Eighth Grade

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

Relate theatrical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Relate theatrical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Explore advancements in the field of theatre arts.

Create original theatrical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Adapt original theatrical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Perform theatrical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Develop theatrical presentations.

Analyze theatrical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Evaluate theatrical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Identify the influence of theatre in North Carolina and the nation on history, culture, and community.

Explain how theatrical skills and processes can be applied to solve a variety of problems.

Explain how theatrical skills, characteristics, and behaviors contribute to success in a broad range of careers.

Evaluate how theatre tools and innovations are expanding opportunities in business, career, and life skills beyond the theatrical world.

Improvise conflict and resolution scenarios for original scripts or devised theatre.

Create original characters and situations using background knowledge and research.

Create simple lighting and sound designs to support and enhance dramatic presentations.

Adapt historical or current events applying background knowledge and research to develop character and situations for theatre.

Explain how to share works of theatre legally and ethically, in both physical and digital spaces.

Apply critical elements of objective feedback and criteria for improvement in performance.

Communicate various styles of character, conflict, and resolution through blocking as given by directors or indicated by playwrights.

Develop various styles of literature into formal or informal presentations.

Embody audience etiquette appropriately as a participant in productions.

Employ technical elements in various theatrical presentations.

Demonstrate performance etiquette during theatrical experiences.

Analyze theatrical works using knowledge of historical and cultural contexts.

Explain how theatre artists’ choices are influenced by culture and environment.

Explain the impact of culture and environment on personal perspective.

Evaluate theatrical work of others with a specific plan for improvement.