The Bells resource Guide
McCarter Theatre Center Created in conjunction with Mccarter Theatre production
Core Curriculum Standards

The Visual and Performing Arts are considered Core Curriculum areas for the New Jersey State Department of Education. This production of The Bells is designed to give your students exposure to the specific Core Curriculum Standards listed below.


Visual and Performing Arts/ Language Arts Standards
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

Theater is an art form which gives students a means of communication as well as entertainment. Theater employs recognizable human behavior as its basic material and encourages empathy with human behavior, thereby promoting understanding of basic human values.

1.1
All students will acquire knowledge and skills that increase aesthetic awareness in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
1.2
All students will refine perceptual, intellectual, physical and technical skills through creating dance, music, theater, and/or visual arts.
1.4
All students will demonstrate knowledge of the process of critique.
1.5
All students will identify the various historical, social and cultural influences and traditions which have generated artistic accomplishments throughout the ages and which continue to shape contemporary arts.
1.6
All students will develop design skills for planning the form and function of space, structures, objects, sound and events.


World History/Politics/Social Studies
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

3.1
All students will speak for a variety of real purposes and audiences.
3.2
All students will listen actively in a variety of situations to information from a variety of sources.
3.3
All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.
3.4
All students will read various materials and texts with comprehension and critical analysis.

 

The Play & its contents
Drama in the Classroom
About this production


The Bells
March 22-April 10, 2005


written By

Theresa Rebeck

directed by
Emily Mann

Study Guide
McCarter Theatre Center

Web Design
Dimple Parmar


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