•  Identifying various schools of thought for coaching and directing

Examples: Konstantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Viola Spolin, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler

•  Communicating effectively to a small ensemble the directional choices for improvised or scripted scenes

•  Directing a selection of scenes or a one-act play, assuming all responsibilities of a director

Examples: choosing play, casting, blocking, designing sets

Example: using a slide show or video clip within a play

•  Developing a director's notebook

•  Planning a rehearsal schedule

•  Staging production with blocking, casting, and technical designs

•  Creating characters for a dramatization through script analysis and revision

•  Explaining choices for creation of a character's voice

Example: using high pitch for a child's voice

•  Explaining choices for the creation of a character's physical appearance based on social and psychological dimensions

Example: character skipping and whistling to portray carefree attitude

•  Improvising scenes based on dramatic texts to reveal complex characteristics of characters

•  Identifying personal and universal meaning in a production

•  Relating motifs, symbols, and metaphor to personal experiences

•  Communicating the personal impact of theatrical experiences

Examples: empathy, catharsis, delight

•  Determining appropriate dialect, set, and costume design for the historical period of a play through research

•  Identifying the use of metaphor, subtext, and symbolic elements in various genres

Example: Arthur Miller's The Crucible reflecting the Salem witch trials and paralleling the social intolerance of the Joseph McCarthy hearings

•  Identifying ways film, theatre, television, and electronic media influence values and behavior

Examples:

- film--relationship of Rebel Without a Cause to street racing and rebellious teenagers;

- theatre--relationship of All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten to values and behaviors learned as a child;

- television--reflections of strong, caring, family values in 7th Heaven;

- electronic media--impact of video games and compact disk-read-only memory (CD-ROM)

•  Describing ways in which writers reflect and influence culture through their works

Examples: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird comparing the cultures of two groups, selected scenes from the movie Grand Canyon addressing the question of whether art influences society or society influences art

Example: comparing traditional and nontraditional theatre such as in a Shakespearian play to a Cirque du Soleil

•  Performing pieces from a variety of playwrights representing different schools of thought and specific theatre styles

Examples: William Shakespeare, Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), Anton Chekov

•  Comparing directing and acting styles from a variety of periods

Examples: Konstantin Stanislavsky from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Edward Albee from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Viola Spolin from the twentieth century

Examples: cinematographer, dramaturge, stage manager

•  Identifying the education, training, and work experience needed to enter an arts field

•  Developing a portfolio for audition purposes