Gifted & Talented Program

• Volunteers to participate in classroom plays or skits
• Easily tells a story or gives an account of some experience
• Effectively uses gestures and facial expressions to communicate feelings
• Is adept at role-playing, improvising, acting out situations
• Can readily identify himself or herself with moods of others
• Handles body with ease and poise for his or her particular age
• Creates original plays or makes up plays from stories
• Commands and holds the attention of a group when speaking
• Is able to make people laugh, frown, feel tense, etc.
• Can imitate others—mimic the way people speak, walk, gesture

Performance Skills
Improvisation, characterization, vocal development, stage movement, acting styles and methods

Theatre History
Greek and Roman theatre, medieval theatrical forms, Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare, modern forms, and absurdist theatre

Analysis and Criticism
Play analysis, dramatic theory, interpretive reading, and dramatic forms

Theatre Production
Directing, scene design, stagecraft, and stage management

Theatre Business
Current professional theatre practices, organization and management funding, and marketing and publicity.

• Shows a sustained interest in music
• Seeks out opportunities to hear & create music
• Perceives fine differences in musical tone (pitch, loudness, timbre, duration)
• Easily remembers melodies and can reproduce them accurately
• Eagerly participates in musical activities
• Plays a musical instrument or indicates a strong desire to become a musician
• Is sensitive to the rhythm of music
• Responds to changes in the tempo of music through body movements
• Is aware of and can identify a variety of sounds heard at a given moment

Theory and Analysis
Sight singing, rhythm, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, stylistic form and analysis

Music History
Major musical periods, composers, styles and forms
Creative Activities: Improvisation, arranging, composition

Aesthetic Perception and Performance
Technical facility, varied music styles, musical expression, evaluation of performances

Music business
Current music occupations, funding, marketing, publicity, recording and publishing, and computer music.

• Likes to participate in art activities any time anywhere
• Incorporates a large number of elements into art work
• Arrives at unique solutions to artistic problems
• Concentrates for long periods of time on art projects
• Likes to experiment with a variety of materials
• Tends to select an art activity during free time
• Is a keen observer - -- sees the unusual
• Produces balance and order in art work
• Is critical of his or her own work; sets high standards for self
• Shows an interest in other students’ art work and wants to discuss the work
• Elaborates on ideas from other people
  –using them as a “jumping off point”

Aesthetic Development
Essential art elements, principles of design, respect for commonalities and differences in art; art as expressions of ideas, feelings, and culture

Art History
Styles, periods, movements, simplified chronology, outstanding artists

Analysis and Criticism
Observe, describe, analyze, interpret, and make critical judgments of artwork

Creative Expression
Develop creative problem solving skills in “art making;” experience a variety of media---drawing, painting, graphic design, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, photography, and architecture

Art Business
Career opportunities, finding funding, marketing and publicity