Tauranga Boys’ College

11 Drama

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Brendon Weatherley.

Prerequisites

Open Entry - 10 Drama preferred

Theatre Studies and Film Acting

This course is for students wanting to develop presentation skills and confidence in performing in front of their peers and others. The course enhances practical skills, such as working as a group to realise a common goal, while also promoting interpretative, reflective, and evaluative practice, resulting in improved literacy. This course supports the learning in Media Studies, Visual Arts, Music, and English.

Curriculum Level Six

Understanding Drama in Context

(UC)

Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama

(PK)

Developing Ideas in Drama

(DI)

Communicating and Interpreting in Drama

(CI)

Demonstrate an awareness that drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities.

Explore the elements of role, focus, action, tension, time, and space through dramatic play.

Contribute and develop ideas in drama, using personal experience and imagination.

Share drama through informal presentation and respond to ways in which drama tells stories and conveys ideas in their own and others’ work.

Course Overview

Term 1
Students will participate in a process of learning about drama elements through practical workshops in both film and theatre contexts. Each tri-weekly mini project will have a practical outcome. The students will submit their best two workshop outcomes for Assessment 1 (10%).

Term 2
Students will identify a topical, relevant issue that they would like to explore in a small group through devised theatre. This idea should be selected from personal experience, the local community in which we live, or a current issue facing society today. Students will submit a statement of intention for this, and explore how best to portray this idea in dramatic form. Students will enhance their devised performance through staging conventions such as lighting, properties, set pieces, costume, and/or make-up. Assessment 2 (20%)

Term 3
Students will workshop extracts from three NZ plays/scripts. In each workshop there will be a series of process, performative, and evaluative tasks that engage with the skills needed to bring the script to life, as well as developing a contextual understanding of each text. Assessment 3 (50%)

Term 4
Using the work created in Terms 1, 2 and 3, students will complete a report, either written or recorded, to demonstrate their understanding of Drama Techniques, Elements, Devising and Theatre Aotearoa. Assessment 4 (20%)

Learning Areas:

Arts

Assessment Information

Paper	Description	Type	Weighting
Paper 11DRA1	Practical theatre workshop outcome	Internal	10.00%
Paper 11DRA2	Devised theatre	Internal	20.00%
Paper 11DRA3	Excerpts from three plays	Internal	20.00%
Paper 11DRA4	Final performance	Internal	50.00%