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?
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
Design
Theatrical production
Analysis
- purpose
- Inflection
- sensory recall
- visualization
- personal space
- internal dialogue
Design
Theatrical production
- active listening
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
