STANDARDS: 9-12 PROFICIENT
CONTENT STANDARD 1: Script writing by improvising, writing, adn refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Achievement Standard: construct
imaginative scripts and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that
story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.
- Achievement Standard: analyze
the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic
texts from various genre and media.
- Achievement Standard: compare
and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.
- Achievement Standard: in an ensemble,
create and sustain characters that communicate with audiences.
CONTENT STANDARD 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
- Achievement Standard: explain
the basic physical and chemical properties of the technical aspects of theatre
(such as light, color, electricity, paint, and makeup).
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Achievement Standard: analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.
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Achievement Standard: develop designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that clearly support the text.
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Achievement Standard: apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively and safely create functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.
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Achievement Standard: design coherent stage management, promotional, and business plans.
CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions.
- Achievement Standard: develop multiple
interpretations and visual and aural production choices for scripts and production
ideas and choose those that are most interesting.
- Achievement Standard: justify selections
of text, interpretation, and visual and aural artistic choices.
- Achievement Standard: effectively
communicate directorial choices to a small ensemble for improvised or scripted
scenes.
CONTENT STANDARD 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices.
- Achievement Standard: identify
and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts and
evaluate the validity and practicality of the information to assist in making
artistic choices for informal and formal productions.
CONTENT
STANDARD 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre,
dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms.
- Achievement Standard: describe
and compare the basic nature, materials, elements, and means of communicating
in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance, music, and the visual
arts.
- Achievement Standard: determine
how the nondramatic art forms are modified to enhance the expression of ideas
and emotions in theatre.
- Achievement Standard: illustrate
the integration of several arts media in informal presentations.
CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.
- Achievement Standard: construct
social meanings from informal and formal productions and from dramatic performances
from a variety of cultures and historical periods, and relate to current personal,
antional, and international issues.
- Achievement Standard: articulate
and justify personal aesthetic criterial for critiquing dramatic texts and
events that compares perceived artistic intent with the final aesthetic achievement.
- Achievement Standard: analyze
and critique the whole and the parts of dramatic performances, taking into
account the context, and constructively suggest alternative artistic choices.
- Achievement Standard: constructively
evaluate their own and others' collaborative efforts and artistic choices
in informal and formal productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present.
- Achievment Standard: compare how
similar themes are treated in drama from various cultures and historical periods,
illustrate with informal performances, and discuss how theatre can reveal
universal concepts.
- Achievement Standard: identify
and compare the lives, works, and influence of representative theatre artists
in various cultures and historical periods.
- Achievement Standard: identify
cultural and historical sources of American theatre and musical theatre.
- Achievement Standard: analyze
the effect of their own cultural experiences on their dramatic work.