Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Standard 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts

4. Students will gain knowledge about past and present cultures as expressed through theatre. They will interpret how theatre reflects the beliefs, issues, and events of societies past and present. In addition to the General Education performance indicators, students:

conduct an in-depth investigation of the works of a given culture or playwright (a)
create a multicultural theatre festival of excerpts from plays representing various cultures (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

read the plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides from the ancient Greek time period and write a paper which compares and contrasts their style and themes and discusses the impact each had on staging

produce a festival of plays from different cultures centered on the same theme.