Learning opportunities, curriculum links
When using dramatic structures, students work across the four strands of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum:
- Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
- Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
- Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
- Understanding Drama in Context (UC).
As students work with dramatic structures, they will be able to:
- follow an intended storyline in drama (level 1)
- distinguish differences between dramatic and real experience (level 1)
- maintain narrative consistency (level 2)
- choose and use conventions to create meaning as part of narratives (level 3)
- use techniques in a deliberate and conscious manner as part of conventions (level 4)
- sequence and structure coherent dramatic narratives (level 4)
- refine work that is episodic and thematically structured (level 5).
The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts (the drama matrix)
Working independently or with facilitation, students at levels 6, 7, and 8 are able to devise, structure, record, and perform increasingly sophisticated drama.
For more detail on the key aspects of learning that inform progression in drama, refer to the exemplars drama matrix at The Arts: Drama matrix.