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Art
Art teaches us to be patient and persistent, to observe, contemplate, and analyze, but most importantly, it teaches us to understand and appreciate beauty. Beauty is NOT relative as the world would have us think it is. Some things are beautiful and some are ugly and base. Our art curriculum equips students to learn to see, understand, and appreciate beauty. God created a beautiful world and that means something. It is our desire for our students to love what God loves. This requires that they are trained to see beauty and distinguish it from what is not beauty.
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Theater
The theater is a powerful tool that serves students for their entire lives. The following are a few of the particular skills drama instruction can develop:
- Understanding the power of story
- Understanding differing perspectives—walking in another’s shoes, empathy
- Historical or biographical theater broadens our appreciation for complex issues, personalizing historical and literary characters, and developing new perspectives on the times/eras, etc.
- Confidence being in front of others
- Building skills of diction, projection, articulation, inflection, and voice control
- Deepening appreciation for poetry, prose, meter, alliteration, nuance
- Being part of a team, a troupe, playing off one another
- Body awareness in time and space
- Audience awareness
- Building memorization “muscles”
- Growing in courage, confidence, boldness, humility, grace, deference, patience, etc.
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