Week Key teaching and Assessments. Syllabus/Unit content Assessments Due / Resources 1 Drama course overview Review collaborative and improvisational skills Review elements of drama Review Stanislavski Introduction to A Street Car Named Desire. Explore context of the play through improvisation workshops. Values, forces and drama practice Oral communication Voice and movement Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama forms and styles Drama conventions Scheme of Assessments Unit 1 Syllabus Contextual information on A Street Car Named Desire . Table handout 2–4 Effective writing skills workshop – short answer and extended answer Workshop on design principles – using and describing Workshop on extended improvisation – review of skills and techniques for representational, realist drama: Stanislavski Introduction to Task 1: Perform key scenes from A Street Car Named Desire using Stanislavski’s approaches. Due: Term 1 Week 8/9 Go through task sheet with students. Read A Street Car Named Desire as a class and discuss themes and issues in the text. Explore the forces of the play through class discussions, research and improvisation workshops. Show PPT on A Street Car Desire Workshop to experiment with the elements of drama, spaces of performance and selected design principles to support making meaning in the context of the external examination Oral and written communication Values, forces and drama practice Design and technology Voice and movement Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama forms and styles Drama conventions Adjectives cards Production images Principles of design Elements of Drama cards How to write about the Principles of design handout. Stanislavski handout. Nelson Drama for Secondary students: Designer roles Pg 85-90 Task 1
6-7 Examination week Completing Task 5 and Task 6 Selected sampling of unit content for both practical and written examination Written exam Year 11 Program Unit 2- Presentational Week Tasks and activities Unit content Term 2 Week UNIT 4 Hand back & Go over Task 5 &6: Practical and Written Examination What were the strong points What were the weaknesses How can we improve? Drama unit overview Voice and movement Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama forms and styles Drama conventions Spaces of performance Values, forces and drama practice Task 8 Review Handed out. Due date TBA
Review representational-presentational continuum Hand out Unit 2 syllabus Introduction to Task 7: Performance of key seen from ‘Hoods’ Reading Hoods and discussing the themes, forces and the context. Selection of key for Task 7. Scheduling rehearsal processes to allow time for acting role. Design and technology Oral and written communication Task sheets for Task 7 & Task 8 Previous productions of Hoods Term 3 Week 1 Workshops on Hoods Revise over themes: Revise over context: Begin looking at style and form Presentational acting techniques. What is Presentational? Presentational VS Representational Audience Theory Oral and written communication Values, forces and practice Design and technology 2-5 Workshops on Grotowski Workshops on Brecht. How to incorporate presentational acting methods into a performance. Begin rehearsing for Task 7 Revise over extended response structure for designer role. Voice and movement Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama forms and styles Drama conventions Spaces of performance Worksheets on Grotowski Worksheets on Brecht Nelson Drama for Secondary students:
Values, forces and drama practice Design and technology Management skills and processes Oral and written communication Suggested world text Research activity on Presentational theorists Pg 6 6-8 Rehearsals and refinement of Task 7: Hoods performance Incorporating Elements of Drama and Principles of design Task 7: Hoods performance Drama Night: Tuesday Week 8 Voice and movement Drama forms and styles Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama conventions Spaces of performance Design and technology Management skills and processes Oral and written communication Task 7 Due: Week 8 Night Week 8 Tuesday 9-10 Revise over analysis of unseen script: short answer responses Analysis of unseen script: Go through structure and give practise exams. Selection of monologue (2-3 minute) for practical examinations – presentational, non-realist approach Work-shopping scripted monologues to suit particular approach to presentational, non-realist drama – Brecht, Grotowski or Artaud. Voice and movement Drama processes and the elements of drama Drama forms and styles Drama conventions Values, forces and drama practice Spaces of performance Written communication