Level 3
Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
Students will use elements and techniques of drama to explore dramatic conventions.
Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
Students will initiate and develop ideas with others and improvise drama in a range of situations.
Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
Students will present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements of drama combine with ideas to create meaning.
Understanding Drama in Context (UC)
Students will investigate the purposes of drama in past and present contexts and describe how communities express themselves through drama.
Learning Examples
- In groups, devise and share a mime that explores the tension in
a situation of conflict, departure, or anticipation. Discuss the use
of gesture and facial expression and record reactions to the experience
of working in mime. (PK, DI, CI)
- Contribute to role on the wall to deepen understanding of and belief
in a character from a story or video. Take the information gathered
and use voice, gesture, and movement to portray and share the character
in a situation before or after the original story. (PK, DI, CI)
- Improvise alternative solutions to a given problem in a story developed
as a drama (e.g., a situation where the expectations of peers, home,
and school differ). (PK, DI)
- Explore how objects can have different significance in people's
everyday lives in a variety of cultures (e.g., candles in a religious
ceremony, birthday, or lantern festival). (UC)
- Discuss how performers use props or costumes combined with voice
and gesture to convey information about the society or period depicted
in a drama. (CI, UC)
- Devise a series of scenes to convey ideas, feelings, and attitudes
about a local issue and its possible outcomes. Present the scenes
in the context of an interview format suitable for a young people's
programme. Record and review the presentation. (UC, PK, DI, CI)
- In groups, improvise dramas on a common theme. Explore how contrasting
sound with silence and movement with stillness can strengthen a drama.
Present each drama to the other groups and discuss the effect of contrast.
(PK, DI, CI)
- Investigate how puppets have been used over time to pass on the
values, stories, and news of various communities. Use puppets to explore
and present a local issue. (UC, DI, CI)
- Devise and share short scenes that explore how people in contrasting
roles (e.g., king and servant, grandparent and child) use voice, stance,
and movement to communicate status, feelings, or information. (PK,
DI, CI)
- Compare the ways in which people use dramatic techniques (e.g., voice, gesture, movement) to communicate meaning in specific community events (e.g., an opening, welcome, commemorative ceremony). (UC)
