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Drama / Year 3 and 4

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Curriculum content descriptions

Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama (ACADRM031)

Elaborations
  • exploring and experiencing a range of roles and situations that they initiate and develop
  • making improvisations that explore issues and ideas using empathy
  • using elements of drama and the principles of stories to shape improvisations to communicate their intentions as drama makers, for example, establishing time and place and the roles and characters in the drama
  • experimenting with tension, and creating dramatic meaning to sustain improvisations and process dramas
  • Considering viewpoints – forms and elements: For example – How did the drama begin? Develop? Conclude? How did the performers vary their voices, movement and gestures to create and share believable characters? How are elements of drama such as role, situation, time and place part of the action? How is the dramatic tension developed in the drama?
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Devised drama

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