Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.2C Grade 12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 1.2 - Creation and Performance

 

Strand: C - Theater

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will interpret a script by creating a production concept with informed, supported, and sustained directorial choices.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

Planning a Production - Plan scripted scenes from a directorial perspective.

      ·        Discuss and model the process of preparing a production book. Students design a production book including floor plans, planned movement, and set design. Produce and present for an audience.
·        Evaluate the process and final product through journal entries. Assess ways in which the production could be improved.

 

Essential Questions:
·        Why is the planning process so important to the success of a production?

 

Reflective Practice:
·        What kind of adjustments to that plan might be necessary?

 

The contents of the CPI's and Framework Activites come from the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) - CD-ROM (Version 1.0), which was developed collaboratively by the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) and Seton Hall University (SHU)

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