National Core Arts Standards: Theatre — Grade 10

Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

Demonstrate an understanding of multiple interpretations of artistic criteria and how each might be used to influence future artistic choices of a drama/theatre work.

Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a drama/theatre work.

Investigate how cultural perspectives, community ideas and personal beliefs impact a drama/theatre work.

Choose and interpret a drama/theatre work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work.

Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a cross cultural drama/theatre work.

Develop a drama/theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems.

Research how other theatre artists apply creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, using theatre research methods.

Formulate creative choices for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work based on theatre research about the selected topic.

Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data from theatre research.

Use basic theatre research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a drama/theatre work.

Explore how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in drama/theatre work.

. Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research.

Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Investigate historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies to create the visual composition of a drama/ theatre work.

Explore the impact of technology on design choices in a drama/theatre work.

Understand and apply technology to design solutions for a drama/theatre work.

Create a complete design for a drama/theatre work that incorporates all elements of technology.

Use script analysis to generate ideas about a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to develop a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic, in a drama/theatre work

Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in a drama/theatre work.

Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a drama/theatre work.

Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and western or non western theatre traditions.

Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and explore their interdependent roles in a drama/theatre work.

Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a drama/theatre work.

Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Practice and revise a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using theatrical staging conventions.

Use the rehearsal process to analyze the dramatic concept and technical design elements of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Refine, transform, and re-imagine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using the rehearsal process to invent or re-imagine style, genre, form, and conventions.

Explore physical, vocal and physiological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

Use research and script analysis to revise physical, vocal, and physiological choices impacting the believability and relevance of a drama/ theatre work.

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

Refine technical design choices to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/ theatre work.

Re-imagine and revise technical design choices during the course of a rehearsal process to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Apply a high level of technical proficiencies to the rehearsal process to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Examine how character relationships assist in telling the story of a drama/theatre work.

Apply reliable research of directors styles to form unique choices for a directorial concept in a drama/theatre work.

Shape character choices using given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Apply a variety of researched acting techniques as an approach to character choices in a drama/theatre work.

Practice various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable drama/theatre performance.

Use and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

Use researched technical elements to increase the impact of design for a drama/theatre production.

Apply technical elements and research to create a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

Perform a scripted drama/theatre work for a specific audience.

Present a drama/theatre work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

Present a drama/theatre production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in the creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturg.

Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in multiple drama/theatre works.

Develop detailed supporting evidence and criteria to reinforce artistic choices, when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Use detailed supporting evidence and appropriate criteria to revise personal work and interpret the work of others when participating in or observing a drama/ theatre work.

Identify and compare cultural perspectives and contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Apply concepts from a drama/theatre work for personal realization about cultural perspectives and understanding

Use new understandings of cultures and contexts to shape personal responses to drama/theatre work.

Justify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of a drama/theatre work.

Debate and distinguish multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of drama/theatre work.

Support and explain aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a drama/theatre work.

Examine a drama/ theatre work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

Analyze and assess a drama/theatre work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choices.

Consider the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

Construct meaning in a drama/theatre work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of production elements while respecting others interpretations.

Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for the same drama/theatre work.

Formulate a deeper understanding and appreciation of a drama/ theatre work by considering its specific purpose or intended audience.

Verify how a drama/theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience.

Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.