Describe the effects of these skills on the piece.
- Make or use a plan for evaluating a dramatic or theatrical work. Students should use accurate theater vocabulary to articulate the plan.
- Watch or participate in a dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Determine the theme of that dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Implement the evaluation tool created in #11 in order to assess how the technical elements represent the theme of the work.
- After watching or participating in a theatrical/dramatic. identify and enumerate what a character's given circumstances entail in the dramatic/ theatrical work. Include inferred inner thoughts of the character.
- Identify various perspectives on the work (e.g., how the protagonist and antagonist might perceive the outcome; how a rich or poor, old or young person might differ in their perceptions of the piece).
- Discuss how the character's given circumstances impact the audience's perspective.
Vocabulary
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- justify
- evidence
- academic language
- commonality
- infer
- breathing
- intonation
- posture
- gesture
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Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
