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Develop skills in acting and characterisation through approaches to monologue

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 10 and 11 drama

Your students will:

• explore elements of drama to develop a believable character

• devise and enact drama using a script and unscripted material

• perform to communicate dramatic meaning.

Drama 7-10 Syllabus

• 5.1.1: manipulates the elements of drama to create belief, clarity and tension in character, role, situation and action.

• 5.1.3: devises, interprets and enacts drama using scripted and unscripted material or text.

• 5.2.1: applies acting and performance techniques expressively and collaboratively to communicate dramatic meaning.

• 5.2.2: selects and uses performance spaces, theatre conventions and production elements appropriate to purpose and audience.

• 5.3.2: analyses the contemporary and historical contexts of drama.

Drama Stage 6 Syllabus

• P1.2: explores ideas and situations, expressing them imaginatively in dramatic form.

• P1.5: understands, demonstrates and records the process of developing and refining ideas and scripts through to performance.

• P1.6: demonstrates directorial and acting skills to communicate meaning through dramatic action.

• P2.3: demonstrates directorial and acting skills to communicate meaning through dramatic action.

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 for 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