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Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Identify artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.b. Imagine how a character might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.c. Visualize and design technical theatre elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify physical qualities that might reveal a character’s inner traits in the imagined world of a drama/theatre work.b. Imagine how a character’s inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama/ theatre work.c. Propose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Explain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work. b. Explore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work. c. Identify solutions to design challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Investigate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work. b. Envision and describe a scripted or improvised character’s inner thoughts and objectives in a drama/theatre work. c. Explain and present solutions to design challenges in a drama/ theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Compare recorded personal and peer reactions to artistic choices in a drama/ theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists reflect to understand the impact of drama processes and theatre experiences.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists comprehend the essence of drama processes and theatre experiences?
Process Component(s): Reflect

Performance Standard(s):
Apply appropriate criteria to the evaluation of artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems in a drama/ theatre work. b. Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character’s inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a drama/theatre work. c. Imagine and explore solutions to design challenges of a performance space in a drama/theatre work.