Theatre: Grade 5

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.

Use imagination to create a character with specific physical, vocal, and emotional traits.

Conceptualize and design technical elements that support a theatre experience.

Identify and implement solutions to technical problems in a theatre experience.

Appropriately apply theatre vocabulary.

Make artistic choices in portraying character thoughts and emotions.

Use the dramatic writing process to develop scripts based on various materials and sources.

Apply dramatic elements (e.g. plot, point of view, conflict, significant events) in creating scripts.

Utilize evidence from given circumstances to create characters and scenes.

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

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

Use body and movement to communicate thoughts, ideas, and emotions of a character.

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

Perform a range of appropriate dramatic strategies (e.g. flashback, foreshadowing, dialogue, suspense).

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

Analyze and apply technical theatre design elements (e.g. costumes, props, sets, sound, lighting).

Incorporate artistic and technical elements into theatre experiences.

Participate as audience.

Demonstrate appropriate theatre etiquette.

Generate a response to theatre experiences that is interpretive, evaluative, or reflective.

Use appropriate supporting evidence to justify a critique of a theatre experience.

Respond to, critique, and evaluate theatre and performance through a variety of media.

Assess and critique the use of technical theatre elements.

Analyze how theatre experiences reflect and connect with life and other content areas.

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

Differentiate artistic and production careers in theatre (e.g. director, stage manager, designer, technician, playwright, actor).

Relate dramatic work to information about its historical period.

Describe when, where, and how theatrical activities occurred during a specific time period.

Use diverse materials to make artistic choices (e.g. character studies, directing, playwriting) based on historical and cultural information.