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Arts Instructional Guide: Theatre
Module IV: Playmaking
Kindergarten: Module IV
Essential Standard: 5.2
Demonstrate the ability to participate cooperatively in performing a
pantomime or dramatizing a story.
Supporting Standard: 2.3
Use costumes and props in role playing.
Knowledge
Vocabulary
 Costumes
 Props
 Role Playing
Skills
Use

Costumes and props in
performance
Sample Performance Task:
Working with a small group, perform a familiar story for the class.
Select costume pieces and props for the performance.
First Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 3.2
Identify theatrical conventions, such as props, costumes, masks,
and sets.
Supporting Standard: 5.2
Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in presenting a
tableau, an improvisation, or a pantomime.
Knowledge
Vocabulary
 Masks
 Sets
Skills
Use/Gather/Create
 Masks, props, costumes, sets for
performance
Identify
 Theatrical conventions
Sample Performance Task:
Working with a small group, dramatize a fable using simple props,
costume and set pieces. Present your play for the class. In your
journal, draw a picture of the props, costumes, and set pieces
that you used in your presentation.
Second Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 5.1
Use problem solving and cooperative skills in dramatizing a story, a
current event, or a concept from another subject area.
Supporting Standard: 5.2
Demonstrate the ability to participate cooperatively in the different jobs
required to create a theatrical production.
Knowledge
Concept
 Different jobs are required to
create a theatrical production
Skills
Dramatize
 A story, current event, or
concept from another content
area using the different jobs
required to create a theatrical
production
Sample Performance Task:
Working in an ensemble, dramatize a story, such as a folktale, or a story from
personal experience for the class. Work cooperatively to choose a job needed
to present the play.
Third Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 2.2
Create for classmates simple scripts that demonstrate knowledge of basic
blocking and stage areas.
Supporting Standard: 2.1
Participate in cooperative scriptwriting or improvisations that incorporate the
5W’s.
Supporting Standard: 5.2
Develop problem-solving and communication skills by participating
collaboratively in theatrical experiences.
Knowledge
Vocabulary
 Scriptwriter
Skills
Demonstrate
 Knowledge of basic blocking and
stage areas in performance
Sample Performance Task:
In small groups tell your own story based on a family ritual. The group will
choose one story. With your ensemble, perform that story using basic blocking
and stage areas.
Fourth Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 5.1
Dramatize events in California history.
Supporting Standard: 5.3
Exhibit team identity and commitment to purpose when participating in
theatrical experiences.
Knowledge
Vocabulary
 Team Identity
Skills
Commit
 To team purpose
Concept
 Commitment to purpose is
essential in creating a theatrical
experience.
Select
 Jobs for theatrical production
Sample Performance Task:
Work with an ensemble to dramatize an event in California history and perform
it for an audience.
Fifth Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 2.3
Collaborate as an actor, director, scriptwriter, or technical artist in
creating formal/informal theatrical performances.
Supporting Standard: 3.4
Identify types of early American theatre, such as melodrama and musical
theatre.
Supporting Standard: 5.2
Identify the roles and responsibilities of performing and technical artists in
theatre, film, television, and electronic media.
Knowledge
Skills
Concept
 Collaboration, participation, and
improvisation are necessary to
create a theatre company.
Identify
 The unique theatre style of
melodrama
Sample Performance Task:
Work with your class to create a theatre company and perform a melodrama.
In your journal compare/contrast different types of early American theatre.
Sixth Grade: Module IV
Essential Standard: 2.3
Write and perform scenes or one-act plays that include monologue,
dialogue, action, and setting together with a range of character types.
Supporting Standard: 1.1
Use the vocabulary of theatre, such as action/reaction, vocal projection,
subtext, theme, mood, design, production values, and stage crew, to
describe theatrical experiences.
Knowledge
Vocabulary
 Production Values
 Stage Crew
Skills
Write and Perform
 Scene that includes
Monologue
Dialogue
Action
Setting
Range of characters
Sample Performance Task:
Work with an ensemble to write and perform a scene that includes monologue,
dialogue, action, and setting together with a range of character types. In your
journal, use the vocabulary of theatre to describe this theatrical experience.