Broken worlds

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — Theatre Arts I

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.02: Understand and demonstrate the inherent individual's ability to intuit and create.
  • Objective 2.03: Recognize the use of divergent thinking in the creative process.
  • Objective 2.04: Employ creative action and thinking skills.
  • Objective 2.06: Show evidence of broadening one's self-perception and abilities through creating and performing.
  • Objective 2.14: Use improvisation to expand listening, response, and evaluation skills as a spontaneous creative participant.
  • Objective 2.19: Memorize and present a monologue in an informal setting.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.05: Discover, discuss and/or write about sources for information about theatre productions, personalities, trends, etc.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 11 — English III

• Goal 1: The learner will demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print text through personal expression.
  • Objective 1.02: Reflect and respond expressively to texts so that the audience will:
    - discover multiple perspectives.
    - investigate connections between life and literature.
    - explore how the student's life experiences influence his or her response to the selection.
    - recognize how the responses of others may be different.
    - articulate insightful connections between life and literature.
    -consider cultural or historical significance.
• Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.
  • Objective 2.01: Research ideas, events, and/or movements related to United States culture by:
    - locating facts and details for purposeful elaboration.
    - organizing information to create a structure for purpose, audience, and context.
    - excluding extraneous information.
    -providing accurate documentation.
  • Objective 2.02: Examine and explain how culture influences language through projects such as:
    - showing the evolution of forms of communication in the United States (e.g., the Pony Express, telegraph, telephone, fax, e-mail).
    - tracing the development of technology in a particular area such as audio or video recordings, radio, television, and film.
    - demonstrating proficiency in accessing and sending information electronically, using conventions appropriate to the audience.
  • Objective 2.03: Respond to informational texts by:
    - using a variety of strategies for preparation, engagement, and reflection.
    - paraphrasing main ideas and supporting details present in texts.
    -explaining significant connections among the speaker's/author's purpose, tone, biases, and the message for the intended audience.
• Goal 4: The learner will critically analyze text to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.
  • Objective 4.01: Interpret meaning for an audience by:
    - examining the functions and the effects of narrative strategies such as plot, conflict, suspense, point of view, characterization, and dialogue.
    - interpreting the effect of figures of speech (e.g., personification, oxymoron) and the effect of devices of sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia).
    - analyzing stylistic features such as word choice and links between sense and sound.
    - identifying ambiguity, contradiction, irony, parody, and satire.
    - demonstrating how literary works reflect the culture that shaped them.
  • Objective 4.02: Develop thematic connections among literary works by:
    - connecting themes that occur across genres or works from different time periods.
    - using specific references to validate connections.
    -examining how representative elements such as mood, tone, and style impact the development of a theme.
  • Objective 4.03: Assess the power, validity, and truthfulness in the logic of arguments given in public and political documents by:
    - identifying the intent and message of the author or artist.
    - recognizing how the author addresses opposing viewpoints.
    - articulating a personal response to the message and method of the author or artist.
    -evaluating the historical significance of the work.
• Goal 5: The learner will interpret and evaluate representative texts to deepen understanding of literature of the United States.
  • Objective 5.01: Interpret the significance of literary movements as they have evolved through the literature of the United States by:
    - analyzing the characteristics of literary genres, including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, and how the selection of genre shapes meaning.
    - relating ideas, styles, and themes within literary movements of the United States.
    - understanding influences that progress through the literary movements of the United States.
    -evaluating the literary merit and/or historical significance of a work from Colonial Literature, the Romantic Era, Realism, the Modern Era, and Contemporary Literature.
  • Objective 5.02: Analyze the relationships among United States authors and their works by:
    - making and supporting valid responses about the text through references to other works and authors.
    -comparing texts to show similarities or differences in themes, characters, or ideas.