Street Theatre Rubric

Tableau Assignment Rubric

RUBRIC FOR EVALUATION Knowledge of content (e.g., Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates facts, limited some considerable thorough knowledge genres, terms, definitions, techniques, knowledge knowledge knowledge of of content elements, principles, forms, of content of content content structures, conventions)

Understanding of content (e.g., demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates concepts, ideas, styles, procedures, limited some considerable thorough processes, themes, relationships understanding understanding understanding understanding among elements, informed opinions) of of content of content of content content

Thinking – The use of critical and Uses planning Uses planning Uses planning skills Uses planning creative thinking skills and/or skills with skills with some with considerable skills with a processes limited effectiveness effectiveness high degree of The student: effectiveness effectiveness Use of planning skills (e.g., formulating questions, generating ideas, gathering information, focusing research, outlining, organizing an arts presentation or project, brainstorming/ bodystorming, blocking, sketching, using visual organizers, listing goals in a rehearsal log, inventing notation)

Use of processing skills (e.g., Uses processing Uses processing Uses processing Uses processing analysing, evaluating, inferring, skills with limited skills with some skills with skills with a interpreting, editing, revising, refining, effectiveness effectiveness considerable high degree of forming conclusions, detecting bias, effectiveness effectiveness synthesizing)

Use of critical/creative thinking Uses critical/ Uses critical/ Uses critical/ Uses critical/ creative thinking creative thinking creative thinking creative thinking processes (e.g., creative and processes with processes with processes with processes with analytical limited some considerable a high degree processes, design process, exploration effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness of effectiveness of the elements, problem solving, reflection, elaboration, oral discourse, evaluation, critical literacy, metacognition, invention, critiquing, reviewing) Categories Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Lev Expression and organization of Expresses and Expresses and Expresses and Expresses and organizes ideas organizes ideas organizes ideas organizes ideas ideas and and and understandings and understandings and understandings in art forms understandings understandings with with a high (dance, drama, media arts, with limited with some considerable degree of effectiveness music, effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness and visual arts) (e.g., expression of communicates ideas and feelings using visuals, for different movements, audiences the voice, gestures, phrasing, and purposes with some techniques), and in oral and written effectiveness forms (e.g., clear expression and logical organization in critical responses to art works and informed opinion pieces)

Communication for different Communicates Communicates Communicates Communicates for different for different for different for different audiences audiences audiences and audiences audiences and (e.g., peers, adults, younger children) and purposes purposes with and purposes purposes with and purposes through the arts with some some with some a high degree (e.g., drama presentations, visual arts effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness of effectiveness exhibitions, media installations, dance communicates communicates and music performances) and in oral for different for different and written forms (e.g., debates, audiences and audiences and analyses) purposes with purposes with limited considerable effectiveness effectiveness

Use of conventions in dance, Uses Uses Uses conventions, Uses conventions, conventions, conventions, vocabulary, and vocabulary, and drama, vocabulary, and vocabulary, and terminology of terminology of media arts, music, and visual terminology of terminology of the arts with the arts with a arts (e.g., the arts with the arts with some considerable high degree of allegory, narrative or symbolic limited effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness representation, effectiveness style, articulation, drama conventions, choreographic forms, movement vocabulary) and arts vocabulary and terminology in oral and written forms

Application – The use of knowledge Applies Applies Applies knowledge Applies knowledge and skills to make connections within knowledge knowledge and skills in and skills in and between various contexts and skills in and skills in familiar contexts familiar contexts The student: familiar contexts familiar contexts with considerable with a high degree of with limited with some effectiveness effectiveness Application of knowledge and effectiveness effectiveness skills (e.g., performance skills, composition, choreography, elements, principles, processes, technologies, techniques, strategies, conventions) in familiar contexts (e.g., guided improvisation, performance of a familiar work, use of familiar forms) Transfer of knowledge and skills Transfers Transfers Transfers knowledge Transfers knowledge (e.g., concepts, strategies, processes, knowledge knowledge and skills and skills techniques) to new contexts (e.g., a and skills and skills to new contexts to new contexts work requiring stylistic variation, an to new contexts to new contexts with considerable with a high degree of original composition, student-led with limited with some effectiveness effectiveness choreography, an interdisciplinary effectiveness effectiveness or multidisciplinary project)

Making connections within and Makes Makes Makes connections Makes connections connections connections within and within and between various contexts (e.g., within and within and between various between various between the arts; between the arts and between various between various contexts with contexts with a personal experiences and the world contexts with contexts with considerable high degree of outside the school; between cultural limited some effectiveness effectiveness and historical, global, social, and/or effectiveness effectiveness environmental contexts; between the arts and other subjects)

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