English Language Arts and Reading.7.8.C

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The student is expected to

analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
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