Theater/Drama: Grades 2, 3

Theatre/Drama

Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.

Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as other content areas.

Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Observe, discuss, analyze and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression.

Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Use body and voice to portray character.

Design and construct technical elements for classroom dramatizations (e.g., simple sets, props, costumes, make-up and sound effects).

Develop classroom dramatizations that express various moods or emotions (e.g., happy/sad, funny, scary, mysterious, etc.).

Develop classroom dramatizations that express various moods or emotions (e.g., happy/sad, funny, scary, mysterious, etc.).

Describe theatrical elements (visual, aural, oral, kinetic, ideas, emotions and mood) and compare them with other art forms and content areas.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other content areas.

Select movement, music or visual elements to enhance a dramatization.

Collaborate to design, plan, rehearse and perform dramatizations.

Identify and describe visual, aural, oral and kinetic elements of dramatic performances.

Explain how the wants and needs of characters are different from those of the actors.

Describe one's emotional response and personal preferences, and give constructive feedback about dramatic performances.

Communicate information to peers about people, events, time and place related to dramatizations.

Identify and compare similar characters and situations in dramas and stories from various cultures.

Describe how scientific and technological developments have impacted career choice and availability in theatre, TV, film, video and other electronic media.

Explore the impact of video, film and computer on theatrical endeavor.

Explore the importance of lighting, costumes, set/scenery, properties, sound effects and make-up for dramatic presentation.

Assume roles for an audience that demonstrate characterization and tell a story.

Use body and voice to portray characters, to demonstrate mood or setting.

Interpret characters within the full range of current abilities.

Design and construct simple props, scenery and costumes appropriate to a grade-level dramatization.

Identify the various ways that a story could be performed.

Paraphrase dialogue from a story to demonstrate different interpretations for use in dramatizations.

Develop character, feeling or mood through the use of the voice

Improvise and re-enact scenes based on personal or community experiences.

Listen and react to others in an improvisation.

Identify different art forms within the community.

Discuss how theatre arts can express ideas from other content areas (e.g., social studies, science, math).

Identify movement as described in a variety of content areas (e.g., pathways and force of weather; shapes and actions of animals; intersections, pathways and interruptions of transportation; shapes and spatial relationships of geometry) and respond through movement.

Incorporate other art forms into the creation of a dramatic presentation.

Develop pantomime for use in simple dramatizations.

Develop stories and original pieces using improvisation.

Use basic script writing to portray a sequence of events in a simple scene or story.

Make distinctions between live and recorded performances.

Discuss the concept that consequences and actions teach characters and audience members life lessons.

Use selective criteria to critique what one sees, hears and understands.

Demonstrate responsible audience behaviors and responsible responses to dramatizations

Discuss personal reactions to various performances.

Discuss drama as an expression and record of the human experience.

Use family, school and community resources to gather information about the characters and settings of a story.

Compare and contrast various cultural traditions found in stories, songs, fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes.

Recognize that forms of theatre are found in all cultures.

Examine the roles of theatre, film and television in the community.

Discuss what actors, designers, directors and playwrights do in theatre.

Summarize the roles of technology and electronic media as they relate to theatre arts.

Transform a space and materials for acting out simple dramatizations.

Contribute to making artistic choices for the scenery, props and costumes in a presentation.

Participate in and construct creative dramatic presentations.

Adjust blocking to include audience focus.