With greater emphasis on reading, writing and performing scripts, students begin to create plays based on peer issues, concerns and interest using improvisation and collaboration. Likewise, they are introduced to plays and experiences that reach beyond their communities to national, international, and historically representative themes. The content, instruction, student outcomes and methods of evaluation should increase in sophistication at each grade level. Individual Emphasis Growing differences in abilities and interests characterize students at this age and, for this reason, provisions should be made for individual emphasis by assigning individual special projects or placing students in various leadership roles. The emphasis is on helping students use drama more discriminatingly and productively in daily living and, as a participant or viewer, to incorporate it into their lives.
Students come to perceive theatre as a means of pleasure, communication and learning.
Theatre becomes a part of the students' experience of life as a whole. 1.02 Create monologues, dialogues and short plays in response to interdisciplinary prompts, ideas, pictures and other stimuli. 1.03 Practice playwriting techniques. 1.05 Identify themes and plots from multicultural literature. 1.06 Adapt stories, myths and fairy tales into dramatic literature.