A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.7.8.C
the words spoken between characters in a play, film, fictional work, or nonfiction narrative that establishes plot, character, and the central message of the work
Plays are both literary and visual art, and they rely on a playwright’s use of verbal and physical expressions to allow the audience to know what the characters are thinking and feeling and how those things change over the course of the play. Students are expected to understand how dialogue (spoken lines) and staging (physical placement and movement) reveals or reflects a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions to the events of the plot.
the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play
