Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Theatre

AE17.TH.K.14

Identify similarities between a story and personal experience in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

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?

Skills Examples

  • Identify personal experiences and knowledge that pertain to community and culture.
  • Connect personal experiences and knowledge to character development in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., a commercial, a video, a skit, etc.).
  • Identify connections to other content areas in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., art in set or prop design, science in making machines, literature in Reader's Theater, history in plot and costuming, etc.).
  • Explore two different versions of a classic fairytale and identify the differences and similarities.
  • Discuss other stories (probably other fairytales) that are similar or different.

Vocabulary

Research
  • adaptation
  • depiction
Analysis
  • personal experience
  • community
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
  • commercial
  • skit

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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