Theatre Critical Concept Matrix.Draft

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1	Theatre: Critical Concepts Across All Grade Levels		Notes from the CA Arts Standards Theatre Document
2	Concepts	Detail
3	Theatre Making: Acting Technical Theatre Rehearsing Performing Playwriting/Playmaking Directing	Theatre Making comes in many forms. It allows for multiple avenues for active learning. Through the understanding and analysis of dramatic literature, as well as the creation of their own theatre pieces, students engage collaboratively as writers, actors, designers, directors and technicians. Students use their actor’s tools and developing artistry to examine and connect with the world and its meaning.	"The theatre standards are designed to enable students to achieve literacy in theatre...Developing literacy in theatre means discovering the expressive elements of theatre, knowing the terminology that is used to comprehend theatre, having a clear sense of what theatre embodies, and being able to reflect, critique, and connect personal experience to theatre...The four artistic processes addressed separately in the theatre standards (creating, performing, responding, and connecting) are envisioned to occur simultaneously in the actual practice of theatre...As a result, aspects of multiple standards can be combined within a learning activity..."
4	Responding to and Assessing Theatre Works	Students use theater specific vocabulary when creating theatre and responding to performance. They develop critical, analytical and writing skills through observing, discussing and responding to live/recorded theater and dramatic literature.
5	Making Connections Through Theatre	Students explore the multiple roles that theatre can play in community and culture. They make connections to theatre through developing an understanding of self and others. They connect and respond to theatre by identifying personal issues and universal themes in performance and dramatic texts. They examine the integration of other art forms into a complex, multi-media art form. Students connect and apply learning in other disciplines to their comprehension of theatre as an art form.
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