Professional Development Courses and curriculum for Colorado Academic Standards - Drama and Theatre Arts.
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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.
