National Teaching Standards Used in Curriculum Development for Classen Theatre
CONTENT STANDARD 1: Script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history
Achievement Standard:write theatre, film, television, or electronic media scripts in a variety of traditional and new forms that include original characters with unique dialogue that motivates action
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:demonstrate artistic discipline to achieve an ensemble in rehearsal and performance
Achievement Standard:create consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic, and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:explain how scientific and technological advances have impacted set, light, sound, and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:collaborate with directors to develop unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the drama for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:safely construct and efficiently operate technical aspects of theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:create and reliably implement production schedules, stage management plans, promotional ideas, and business and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:explain and compare the roles and interrelated responsibilities of the various personnel involved in theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:collaborate with designers and actors to develop aesthetically unified production concepts for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electonic media productions
Achievement Standard:conduct auditions, cast actors, direct scenes, and conduct production meetings to achieve production goals
CONTENT STANDARD 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
Achievement Standard:research and describe appropriate historical production designs, techniques, and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms
Achievement Standard:compare the interpretive and expressive natures of several art forms in specific culture or historical period
Achievement Standard:compare the unique interpretive and expressive natures and aesthetic qualities of traditional arts from various cultures and historical periods with contemporary new art forms (such as performance art)
Achievement Standard:integrate several arts and/or media in theatre, film, television or electronic media productions
CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:construct personal meanings from nontraditional dramatic performances
Achievement Standard:analyze, compare, and evaluate differing critiques of the same dramatic texts and performances
Achievement Standard:critique several dramatic works in terms of other aesthetic philosophies (such as the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism with its unities of time and place, Shakespeare and romantic forms, India classical drama, Japanese Kabuki, and others)
Achievement Standard:analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work, explaining which points are most appropriate to inform further development of the work
CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present
Achievement Standard:analyze the social and aesthetic impact of underrepresented theatre and film artists
Achievement Standard:analyze the relationships among cultural values, feedom of artistic expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods
Achievement Standard:analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods, and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
ADVANCED STANDARDS
CONTENT STANDARD 1: script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history
Achievement Standard:write theatre, film, television, or electronic media scripts in a variety of traditional and new forms that include original characters with unique dialogue that motivates action
CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:demonstrate artistic discipline to achieve an ensemble in rehearsal and performance
Achievement Standard:create consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic, and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 3: designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:explain how scientific and technological advances have impacted set, light, sound, and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:collaborate with directors to develop unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the drama for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:safely construct and efficiently operate technical aspects of theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:create and reliably implement production schedules, stage management plans, promotional ideas, and business and front-of-house procedures for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions
CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions
Achievement Standard:explain and compare the roles and interrelated responsibilities of the various personnel involved in theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:collaborate with designers and actors to develop aesthetically unified production concepts for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electonic media productions
Achievement Standard:conduct auditions, cast actors, direct scenes, and conduct production meetings to achieve production goals
CONTENT STANDARD 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
Achievement Standard:research and describe appropriate historical production designs, techniques, and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.
CONTENT STANDARD 6: Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and new art forms
Achievement Standard:compare the interpretive and expressive natures of several art forms in specific culture or historical period
Achievement Standard:compare the unique interpretive and expressive natures and aesthetic qualities of traditional arts from various cultures and historical periods with contemporary new art forms (such as performance art)
Achievement Standard:integrate several arts and/or media in theatre, film, television or electronic media productions
CONTENT STANDARD 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:construct personal meanings from nontraditional dramatic performances
Achievement Standard:analyze, compare, and evaluate differing critiques of the same dramatic texts and performances
Achievement Standard:critique several dramatic works in terms of other aesthetic philosophies (such as the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism with its unities of time and place, Shakespeare and romantic forms, India classical drama, Japanese Kabuki, and others)
Achievement Standard:analyze and evaluate critical comments about personal dramatic work, explaining which points are most appropriate to inform further development of the work
CONTENT STANDARD 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present
Achievement Standard:analyze the social and aesthetic impact of underrepresented theatre and film artists
Achievement Standard:analyze the relationships among cultural values, feedom of artistic expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods
Achievement Standard:analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods, and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions