Core Content Goals addressed in 2000–2001 Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare
Performance Workshop & Study Guide Activities
Goal 1: Students are able to use basic communication and mathematics skills for purposes and situations they will encounter throughout their lives.
1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.
1.3 Students make sense of the various things they observe.
1.4 Students make sense of the various messages to which they listen.
1.5 - 1.9 Students use mathematical ideas and procedures to communicate, reason and solve problems.
1.10 Students organize information through development and use of classification rules and systems.
1.11 Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
1.12 Students speak using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
1.13 Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts.
1.14 Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with music.
1.15 Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with movement.
Goal 2: Students shall develop their abilities to apply core concepts and principles from mathematics, the sciences, the arts, the humanities, social studies, practical living studies and vocational studies to what they will encounter throughout their lives.
2.8 Students understand various mathematical procedures and use them appropriately and accurately.
2.9 Students understand space and dimentionality concepts and use them appropriately and accurately.
2.10 Students understand measurement concepts and use measurements appropriately and accurately.
2.16 Students observe, analyze and interpret human behaviors, social groupings and institutions to better understand people and the relationships among individuals and among groups.
2.19 Students recognize and understand the relationship between people and geography and apply their knowledge in real-life situations.
2.20 Students understand, analyze and interpret historical events, conditions, trends and issues to develop historical perspective.
2.22 Students create works of art and make presentations to convey a point of view.
2.23 Students analyze their own and others' artistic products and performances using accepted standards.
2.24 Students have knowledge of major works of art, music and literature and appreciate creativity and the contributions of the arts and humanities.
2.25 In the products they make and the performances they present, students show that they understand how time, place and society influence the arts and humanities such as languages, literature and history.
2.26 Through the arts and humanities, students recognize that although people are different, they share some common experiences and attitudes.
2.27 Students recognize and understand the similarities and differences among languages.
Goal 3: Students shall develop their ability to become self-sufficient individuals.
* There are no subheadings under this goal.
Goal 5: Students shall develop their abilities to think and solve problems in school situations and in a variety of situations they will encounter in life.
5.2 Students use critical thinking skills to develop or invent constructive ideas or products.
5.3 Students organize information to develop or change their understanding of a concept.
5.4 Students use a decision-making process to make informed decisions among options.
Goal 6: Students shall develop their abilities to connect and integrate experiences and new knowledge from all subject matter fields with what they have previously learned, and build on past learning experiences to acquire new information through various media sources.
6.1 Students connect knowledge and experiences from different subject areas.
6.2 Students use what they already know to acquire new knowledge, develop new skills or interpret new experiences.
6.3 Students expand their understanding of existing knowledge by making connections with new knowledge, skills and experiences.
* Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare meets 33 of the 64 total KERA Goals (52%)!
* Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama (covered on CATS test) is an integral part of the Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare Workshop.