Year 9 Drama
9DRA Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Ms V. Gowdy.
Students build confidence, teamwork and leadership skills within the framework of creative play.
Learning and assessment activities are based around the four strands of the Arts Curriculum.
Students explore the following while developing their knowledge of dramatic conventions, elements and techniques, in the context of storytelling using Māori Creation Kōrero and 19th Century NZ Settler society:
- Developing practical knowledge – using drama elements and conventions to create drama.
- Developing ideas – improvisation, drama creation.
- Communicating and interpreting – performing in role.
- Understand drama in context – theatre styles.
Course Overview
Semester A
Term 1: Within the framework of creative play, students will learn how to use Drama Conventions and Elements to shape an existing story into a dramatic performance.
The end goal is to perform a devised drama based on Māori Creation Kōrero.
Term 2: Within the framework of creative play, will learn how to use Drama Techniques to shape characters (i.e. using their voice, body, movement and use of space to become someone else). They will also learn how people used their voice, body, movement and space in 19th Century NZ Settler society.
The end goal is to devise and perform a drama that conveys how status was used in that historical context.
Semester B
Term 1: Within the framework of creative play, students will learn how to use Drama Conventions and Elements to shape an existing story into a dramatic performance.
The end goal is to perform a devised drama based on Māori Creation Kōrero.
Term 2: Within the framework of creative play, will learn how to use Drama Techniques to shape characters (i.e. using their voice, body, movement and use of space to become someone else). They will also learn how people used their voice, body, movement and space in 19th Century NZ Settler society.
The end goal is to devise and perform a drama that conveys how status was used in that historical context.
Assessment Policy & Procedures Pathway
DRAMA adds TRANSFERABLE SKILLS to ALL CAREER PATHWAYS.
Among many other things, students will learn to perform under pressure, work work in a group to achieve practical goals and support others in the group to achieve at the same time.
Students learn to OBSERVE and ANALYZE people and the world around them in order to learn from their stories.
Drama creation operates in the HIGHER THINKING ORDER SKILL LEVELS (Blooms Taxonomy) and students are required to learn CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING and TIME MANAGEMENT skills in every lesson.
Students will need to bring a scrapbook or 1B5 exercise book to keep track of learning. Additionally, there is a schoolwide expectation that all learners bring their laptop on a daily basis.