OCG - Theatre 4H

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

I.Story Making/Playwriting (Scriptwriting)   Students will:

1. Modify the dramatic structure by changing and reconstructing a scene from a period play into a contemporary style or theme.

B/C Write a one-act play and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.

1. Adapt a theatre script for video.
2. Acting Students will:

A.Demonstrate acting skills such as memorizing, sensory recall, concentration, breath control, effective vocal expression, and control of isolated body parts.

1. Create consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.
2. Analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of dramatic texts from various genre and media.
3. Use a range of emotional, psychological, and physical characteristics and behaviors to portray complex, believable charcters in improvised and scripted monolgues, scenarios, scenes, and plays.

III. Designing   Students will:

A.Analyze and explain how scientific and technological advances have impacted set, light, sound, and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, and electronic media production.

1. Analyze a variety of dramatic texts from historical and cultural persepctives to determine the production requirements.
2. Colloborate with directors to develop unifed production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the play for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic productions.
3. Create and implement production schedules, stage management plans, promotional ideas, and business strategies for informal and formal theatre, film, theatre, or electronic media.
4. Directing Students will:

A.Describe and demonstrate appropriate responses to a variety of directing styles.

1. Colloborate with designers and actors to develop a unified directorial concept for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media.
2. Conduct auditions, cast actors, direct scenes, conduct regular production meetings and design publicity to achieve productions goals for an individual directing project.
3. Communicate and justify directorial choices to an ensemble for improvised or scripted scene work.
4. Researching Students will:
5. Identify current technologies, published material, and print and electronic resources available for theatrical production.
6. Produce an in depth written research report and an oral presentation on a topic important to theatre (playwright, cultural impact, etc.).
7. Connecting Students will:

A.Identify a vocabulary of theatrical terminology, and integrate vocabulary of theatre into classroom discussion, planning, and informal and formal performances.

1. Analyze and explain how technology can be used to reinforce, enhance, or alter a theatrical performance.
2. Design an individualized study program (e.g., internship, memtorship, research project) in a theatre- related vocation/avocation and share the information in class.
3. Incorporate elements of visual arts, dance, music, and electronic media into an improvised or scripted scene.
4. Demonstrate the collaborate nature of theatre.
5. Identify and utilize basic theatrical conventions (e.g., costumes, props, puppets, masks).

VII. Valuing and Responding   Students will:

A.Demonstrate audience etiquette during theatrical performances.

1. Develop a critical vocabulary through the reading and discussion of professional criticism.
2. Design a plan for improving performances, using past a present critiques.

VIII. Historical/Cultural   Students will:

A.Describe the societal beliefs, issues, and events of specific theatrical productions.

1. Analyze and explain how theatrical productions can reflect different cultures using the basic elements of theatre (e.g., speech, gesture, costume, etc.).
2. Create a multicultural theatre festival using excerpts from various cultures.
3. Identify way in which theatre practitioners in different cultures and time periods have used concepts, motifs and themes that remain appropriate, prominent and universal today.

 

 

 

Other Standards:  (List national or local standards students are expected to master in this course)

National Core Arts Theatre Standards

TH: Cr1.1.III a. Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies to create the visual composition of a drama/ theatre work

TH: Cr1.1III a. Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies to create the visual composition of a drama/ theatre work

TH: Cr1.1.III c. Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic, in a drama/theatre work.

TH: Cr2-III a. Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and western or nonwestern theatre traditions.

TH: Cr2-III b. Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work

TH: Cr3.1.III a. 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.

TH: Cr3.1 .III  b. Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work

TH: Cr3.1.III c. 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

TH: Pr4.1.III a. Apply reliable research of directors’ styles to form unique choices for a directorial concept in a drama/theatre work.

TH: Pr4.1.III b. Apply a variety of researched acting techniques as an approach to character choices in a drama/theatre work.

TH: Pr5.1.III a. Use and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

TH: Pr5.1.III b. Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

TH: Pr6.1.III a. 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

TH: Re7.1.III a. Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a drama/theatre work.

TH: Re8.1.III a. 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

TH: Re8.1.III b. Use new understandings of cultures and contexts to shape personal responses to drama/theatre work

TH: Re8.1.III c. Support and explain aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a drama/theatre work.

TH: Re9.1.III a. Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choices

TH: Re9.1.III b. Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for the same drama/theatre work.

TH: Re9.1.III c. Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.

TH: Cn10.1.III a. Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

TH: Cn11.1.III a. Develop a drama/theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems.

TH: Cn11.2.III a. Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data from theatre research.

TH: Cn 11.2.III b. Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research

Required Instructional Materials and Resources: (List required materials including SDOC provided textbooks, including any fees that apply, etc.)

Textbook: Stage and School

Notecards, pen/pencil/notebook (3 ring binder or spiral), highlighter, markers  

Optional Materials and Resources:

Scripts, Plays, Playbill, storyboards, DVD’s, Poster boards, ponytail holders