Enduring Understanding 3: Connections among the arts and other disciplines strengthen learning and the ability to transfer knowledge and skills to and from other fields.

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Number: TH.912.H.3
Title: Connections among the arts and other disciplines strengthen learning and the ability to transfer knowledge and skills to and from other fields.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Theatre
Grade: 912
Big Idea: Historical and Global Connections

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This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

TH.912.H.3.In.a
Identify similarities in principles and skills used in theatre and other fields.
TH.912.H.3.In.b
Identify traditional and emerging technologies for theatre to support creativity and innovation in meeting technical production needs.
TH.912.H.3.In.c
Demonstrate maintenance of a health-enhancing level of personal fitness.
TH.912.H.3.In.d
Demonstrate cooperative, interpersonal social skills in a variety of classroom and extracurricular activities.

Supported

TH.912.H.3.Su.a
Recognize similarities in selected principles and skills used in theatre and other fields.
TH.912.H.3.Su.b
Identify selected traditional and emerging technologies for theatre to support creativity and innovation in meeting technical production needs.
TH.912.H.3.Su.c
Participate in the maintenance of a health-enhancing level of personal fitness.

Participatory

TH.912.H.3.Pa.a
Recognize a similarity in a selected principle or skill used in theatre and other fields.
TH.912.H.3.Pa.b
Recognize selected technologies to support production needs.
TH.912.H.3.Pa.c
Select a health-enhancing activity to promote personal fitness.
TH.912.H.3.Pa.d
Practice cooperative interpersonal social skills in a variety of classroom and extracurricular activities.

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Lesson Plans

Modern Day Shakespeare:

In this lesson students will recite, translate and act out a Shakespearian scene.  Students will first read the scene as written, then break down the language into contemporary English.  The lesson will conclude with the students performing the scenes for the class.

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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. 

Type: Lesson Plan

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