Curricular Competencies
Explore and create
- Explore, create, and refine dramatic works
- Intentionally select voices, styles, and perspectives in scriptwriting and directing
- Examine ideas, emotions, and perspectives through dialogue and action
- Demonstrate leadership skills and work collaboratively with scriptwriters, directors, actors, and production teams
- Intentionally select and combine dramatic elements, principles, materials, processes, and technologies
- Demonstrate creativity and innovation through scriptwriting and directing
- Write and direct for an intended audience or with an intended message
- Communicate and interpret ideas through words and action
Reason and reflect
- Receive, provide, and apply constructive feedback to refine dramatic works
- Analyze their work and make connections with others’ experiences
- Examine the influences of dramatic works of social, cultural, historical, environmental, and personal contexts
- Analyze aesthetic experiences and how they relate to a specific place, time, and context
Communicate and document
- Document, share, and respond to dramatic works and aesthetic experiences
- Communicate about and respond to environmental and social issues to inspire change through scriptwriting and directing
- Express personal voice, cultural identity, and perspectives through scriptwriting and directing
Connect and expand
- Demonstrate personal and social responsibility associated with scriptwriting, directing, performing, and responding to dramatic works
- Demonstrate respect for self, others, and audience
- Explore educational, personal, and professional opportunities in scriptwriting and directing
- Examine impacts of scriptwriting and directing on culture and society
- Examine the expectations and structures that exist in various scriptwriting and directing environments
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Images of Learning
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- The Price of Happiness
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
Content
roles and responsibilities of scriptwriters and directors
literary techniques, devices, and forms as applied to scriptwriting
theory, vocabulary, and practices related to a variety of directing environments
dramatic elements
dramatic forms
scriptwriting and directing vocabulary, skills, and symbols
strategies, techniques, and technologies to support creative processes
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews, history, and stories communicated through scriptwriting and directing
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism
health and safety protocols and procedures
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Images of Learning
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- The Price of Happiness
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting