Theatre: Grades 6-8

Theatre Performance

Theatre Production

CREATE: Students will generate, develop, and refine artistic work. 

PERFORM: Students will analyze, develop, and convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

RESPOND: Students will critically interpret intent and meaning in order to evaluate artistic work.

CONNECT: Students will relate prior knowledge and personal experience with theatre to cultural and historical contexts.

CREATE: Students will generate, develop, and refine artistic work. 

PERFORM: Students will analyze, develop, and convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

RESPOND: Students will critically interpret intent and meaning in order to evaluate artistic work. 

CONNECT: Students will relate prior knowledge and personal experience with theatre to cultural and historical contexts.

Characterization: Interpret dialogue or a script using authentic actions.

Improvisation: Develop improvised plot with a predefined setting and characters.

Text/Script: Create a script or adapt an existing work for three or more characters based on a theme, image, or concept.

Direction: Formulate a vision that incorporates purposeful blocking and stage elements.

Collaboration: Share leadership and responsibilities to plan a production. 

Oral Communication: Produce truthful, authentic vocal choices based on an interpretation of text.

Nonverbal Communication: Create a tableau depicting stories relating to emotional expression.  

Spatial Awareness: Use a hand prop or set piece appropriate to the character with purposeful action within the stage environment. 

Public Presentation: Recite a memorized text/script/scene in a performance.  

Protocol: Exhibit developmentally appropriate stage etiquette for public performances; adhere to copyright laws, including rights, royalties, and recording.

Analysis: Express preferences for effectiveness of theatrical performance choices (what works/what does not work).

Reflection: Assess personal participation in a production through constructive critique using precise theatre vocabulary.

View Performance: Demonstrate developmentally appropriate audience etiquette.

Cultural Social Context: Examine how theatre relates to self, others, and the world in the past and present.

Research: Describe the “given circumstances,” environmental and situational conditions that influence a theatrical work.

Career Connections: Explore and differentiate theatre professions.

Cross Disciplinary: Analyze historical and cultural relationships between theatre and other disciplines. 

Design: Create a selection of documents or artifacts depicting some design elements of a production.

Text/Script: Outline required major production elements based on a script.

Management Plan: Read a script or watch a live or recorded production and describe sequence of steps in the process required to execute that show.

Collaboration: Share leadership and responsibilities to plan a production.

Design: Execution Demonstrate a specific production role safely and within overall script/technical requirements. 

Tools & Technology: Use Use common hand tools and technology safely and properly to create/or run a theatrical production element under direction of a teacher. 

Design & Management Documentation: Organize artifacts and documents with personal commentary in a portfolio for a production assignment.

Public Presentation: Run one production element in a classroom or public performance.

Protocol: Exhibit developmentally appropriate stage etiquette for public performances; adhere to copyright laws, including rights, royalties, and recording.

Analysis: Express preferences for effectiveness of theatrical production elements (what works/what does not work).

Reflection: Assess personal participation in a production through critique using theatre vocabulary.

View Performance: Demonstrate developmentally appropriate audience etiquette.

Cultural Social Context: Examine how theatre relates to self, others, and the world in the past and present.

Research: Describe the “given circumstances,” environmental and situational conditions that influence a theatrical work.

Career Connections: Explore and differentiate theatre production professions.

Cross Disciplinary: Analyze historical and cultural relationships between theatre and other disciplines.