North Dakota K–6 theatre standards

Identify character emotions in a dramatic play or guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) and relate it to personal experience.

With prompting and support, tell a short story in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, use imagination to explore dramatic play or guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute and express original ideas to dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify characters and setting in a dramatic play, or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, understand that voice and sound are fundamental to dramatic play and guided drama experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, actively engage with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify similarities between characters and oneself in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from one's own community in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a fictional literary source in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate with peers to imagine choices characters could make to create a sequential plot (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to conceptualize costumes, scenery, environment, and props in a guided drama experience.

Contribute in the development of a sequential plot in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute to the adaptation of the plot in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate to imagine how a single object could have more than one representation in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify technical elements such as props, costumes, and scenery that can be used in a guided drama experience.

Describe a story's character actions and dialogue in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Alter voice, body, and gestures to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify and understand that physical movement is fundamental to guided drama experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, use movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Recall and share choices made in a guided drama experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify causes of character actions and emotions in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama), or age-appropriate theatre performance.

Explain or use text and pictures to describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.

Build on others' ideas in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify props and costumes that might be used in a guided drama experience.

Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in a guided drama experience.

Relate character experiences to personal experiences in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fictional literary source in a guided drama experience.

Propose potential new details to plot and story in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue to advance a story in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute to the adaptation of dialogue, sounds, and movements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama)

Generate independently multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify and explore technical elements such as props, costumes, and scenery in a guided drama experience.

Interpret story elements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Demonstrate the relationship between and among body, voice, and mind in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute to group guided drama experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) and informally share with peers.

Recognize when artistic choices are made in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify causes and consequences of character actions in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, or creative drama).

Explain or use text and pictures to describe how others' emotions may compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate on a scene in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use a prop or costume in a guided drama experience to describe characters, settings, or events.

Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to the students' community and culture in a drama/theatre work.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama/theatre conventions.

Create roles, imagined words, and improvised stories in a drama/theatre work.

Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen original ideas for a group drama/theatre work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given scenario of a drama theatre work.

Practice an refine design and technical choices to support a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Apply the elements of dramatic structure to a story in a drama/theatre work.

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into drama/theatre work.

Participate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be use in a group setting for drama/theatre work.

Practice drama/theatre work and share reflections individually and in small groups.

Understand why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Examine how multiple personal experiences are made between oneself and a character's emotions in drama/theatre work.

Consider multiple ways to develop a character using physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural perspectives in drama/theatre work.

Understand how and why groups evaluate drama/theatre work.

Consider and analyze technical elements from multiple drama/theatre works.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.

Identify the ways a drama/theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

Compare the drama/theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds, and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Visualize and propose and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Collaborate to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work by asking questions about characters and plots.

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work (e.g., actor, director, playwright, and technical designer).

Revise and improve an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work through repetition, collaborative and self-review.

Collaborate on solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.

Modify the dialogue and action to change the story in a drama/theatre work.

Make physical and vocal choices to develop a character in a drama/theatre work.

Practice selected exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/theatre work.

Propose the use of technical elements such as props, costumes, and scenery in a drama/theatre work.

Share small-group drama/theatre work with peers as audience.

Identify artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.

Compare and contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Compare and contrast the qualities of characters and how they may change in a drama/theatre work through physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural perspectives.

Propose a plan to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Investigate how technical elements may support a theme or idea in a drama/theatre work.

Explain how drama/theatre connects oneself to a community or culture.

Analyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in a drama/theatre work.

Identify physical qualities that might reveal a character's inner traits in the imagined world of a drama/theatre work.

Imagine how a character's inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their given circumstances.

Participate in defined responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience (e.g., actor, director, playwright, and technical designers).

Use physical and vocal exploration for character development in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Create innovative solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.

Describe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a drama/theatre work.

Choose acting exercises that can be applied to a drama/theatre work.

Demonstrate the use of technical elements such as props, costumes, and scenery in a drama/theatre work.

Present drama/theatre work with peers as audience.

Explain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.

Explain responses to characters based on cultural perspectives and personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Investigate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation in a drama/theatre work.

Develop and implement a plan to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Assess how technical elements represent the theme of a drama/theatre work.

Recognize how a character's circumstances impact an audience's perspective in a drama/theatre work.

Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama/theatre work impact how a community or culture is perceived.

Investigate the time period and place of a drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.

Identify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work.

Explore a scripted or improvised character by imagining how the character would react in a provided scenario in a drama/theatre work.

Use critical analysis to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Articulate and examine choices to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Explore a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Identify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work.

Experiment with various physical choices to communicate character and meaning in a drama/theatre work.

Recognize how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama/theatre work.

Articulate how technical elements are integrated into a drama/theatre work.

Adapt a drama/theatre work and present it informally for an audience.

Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

Explain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

Identify how personal and cultural aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama/theatre work.