10 Drama
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Brendon Weatherley.
An intensive course of study for those students interested in becoming more effective and confident communicators. Boys will develop audience awareness, and learn how to create scenes which are well structured with engaging characters. They will have the opportunity to explore film acting and theatre performance. Students will start to explore the changing world of theatre, recognising and using features from a range of performance contexts, including live TV, street performances, and traditional stage contexts.
Student voice: "Drama is so much fun! It's an easy way to learn - up on your feet, doing, rather than being stuck at a desk.
We do TV Sitcoms, games, dress up in costumes and heaps more."
. This course covers the following strands of the Drama Curriculum at Level 5:
- Investigate the characteristics, purposes, and function of drama in a range of contexts.
- Select and use techniques, conventions, and relevant technologies for specific drama purposes.
- Select and refine ideas to develop drama for specific purposes.
- Present and respond to drama and describe how drama combine elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies to create structure and meaning in their own and others' work.
Course Overview
Term 1
Exploring ways to evoke clever humour, through looking at modern day clowns and comedy within TV shows. Students will deconstruct Sit-Com scenes, both contemporary and older, to understand how humour is created through slapstick, facial expression, one-liners, and the archetypal characters within them. Students will present scripted scenes from a scene of their choice.
Students will research contemporary clowns from a range of ethnic backgrounds (Māori, Asian, Eastern European, Pākeha) and watch a range of performances to inspire their own devised Clowning skits.
Term 2
Elizabethan theatre - demystifying Shakespeare. Students will overcome their fear of Shakespeare by looking at some of the relateable aspects of his work, starting with Shakespearean insults. These will be used to create modern scenes using these cleverly worded put-downs. This leads on to a study of Macbeth's Witches Scene and Romeo and Juliet's opening fight scene with a focus on stage fighting, projection and delivery, underpinned with appropriate gestures and movement.
Mockumentary - students will develop skills in Realism through creating a mockumentary. They will create a plot, film scenes and edit the piece to submit a final product to be shown in a class screening of their efforts.
Prerequisites
Open Entry
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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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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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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