Example: depicting old man with hunched shoulders, shaky hands, and trembling voice

•  Demonstrating staging techniques

Examples: stage positions, movement

•  Participating in a variety of subtext vocal exercises accompanied by physical reactions

Examples:

- "I didn't do that." (Subtext: How dare you ask!)

- "I didn't do that." (Subtext: I promise, not me.)

- "I didn't do that." (Subtext: I'm too sweet to do something like that.)

•  Demonstrating resonance, projection, and articulation through vocal exercises and personal vocal warm-ups

Example: vocal exercise or warm-up--"Articulate the consonants, clearly speak the words, round out the vowel sounds, and then you will be heard."

•  Performing scenarios for pantomime using characters involved in an initial incident, conflict, rising action, climax, or conclusion

Examples:

- initial incident--raking leaves,

- conflict--gust of wind blowing across leaves

•  Performing stage combat exercises

Example: techniques involving sword play, falling, and fighting

•  Demonstrating spontaneity through improvisation exercises

Example: creating a dialogue in which each actor's line begins with the next consecutive letter of the alphabet to tell a story

•  Depicting behaviors based on interactions, ethical choices, and decisions made by characters

•  Justifying artistic choices made when rewriting an original work

•  Creating an original work in a selected theatrical style

Examples: musical theatre, vaudeville, Greek chorus

Examples: plot structure, character types, themes, settings, dialogue

•  Illustrating language and action used to define characters

•  Interpreting metaphors, themes, and moods in scripts

•  Adapting student-written scenes for dramatic media

•  Demonstrating how improvised dialog and scenes can be used to tell stories and develop characters based on a variety of sources

•  Identifying ways plays can represent the time periods in which they are set

Examples: costumes, lighting, set, speech patterns, dialogue

Example: roles that scenery, props, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup play in creating the environment for a play

•  Identifying roles of different members of the production staff

Examples:

- sound engineer--determining all sound reinforcement, sound effects, and music;

- light designer--designing all lighting requirements;

- stage manager--accepting responsibility for general operations;

- costume designer--designing all costuming needs;

- makeup artist--designing all makeup for characters

•  Developing sound effects to support a production

•  Designing a set for a given piece, including floor plan, set materials, props, lighting, costumes, and sound requirements

Examples: relationship of theme, plot, and conflict; dramatic elements; appropriate use of theatrical language; quality of acting

Examples: Thornton Wilder's Our Town, August Wilson's Fences, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics

•  Describing ways American history has been reflected in the theatre

Examples: August Wilson's two plays in a ten-part series chronicling the African-American experience, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences

Examples: Greek, medieval, Elizabethan, modern, contemporary

•  Identifying major writers of various historical periods

Examples:

- Sophocles--Early Greek,

- William Shakespeare--Elizabethan,

- Edward Albee--twentieth century

Examples:

- social studies--improvisations of historical events,

- English language arts--Reader's Theatre,

- science--movement exercises reflecting movement in simple machines

Examples: projection screens, computer programs, lighting sequences, computer designs or graphics, surround sound

•  Describing the effect of modern media on live theatre

•  Describing the impact of computers and the Internet on the arts