Theatre Arts SOL: Standard 9 Progression At-a-Glance

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The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting music content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in theatre arts education.

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Theatre Arts SOL: Alignment to the 5 Cs

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The goal statements in this document are taken directly from the 2020 Theatre Arts SOL document and re-organized to demonstrate alignment to the “5 Cs” outlined in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate.

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Theatre Arts Education and Workplace Readiness Skills

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Virginia’s theatre arts instructional programs reinforce Virginia’s 22 Workplace Readiness Skills. These skills are organized around three core areas that promote opportunities and reinforce student understanding of Virginia’s workplace readiness skills: Personal qualities and abilities, interpersonal skills, and professional competencies. 

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Instructional Plan: Improvising with Sports Games

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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.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Explore Creative Scenery

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Students can be introduced to a story and create a scene individually or in small groups. Scenes can be acted out in front of projections of student-created background scenery, and discuss how scenic elements impact the meaning of the performance.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Share Theatre Knowledge with Short Video Commercials

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Students can create short video “commercials” to communicate messages about topics of interest related to course content, advocacy, to highlight student work, or advertise upcoming performances.  

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Inclusive Performances with Assistive Technologies

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Students will explore available assistive technologies, including how they have been utilized by the professional theatre community to create and present inclusive theatrical productions for those with special physical, mental, visual, auditory, and other sensory needs.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: National and Global Theatre Exchanges

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Students will connect with students in other performing arts groups from around the world.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Dance Marketing Communications

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Students design, create, and publish dance marketing content such as a video advertisement, email marketing content, and/or community outreach content (a flyer, poster, or QR code) to promote their dance program or a dance performance.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Creative Exchange

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The teacher directs a short class performance of a story of local, state, or national significance. The performance is recorded and then sent to a similar class in another community, state, or part of the world.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Claymation for Storytelling

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Students work together to write a simple story and create characters using clay, while working on theatrical skills outlined in the Theatre Arts Standards of Learning.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Multimedia Summative Portfolios

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In a multimedia summative portfolio, Students include both process and product documentation as well as reflections of learning.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Technology Tools for Effective Theatre Management

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Students will develop a technological task management system to stay organized through a fictional or real production process.

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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Collaborative Theatre Blog

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Students contribute to a class blog to share the creative processes involved in acting and production.

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Instructional Plan: Production Design

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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.

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Instructional Plan: Lighting Instruments

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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. 

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Instructional Plan: Exploring Tableaux

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Students will create and perform scenes using tableaux in order to further understand acting techniques, physical techniques, character development, and theatrical direction.

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Instructional Plan: The Basics of Audio Equipment for Technical Theatre

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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.

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Instructional Plan: Writing Original Monologues

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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.

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Instructional Plan: Understanding Copyright of Theatrical Works

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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.

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