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New Colorado P-12 Academic Standards

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Content Area: Drama and Theatre Arts
Grade Level Expectations: Preschool
Standard: 1. Create

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate emotions and feelings in dramatic play
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies

Students Can:

  1. Identify how people show emotions and feelings (DOK 1)
  2. Use facial expressions and movement to demonstrate emotions and feelings (DOK 1)

Inquiry Questions:

  1. Why do people show emotion?
  2. Why is it important to understand other people's emotions?
  3. When do people show emotion?

Relevance & Application:

  1. Advertisers study emotion to trigger a response in their advertising.
  2. It is easier to communicate with other people when you understand their emotions.
  3. Dramatic play connects with emotions and feelings portrayed in other arts disciplines such as visual arts and music.

Nature Of:

  1. Emotions are the seeds of play and character creation.

Content Area: Drama and Theatre Arts
Grade Level Expectations: Preschool
Standard: 2. Perform

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Use dramatic play to imitate characters
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies

Students Can:

  1. Use body and movement to depict various pretend characters (DOK 1-2)
  2. Use body and voice to depict various everyday characters (DOK 1-2)
  3. Initiate sustained dramatic play (DOK 1)

Inquiry Questions:

  1. How do characters' movements differ?
  2. Are pretend characters or everyday characters easier to portray?
  3. How do characters' voices differ?

Relevance & Application:

  1. Dramatic play allows one to connect with real-life experiences.
  2. Video or audio can be used to demonstrate age-appropriate characters.
  3. The creation of characters deepens one's understanding of others.
  4. The creation of characters gives insight in to literary characters.

Nature Of:

  1. Developing a character allows us to connect with all people.

Content Area: Drama and Theatre Arts
Grade Level Expectations: Preschool
Standard: 3. Critically Respond

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations)

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Respond to stories and plays
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skill and Readiness Competencies

Students Can:

  1. Provide an initial response when exposed to a new performance, puppet show, or dramatization (DOK 1)
  2. Demonstrate an eagerness and interest in performances or dramatizations through asking questions (DOK 1)

Inquiry Questions:

  1. How does a story or play make you feel?
  2. How do an audience's feelings affect a play?
  3. What are your favorite parts of a play? Why?

Relevance & Application:

  1. Realizing that critique is a step in scientific inquiry allows one to make connections between theatre and other disciplines.
  2. Recognizing that critics use drama and theatre skills in all forms of media allows one to relate the arts to society.
  3. Connecting the vocabulary of theatre and literature guides the practitioner to build skills in critique and future writing.

Nature Of:

  1. Critiquing drama and theatre leads to a better understanding of the human condition.