Picturing a paragraph – the craft of Complicité

Support in undertaking experiential paragraph writing for HSC students

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Year 12 drama

Your students will:

• watch the three workshop clips and record notes

• critically analyse how these movement-based and highly visual practices/approaches can be used to devise a performance

• imagine themselves exploring one or more of these workshop activities

• synthesise and organise knowledge and imagined experience into an experiential paragraph.

Drama Stage 6 Syllabus

• H3.1: critically applies understanding of the cultural, historical and political contexts that have influenced specific drama and theatre practitioners, styles and movements.

• H3.2: analyses, synthesises and organises knowledge, information and opinion in coherent, informed oral and written responses.

• H3.3: demonstrates understanding of the actor-audience relationship in various dramatic and theatrical styles and movements.

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