San Rafael High School

THEATER ARTS PROGRAM

An appreciation of the arts is an essential element in the development of an appreciation of life. The creative thinking skills learned in the arts are necessary complements to purely cognitive thinking. The visual performing arts are disciplines that foster students’ abilities to create, experience, analyze, and reorganize, thereby encouraging intuitive and emotional, as well as verbal, response.

The content for the Drama/Theatre Arts Program is as follows:

A. Perception of Aesthetic Qualities

B. Formal Elements and Technical Aspects of Drama/Theatre

C. Collaborative Nature of Theatre

D. Variety of Drama/Theatre Experiences – Acting and Producing

E. Periods and Styles within Various Historical and Cultural Contexts

F. Drama/Theatre as an Art in Relationship to Other Art Forms

G. Viewing

H. Appreciation