Theater: Grade 6

Communication

Analysis

Aesthetics

Culture

Use movement, voice, and writing to communicate ideas and feelings.

Use performance to communicate ideas and feelings.

Analyze literary texts and performances.

Understand how to design technical theatre components, such as costumes, sets, props, makeup, lighting, and sound.

Analyze theatre in terms of the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which it was created.

Understand the traditions, roles, and conventions of theatre as an art form.

Use physical movement and acting skills to express a variety of emotions to an audience.

Apply appropriate vocal elements of volume, pitch, rate, tone, articulation, and vocal expression.

Understand how to read and write scripts.

Use improvisation and acting skills to role play various scenarios and given situations.

Interpret various selections of literature through formal and informal presentations.

Analyze plays in terms of theme, characters, conflict, and their interrelationships.

Analyze informal or formal theatre productions in terms of the emotions or thoughts they evoke, characters, settings, and events.

Understand how the major technical elements of theatre, such as lights, sound, set, and costumes, are used to support and enhance a theatrical production.

Understand how to use technical theatre components of costumes, props, masks, and set pieces to support formal or informal dramatic presentations.

Understand theatre arts in relationship to the geography, history, and culture of world civilizations and societies from the beginning of human society to the emergence of the First Global Age (1450).

Create theatrical works that exemplify the style and culture of Europe and South America.

Summarize the rules and purpose of audience etiquette.

Understand the roles of actors and directors in creating performances.