Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a comfortable level of reading and understanding the language of drama
• Show a sense of how drama developed through history
• Develop a process of analyzing dramatic works
• Read various dramatic forms with insight
• Improve inferential reading skills
• Identify controlling ideas and themes in drama
• Improve writing skills
• Use evidence from texts to support thesis statements
• Enjoy drama and appreciate what it can do as a form