Inspired individual performance

Explore approaches to developing and enriching monologue for performance

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Year 12 drama

Your students will:

• watch Sophie Kelly’s 3 workshops about developing character complexity and creating the world of monologue

• explore ‘dropping in’, ‘impulse’ and ‘blue printing’ by applying these approaches to their own monologue

• reflect on the strengths and challenges of these approaches by answering questions in their logbook

• perform and record their own monologue.

Drama Stage 6 Syllabus

• H1.2: uses performance skills to interpret and perform scripted and other material.

• H2.1: demonstrates effective performance skills.

• H2.2: uses dramatic and theatrical elements effectively to engage an audience.

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

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard