Theatre Arts

Grades 6, 7 or 8
In this course, students develop their creative potential by producing and participating in dramatic and theatrical experiences. Through activities that require students to work cooperatively, students begin to develop their internal and external personal resources and form aesthetic judgments. They are exposed to dramatists and their works and to key theatrical players and participants. Students begin to integrate drama with other academic disciplines.

Grades 7 or 8
Background: Successful completion of Beginning Theatre Arts
This course begins to refine students’ dramatic and theatrical skills typically learned in beginning theatre arts. Using voice, language, movement, imagination, and emotional perception, students develop characters for the theater, and their own self-discipline and self-concept. They learn drama through artistic collaboration through improvisation, play writing, directing, technical production, and theater management. In addition, students learn about theater in the past and theater today with an emphasis on available roles and careers.

Grade 8
Background: Successful completion of Intermediate Theatre Arts
This course continues to refine students’ dramatic and theatrical skills previously taught in intermediate theatre arts. Using voice, language, movement, imagination, and emotional perception, students develop not only characters for the theater, but their own self-discipline and self-concept. They learn through artistic collaboration with activities such as improvisation, play writing, directing, technical production, and theater management. In addition, students learn about theater in the past and theater today with an emphasis on available roles and careers.