Drama

VCAA Study Design: VCE Drama focuses on the creation and performance of characters and stories that communicate ideas, meaning and messages. Students use creative processes, a range of stimulus material and play-making techniques to develop and present devised work. Students learn about and draw on a range of performance styles relevant to practices of ritual and story-telling, contemporary drama practice and the work of significant drama practitioners. Students explore characteristics of selected performance and apply and manipulate conventions, dramatic elements and production areas. They use performance skills and expressive skills to explore and develop role and character. The performances they create will go beyond the reality of life as it is lived and may pass comment on or respond to aspects of the real world. These performances can occur in any space. Students also analyse the development of their own work and performances by other drama practitioners.

MY YOUTUBE: JADIE IN THE CORNER

Head on over to my youtube channel 'Jadie in the corner' to find short and sharp explainer videos on Drama terminology featured in the VCAA Drama study design.

Videos include:

RESOURCES FOR A DRAMA CLASSROOM:

Theatre Practitioner Fact Sheets (Brecht - Grotowski - Boal)

PLAY RESEARCH BOOK MARK (Tips on dramaturgy when studying a play)

DRAMA JOURNAL TEMPLATE (Help students struggling with a drama journal)

HYPERDOCS

HyperDocs are digital lesson plans that are designed by teachers and given to students. They provide access for students to all the content and learning in one organized digital space or image. Here are some HyperDocs I have made and you might find useful in your classroom.

DEVISING STRATEGIES
Expressive Skills HyperDoc.pdf