The meaning behind the mask

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.01: Restate setting, characters, and main idea through pictorial, visual and physical aides.
  • Objective 1.04: Utilize sequence of events through verbal and nonverbal communication in a simple drama.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.02: Express various characters, ideas, and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.
  • Objective 2.03: Role play a variety of real and non-real characters through guided dramatic play.
• Goal 3: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 3.05: Utilize simple props, scenery and costumes in the dramatic process.
  • Objective 3.06: Imagine a variety of simple real and non-real environments.
• Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 4.01: Create dialogue for retelling a story in one's own words.
  • Objective 4.02: Adapt sounds and movements to objects, animals, and people within a personal space.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.01: Utilize simple props and costumes to support a character or story.
  • Objective 5.02: Choose or imitate movement to support the playing of a character.
• Goal 6: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.
  • Objective 6.04: Be aware that art forms used in theatre presentations come from all cultures.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.06: Identify how characters attempt to solve problems and resolve conflicts.
  • Objective 1.07: Compare and contrast the moral of the story in various fables and fairytales.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate various characters, ideas and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.
  • Objective 2.03: Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.
  • Objective 2.06: Enact the sequence of events.
• Goal 3: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 3.05: Transform objects into simple props, scenery and costumes to support the dramatic process.
  • Objective 3.06: Experiment with the concept and role of technical theatre elements such as sound, props, costumes, scenery, fundamental stage managing and directing.
• Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 4.02: Apply sound and movement to display character traits of objects, animals and people within community experiences.
• Goal 6: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.
  • Objective 6.04: Explore the art form of fundamental mask making.
  • Objective 6.05: Comprehend that art forms used in theatre presentations come from all cultures.
  • Objective 6.07: Build skills to read with dramatic expression various simple scripts derived from poetry, short stories, fairytales, imagination and other forms of literature.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.01: Restate setting, characters, and story events through pictorial, visual and physical aides.
  • Objective 1.03: Recall the character/family relationships in stories, plays, puppet shows, etc.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.01: Recognize that pretend play is dramatic.
  • Objective 2.04: Express various ideas and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.
  • Objective 2.05: Role play a variety of real and non-real characters through guided dramatic play.
• Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 4.02: Imitate the sounds and movements of objects, animals and people.
  • Objective 4.04: Participate in group decision-making about artistic choices.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.01: Manipulate simple props and costumes to support the character or story.
  • Objective 5.02: Choose or imitate movement to support the playing of the character.
• Goal 6: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.
  • Objective 6.04: Begin to be aware that a variety of art forms are infused into theatre and come from all cultures.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.04: Discuss and examine familiar objects and literature to inspire imagery.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional basic art media, techniques and processes which may include: fibers - papermaking and paper weaving.
  • Objective 2.02: Use various techniques to create visual effects using texture.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.
  • Objective 5.02: Recognize that artwork from many cultures can be made of material that the student has experienced (wood, stone, paint, etc.)

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.08: Recognize that images from reality and from fantasy may be used to create original art.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
    • Cut paper - tape
    • Printmaking - styrofoam, water soluble printing ink
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create, discuss, and/or write about whether the content of their artwork is reality or fantasy.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Identify main purpose for an individual artwork.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics of art from a particular culture.
  • Objective 5.03: Identify selected medium/techniques or processes used for an individual artwork.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Begin to understand that the purpose for a work of art affects how a work is made.
  • Objective 6.05: Discuss artwork using the design principles of repetition, emphasis, and movement.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.07: Explore a variety of media
  • Objective 1.12: Perhaps find inspiration from a variety of artwork.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with a limited number of basic art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Drawing - crayons, oil pastels, non-toxic markers, brushes, computers, pencils, sidewalk chalk
    • Cut paper - glue, scissors, folding, bending 3-D - clay, paper, found objects, including wood scraps
    • Printmaking - stamps, gadgets, found objects, vegetables, monoprint
    • Painting - tempera, watercolors, large brushes, sponges, finger paint
    • Ceramics - pinch, coil, found stamps.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
  • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.
  • Objective 2.07: Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters and concepts within and across texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
  • Objective 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.