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Resource Document: Engaging English Learners in Theatre Arts Instruction

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The attached infographic resource document descibes ways to engage English Learners in theatre arts classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of theatre arts, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts (LH)