Middle level students enjoy the challenges of studying and performing scripted plays, does this curriculum recommend that they do so?
This curriculum does recommend that students study scripted plays. At each grade level in the suggested activities section of Unit Three, a detailed play study is provided. These play studies are intended as suggestions only and teachers are encouraged to choose from among the activities suggested and to use them not only as jumping off points for other ideas but also as inspiration for the study of other plays. While the curriculum recommends that middle years students have some opportunity to celebrate their drama work by communicating it to an audience, it does not recommend that students perform scripted plays. The drama strand of the Arts Education program from the elementary to the secondary level focuses on the “quality of thinking and feeling” – the internal actions which drama evokes, rather than the external actions of speaking and doing, (that is, the “showing” of thinking and feeling). The curriculum recommends that middle level students continue to explore ideas and dramat
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