Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.4B Grade 12 CPI 1

 

Standard: 1.4 - Critique

 

Strand: B - Skills

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will develop criteria for evaluating art in a specific domain and use the criteria to evaluate one's personal work and that of their peers, using positive commentary for critique.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

Theatre Critiquing Guidelines - Develop a guideline for evaluating theatre works.

      ·        As a class, discuss what criteria should be used to evaluate performances.
·        List ideas. Criteria can include such domains as directing, acting, design, and dramatic structure.
·        In small groups, formulate a rubric to critique to be used for personal and peer performances.
·        A representative from each group presents the rubric.
·        With teacher guidance, a class rubric is created from the small group work.
·        Teacher and students use this as an assessment tool when evaluating performances.
·        Model how to use the rubric in a constructive way. Teacher performs a short piece. Students evaluate teacher's performance. Teacher assesses him/herself in front of students.
·        Discuss the rubric while encouraging constructive criticism.

 

Essential Questions:
·        How do you evaluate theatre performance?
·        How can you use criticism in a constructive way?

 

Reflective Practice:
·        What did you find to be the most difficult part of writing a critique and why?