Drama / Year 9 and 10 / Developing practices and skills

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Curriculum content descriptions

develop performance skills and/or techniques to manipulate elements of drama and/or use conventions to communicate the physical and psychological aspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions (AC9ADR10D01)

Elaborations
  • experimenting with, reflecting on and refining the use of styles and conventions that have been explored in class in order to shape action; for example, considering how contemporary performance, non-realistic or innovative conventions can be used to re-shape or make a new meaning for a scene from a classic text; then workshopping the conventions and forms of comedy and shaping them into a short scene or applying them to a short piece of text
  • using analysis of examined text and performances to provide information for exploring and refining the implied or underlying aspects of character and dramatic action in a text or devised action
  • refining their skills of voice/vocalisation through warm-ups or exercises focusing on character and delivery or movement
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Characters (Narratives),  Psychology,  Drama (Literature),  Motivation,  Characters (Acting),  Creating texts,  Text purpose

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Elements of Storytelling for Improvisation

  • TLF-IDA009426
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; English
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

A series of eight lessons support students in identifying key elements of effective storytelling, and improvising using the CROW process. Students will also share their ability to tell a convincing and entertaining beginning-level story by playing the improvisation game “Liar” in front of the classroom.

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Creating a Character

  • TLF-IDA009424
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; English
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource supports Years 9 and 10 students to develop understandings of how to create a believable character by performing in a scene as a specific character. A series of eight lessons provides ideas, worksheets and stimulus materials around the concept of ‘Character’.

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Voice Work in Podcasts

  • TLF-IDA009375
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Media Arts; Drama; English
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Students will demonstrate their ability to create a voice for a character by creating podcasts in small groups. They explore how vocal variety creates character, where they might use vocal variety in their own lives and how the use of voice helps us communicate. Eight lessons include strategies for performing, including ...

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The Character of a Puppet's Voice

  • TLF-IDA009373
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Students will demonstrate their ability to manipulate voice to clearly portray an objective-driven character through the design and development of a puppet character in a short scene. Eight lessons include exploration of the ways that theatre artists transform and edit their initial ideas. The unit also explores the ways ...

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u.b.do

  • TLF-IDA005234
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 5 week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with ideas for students to become more self-aware, through Boal's notion of Theatre of the Oppressed, of living in an online and human-centred world, by participating in digital and collaborative learning experiences. The program provides differentiation ...

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Comedy satire

  • TLF-IDA005148
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 1-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with ideas for students to devise satirical performances highlighting social inequity. Students experiment with techniques of exaggeration, role-reversal and caricature (practical and experiential) to understand how they can be used in a comedic ...

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Melodrama – Voices and asides

  • TLF-IDA005145
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 2-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with ideas for students to understand, through practical exploration, how to manipulate their voice and movement to create stock characters and perform asides. There is a PowerPoint, two downloadable handouts and a voice lesson sequence.

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Melodrama – Stock characters

  • TLF-IDA005144
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 2-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with practical ideas to assist students to understand Melodrama and develop characters through theoretical and experiential tasks. . Students will explore and express a range of stock characters using vocal dynamics, exaggerated movement and gestures ...

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Costumes of the Performing Arts Collection

  • TLF-IDA004898
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Media Arts; Design and Technologies
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Explore some of the costumes curated from the Adelaide Festival Centre’s performing arts collection. Find supporting information and discussion questions to inform conversations about design, and the ways in which performances are conceptualised.

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Performing a Haiku: How can spoken word transform a poem?

  • TLF-IDA003778
  • Learning areasEnglish; The Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

In this lesson, students will reflect on small moments of peace or happiness to write an original haiku. Students will demonstrate spoken word to perform a haiku for an audience.

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Long Form Improvisation

  • TLF-IDA009380
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated04/12/2025
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This unit was created for an Improvisation class with no previous experience necessary on the part of students. This is best taught after the students have experienced units on the basics of storytelling, the basics of characterisation, and open scenes. The students therefore have skills in creating sound effects, developing ...

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Greek theatre – Chorus

  • TLF-IDA005178
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated20/02/2025
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 2-3 week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with ideas for students to learn about the dramatic convention of the chorus. Students are then given the opportunity to express their learning through written, oral and performance activities. There are downloadable lesson sequences and associated ...

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Melodrama – Background and structure

  • TLF-IDA005143
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated18/09/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 1-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with practical and theoretical student tasks involving writing and performing in a traditional melodrama genre. Students will write and devise a traditional melodrama within this sequence and begin to understand the role and function of asides. There ...

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Playbuilding – Devising text sample assessment task

  • TLF-IDA005142
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated18/09/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This sample assessment task for Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama students. Using a range of texts as stimulus, the task requires them to collaboratively create and perform a group devised drama in which characters interact within dramatic moments heightened by elements of production and style choices, with a clear structure ...

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Drama – Playbuilding – Devising with text program

  • TLF-IDA005141
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated17/09/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource provides Yrs 9-10 (Stage 5, NSW DoE),Drama teachers with a program designed to allow students to engage with a range of texts as a stimulus for devising. Students can create a theatrical narrative where character interaction is heightened by dramatic intention through elements of production and style choices.

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Brecht – Political theatre

  • TLF-IDA005179
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated23/08/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 2-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama students to understand define and explore political theatre as a vehicle for communicating social, political, cultural and historical messages. Students adjust self-devised performances based on techniques of Epic theatre and analyse how the Verfremdungseffekt ...

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Greek theatre – Masks

  • TLF-IDA005177
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated23/08/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This 1-week program provides Yrs 7-10 (Stages 4-5, NSW DoE) Drama teachers with ideas for students to develop an understanding of the purpose of masks in ancient Greek theatre. Students use Socrative to compete against their peers in a space race showing their research skills, understanding of the history and socio-cultural ...

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Beats and rhymes

  • TLF-IDM025938
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This class develops your vocal skills for performance. Write a Slam Poem or a Rap and then perform them for an audience.

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Interactive
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Make ‘em laugh

  • TLF-IDM025935
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

See how effective comedy is in communicating ideas and engaging an audience. Good performances will have moments of humour and seriousness in order to provide variety and interest in the stories being told.

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How to be funny

  • TLF-IDM020220
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; English
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

What is the key to being funny? As Tim Ferguson explains, if you can laugh, you can write comedy. Has something funny happened to you lately? Or is there something in particular that you find puzzling or amusing about the world around you? Put your thoughts on paper and experiment with telling your story in different ways. ...

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