Enduring Understanding 1: Cognition and reflection are required to appreciate, interpret, and create with artistic intent.

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Number: TH.912.C.1
Title: Cognition and reflection are required to appreciate, interpret, and create with artistic intent.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Theatre
Grade: 912
Big Idea: Critical Thinking and Reflection

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

TH.912.C.1.In.a
Create a performance piece based on a solution to a global issue.
TH.912.C.1.In.b
Create a character for a performance-based rehearsal, feedback, and refinement.
TH.912.C.1.In.c
Use theatre terminology to justify a personal response to a theatrical performance.
TH.912.C.1.In.d
Select the physical/visual elements necessary to create a specific historical and/or geographical play.
TH.912.C.1.In.e
Explain specific criteria chosen in the creation of a character that will fulfill anticipated audience response.
TH.912.C.1.In.f
Use defined criteria to respond to a variety of theatrical performances.
TH.912.C.1.In.g
Describe personal perceptions of a director’s vision and/or playwright’s intent.

Supported

TH.912.C.1.Su.a
Contribute to the creation of a performance piece based on a solution to a global issue.
TH.912.C.1.Su.b
Re-create a character based rehearsal, feedback, and refinement.
TH.912.C.1.Su.c
Contribute to the selection of the physical/visual elements necessary to create a specific historical and/or geographical play.
TH.912.C.1.Su.d
Describe the selection of specific criteria in the creation of a character that will fulfill audience response.
TH.912.C.1.Su.e
Use a selected criterion to respond to a variety of theatrical performances.
TH.912.C.1.Su.f
Identify a director’s vision and/or playwright’s intent.

Participatory

TH.912.C.1.Pa.a
Participate in the creation of a performance piece based on a solution to a global issue.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.b
Change a characteristic in a character for a performance based on feedback.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.c
Identify theatre terminology to communicate a personal response to a theatrical performance.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.d
Identify a physical/visual element necessary to create a specific historical and/or geographical play.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.e
Identify selection of characteristics in the creation of a character for a specific audience.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.f
Use a selected criterion to respond to theatrical performances.
TH.912.C.1.Pa.g
Indicate a director’s vision and/or playwright’s intent.

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Lesson Plans

PROP-agating your PROPS:

A fun way to introduce the importance of props by teaching students to rely on the text of the play/script as well as their creativity when assembling props or creating their own.

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PROP-agation 2, Developing Props For Characterization:

Students will engage in creating original props form ordinary objects in the classroom. Students will develop an improv using everyday items from the classroom and implementing them into a scene to show characterization: who, what, why, where ,when, and how.

 

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Playwright Podcasts:

In this lesson students will work in collaborative teams to create a podcast based upon research of a chosen playwright.  The students will research the history and major works of the playwright and provide analysis of the contributions and the effect their works had on theater.

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Open Script Scenes:

In this lesson, students will collaborate to create and perform an original scene from an "open script" and use imagination to create believable characters, settings, relationship and conflict.

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Creating a Pantomime:

The students will pre-assess what they know about creating a story through just movement. Students will brainstorm, create, utilize technology, and rehearse a pantomime which demonstrates appropriate stage movement and collaboration with a partner.

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Shifting Objects of Attention:

One of the primary ways students can maintain their focus and concentration on stage is using the shifting of object of attention within a scene to stay in truthful moments while sustaining a character. In this lesson, the students will pre-assess how they focus in real life, students will be introduced to examples of people using object of attention. Students will use stream of conscious speaking/writing to describe the object of attention shifting in their pre-rehearsed scene. 

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