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Grade 5 Theatre Standards

Standard (Curriculum)

Instruction and Assessment

Standard 1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills

1.1 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Elements (character, setting, dialogue, conflict, and action)
* Identifies and uses visual art, dance, theatre and music, vocabulary, and concepts
* Identifies and describes character traits within a scene/play, and the use of mood within the setting of a scene/play
* Identifies and describes the sequence of actions that make up the beginning, middle, and end of a scene/play
* Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Principles of Organization (plot, design, theme)
* Identifies and uses visual art, dance, theatre, and music vocabulary and concepts
* Identifies and describes costume, set, props, sound as elements of design in a scene/play
* Compares and contrasts main ideas in multiple scenes/plays

1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
* Identifies and uses basic arts skills and techniques, voice to communicate character, and movement to communicate character
* Identifies and uses emotional and sensory recall to create character, ensemble skills in scene/play, and appropriate focus techniques while participating in a scene/play

1.3 Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
* Identifies specific attributes of artworks of various artists, cultures, and times using arts vocabulary

1.4 Applies audience skills in a variety of visual arts settings and performances
* Demonstrates audience conventions in a variety of arts settings and performances

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Standard 2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes

2.1 Applies a creative process in the arts
* Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process

2.2 Applies a performance processes n the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and problem-solving
* Present work for others
* Reflects and evaluates
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

2.3 Applies a responding process to an arts presentation
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

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Standard 3. The student communicates through visual arts

3.1 Understands the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
* Expresses ideas and feelings through the arts

3.2 Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Creates and/or performs an artwork to communicate for a given purpose with instructor direction

3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
* Explains how personal aesthetic criteria is reflected in artwork

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Standard 4. The student makes connections within and across the arts, to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work

4.1 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts disciplines
* Describes skills, concepts, and vocabulary common among arts disciplines

4.2 Demonstrates the connections between the arts and other content areas
* Identifies skills, concepts, and vocabulary common to the arts and other content areas

4.3 Understands how the arts impact lifelong choices
* Analyzes how the arts impact personal and community choices

4.4 Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and history
* Identifies specific attributes of artworks that reflect culture

4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world of work
* Describes career roles in the arts
* Demonstrates arts skills used in the world of work

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