STANDARDS: K-4
CONTENT STANDARD 1: Script writing by planning and recording improvisations based
on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Achievement Standard: collaborate
to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom
dramatizations
- Achievement Standard: improvise
dialogue to tell stories, and formalize improvisation by writing or recording
the dialogue
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations
- Achievement Standard: imagine
and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their environments
- Achievement Standard: use
variations of locomotor and non-locomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo,
and tone for different characters
- Achievement Standard: assume
roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of the classroom
dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature,
and history
CONTENT STANDARD 3: Designing by visualizing and arraging environments for classroom dramatizations
- Achievement Standard: visualize
environments and construct designs to communicate locale and mood using visual
elements (such as space, color, line, shape, texture) and aural aspects using
a variety of sound source
- Achievement Standard: collaborate
to establish playing spaces for classrooom dramatizations and to select and
safely organize available materials that suggesty scenery, properties, lighting,
sound, costumes, and makeup
CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by planning classroom dramatizations
- Achievement Standard: collaboratively
plan and rehearse improvisations and demonstrate various ways of staging classroom
dramatizations
CONTENT STANDARD 5: Researching by finding information to support classroom dramatizations
- Achievement Standard: communicate
information to peers about people, events, time, and place related to classroom
dramatizations
CONTENT
STANDARD 6: Comparing and connecting art forms by describing theatre, dramatic
media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.
- Achievement Standard: describe
visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements in theatre, dramatic media, dance,
music, and visual arts
- Achievement Standard: compare
how ideas and emotions are expressed in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music,
and visual arts
- Achievement Standard: select
movement, music, or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization
CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing and explaining personal preferences and constructing meanings from classroom dramatizations and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
- Achievement Standard: identify
and describe the visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements of classroom drama
and dramatic performances
- Achievement Standard: explain
how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their
own
- Achievement Standard: articulate
emotional responses to and explain personal preferences about the whole as
well as the parts of dramatic performances
- Achievement Standard: analyze
classroom dramatizations and, using appropriate terminology, constructively
suggest alternative ideas for dramatizing roles, arranging environments, and
developing situations along with means of improving the collaborative processes
of planning, playing, responding, and evaluating
CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by recognizing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in daily life
- Achievement Standard: identify
and compare similar characters and situations in stories and dramas from and
about various cultures, illustrate with classroom dramatizations, and discuss
how theatre reflects life
- Achievement Standard: identify
and compare the various setting and reasons for creating dramas and attending
theatre, film, television, and electonic media productions.