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
- Brainstorm ideas for roles, imaginary worlds, and stories.
- Explore and articulate ideas for costumes for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Explore and articulate ideas for props for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Explore and articulate ideas for sets for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Explore and articulate ideas for setting for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Explore and articulate characters for an improvised dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Collaborate to determine how characters might move in the dramatic/ theatrical work. Use high, medium, and low levels made by crouching, crawling, leaping, stretching to reach something high, etc.
- Collaborate to determine how characters might speak in the dramatic/ theatrical work by improvising dialogue and the specific traits of various characters' voices (i.e., pitch, speed, volume).
- Determine what the given circumstances are of a character in a dramatic/ theatrical work which include the elements that affect a character: his personal situation, the setting, events that are related to the character or historical period, and the character's motivation.
- Use different methods (i.e., improvisational theater games, research) to devise original ideas for dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Compare ideas with peers.
- Make choices with peers that will improve and deepen the group's dramatic/ theatrical work through the use of constructive criticism.
- Collaborate with the group to fit within the parameters of the dramatic/ theatrical work. Staging choices may vary (i.e., Reader's Theater use of tableau, etc.).
- Collaborate with peers to polish the group work to fit the parameters of the work.
- Participate in vocal exploration (perhaps by using vocal exercises and theater games) in improvised or scripted dramatic/ theatrical work.
- Make design choices to support a improvised or scripted work.
- Make technical choices to support a improvised or scripted work.
- Practice and refine or polish the design and technical choices for a devised or scripted dramatic/ theatrical work.
Vocabulary
Research
Analysis
Design
- 6 journalistic questions: (who, what, when, where, why)
- peers
Analysis
- levels
- setting
- real
- imaginary
- constructive criticism
- speed
- pitch
- volume
- improvise
- gesture
- tableau
- motivation
Design
- sets
- props
- collaborate
- polish
- rehearse
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
