Theatre: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Script Writing - Students will write scripts through improvising, drafting, and refining scripts based on experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

Character Acting - Students will act by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and in informal or formal productions.

Scene Design - Students will design and produce by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal and formal productions.

Directing - Students will direct by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.

Research - Students will research by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.

Theatrical Presentation - Students will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

Scene Comprehension - Students will analyze, critique, and construct meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

Context - Students will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.

Understand the principles of script writing including dramatic structure and conflict.

Understand the principles of improvisation.

Use personal experience, literature and history to write original texts.

Make specific language choices during the script writing process that lead to character development and reveal subtext.

Incorporate production elements during the process of writing a script.

Use improvisational skills and techniques in creating a character.

Develop skills of character analysis using a variety of techniques.

Explore characterization through the use of outside-in and inside-out approaches.

Portray characters in a performance setting.

Understand and use terminology, processes, and safety protocol associated with technical theatre.

Understand and use various design elements.

Understand the roles of technical theatre personnel.

Understand the role and responsibilities of the director.

Explore and resolve theatrical production challenges.

Understand and use the principles of blocking.

Understand the process of selecting and analyzing a dramatic text.

Understand, compare, and contrast various genres and periods of dramatic literature.

Discover and explore the contribution of various cultures in the development of theatre.

Examine themes and motifs within a given play.

Examine theatre as a synthesis of all the arts.

Integrate the knowledge of the evolution of art forms into the creation of dramatic productions.

Explore technology as a means of integrating various art forms.

Respond to a variety of live and recorded performances.

Understand the role of the audience in live and recorded performances.

Understand the historical significance of theatre, film, television, and/or electronic media.

Understand the relationship between theatre, film, television, and/or electronic media and society.

Examine the global significance of live and recorded performances, past and present.