9 Drama
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Brendon Weatherley.
"Drama is so much fun! We get to learn up on our feet, rather than being stuck sitting at desks.
This year we got to do skits, use costumes, make puppets, play games and heaps more."
Students will work together cooperatively in groups to devise, develop and present a variety of dramas in front of their classmates. It will focus on the following strands taken from the Drama curriculum:
- Investigate the functions, purposes, and technologies of drama in cultural and historical contexts.
- Select and use techniques and relevant technologies to develop drama practice.
- Use conventions to structure drama.
- Initiate and refine ideas with others to plan and develop drama.
- Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies create meaning in their own and others' work.
Students will develop confidence in presenting to an audience, and become increasingly audience aware. They will explore how to use body, voice, space, and movement to take on and sustain a role.
Course Overview
Term 1
Students will explore basic drama conventions such as tableaux, mime, and narration through a series of improvised and scripted tasks, to build foundational Drama skills. Key words and vocabulary will be developed through practical workshops, including gesture, facial expressions, posture, and movement.
Students will learn basic stage combat skills to incorporate into a Pirates of The Caribbean themed devised drama. They will use conventions within the devised piece (E.G slow motion, split-stage, use of levels, mime, dialogue, silence).
Students will also complete a short research task in groups on different theatre forms and periods which will be presented orally to class.
And to finish the term students will explore slapstick comedy by creating a short Fawlty Towers style restaurant skit.
Pathway
Key Competencies
Thinking
Relating to others
Using language, symbols, and texts
Managing self
Participating and contributing
Thinking
Thinking is about using creative, critical, and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas. These processes can be applied to purposes such as developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, or constructing knowledge. Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency.
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Relating to others
Relating to others is about interacting effectively with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts. This competency includes the ability to listen actively, recognise different points of view, negotiate, and share ideas.
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Using language, symbols, and texts
Using language, symbols, and texts is about working with and making meaning of the codes in which knowledge is expressed. Languages and symbols are systems for representing and communicating information, experiences, and ideas. People use languages and symbols to produce texts of all kinds: written, oral/aural, and visual; informative and imaginative; informal and formal; mathematical, scientific, and technological.
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- 11 Spanish
- 11 Physical Education
- Outdoor Education 2
- Wood Carving 2
- 11 Wood Carving
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Managing self
This competency is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self-assessment.
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- 11 Geography
- Te Reo Māori 3
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- 10 Business Studies
- 10 Philosophy
- 10 Japanese
- 10 Te Reo Māori
- 10 STEM
- 10 Carving - Bone
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- 10 Product Technology
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- 10 Environmental Science
Participating and contributing
This competency is about being actively involved in communities. Communities include family, whānau, and school and those based, for example, on a common interest or culture. They may be drawn together for purposes such as learning, work, celebration, or recreation. They may be local, national, or global. This competency includes a capacity to contribute appropriately as a group member, to make connections with others, and to create opportunities for others in the group.
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