APPENDIX A: PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will develop the facility to move between the concrete and the abstract within a dramatic context.

It is expected that students will:

Grade 8

• suspend disbelief to transform objects and create character
• demonstrate an awareness that drama has symbolic meaning
• organize abstract ideas into a concrete dramatic form
• demonstrate an awareness of dramatic work as a metaphor

• demonstrate a commitment to suspending disbelief
• use objects as symbols of abstract concepts in a drama
• identify effective dramatic forms for representing particular ideas and experiences
• demonstrate an awareness of a dramatic work as a metaphor

• suspend disbelief to create drama
• use objects as symbols of abstract concepts in a drama
• select appropriate dramatic forms for representing particular ideas and experiences
• use a dramatic work as a metaphor

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