High School Drama Pacing Guide - High School Drama Pacing Guide First Semester Unit One: Welcome to Theatre Length of Unit: 2 weeks Essential

High School Drama Pacing Guide First Semester Unit One: Welcome to Theatre Length of Unit: 2 weeks Essential Questions: 1.Why is it important to understand the major basic theatre vocabulary? 2.What are the basic stage locations and movements? 3.Why is it important for students to understand the terminology and process or evaluation? 4.How do we build personal criteria for critiquing dramatic performances? Course Content -Basic Theatre Vocabulary -Introduction to Dramatic Styles -Composing Critiques Learning Tasks, Skills, Activities, Resources, and Assessments 1.Assess theatrical existing theatrical knowledge 2.Establish Critique expectations 3.Discuss stage diagram and vocab terms 4.Do Acting Terminology crossword 5.Do Structure of Drama activity 6.Do a Plot Diagram activity 7.Read and discuss styles of drama handout 8.Use video about styles of drama 9.Quiz Assessment on vocab terms and styles of drama 10. Critique assessment Standards ART.T.III.HS.6 Articulate and justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing dramatic texts and events that compare perceived artistic intent with the final aesthetic achievement. (21st Century Skills: I.3, I.4, I.6, II.6, II.7, III>1, III.2, III.4, III.5, III.6) ART.T.III.HS.9 Evaluate personal and others’ collaborative efforts and artistic choices in informal and formal productions. (21st Century Skills: I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, II.4, II.5, II.6, II.7, III.1) Unit Two: History of Theatre Length of Unit: 5 weeks

Essential Questions 1.Why is it important to identify, compare, and contrast the lives and works of representative theatre artists? Course Content -Theatre History -Playwrights -Dramatic Style Learning Tasks, Skills. Activites. Resources, and Assessments 1.Discuss Beginning of Theatre handout 2.Read and discuss part of Oedipus the King 3.Do a group writing in the style of a Greek drama 4.Watch video on life of Shakespeare 5.Read and perform scenes from Shakespeare's cannon 6.Watch “Much Ado about Nothing” 7.Guest Speaker about First Folio - Dexter Brigham 8.Read and discuss handouts about various playwrights 9.Videos about various playwrights 10. Read excerpts from various plays (Cherry Orchard, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc) 11. Writing assessment comparing and contrasting the dramatic style of two playwrights. 12. Discuss theatre and performance art throughout the world. Standards ART.T.II.HS.1 Construct imaginative scripts and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience. (21st Century Skills: I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, II.1, II.5, II.6, II.7, III.1, III.2, III.3, III.5, III.6)