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Drama / Year 7 and 8

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Curriculum content descriptions

Develop roles and characters consistent with situation, dramatic forms and performance styles to convey status, relationships and intentions (ACADRM041)

Elaborations
  • creating role and character by understanding and managing the underlying structure and intent of the drama
  • developing techniques of dramatic forms according to their established conventions and traditions
  • understanding human behaviour, emotions and empathy to convey roles and characters
  • Considering viewpoints – meanings and interpretations: For example – What were the actor/director’s intentions in this drama? What are your intentions in the drama you are making? What ideas did you think the drama expressed? How did you engage with the drama?
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Role-playing,  Imagined situations,  Characters (Acting)

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Lights, camera, action!

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Students explore screenwriting for video drama.

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Stories in the dark

  • TLF-IDM025937

This resource is designed to support Stage 4 drama students in understanding the characteristics of good radio plays and learning to use vocal expression to create clear and engaging characters. They will rehearse, perform and record a short radio play that can be shared with an audience.

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Lip sync challenge

  • TLF-IDM025925

Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a Lip Sync Challenge. They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

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Characterisation stereotypes

  • TLF-IDM025911

Develop and build engaging characters through stereotypes and using through role play and improvisation using voice, body and dialogue. Perform a devised character scenario to engage an audience.

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Video

Hannie Rayson on writing complex roles for women

  • TLF-IDM020009

Watch as Hannie Rayson describes her early desire to write multidimensional, complex roles for women in her plays. What was this in response to?  Why is it important for audiences to see female characters as well as male characters driving drama in plays? 

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Online

Be on the Safe Side Year 7-8 The Arts (Drama)

  • TLF-IDM019249

This is a unit of work that uses the concept of rail safety and the setting of the rail network to explore character, roles and situations; there is a particular focus on bullying and the bystander effect. Learning opportunities for students include scripting, performing and revising their own drama. The resource includes: ...

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Greek theatre – Chorus

  • TLF-IDA005178

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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Elements of Myth

  • TLF-IDA003775

In this lesson, students will read myths, discuss the elements of this literary form, and dramatize a myth of their choice. They will write scientific, research-based reports, as well as fantastical stories to explain the natural phenomena of the world.

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