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Standard 1 : Cognition and reflection are required to appreciate, interpret, and create with artistic intent.
Cluster Standards

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

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  • TH.912.C.1.1 : Devise an original work based on a global issue that explores various solutions to a problem.
  • TH.912.C.1.2 : Create, refine, and sustain complex and believable characters for performance through the integration and application of artistic choices based on research, rehearsal, feedback, and refinement.
  • TH.912.C.1.3 : Justify a response to a theatrical experience through oral or written analysis, using correct theatre terminology.
  • TH.912.C.1.4 : Research and define the physical/visual elements necessary to create theatrical reality for a specific historical and/or geographical play.
  • TH.912.C.1.5 : Make and defend conscious choices in the creation of a character that will fulfill anticipated audience response.
  • TH.912.C.1.6 : Respond to theatrical works by identifying and interpreting influences of historical, social, or cultural contexts.
  • TH.912.C.1.7 : Justify personal perceptions of a director’s vision and/or playwright’s intent.
  • TH.912.C.1.8 : Apply the components of aesthetics and criticism to a theatrical performance or design.
Cluster Information
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
Cluster Access Points

This cluster includes the following Access Points.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Cluster Resources

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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.

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.