RELEVANT STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS

NATIONAL AND STATE OF LOUISIANA CONTENTS STANDARDS

**Standards for other states available upon request upon scheduling of performance or residency tour

PERFORMANCES, along with study guide activities, fulfill a minimum of eight benchmarks of the listed national and Louisiana standards in theater.

WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES fulfill national English language standards in communication skills, as well as skills in applying language and knowledge, and also in participation in society and in multicultural understanding. Workshops and residencies fulfill national arts standards in theater in script writing, acting and improvisation, directing, analysis, and the understanding of context. Students will fulfill from 2 – 6 benchmarks within each of the NATIONAL LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS. Students will fulfill from 2 – 6 benchmarks within each of the NATIONAL THEATER ARTS STANDARDS. Students will fulfill from 2 – 5 benchmarks within each of the LOUISIANA LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS. Students will fulfill from 2 – 6 benchmarks within each of the LOUISIANA THEATER ARTS STANDARDS.

NATIONAL LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS

NL-ENG.K-12.4 COMMUNICATION SKILLS
NL-ENG.K-12.6 APPLYING KNOWLEDGE
NL-ENG.K-12.9 MULTICULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
NL-ENG.K-12.11 PARTICIPATING IN SOCIETY
NL-ENG.K-12.12 APPLYING LANGUAGE SKILLS

NATIONAL THEATER ARTS STANDARDS

NA-T.1. SCRIPT WRITING BY PLANNING AND RECORDING IMPROVISATIONS BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND HERITAGE, IMAGINATION, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY
NA-T.2, ACTING BY ASSUMING ROLES AND INTERACTING IN IMPROVISATIONS
NA-T.3. DESIGNING BY VISUALIZING AND ARRANGING ENVIRONMENTS FOR CLASSROOM DRAMATIZATIONS
NA-T.4, DIRECTING BY PLANNING CLASSROOM DRAMATIZATIONS
NA-T.5. RESEARCHING BY FINDING INFORMATION TO SUPPORT CLASSROOM DRAMATIZATIONS
NA-T.6, COMPARING AND CONNECTING ART FORMS BY DESCRIBING THEATRE, DRAMATIC MEDIA (SUCH AS FILM, TELEVISION, AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA), AND OTHER ART FORMS
NA-T.7. ANALYZING AND EXPLAINING PERSONAL PREFERENCES AND CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS FROM CLASSROOM DRAMATIZATIONS AND FROM THEATRE, FILM, TELEVISION, AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA PRODUCTIONS
NA-T.8. UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT BY RECOGNIZING THE ROLE OF THEATRE, FILE, TELEVISION, AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN DAILY LIFE

LOUISIANA LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS

ELA-1 Students read, comprehend, and respond to a range of materials, using a variety of strategies for different purposes.
ELA-2 Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
ELA-3 Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting.
ELA-4 Students demonstrate competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning and communicating.
ELA-5 Students locate, select, and synthesize information from a variety of texts, media, references, and technological sources to acquire and communicate knowledge.
ELA-6 Students read, analyze, and respond to literature as a record of life experiences.
ELA-7 Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.

LOUISIANA THEATER ARTS STANDARDS

CE-1Th CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOCUS
AP-2Th AESTHETIC PERCEPTION FOCUS
HP-3Th HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERCEPTION FOCUS
CA-4Th CRITICAL ANALYSIS FOCUS