Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 117 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR FINE ARTS
Subchapter A - ELEMENTARY, ADOPTED 2013
Section 117.113 - Theatre, Grade 3, Adopted 2013
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 117.113
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Introduction.
(1) The fine arts incorporate
the study of dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts to offer unique
experiences and empower students to explore realities, relationships, and
ideas. These disciplines engage and motivate all students through active
learning, critical thinking, and innovative problem solving. The fine arts
develop cognitive functioning and increase student academic achievement,
higher-order thinking, communication, and collaboration skills, making the fine
arts applicable to college readiness, career opportunities, workplace
environments, social skills, and everyday life. Students develop aesthetic and
cultural awareness through exploration, leading to creative expression.
Creativity, encouraged through the study of the fine arts, is essential to
nurture and develop the whole child.
(2) Four basic strands--foundations: inquiry
and understanding; creative expression; historical and cultural relevance; and
critical evaluation and response--provide broad, unifying structures for
organizing knowledge and skills students are expected to acquire. Through the
foundations: inquiry and understanding strand, students develop a perception of
self, human relationships, and the world using elements of drama and
conventions of theatre. Through the creative expression strand, students
communicate in a dramatic form, engage in artistic thinking, build positive
self-concepts, relate interpersonally, and integrate knowledge with other
content areas in a relevant manner. Through the historical and cultural
relevance strand, students increase their understanding of heritage and
traditions in theatre and the diversity of world cultures as expressed in
theatre. Through the critical evaluation and response strand, students engage
in inquiry and dialogue, accept constructive criticism, revise personal views
to promote creative and critical thinking, and develop the ability to
appreciate and evaluate live theatre.
(3) Statements that contain the word
"including" reference content that must be mastered, while those containing the
phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative examples.
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Foundations: inquiry and understanding.
The student develops concepts about self, human relationships, and the
environment using elements of drama and conventions of theatre. The student is
expected to:
(A) react to sensory and
emotional experiences such as sight or sound and happiness or sadness through
creative play;
(B) create playing
space using expressive and rhythmic movement;
(C) respond to sounds, music, images,
language, and literature using movement; and
(D) reflect the environment, portray
character, and demonstrate actions in classroom dramatizations.
(2) Creative expression:
performance. The student interprets characters using the voice and body
expressively and creates dramatizations. The student is expected to:
(A) demonstrate safe use of movement and
voice;
(B) participate in a variety
of roles in real life or imaginative situations through narrative pantomime,
dramatic play, or story dramatization;
(C) dramatize literary selections using
shadow play or puppetry; and
(D)
dramatize literary selections using pantomime and imitative dialogue.
(3) Creative expression:
production. The student applies design, directing, and theatre production
concepts and skills. The student is expected to:
(A) identify technical theatre elements such
as props, costumes, sound, and visual elements that define character,
environment, action, and theme;
(B)
use simple technical theatre elements such as props, costumes, sound, and
visual elements that define character, environment, action, and
theme;
(C) plan dramatic
play;
(D) cooperate and interact
with others in dramatic play; and
(E) observe live or multimedia theatrical
performances.
(4)
Historical and cultural relevance. The student relates theatre to history,
society, and culture. The student is expected to:
(A) explore historical and diverse cultural
influences from a variety of sources through dramatic activities;
(B) illustrate similarities and differences
between life and theatre, television, and film through dramatic play;
and
(5) Critical
evaluation and response. The student responds to and evaluates theatre and
theatrical performances. The student is expected to:
(A) apply appropriate audience behavior
consistently;
(B) discuss and
evaluate simple dramatic activities and performances; and
(C) discuss the use of music, movement, and
visual components in dramatic activities and performances.
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