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Unit Five : Creative Explorer - Drama
Introducing the Work of Three Different Artists
Introduction
Here is the next opportunity for you to learn about one of the arts disciplines in depth and to make links with other artists.
Drama is the main focus for this unit.
Beginning with Creative Explorer CD-ROM learners experiment, then develop and refine their ideas in a different workshop/ classroom space.
Strands
Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama
Developing Ideas in Drama
Communicating and Interpreting in Drama
Understanding Drama in Context
Essential Skills
Communication:
- Communicate competently and confidently by listening, speaking, reading, writing, and by using other forms of communication where appropriate
- Convey and receive information, instruction, ideas and feelings appropriately and effectively in a range of different cultural, language and social contexts
- Develop skills of discrimination and critical analysis in relation to the media, and to aural and visual messages from other sources.
Social and Cooperative:
- Develop good relationships with others, and work in cooperative ways to achieve common goals
- Take responsibility as a member of a group for jointly decided actions and decisions.
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Achievement Objectives
- Use a range of conventions to extend dramatic practice
- Use elements and conventions of drama to develop and extend ideas
- Communicate through, respond to, and evaluate different dramatic conventions
- Investigate the functions of drama in past and present cultures and describe how cultures and communities express themselves through drama.
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Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Locate Michael Hurst (drama) and select his introductory page
- Use set questions to gain information about Michael's life, work and ideas about drama
- Increase individual literacy in drama by exploring Pathways, Process and Works
- Investigate the role of Theatre in drama
- Make links with other artists (Sima Urale - filmaker and Patricia Grace - writer) on Creative Explorer by tracking two ideas that are common to the artists
- Using the drama activity, write your own statements for the freeze frames
- Make up your own role and freeze frame sequence with a group
- Innovate on text from the choice provided within the Writing Activity on "The Kuia and the Spider"
- Work as a team to make a story on film using the shots provided by Sima Urale in the Moving Pictures Activity
- Work on a follow up activity and use with another group of students.
Links to other Learning Areas
English
Strand: Oral Language, Speaking and Using Texts
Achievement Objective:
- Using texts from several genres, narrate, recite, read aloud, present or perform, arranging material, and making meaning clear by using appropriate speech and delivery.
Strand: Visual Language: Viewing and Presenting
Achievement Objective:
- Combine verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through drama, video, computer, or other technologies and media.
Technology
Strand: Technology and Society
Achievement Objective:
- Explore and discuss the impacts over time on the local and wider environments and society of some specific Technology, as in theatre or telecommunications.
Physical Health and Physical Education
Strand B: Movement concepts and Motor skills
Achievement Objective:
- Experience ways in which cultural and social practices are expressed through the ritual of movement, demonstrate understanding of this, and learn skills associated with a range of cultural activities.
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