Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).


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Content Standard 2

Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations

Achievement Standard

  • Students imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their environments
  • Students use variations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters
  • Students assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

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