3.9.C
The Standard
discuss elements of drama such as characters, dialogue, setting, and acts
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the characters, spoken lines, setting, and major divisions in a play. They discuss how these parts organize the action and help readers understand it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can mark each element in a short play and support their choices with details. They can explain that acts divide the action into larger parts.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse characters with the actors who play them. They may treat acts like chapters, miss dialogue labels, or name only the place when describing setting.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short script with two acts. Ask them to label one character, one line of dialogue, the setting, and the act divisions.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a printed script to cut apart and sort into character names, dialogue, setting details, and act headings.
Ask students to write how changing the setting would affect a character's dialogue in a familiar play.
Play Drama Detective by reading script excerpts while teams identify the character, dialogue, setting, or act shown.
Examine a school play script and discuss how actors use character labels, dialogue, settings, and act divisions during rehearsal.
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Related Standards
- 1.9.C
discuss elements of drama such as characters and setting;
- 2.9.C
discuss elements of drama such as characters, dialogue, and setting;
- 5.9.C
explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;
- 4.9.C
explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;
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