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



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General 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

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
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.


Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

Access Point Number Access Point Title
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

Access Point Number Access Point Title
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

Access Point Number Access Point Title
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.


Related Resources

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.

Lesson Plans

Name Description
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.