Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.
EQ: How, when, and why do theatre artists' choices change?
EQ: How, when, and why do theatre artists' choices change?
Skills Examples
- Identify choices characters could make in a given situation (choose your own adventure story).
- Articulate the best choice a character can make and explain why.
- Collaborate to choose costumes for characters in a selected theatrical work. (Have students divide into groups to design a costume, and let the best costume win.)
- Identify ways to communicate that do not require talking. Why do we use our hands when we talk? Should your characters do the same?
- Collaborate and participate in improvisation games to determine how facial expressions and physical movements effect characterization.
- Collaborate to create an improvised skit. (This can be done with the use of costumes and props.)
- Identify the differences between characters in multiple dramatic/ theatrical works.
- View a dramatic piece performed in multiple ways and discuss the differences.
- Design a prop or costume for a potential scene and compare designs.
Vocabulary
Research
Analysis
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
Analysis
Voice
Movement
Characterization
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
- skit
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
