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
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: 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
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: imagine and clearly describe characters, their
relationships, and their environments
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: use variations of locomotor and non-locomotor
movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters
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: 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
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: 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
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: compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in
theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts
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: 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
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: explain how the wants and needs of characters are
similar to and different from their own
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: articulate emotional responses to and explain
personal preferences about the whole as well as the parts of dramatic
performances
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: 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
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: 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.