Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists understand and can communicate their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.
EQ: What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
EQ: What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
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
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
- adaptation
- depiction
- personal experience
- community
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
- commercial
- skit
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
