Theatre: Grade 6

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.

Identify artistic choices, utilize theatre vocabulary, and demonstrate non-verbal communication skills in the rehearsal process.

Interpret a character's motivation by understanding the relationship between their background and their behavior.

Identify the variety of relationships between characters.

Identify, define, and classify character traits.

Recognize and demonstrate the roles, responsibilities, and skills associated with collaborative performance.

Use resources to identify and create technical elements of theatre.

Identify the elements of a story.

Identify the theme and structure of a play.

Articulate creative ideas in oral and written forms.

Use the dramatic writing process to generate a script.

Demonstrate the conventions of dialogue and stage directions.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills (e.g. rate, pitch, volume, inflection, posture, facial expression, physical movement).

Execute character creation in a performance.

Demonstrate a variety of types of theatre performances.

Incorporate technical elements in performance.

Identify the role of the audience in different environments.

Analyze the relationship between an audience and a performer.

Create guidelines for behaviors appropriate to a theatre experience.

Model appropriate audience behaviors.

Identify the purpose of a critique.

Evaluate a theatre production using an assessment instrument.

Identify similarities between theatre and other art forms.

Draw conclusions about the relationships between theatre and life.

Define tasks associated with a theatre production (e.g. director, stage manager, designer, technician, playwright, actor).

Describe the origins of theatre.

Identify and analyze ways in which theatre influences and reflects the culture of a society.

Utilize a multi-disciplinary approach to research, create, and support artistic choices.

Examine the relevance of cultural and historical context.