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Theater
Concept: Form, group performance
Concept: Playwriting, script, character creation
6-8
To build; to bring elements together - When students enter the middle grades, they are becoming concrete thinkers, eager to acquire new skills and define their place as individuals. The CONSTRUCT cycle focuses arts learning on investigations how we build ourselves and our environment and the role that individuals play in the process.
Self
Concept: Playwriting, theatre roles, SEL
Structure
Process
Concept: Social and Global Issue, Theatre of the Oppressed history, Image Theater/ Invisible Theater/ Forum theater technique
Product
Concept: Character physicalization, objective, tactic
HS
Identity
to consider theoretically - In high school, students begin the transition from concrete to abstract thought as they transition into early adulthood. This transition is reflected in the ABSTRACT cycle, as the ideas become broad, theoretical frameworks that exist outside the individual.
Interaction
Language
Concept: Creative Process
Determination
Concept: One-act play creation
Creation
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