Stage G - Fine Arts--Drama
Descriptors
25A - Students who meet the standard understand the sensory
elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities
of the arts.
- Analyze vocal and physical qualities used to communicate
character, setting, and emotion.
- Defend the choice of design elements (props, costumes,
lights, sound, make-up, and/or sets) to communicate an idea.
- Analyze a drama for techniques used to enhance plot (e.g.,
choice of time and place, use of minor characters, introduction
of new information, type of conflict).
- Analyze how rhythm is used to communicate ideas.
- Identify pattern and repetition in written or performed
dramas.
- Analyze the interrelationship among character, conflict/problem,
and resolution
- Explain the differences among dialogue, monologue, and
narration.
- Analyze how the use of shape and level impact the communication
of character status, character relationship, emotion, mood,
and message.
- Analyze the relationship of mood to tension and pacing.
25B - Students who meet the standard understand the similarities,
distinctions, and connections in and among the arts.
- Compare and contrast two works in one art form that share
similar themes or subject matter examining artistic components
(i.e., elements, principles, expressive ideas; tools, processes,
technologies; creative processes).
26A - Students who meet the standard understand processes,
traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts.
- Analyze how the primary tools (mind, body, and voice)
influence and/or affect a director and playwright's skills.
- Analyze how the support tools (i.e., costumes, sets, lights,
props, sounds, make-up) and the primary tools work together
to communicate an idea.
- Compare playwriting to improvising and directing to acting.
- Analyze the acting process (e.g., memorizing, determining
and enacting character's wants, listening, maintaining concentration).
- Analyze advanced negotiation strategies used to plan a
drama (e.g., win-win, compromise, chance, voting, agree
to disagree).
- Analyze the steps of the artistic process used in drama.
26B - Students who meet the standard can apply skills
and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more
of the arts.
- Adapt non-dramatic text (e.g. poem, lyrics) into a drama.
- Invent a character or situation based on imagination,
personal experience, or research.
- Demonstrate concentration, physical action/reaction, imagination,
listening, and memorization in acting a character.
- Combine vocal techniques with physical techniques to tell
a story or enact a character.
- Plan, design, and/or alter a space, prop, costume, and/or
sound source to communicate idea.
- Demonstrate planning, practicing, evaluating, and revising
techniques with a team.
27A - Students who meet the standard can analyze how the
arts function in history, society and everyday life.
- Demonstrate good audience behavior and evaluate the behavior
of self and others.
- Describe how audience behavior changes a product or performance.
- Compare and contrast the function of the arts in two similar
types of ceremonies (e.g., parades - Thanksgiving Day Parade
and Mardi Gras; Opening Ceremony - Super Bowl and World
Series).
- Explain the way the various arts are used to persuade
and promote ideas in advertising.
- Explain the ways technology is used to communicate in
each of the arts.
- Describe in each art form at least two artists' roles
and how those roles contribute to the world of work.
27B - Students who meet the standard understand how the
arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
- Determine the reasons why certain artists or works of
art reflect culture (e.g. totems, ritual).
- Connect artists or their works with the trends and/or
influences they create(d).
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