Theatre: Grade 1

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Propose potential choices characters could make in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to conceptualize costumes and props in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Imagine ways in which voice/sound and gesture/movement may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, contribute to a sequential plot in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Develop concentration while participating in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in sounds and movements in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaboratively transform the performance space into an imagined world for a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Suggest original story elements in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify technical elements (costumes, lights, props, set, sound) that can be used in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, use movement and gestures to communicate in an informal drama.

Recall choices made in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Explore personal feelings and emotions in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, explore the student's own culture through dramatic play or a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Explain or use text and pictures to describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify favorite or least favorite parts of a drama/theatre experience.

Identify props and costumes that are used in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior during a drama/theatre performance.

Identify character emotions in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama) and relate it to personal experience.

Apply skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from one's own community in a guided drama experience (for example, process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of visual and aural elements in a literary-based guided drama experience based on research.