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TEKS
for Theatre, Grade 6
§117.34. Theatre, Grade 6.
(a) General requirements.
When Grade 6 is part of a departmentalized
middle school, students may select the following theatre course:
Theatre 6.
(b) Introduction.
(1) Four basic strands--perception,
creative expression/performance, historical and cultural heritage,
and critical evaluation--provide broad, unifying structures
for organizing knowledge and skills students are expected
to acquire. Through perceptual studies, students increase
their understanding of self and others and develop clear ideas
about the world. Through a variety of theatrical experiences,
students communicate in a dramatic form, make artistic choices,
solve problems, build positive self-concepts, and relate interpersonally.
(2) Students increase their understanding
of heritage and traditions through historical and cultural
studies in theatre. Student response and evaluation promote
thinking and further discriminating judgment, developing students
who are appreciative and evaluative consumers of live theatre,
film, television, and other technologies.
(c) Knowledge and skills.
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Perception.
The student develops concepts
about self, human relationships, and the environment,
using elements of drama and conventions of theatre.
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The
student is expected to:
(A) develop characterization
based on sensory and emotional recall;
(B) expand body awareness
and spatial perceptions, using pantomime;
(C) respond to sounds,
music, images, and the written word, incorporating movement;
(D) express emotions and
ideas, using interpretive movements and dialogue;
(E) imitate and synthesize
life experiences in dramatic play; and
(F) create environments,
characters, and actions.
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| (6.2) Creative
expression/performance.
The student interprets
characters, using the voice and body expressively, and
creates dramatizations.
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The student
is expected to:
(A) demonstrate safe use
of the voice and body;
(B) imagine and clearly
describe characters, their relationships, and their
surroundings;
(C) select movements and
dialogue to appropriately portray an imaginative character
drawn from personal experience, heritage, literature,
and history; and
(D) dramatize literary
selections in unison, pairs, and groups and incorporate
dramatic elements in improvisation.
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| (6.3) Creative
expression/performance.
The student applies design,
directing, and theatre production concepts and skills.
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The student is expected
to:
(A) define character, environment,
action, and theme, using props, costumes, and visual
elements collaboratively and safely;
(B) alter space appropriately
to create a suitable environment for play-making;
(C) plan brief dramatizations
collaboratively; and
(D) interact cooperatively
with others in brief dramatizations.
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| (6.4) Historical/cultural
heritage.
The student comprehends
the relationship of theatre to history, society, and
culture.
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The student
is expected to:
(A) demonstrate in dramatic
activities that theatre is a reflection of life; and
(B) explain the role of
theatre, film, television, and electronic media in American
society.
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| (6.5) Response/evaluation.
The student responds to
and evaluates theatre and theatrical performances.
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The student
is expected to:
(A) analyze and apply audience
behavior at all performances;
(B) develop simple oral
and written observations about visual, aural, oral,
and kinetic aspects of informal play-making and formal
theatre and describe these components in art, dance,
and music;
(C) compare and contrast
ideas and emotions depicted in art, dance, music, and
theatre and demonstrate uses of movement, music, or
visual elements to enhance classroom dramatization;
and
(D) compare selected occupations
in theatre.
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