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KS3

Drama

Aims of the subject: To promote collaborative and creative skills, encourage expression, gain confidence and hone performance skills. 

What will I learn?

Year What will I learn? What will I do?
7 Term 1:

Y.7 Term One

Dramatic techniques and skills (Movement/mime/voice/characterisation/drama conventions etc.)

 

Term 2: Storytelling – the oral tradition, myths and legends, introduction to script

 

Term 3: Devising from stimulus – for example, news articles, current affairs, modern moral issues, poetry, music, artefacts.

 

Perform role plays and exercises, working in groups and presenting your work.  We will develop our understanding of the narrative arc, plot and character function.
8 Term 1: Style and Genre 

Students will explore a range of styles and genres of theatre (Physical theatre/Naturalism/Symbolism

etc.)

 

 

Term 2: Theatre Practitioners – for example Theatre of the Oppressed/Naturalism

Students will be introduced to the practitioner Augusto Boal and explore how his techniques can be used to as a tool for political change.

Stanislavski – building on their work on Naturalism and finding the emotional truth in performance and learning how an actor prepares.

 

 

Term 3: Blood Brothers/ Our Day Out/Macbeth  Students will explore the play text practically. They will learn about the importance of the creative process when creating and rehearsing a piece of theatre.

 

Perform role plays and exercises, working in groups and presenting your work.  We will develop our understanding of style, genre and form and complete exercises to increase our knowledge of the ways in which theatre is created.

 

We will explore how to get a performance from page to stage, blocking and learning lines.

 

9 Term 1: Ruth Ellis/ Brenda Ann Spencer

Students will explore the theme of ‘judgement and forgiveness’ through a range of process drama strategies pioneered by Dorothy Heathcote.

 

 

Term 2: Verbatim Theatre

Students will study one of the following: Missing Dan Nolan/I love you Mum I promise I won’t die/Too Much Punch for Judy/ Hard to Swallow by Mark Wheeller. Through practical workshops, students will examine the stylistic devices, creative intentions and influences within the performance style.

 

 

Term 3: Responding to a Brief

 

Students will work in small theatre companies to devise a performance in response to a brief. They will use the skills they have developed in term 1 and 2 and apply them to their own work.

 

 

We will use Drama as an explorative strategy to explore modern issues.

 

We will create our own pieces of verbatim and docu-drama and understand the difference.

 

The devised performance helps pupils to work to a brief and manage their time.

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