Course overview - Study Period 5 and 6 - Evacuees - What would it have been like to live during WW2 for a family and how would this have felt?
This design enables learners to consider the wider context of other people’s lives in order to develop empathy and create more realistic and considered characters. Learners will be able to improve and develop the drama skills that they explored at earlier points of C7. Learners will also be able to explore new performance skills and have more opportunities to perform in character.
Key Concept:
Identity, Status, Morality
Assessment Points:
A formative and summative assessment of practical performance.
A formative and summative assessment of vocabulary and knowledge.
Guidance:
Learners will receive guidance in a variety of ways. These include marked assessments, reports, feedback in books, 1:1 interaction, Google Classroom.
Key Vocabulary:
Atmosphere (mood)
Audience awareness
Body language
Body propping
Character
Comedy
Direct address
Director
Empathy
Evacuee
Facial Expression
Gesture
Hot seating
Improvisation
In the Round
Melodrama
Metaphor
Mime
Narrative
Narrator
Naturalistic
Proscenium Arch
Prop
Proxemics
Set
Staying in role
Thoughts aloud
Transitions
Traverse
Use of levels
Use of space
Voice