AE17.TH.3.22

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Theatre

AE17.TH.3.22

Identify connections to community, social issues, and other content areas in drama/theatre work.

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?

Skills Examples

  • Identify personal experiences and knowledge that pertain to community and culture.
  • Connect personal experiences and knowledge to community and culture in a dramatic/ theatrical work (e.g., a commercial, a video, a skit, etc.).
  • Identify connections to community in a dramatic/ theatrical work.
  • Identify connections to social issues in a dramatic/ theatrical work.
  • 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.).
  • Read or familiarize oneself with a particular story (e.g., "Jack and the Beanstalk", paying close attention to characterization and plot.
  • Explore how the story is adapted and presented historically in different art forms, genres, or dramatic/ theatrical conventions (e.g., the original Cornish version of" Jack and the Beanstalk" from the 1700s, wood engravings of the tale, and other illustrations through the centuries and decades, scenes in film from Abbott and Costello to Disney to the scene in the musical Into the Woods).
  • Explain how the plot and the depictions of the main characters have changed through the years. Suggest reasons why stories might have changed.

Vocabulary

Research
  • adaptation
  • depiction
Analysis
  • personal experience
  • community
  • culture
  • social issues
Voice
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.
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