Second Grade Overview
At the end of 12 weeks, students will be able to...
-- Explain through the vocabulary words of theatre what they saw from a video.
-- Use their bodies/voices/imaginations to create new endings for familiar stories.
-- Perform in group improvisation games to develop cooperation and concentration.
-- Retell familiar stories and sequence story points and identifying character, setting
and conflict.
-- Use improvisation to portray concepts such as friendship, hunger, seasons, etc.
-- Create costumes pieces, props, or sets for a theatrical experience.
-- Identify theatre and storytelling forms from different cultures.
-- Identify universal characters (trickster, hero, magician, rebel) in stories and
plays from different periods and places.
-- Critique an actor’s performance as to the use of voice, gesture, facial expression,
and movement to create character.
-- Respond to a live performance with appropriate audience behavior.
-- Identify the message or moral of a work of theatre.
-- Use problem solving and cooperative skills in dramatizing a story, a current event,
or concept from another subject area.
-- Demonstrate the ability to participate cooperatively in the different jobs to create
a theatrical production.
At the end of 12 weeks, students will be able to...
-- Explain through the vocabulary words of theatre what they saw from a video.
-- Use their bodies/voices/imaginations to create new endings for familiar stories.
-- Perform in group improvisation games to develop cooperation and concentration.
-- Retell familiar stories and sequence story points and identifying character, setting
and conflict.
-- Use improvisation to portray concepts such as friendship, hunger, seasons, etc.
-- Create costumes pieces, props, or sets for a theatrical experience.
-- Identify theatre and storytelling forms from different cultures.
-- Identify universal characters (trickster, hero, magician, rebel) in stories and
plays from different periods and places.
-- Critique an actor’s performance as to the use of voice, gesture, facial expression,
and movement to create character.
-- Respond to a live performance with appropriate audience behavior.
-- Identify the message or moral of a work of theatre.
-- Use problem solving and cooperative skills in dramatizing a story, a current event,
or concept from another subject area.
-- Demonstrate the ability to participate cooperatively in the different jobs to create
a theatrical production.