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Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience in diverse cultures.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists and audiences share a creative experience?
Process Component(s): Share, Present

Performance Standard(s):
Present a drama/theatre production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturgy.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists allow awareness of interrelationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
Process Component(s): Empathize

Performance Standard(s):
Investigate how cultural contexts, community ideas, and personal beliefs impact a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists allow awareness of interrelationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
Process Component(s): Empathize

Performance Standard(s):
Choose and interpret a drama/theatre work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists allow awareness of interrelationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists foster understanding between self and others through critical awareness, social responsibility, and the exploration of empathy?
Process Component(s): Empathize

Performance Standard(s):
Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural contexts.

Enduring Understanding: 11.1 Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
Process Component(s): Interrelate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work. b. Practice ethical responsibility to oneself and others during the production process and when recording, posting, and sharing through the internet, social media and other communication formats.

Enduring Understanding: 11.1 Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
Process Component(s): Interrelate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a cross-cultural drama/theatre work. b. Demonstrate the practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Enduring Understanding: 11.1 Theatre artists understand and can communicate through their creative process as they analyze the way the world may be understood.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists allow an understanding of themselves and the world to inform perceptions about theatre and the purpose of their work?
Process Component(s): Interrelate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Develop a drama/theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems. b. Create a drama/theatre work that appropriately observes ethical responsibility to oneself and others and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

Enduring Understanding: 11.2 Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.
Essential Question(s): In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
Process Component(s): Research

Performance Standard(s):
a. Research how other theatre artists apply creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, using research methods. b. Use basic research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: 11.2 Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.
Essential Question(s): In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
Process Component(s): Research

Performance Standard(s):
a. Formulate creative choices for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work based on research about the selected topic. b. Investigate how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in drama/theatre work.

Enduring Understanding: 11.2 Theatre artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created drama processes and productions to inform their own work.
Essential Question(s): In what ways can research into theatre histories, theories, literature, and performances alter the way a drama process or production is understood?
Process Component(s): Research

Performance Standard(s):
a. Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data from research. b. Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research.