Colorado Academic Standards - Drama and Theatre Arts

Sixth Grade

DT.6.1.1.a Students Can: Identify possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.1.b Students Can: Identify possible solutions to design challenges in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.1.c Students Can: Explore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.2.a Students Can: Analyze to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.2.b Students Can: Contribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.3.a Students Can: Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama/theatre work impact perspectives of self, community, or culture.

DT.6.1.3.b Students Can: Investigate the time period and place of a drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.

DT.6.1.4.a Students Can: Examine and articulate choices to refine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.4.b Students Can: Identify and employ effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.6.1.4.c Students Can: Explore a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.6.2.1.a Students Can: Identify the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.2.1.b Students Can: Experiment with various physical and vocal choices to communicate character in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.2.2.a Students Can: Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

DT.6.2.2.b Students Can: Articulate how technical elements are integrated into a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.2.3.a Students Can: Establish a relationship with the audience and the ensemble during a performance of a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.2.4.a Students Can: Adapt a drama/theatre work and present it for an audience.

DT.6.3.1.a Students Can: Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.3.2.a Students Can: Explain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.3.2.b Students Can: Identify cultural perspectives that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

DT.6.3.2.c Students Can: Identify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama/theatre work.

DT.6.3.3.a Students Can: Research the story elements of a staged drama/theatre work and compare them to another production of the same work.

DT.6.3.4.a Students Can: Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

DT.6.3.4.b Students Can: Analyze the production elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices.

DT.6.3.4.c Students Can: Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama/theatre work.

Seventh Grade

DT.7.1.1.a Students Can: Integrate multiple perspectives and solutions to staging challenges in a drama/theater work.

DT.7.1.1.b Students Can: Explain and present possible solutions to design challenges in a drama/theater work.

DT.7.1.1.c Students Can: Envision and describe a scripted or improvised character's inner thoughts and objectives in a drama/theater work.

DT.7.1.2.a Students Can: Examine and justify original ideas and artistic choices in a drama/theater work based on background knowledge, historical, and cultural context.

DT.7.1.2.b Students Can: Demonstrate mutual respect for self and others and their roles in preparing or devising drama/theatre work.

DT.7.1.3.a Students Can: Consider incorporating multiple perspectives and diverse community ideas in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.1.3.b Students Can: Examine research relevant to the drama/theatre work to better understand performance and design choices.

DT.7.1.4.a Students Can: Demonstrate focus and concentration in the rehearsal process to analyze and refine choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.7.1.4.b Students Can: Develop effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.7.1.4.c Students Can: Implement planned technical design elements during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.1.a Students Can: Experiment various staging choices to enhance the story in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.1.b Students Can: Apply various character objectives in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.2.a Students Can: Recognize how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.2.b Students Can: Choose a variety of technical elements that can be applied to a design in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.3.a Students Can: Incorporate music, dance, art, and/or media to heighten the connection between performer and audience in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.2.4.a Students Can: Participate in rehearsals for a drama/theatre work that will be shared with an audience.

DT.7.3.1.a Students Can: Compare recorded personal and peer reactions to artistic choices in a drama/ theatre work.

DT.7.3.2.a Students Can: Identify the artistic choices made based on personal experience in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.3.2.b Students Can: Describe how cultural perspectives can influence the evaluation of drama/theatre work.

DT.7.3.2.c Students Can: Interpret how the use of personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs can be used to discuss drama/theatre work.

DT.7.3.3.a Students Can: Research and analyze two different versions of the same drama/theatre story to determine differences and similarities in telling the story.

DT.7.3.4.a Students Can: Explain preferences, using supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.

DT.7.3.4.b Students Can: Examine the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

DT.7.3.4.c Students Can: Identify how the intended purpose of a drama/theatre work appeals to a specific audience.

Eighth Grade

DT.8.1.1.a Students Can: Imagine and explore multiple perspectives and solutions to staging problems in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.1.b Students Can: Imagine and explore possible solutions to design challenges of a performance space in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.1.c Students Can: Develop a scripted or improvised character by articulating the character's inner thoughts, objectives, and motivations in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.2.a Students Can: Articulate and apply background knowledge, research, historical, and cultural context to the development of original ideas for a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.2.b Students Can: Share leadership and responsibilities to develop collaborative goals when preparing or devising drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.3.a Students Can: Examine and analyze community issue through multiple perspectives in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.3.b Students Can: Identify and use research and design choices in a drama/theatre work to enhance the work.

DT.8.1.4.a Students Can: Use repetition and analysis in order to revise devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.4.b Students Can: Refine effective physical, vocal, and physiological traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.8.1.4.c Students Can: Implement and refine a planned technical design using simple technology during the rehearsal process for devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.8.2.1.a Students Can: Explore different pacing to better communicate the story in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.2.1.b Students Can: Apply and justify various character objectives and tactics in a drama/theatre work to overcome an obstacle.

DT.8.2.2.a Students Can: Develop a variety of acting techniques to increase skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

DT.8.2.2.b Students Can: Implement a variety of technical elements to create a design for a rehearsal or drama/theater production.

DT.8.2.3.a Students Can: Identify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.2.4.a Students Can: Perform/present a rehearsed/designed drama/theatre work for an audience.

DT.8.3.1.a Students Can: Apply criteria to analyze artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.3.2.a Students Can: Summarize and share artistic choices when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.3.2.b Students Can: Analyze how cultural perspectives influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.3.2.c Students Can: Apply personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs to evaluate a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.3.3.a Students Can: Research and discuss the playwright's intent for a drama/theatre work.

DT.8.3.4.a Students Can: Critique a drama/theatre work using supporting evidence, personal aesthetics, and artistic criteria.

DT.8.3.4.b Students Can: Analyze the production elements used in a drama/theatre work to assess aesthetic choices.

DT.8.3.4.c Students Can: Assess the impact of a drama/theatre work on a specific audience.

High School - Fundamental Pathway

DT.H1.1.1.a Students Can: Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.1.b Students Can: Explore the impact of technology on design choices in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.1.c Students Can: Generate ideas about a character that are believable and authentic using script analysis.

DT.H1.1.2.a Students Can: Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.2.b Students Can: Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers to explore their interdependent roles in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.3.a Students Can: Investigate how cultural perspectives, community ideas, and personal beliefs impact a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.3.b Students Can: Explore how personal, cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.4.a Students Can: Practice and revise a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using theatrical staging conventions.

DT.H1.1.4.b Students Can: Explore physical, vocal, and physiological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.1.4.c Students Can: Refine technical design choices to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.2.1.a Students Can: Examine how character relationships assist in telling the story of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.2.1.b Students Can: Shape artistic choices using given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.2.2.a Students Can: Practice various acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or drama/theatre performance.

DT.H1.2.2.b Students Can: Use research and script analysis to discover the impact design has for a drama/theatre production.

DT.H1.2.3.a Students Can: Apply creative processes to tell stories in a scripted drama/theatre work to connect with audience, community, and ensemble.

DT.H1.2.4.a Students Can: Perform/present a scripted drama/theatre work for a specific audience.

DT.H1.3.1.a Students Can: Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

DT.H1.3.2.a Students Can: Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in multiple drama/theatre works.

DT.H1.3.2.b Students Can: Identify and compare cultural perspectives and contexts that may influence the evaluation of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.3.2.c Students Can: Justify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.3.3.a Students Can: Implement fundamental theatre research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.3.3.b Students Can: Connect drama/theatre knowledge, skills, training, and self-discipline needed to pursue career and technical opportunities in theatre to personal skills and goals.

DT.H1.3.4.a Students Can: Examine a drama/theatre work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

DT.H1.3.4.b Students Can: Evaluate the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H1.3.4.c Students Can: Adapt a drama/theatre work to impact a specific audience.

High School - Advanced Pathway

DT.H2.1.1.a Students Can: Investigate historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.1.1.b Students Can: Understand and apply technology to design solutions for a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.1.1.c Students Can: Develop a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work based on personal experiences and knowledge.

DT.H2.1.2.a Students Can: Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.1.2.b Students Can: Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.1.3.a Students Can: Choose and interpret a drama/theatre work to connect and question beliefs.

DT.H2.1.3.b Students Can: Make creative choices based on connections with the selected topic.

DT.H2.1.3.c Students Can: Integrate connections and knowledge from different art forms and disciplines to develop a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.1.4.a Students Can: Analyze the dramatic concept and technical design elements of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work through the use of the rehearsal process.

DT.H2.1.4.b Students Can: Revise physical, vocal, and physiological choices impacting the believability and relevance of a drama/theatre work by using research and script analysis.

DT.H2.1.4.c Students Can: Re-imagine and revise technical design choices during the course of a rehearsal process to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.2.1.a Students Can: Analyze how unique choices shape believable and sustainable drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.2.1.b Students Can: Assess how essential text information, research from various sources, and the director's concept influence artistic choices in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.2.2.a Students Can: Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable drama/theatre performance.

DT.H2.2.2.b Students Can: Apply technical elements and research to create a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

DT.H2.2.3.a Students Can: Execute creative processes to tell stories in a scripted drama/theatre work, to connect with audience, community, and ensemble.

DT.H2.2.4.a Students Can: Present a drama/theatre work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

DT.H2.3.1.a Students Can: Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to critique artistic choices and justify meaningful feedback based on historical, cultural, and personal context.

DT.H2.3.2.a Students Can: Develop detailed supporting evidence and criteria to reinforce artistic choices, when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.3.2.b Students Can: Apply concepts from a drama/theatre work for personal realization about cultural perspectives and understanding.

DT.H2.3.2.c Students Can: Debate and distinguish multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.3.3.a Students Can: Explore how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in drama/theatre work.

DT.H2.3.3.b Students Can: Connect drama/theatre knowledge, skills, training, and self-discipline needed to pursue career and technical opportunities outside of theatre.

DT.H2.3.4.a Students Can: Analyze and assess a drama/theatre work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

DT.H2.3.4.b Students Can: Construct meaning in a drama/theatre work, considering personal aesthetics and knowledge of production elements while respecting others' interpretations.

DT.H2.3.4.c Students Can: Verify how a drama/theatre work communicates for a specific purpose and audience.

High School - Professional Pathway

DT.H3.1.1.a Students Can: Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions and technologies to create the visual composition of a drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.1.1.b Students Can: Create a complete design for a drama/theatre work that incorporates all elements of technology.

DT.H3.1.1.c Students Can: Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.1.2.a Students Can: Develop and synthesize original ideas in a drama/theatre work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research, and Western or non-Western theatre traditions.

DT.H3.1.2.b Students Can: Collaborate as a creative team to discover artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.1.3.a Students Can: Collaborate on a drama/theatre work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

DT.H3.1.3.b Students Can: Justify the creative choices made in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, based on a critical interpretation of specific data on ensemble, community.

DT.H3.1.4.a Students Can: Refine, transform, and re-imagine a devised or scripted drama/theatre work using the rehearsal process to invent or re-imagine style, genre, form, and conventions.

DT.H3.1.4.b Students Can: Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.1.4.c Students Can: Connect technical proficiencies to the rehearsal process to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.2.1.a Students Can: Apply reliable research of directors' styles to form unique choices for a directorial concept in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.2.1.b Students Can: Formulate an approach to artistic choices in a drama/theatre work based on a variety of researched techniques.

DT.H3.2.2.a Students Can: Perform and justify a collection of acting exercises from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

DT.H3.2.2.b Students Can: Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the concept of a drama/theatre production.

DT.H3.2.3.a Students Can: Effectively execute creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted drama/theatre work, to connect with audience, community, and ensemble.

DT.H3.2.4.a Students Can: Present a drama/theatre production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in the creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturg.

DT.H3.3.1.a Students Can: Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a drama/theatre work to analyze artistic choices and justify meaningful feedback based on historical, cultural, and personal context.

DT.H3.3.2.a Students Can: Revise personal work and interpret the work of others when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work using detailed supporting evidence and appropriate criteria.

DT.H3.3.2.b Students Can: Shape personal responses to drama/theatre work by utilizing new understandings of cultures and contexts.

DT.H3.3.2.c Students Can: Support and explain aesthetics, preferences and beliefs to create a context for critical research that informs artistic decisions in a drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.3.3.a Students Can: Present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a drama/theatre work, based on critical research.

DT.H3.3.3.b Students Can: Connect personal knowledge, skills, training, and self-discipline needed to pursue personal career goals in theatre.

DT.H3.3.4.a Students Can: Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a drama/theatre work to support or evaluate artistic choice.

DT.H3.3.4.b Students Can: Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for the same drama/theatre work.

DT.H3.3.4.c Students Can: Compare and debate the connection between a drama/theatre work and contemporary issues that may impact audiences.