Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Theatre

AE17.TH.5.10

Use physical choices to create meaning in a drama/theatre work.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Theatre artists make strong choices to effectively convey meaning.
EQ: Why are strong choices essential to interpreting a drama or theatre piece?

Skills Examples

  • Use nonsense dialogue or one-word sentences and other such activities to have pairs or small groups practice using a variety of inflections.
  • Identify the underlying thoughts and emotions involved in the dialogue.
  • Watch a dramatic/ theatrical work and enumerate the underlying thoughts and emotions of a character.
  • Use theater games (e.g., "Follow Your Nose" or "Sculptor") to enhance the physicality of a character through sensory recall and visualization.
  • Use theater games to enhance creativity, focus, improvisation, and ensemble building.
  • Incorporate skills from theater games into a student performance (e.g., a folk story or piece of literature).
  • Prepare and rehearse the piece, polishing and revising as the collaborators see fit.
  • Be able to explain or demonstrate how the vocal and physical skills they have practiced were used in the performance.
  • Determine skills needed for active listening (e.g., concentrating, responding to, and remembering).
  • Perform piece for an audience that practices active listening.
  • Students discuss and constructively evaluate the elements of the performance, drawing on what they remember from active listening.

Vocabulary

Research
Analysis
  • purpose
Voice
  • Inflection
Movement
  • sensory recall
  • visualization
  • personal space
Characterization
  • internal dialogue
Directing
Design
Theatrical production
  • active listening

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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