Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through drama experiences.
Drama provides opportunities to gain insight into perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
Collaborative drama experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
Drama uses a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
drama elements, techniques, and vocabulary, to create mood and convey ideas, including but not limited to: character
in drama, taking on and exploring the thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and beliefs of another
, time, place, plot, tension, mood, focus, contrast, balance
a variety of drama forms
a medium for the expression of dramatic meaning (e.g., improvisation, tableau, role-play, mime, readers theatre, story theatre); may involve the integration of a variety of media and a combination of the arts
and drama conventions established ways of working in drama that explore meaning; drama techniques
the roles of performers and audiences in a variety of contexts
traditional and contemporary Aboriginal worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through storytelling and drama
contributions of innovative artists from a variety of genres, communities, times, and places
personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding in drama
the ethics of cultural appropriation
use of cultural motifs, themes, “voices,” images, knowledge, stories, songs, drama, etc. shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
and plagiarism
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and creating
Select and combine dramatic elements and principles to intentionally create a particular mood, effect, and meaning
Create dramatic works both collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play
learning that uses real-life and/or imaginary situations to engage and challenge learners’ thinking. Through planned purposeful play, students express their natural curiosity while exploring the world around them. It also provides a means for high-level reasoning and problem solving in a variety of ways
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through dramatic experiences
Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental in relation to drama
Take creative risks to experience and express thoughts, emotions, and meaning
Reasoning and reflecting
Describe, interpret, and evaluate how performers and playwrights use dramatic structures, elements, and techniques to create and communicate ideas
Develop and refine ideas and technical skills to improve the quality of performance pieces
Receive, offer, and apply constructive feedback
Communicating and documenting
Adapt and apply learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences
Compose, interpret, and expand ideas using symbolism
use of an object, word, or action to represent an abstract idea; includes but is not limited to colours, images, movements, and sounds (e.g., love can be symbolized by the colour red or the cradling of one’s arms)
, imagery, and elements
Revise, refine, analyze, and document
activities that help students reflect on their learning (e.g., through drawing, painting, journaling, taking pictures, making video clips or audio-recordings, constructing new works, and compiling a portfolio)
performance pieces and experiences to enhance presentation in a variety of ways
Connecting and expanding
Reflect on creative processes to make connections to personal learning and experiences
Demonstrate respect for themselves, others, and the audience
Collaborate through reciprocal relationships during creative processes
Create personally meaningful bodies of artistic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts
Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content