This document contains a sample list of fine arts careers by discipline, links and resources for exploring fine arts careers, and resources for workbased learning in fine arts courses.
Students will learn historical facts about William Shakespeare and apply those facts to hip hop music/spoken word. Students will identify contemporary grammar and vocabulary influenced by Shakespeare. Students will create an original spoken word expressional/rap final performance.
Digital Media is a growing artistic element in Theatre Production. This unit covers common film/media terminology, introduces the career field of the theatrical digital media director, provides instruction on best practices for filming using cell phones or a laptop, introduces editing strategies, and culminates in a creative product by the student.
Students will create and perform scenes using tableaux in order to further understand acting techniques, physical techniques, character development, and theatrical direction.
Students learn communication and collaboration skills for theatre with improvisation games. Once games are learned and practiced, improvisation teams are formed and opportunities are given for students to perform for a live audience.
Students will learn basic acting and improvisation skills through different activities. Students will be able to identify and use learned acting techniques during improvisation games through imaginative play.
Students will learn the common parts of any lighting instrument and which instruments are most appropriate for achieving certain lighting effects. This lesson covers traditional incandescent lighting instruments, not LED instruments.
Students will be introduced to different aspects of theatre design and collaborate in groups as production teams. Each team will create and present a theme statement, a production concept, mood board(s), and basic technical designs for a work of dramatic literature. This unit could also be adjusted to work as a culminating activity for the course.
This lesson focuses on identifying and discussing the symbolism used in theatrical works. The culmination of the lesson is applying symbolism to a devised performance piece.
One of the most important functions of sound design is sound amplification. In this lesson, students will learn about basic audio equipment, to include cables, microphones, and the sound system. Students will also demonstrate how to set up a simple sound system.
Understanding intellectual property and copyright is crucial to theatre practitioners, be they actors, technicians, directors, or managers. Students will research terms and identify cases of copyright infringement in the theatre arts.
This unit utilizes readily available gaming technology to teach and reinforce principles of theatrical set design. Students will create an original set design using computer gaming applications involving building tools.
Students will apply the creative process to write original monologues. They will examine and incorporate elements of character, conflict, setting, plot, theme, and dialogue into their scriptwriting. Prompts may be used for making personal, cultural, or historical connections.
Explore African theatre techniques and learn how to apply critical thinking and communication skills to your classroom through a lesson of African Theatre history and activities.
This session will cover ideas and strategies using available technology to enhance the study of theatre in the classroom or through online learning.
Participants will gain resources and strategies focused on how the fundamentals of theatre can connect students to their learning, their peers, and themselves. Participants will understand how this connection creates a relevance and rigor that gives their students the skills necessary for success in and out of the classroom. Participants will also understand the role the state standards can play in creating these connections—specifically regarding the Five Cs.
Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their work by considering learning as a process. These frameworks make thinking visible and, with consistent and pervasive use, develop habitual cultures of thinking in the classroom. Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their creative work by considering learning in the arts as a multilayered process.
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for elementary students in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades kindergarten through fifth.
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for high school in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades nine through twelve.
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for middle school in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades six through eight.