Theatre: Grade 3

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Organize, design, and refine theatrical work.

Develop scripts through theatrical techniques.

Act by communicating and sustaining roles in formal and informal environments.

Execute artistic and technical elements of theatre.

Engage actively and appropriately as an audience member.

Critique various aspects of theatre and other media.

Explore how theatre connects to life experience, careers, and other content.

Examine the role of theatre in a societal, cultural, and historical context

Create characters with specific traits (e.g. physical, vocal, emotional) that respond to imaginary circumstances.

Collaborate with an ensemble to rehearse, refine, and question a theatrical work.

Identify and imagine technical elements that support a theatre experience.

Use theatre vocabulary (e.g. character, setting, dialogue, point of view, plot, conflict, resolution).

Apply sensory elements in creating and portraying characters.

Use imagination to create, revise, improve, and/or add ideas to a scripted or improvised work.

Use a playwriting process.

Create scripts that include setting, point of view, sequence of events, and cause and effect.

Create an organizing structure appropriate for purpose, audience, and context.

Develop scripts based on stories (e.g. personal, imaginary, real).

Use vocal elements (e.g. inflection, pitch, volume, articulation) to communicate a character's thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Use body and movement to communicate a character's thoughts and emotions.

Collaborate and perform with an ensemble to present theatre to an audience.

Create and perform characters based on imagination.

Identify and explore character choices and relationships in a variety of dramatic forms (e.g. narrated story, pantomime, puppetry, dramatic play).

Identify and explore theatre design elements (e.g. costumes, props, sets, sound, lighting).

Explore artistic and technical elements in theatre experiences.

Participate as audience.

Demonstrate appropriate theatre etiquette.

Identify artistic choices through participation and observation.

Interpret what is seen, felt, and heard in a theatre or performance experience.

Compare and contrast theatre experiences.

Identify the use of technical theatre elements.

Connect theatre experiences to life experiences and other content areas.

Describe theatre careers and the skills necessary for those careers (e.g. director, stage manager, designer, technician, playwright, actor).

Describe theatre resources in the community (e.g. community theatres, local middle and high school theatre programs, teaching artists).

Describe how theatre arts connect to self and to the present world.

Explore dramatic work and theatre styles of the past and present.

Investigate community and social issues through theatrical work.

Investigate multiple approaches to and influences on storytelling in theatrical work.