Masks and Aesop's fables

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 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from a read-aloud text.
• 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.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.04: Dramatize, through guided dramatic expression, stories from a read-aloud text, poem, fairytale or other form of literature.
• Goal 3: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 3.06: Experiment with the concept and role of technical theatre elements such as sound, props, costumes, scenery, fundamental stage managing and directing.

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in dramatic activities that deal with problems and emotions.
  • Objective 2.05: Dramatize stories through guided dramatic expression from a story.
• Goal 3: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 3.03: Collaborate to create simple scenery and costumes for acting out dramas.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in dramatic activities that deal with conflict and emotions.
  • Objective 2.05: Create dramatizations based on texts.
  • Objective 2.07: Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.05: Role play a variety of real and non-real characters through guided dramatic play.
• 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.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• 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.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.02: Create, discuss and/or write simple stories about one's own artwork.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Uses reading, writing and math in the creation of art.

Grade 2

• 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 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • 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.
  • Objective 5.04: Become aware of the ideas of time and history (what came before and after).

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following:
    • Photography - sun prints
    • Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software.
    • Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes.
    • 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools.
    • Printmaking - cardboard
    • Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software.
    • Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps.
    • Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Differentiate between decorative and functional purpose in one's own artwork.
  • Objective 5.03: Identify specific works of art as belonging to a particular culture, time and place.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
    • Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
    • Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art can serve more than one purpose and/or function in a given culture.

Kindergarten

• 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.
  • Objective 2.03: Develop fine and gross motor control
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.

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).

Grade 2

• 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 4.01: Begin to use formal language and/or literary language in place of oral language patterns, as appropriate.

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing by:
    • setting a purpose.
    • previewing the text.
    • making predictions.
    • asking questions.
    • locating information for specific purposes.
    • making connections.
    • using story structure and text organization to comprehend.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
    • considering the differences among genres.
    • relating plot, setting, and characters to own experiences and ideas.
    • considering main character's point of view.
    • participating in creative interpretations.
    • making inferences and drawing conclusions about characters and events.
    • reflecting on learning, gaining new insights, and identifying areas for further study.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.03: Read a variety of texts, including:
    • fiction (legends, novels, folklore, science fiction).
    • nonfiction (autobiographies, informational books, diaries, journals).
    • poetry (concrete, haiku).
    • drama (skits, plays).
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
    • analyzing the impact of authors' word choice and context.
    • examining the reasons for characters' actions.
    • identifying and examining characters' motives.
    • considering a situation or problem from different characters' points of view.
    • analyzing differences among genres.
    • making inferences and drawing conclusions about characters, events and themes.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.07: Demonstrate understanding of literary language; e.g., "once upon a time" and other vocabulary specific to a genre.
• 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.