Drama / Year 7 and 8 / Exploring and responding

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Curriculum content descriptions

investigate ways the elements of drama and/or conventions are used to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9ADR8E01)

Elaborations
  • researching and noticing how the impact of time and place/context of a drama from a particular period can differ from that of another period, particularly in relation to the use of drama conventions
  • using Viewpoints to analyse and evaluate performances they have experienced and/or participated in by asking questions such as “What ideas did you think the drama expressed?”, “What conventions were used to establish time/place/context?”, “How was movement used in the drama?”
  • writing or pod/vodcasting a review of a drama they experience, focusing on use of specific elements of drama and/or conventions; for example, identifying and describing how an element of drama has been manipulated to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
  • analysing how linear and non-linear narrative is used in examples of drama from diverse cultures; for example, in contemporary drama from countries or regions in Asia or in drama from historical times
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Culture,  Drama (Literature),  Drama (Arts),  Themes (Texts),  Cultural contexts

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