Theatre Standards for 12th Grade Drama:

Content Standard #1: Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

Achievement Standard, Proficient:

a) Students create imaginative scripts and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.

Achievement Standard, Advanced:

b) Students 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, Proficient:

a) Students analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts from various genres and media

b) Students compare and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods

c) Students in an ensemble, create and sustain characters that communicate with audiences

Achievement Standard, Advanced:

d) Students demonstrate artistic discipline to achieve an ensemble in rehearsal and performance

e) Students create consistent characters from classical, contemporary, realistic, and nonrealistic dramatic texts in informal and formal theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions.

THE NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THEATRE EDUCATION Grades 9-12. (n.d.). Retrieved June 16, 2016, from http://www.aate.com/?page=nationalstandards912

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