Browse North Carolina State Standards

 Competency Goals:: 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
Objectives:
1.01: Read independently, analyze and understand two plays by different playwrights in different periods. 1.02: Understand and relate the form and structure of dramatic genre. 1.03: Evaluate plots and themes. 1.04: Understand and diagram plot structure including exposition, rising action, complication, climax, falling action and denouement. 1.05: Learn and convey the concept of the central dramatic question. 1.06: Compare and explore relationships among characters. 1.07: Analyze plays for physical, social, and psychological dimensions. 1.08: Distinguish connotative (subtext) and denotative meaning of language in a dramatic text. 1.09: Understand, discuss and/or write about the evolution of play structure from early Greek to contemporary drama. 1.10: Write a two-person scene. 1.11: Develop and record information, impressions and ideas in preparation for designing in technical theatre.