Personal Growth
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will be expected to demonstrate personal growth through participation and engagement.
Specific Expectations
- use skills that support a positive self-image
- apply strategies associated with effective group dynamics
- reflect on their personal growth using various forms of expression
Overall Expectations
GCO 2: Students will be expected to develop, express, and challenge ideas, using the skills, language, and techniques of drama.
Specific Expectations
- assume and sustain a role in a dramatic context
- use creative movement to interpret and communicate meaning
- use visuals to interpret and communicate meaning
- use speech to interpret and communicate meaning
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Creative Expression
Overall Expectations
Outcome 2: Students will be expected to collaboratively and independently create expressive work in drama.
Specific Expectations
- demonstrate an understanding of drama as a collaborative art form
- create a variety of dramatic works both independently and collaboratively
- use research to create a variety of dramatic forms
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to create dramatic works that demonstrate an understanding of varying events, viewpoints, and cultures.
Specific Expectations
- connect their own experiences to the characters, ideas, and events in dramatic works created by themselves or others
- examine how dramatic works can reflect the ideas of individuals, communities, and societies
- examine how dramatic works can reflect lifestyles in particular times, places, and cultures
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Connections
Overall Expectations
GCO 6: Students will be expected to analyze the relationship between artistic intent and the expressive work.
Specific Expectations
- use artistic elements to enhance dramatic intent
- analyze different artistic intents in a variety of dramatic works
Overall Expectations
GCO 7: Students will be expected to use critical thinking to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ expressive works.
Specific Expectations
- respond critically to their own and others’ works
- respond with sensitivity and respect to the ideas of others