Playwright Discovery Award Teacher's Guide - The John F. Kennedy ...

National Standards for the Arts
The exercises in the Playwright Discovery Resource Guide meet a number of the National Standards
for the Arts, and most specifically those listed below.
NA-T.5-8.5
NA-T.9-12.5
NA-T.5-8.6
NA-T.9-8.7
NA-T.9-12.1
NA-T.9-12.7
Researching using cultural and historical information to support
improvised and scripted scenes.
Researching by finding information to support classroom dramatizations.
Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of
presentation and audience response for theater, dramatic media (such as
film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.
Analyzing, evaluating, and constructing meanings from improvised and
scripted scenes and from theater, film, television, and electronic media
productions.
Script writing by planning and improvising, writing and refining scripts
based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and
history.
Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and
formal theater, film, television, and electronic media productions.
From www.educationworld.com/standards/national & www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/standards
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