High School Beginning

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.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

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.

Describe how the emergence of theatre as an art form has influenced society prior to 1400.

Apply concepts from other content areas to support the creation and performance of theatre.

Identify the various roles that contribute to the creation, production, design, and marketing of theatre.

Identify the innovative tools and technology used in theatre.

Devise a variety of scenarios and scenes through improvised and scripted activities.

Create scenarios that communicate character, setting, plot, and conflict.

Incorporate introductory technical elements using available facilities, technology, and tools to enhance theatrical works.

Adapt theatrical works using personal experiences through a collaborative process.

Compare artistic adaptation, appropriation, fair use, copyright, public domain, open source, and creative commons in theatre.

Refine theatrical works based on specific criteria.

Communicate characters, situations, and scenarios using body and voice while adhering to staging conventions.

Develop scripted or devised theatre for presentation.

Demonstrate appropriate theatre audience behavior with the understanding of the impact on performers and technicians.

Implement technical elements to support scripted or devised presentations.

Identify the responsibilities of a performer in a variety of theatrical venues.

Analyze the dramatic structure of written and presented theatrical works.

Interpret how theatre artists use dramatic structure to convey meaning.

Explain how personal preferences and previously experienced theatrical works can impact critiques.

Generate verbal or written critique of theatrical works.