Enduring Understanding 1: Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.

General Information
Number: TH.912.F.1
Title: Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Theatre
Grade: 912
Big Idea: Innovation, Technology, and the Future

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

TH.912.F.1.In.a
Analyze character and setting from dramatic text to create real and non-real characters and settings.
TH.912.F.1.In.b
Create, interpret, and respond to theatre that uses improvised storytelling.
TH.912.F.1.In.c
Prioritize, monitor, and complete tasks related to individual and collaborative theatrical projects.

Supported

TH.912.F.1.Su.a
Create real and non-real characters and settings.
TH.912.F.1.Su.b
Create, interpret, or respond to theatre that uses improvised storytelling.
TH.912.F.1.Su.c
Organize and complete theatrical projects having three or more components.

Participatory

TH.912.F.1.Pa.a
Contribute to the creation of real and non-real characters and settings.
TH.912.F.1.Pa.b
Create, interpret, or respond to props, costumes, or dialogue that support a story.
TH.912.F.1.Pa.c
Sequence tasks related to individual and collaborative theatrical projects.

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Lesson Plans

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.

Type: Lesson Plan

Pantomime Scenes:

In this lesson, students will tell a meaningful story (showing a complete story arc) without the use of words through pantomime performance using only body language to convey meaning.

Type: Lesson Plan

Video/Audio/Animation

The Speech Accent Archive:

The speech accent archive presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds.

Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation

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