Beginning Theatre Arts Students will:

• Learn essential theatre vocabulary and the process of theatre

• Use movement, voice, and writing to communicate ideas and feelings

• Use Performance to communicate ideas and feelings

• Analyze literary texts and performances

• Analyze theatre in terms of the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which it was created.

• Understand how to design technical theatre components.

• Understand the traditions, roles, and conventions of theatre as an artform.