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Develop your voice, physical and character skills by creatively exploring words, rhythm and movement.
Develop your voice, physical and character skills by creatively exploring words, rhythm and movement.
Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 7 to 10 drama
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
explore rhythm and rhyme
create words and phrases for performance
respond to text using physical gestures, facial expressions and movement
perform to communicate dramatic meaning.
Teacher introduction
Duration: 00:23Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
Drama 7-10 Syllabus
Drama 7-10 Syllabus
Stage 4
4.1.1: identifies and explores the elements of drama to develop belief and clarity in role.
4.2.1: uses performance skills to communicate dramatic meaning.
4.3.2: recognises the function of drama and theatre in reflecting social and cultural aspect of human experience.
Stage 5
5.1.4: explores, structures and refines ideas using dramatic forms, performance styles, dramatic techniques, theatrical conventions and technologies.
5.2.1: applied acting and performance techniques expressively and collaboratively to communicate dramatic meaning.
5.3.2: analyses the contemporary and historical contexts of drama.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Additional teaching resources:
Additional teaching resources:
Shakespeare Reloaded – creative, research-linked activities to use Shakespeare in the classroom
Shakespeare’s Globe – watch performances for free digitally via Globe Player
'My Shot' from Hamilton by Lin-Manual Miranda – hip hop musical opening performance at the Olivier Awards.
Note: the word 'bastard' is used for literal meaning at the beginning of Hamilton – it is not used as a curse word.
Collection of student work
Collection of student work
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
For further support on how to create these resources
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Drop the mic - hip hop and Shakespeare - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docxWould you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please include the Creative Class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.
Teacher feedback
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
Drama 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
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