Black Women Playwrights | Teachers' Guide
Educational Objectives: High School
Poof! can be used to address state and national education standards. Here are some suggested objectives that may be especially relevant, depending upon how you design your lesson.
National
From the National Standards for Arts Education: Theatre
- Content Standard 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices
- Content Standard 7: Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
- Content Standard 8: Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present
Kentucky
From Kentucky's Learning Goals and Academic Expectations:
- 2.23 Students analyze their own and others' artistic products and performances using accepted standards.
- 2.24 Students have knowledge of major works of art, music, and literature and appreciate creativity the contributions of the arts and humanities.
From the Core Content for Arts and Humanities Assessment (high school):
- AH-H-3.1.32 Analyze descriptions, dialogue, and actions within a script or text to discover, articulate, and justify motivation.
- AH-H. 3.1.33 Describe how a work of literature is selectively modified through theater to enhance the expression of ideas and emotions.
- AH-H-3.2.34 Analyze and discuss how an individual's cultural experiences affect writing, creating, and performing in theater.
- AH-H-3.3.312 (Humanities Reference Chart) Modern and Contemporary (1900-present) Breaks with or redefines conventions of the past. Uses experimental techniques. Shows the diversity of society and the blending of cultures. Contemporary comedy/tragedy.