Kirsten's 3rd Response

I like how these standards, both the Utah Core Curriculum and National Theatre, are good guidelines to follow. Its like a good check list to make sure they are in your curriculum for the year. When you look at these different standards that you are needing to meet, I originally think of different literary texts to describe each different section. This can be a text book on history, design, acting, etc. But now with our new definition of a text, anything can be used as a text. If we learn how to use them effectively. I can see how sometimes the standards could be seen as a fence rather than a spring board. By using what we now know as a text and looking at the literary uses, it can help you broaden that spring board and make your classroom very interesting and each day can be a new discovery. It can enhance your classroom and lead to a new way of looking at many different items.