Drama

Lower Elementary

Students should be able to understand the tools of body, mind, voice and simple visual/aural media and the processes of planning, practicing and collaborating used to create or perform drama/theatre.

Students should be able to demonstrate individual skills (e.g., vocalizing, listening, moving, observing, concentrating) and group skills (e.g., decision making, planning, practicing, spacing) necessary to create or perform story elements and characterizations.

Upper Elementary

Students should be able to describe various ways the body, mind and voice are used with acting, scripting and staging processes to create or perform drama/theatre.

Students should be able demonstrate actions, characters, narrative skills, collaboration, environments, simple staging and sequence of events and situations in solo and ensemble dramas.

 

First graders demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of holidays