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1. Script write by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1 Recognize the structure of a play in written format.

1.2 Recognize and use the narrative elements of a play: plot, character, conflict, tension and suspense, climax, resolution, stage directions, and setting.

1.3 Understand how play writing can be based on personal and shared experience, imagination, history, or literature.

1.4 Formalize the dialogue or improvised movements to tell stories through writing or recording the dialogue.

1.5 Recognize the importance of collaboration to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

2. Act by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations.

2.1 Explore the dialogue and actions of characters in a dramatic text by imagining and describing characters, their relationships and their environment.

2.2 Examine goals and conflicts and how characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives.

2.3 Develop the skill of concentration to enact a created character and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations.

2.4 Use variation of movements, gestures, and vocal expression like pitch, tempo, and tone to create different characters.

3. Design by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations.

3.1 Imagine, design, and construct environments to communicate locale and mood (such as space, color, shape, and texture).

3.2 Collaborate to establish playing spaces for classroom dramatizations.

3.3 Select, organize, and invent sources of sound for improvised and scripted scenes.

3.4 Select, organize, and invent appropriate costumes, makeup, and props for improvised and scripted scenes.

4. Direct by planning classroom dramatizations.

4.1 Collaboratively plan and rehearse improvisations and demonstrate various ways of staging classroom dramatizations.

4.2 Explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes.

4.3 Make staging choices (i.e. blocking, movement, choreography) to convey the meaning of improvised and scripted scenes.

4.4 Identify character relationships in scenes.

4.5 Develop directorial vision and production concept.

5. Research by finding information to support classroom dramatizations.

5.1 Research and communicate information to peers about people, events, time, and place related to classroom dramatization.

6. Compare and connect art forms by describing theater, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1 Identify the differences between a live performance of a play and an electronic performance of it.

6.2 Compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in theater, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.

6.3 Incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts in an informal presentation.

6.4 Recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.

1. Script write by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.1 Recognize the structure of a play in a developed script.

1.2 Understand how play writing is based on cultures, times, and places.

1.3 Improvise or write a play using characters, environments, actions, and situations that create tension and suspense.

1.4 Recognize the importance of collaboration.

1.5 Compare and contrast different types of plays.

2. Act by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations.

2.1 Synthesize dialogue and action to discover, explain, and justify the motivations and actions of the character and invent behaviors based on the observation of interactions, ethical choices, and emotional responses of characters described in a written script.

2.2 Demonstrate various acting skills (e.g. memory and sensory recall, concentration, breath control, diction and motivation) to create believable characters and develop characterizations that suggest artistic choices.

2.3 Analyze ways that characters use different tactics to accomplish their objectives and interact as the invented characters.

3. Design by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations.

3.1 Examine an environment or space to determine movements patterns and facilitate communication in front-of-house and back-of-house (e.g. acoustics, headsets, blocking, back stage traffic).

3.2 Imagine, design, and/or construct environments to communicate locale and mood.

3.3 Use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sounds and lighting for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.4 Use traditional and nontraditional costumes and makeup based on setting and mood to create an appropriate environment for improvised or scripted scenes.

3.5 Work collaboratively and safely to select and create elements of scenery, properties, lighting, and sound to signify environments and costumes and makeup to suggest character.

4. Direct by planning classroom dramatizations.

4.1 Explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes and scenarios.

4.2 Make staging choices to convey the meaning of scripted scenes.

4.3 Identify character relationships and explain motivations in scripted scenes.

4.4 Identify narrative elements in scripted scenes.

4.5 Develop directorial vision and production concept.

4.6 Lead small groups in planning visual and aural elements and in rehearsing improvised and scripted scenes demonstrating social, group, and consensus skills.

5. Research by finding information to support classroom dramatizations.

5.1 Apply research from print and non print sources to script writing, acting, designing, and directing choices.

6. Compare and connect art forms by describing theater, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.

6.1 Analyze the contributions of the various art forms within a theatrical production (e.g. scenery, lighting, music, dance costumes).

6.2 Incorporate elements of dance, music, and visual arts to express ideas and emotions in improvised and scripted scenes.

6.3 Express and compare personal reactions to several art forms.

6.4 Describe and compare the functions and interactions of performing and visual artists and audience members in theater, dramatic media, musical theater, dance, music and visual arts.

6.5 Recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.

*Organized in relation to the National Standards for Drama.