Integrated Subjects:
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• Theater
• Visual Arts
• Language Arts
• Social Studies

The National Standards For Arts Education:

Theater (9-12)
Standard 1: Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history

Theater (9-12)
Standard 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions

Theater (9-12)
Standard 5: Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices

Visual Arts (9-12)
Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

Visual Arts (9-12)
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures

Other National Standards:

Historical Understanding IV (9-12) Standard 1: Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 3: Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions

Language Arts IV (9-12) Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes

World History IV (9-12) Standard 9: Understand how major religious and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean Basin, China, and India from 500 BCE to 300 CE