Dramatic & Expressive Art

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Course Notes

Year 9 consolidates skills learnt earlier and adds new techniques (e.g. Facing Out/Dramatic Pause) and technical skills (make-up, lighting). More unfamiliar situations will be explored; the issue of equal opportunities; text interpretation and appreciation will be encouraged.

Specific objectives:

*		To understand the nature of performance, appreciating what’s involved in putting on a performance – learning and practising technical skills (lighting, set design, costume, make up), and understanding the various space forms employed in theatrical presentation
*		To explore a Shakespearian text so that students enjoy, understand and appreciate Elizabethan English
*		To develop concept of theme, character and tension, using a SATs play and working towards a foundation for GCSE Drama

Schemes of work:

1. Macbeth (Core)		5. Stress
2. A Woman’s Place in Society		6. Soap opera
3. Leaving Home/Homelessness		7. Study of a text
4. Alcohol/drug abuse (Ref.PSHE)