Integrated Subjects:
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• Theater
• Language Arts
• Social Studies

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Theater (9-12)
Standard 1: Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

Theater (9-12)
Standard 3: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions

Theater (9-12)
Standard 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices

Other National Standards:

Economics IV (9-12) Standard 2: Understands characteristics of different economic systems, economic institutions, and economic incentives

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 2: Knows the location of places, geographic features, and patterns of the environment

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 4: Understands the physical and human characteristics of place

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 5: Understands the concept of regions

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 12: Understands the patterns of human settlement and their causes

Geography IV (9-12) Standard 17: Understands how geography is used to interpret the past

Historical Understanding IV (9-12) Standard 1: Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns

Historical Understanding IV (9-12) Standard 2: Understands the historical perspective

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 3: Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 5: Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 6: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

United States History IV (9-12) Standard 12: Understands the sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period

United States History IV (9-12) Standard 16: Understands how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed American society