Year 7
WA1
Title of assessment: Performing on the stage
Skills assessed: The 8 C’s
Confidence
Concentration,
Collaboration,
Communication,
Creativity,
Curiosity,
Craftsmanship
Commitment
How to be part of a positive learning environment.
Key learning:
Improve understanding of theme by identifying the context in your drama work
Improve your characterisation by focusing on emotion.
Develop your physical skills by using clear mime and gestures.
Develop your vocal skills by projecting your dialogue more clearly and loudly
Reflect more thoughtfully to identify successes and improvements
WA2
Title of assessment: Greek Theatre: Antigone
Skills assessed:
Status
Conflict
Monologue
Dialogue
Tension
Use of space
Expression
Use of Drama terminology
Key learning:
Responding and rehearsing: discussion and response to the dilemmas that the character’s face.
Performing and Characterisation: portray the character of Creon or Antigone with good use of skills above.
Written evaluation: character development and strengths/areas of improvement in performance.
WA3
Title of assessment: ‘I’m stuck in a computer’
Skills assessed:
Devising a performance and script
Cooperation and negotiation
Evaluation skills
Apply theatre and Drama skills learnt over the year
Use of Drama terminology
Developing characters
Improvisation
Key learning:
Responding and rehearsing
Performing and characterisation
Written Evaluation
Year 8
WA1
Title of assessment: Performing: Comedy/Farce
Skills assessed:
Voice (accent, tone, pitch, pace, projection, diction)
Movement
Expression
Posture
Focus
Stagecraft
Energy
Actor-audience relationship
Key learning:
Demonstrate how comedy can be enhance using different techniques
Devise small scenes and be able to analyse what makes something funny.
Show a character with a clear underlining motive within a scene
WA2
Title of assessment: Expo Led
WA3
Title of assessment: Expo Led
Year 9
WA1
Title of assessment: Practitioner One: Brecht
Skills assessed:
Non-naturalism
Verfremdungseffekt (alienation)
Direct address
Placards
Multi-role
Epic Theatre
Montage of scenes
Song
Visible scene changes
Key learning:
Responding and Rehearsing (contributions to work and discussions about Brechtian Theatre, incorporating techniques to deliver a powerful message)
Performing and Characterisation (creation of themes and issues)
Verbal and written analysis: justifying ideas and proving understanding of the practitioner.
WA2
Title of assessment: Practitioner Two: Stanislavski
Skills assessed:
Naturalism
4th Wall
Psychology
Emotion memory
Units and actions
The magic if
Super-objective
Key learning: Understanding the System
Motivation- what is the reason for the character to be doing what they are doing?
Objective- what a character is trying to achieve at a given moment.
Super Objective- What the character is ultimately trying to achieve for the whole play.
Unit- When an actor’s objective changes a new unit begins
Imagination- An actor must imagine details in order to give their character a strong back story
Subtext- The way in which a line or action is delivered and what it hints to
Emotion Memory- An actor finds real emotions in their past and uses these to portray the emotion on stage, presenting ‘real’ emotions.
Magic If- In order to create a ‘real’ response the actor imagines how they would react if they were in this situation- ‘If this really was the middle of winter what would I do?’ ‘If my sister really was injured what how would i react?’
Given Circumstances- Everything that has happened to the character up to the moment they are in the room, this is often ‘imagined’ by the actor and director or given as clues in the text by the playwright. By knowing what a character has done in their life before the scene, an actor can play the role appropriately.
Method of Physical Action- An actor unlocks subconscious emotions by using repetitive physical action to unlock them.
Tempo Rhythm- A person has an inner and an outer rhythm, through subtlety an actor can portray these both at the same time- eg the panicked liar trying to ‘play it cool’ or ‘the soldier slowly sneaking through no mans land’
Circles of Attention- imagine you have several circle around you (like ripples in a pond) hold your focus within these small spaces and see how this effects your characters engagement (eg the first circle will be very insular)
WA3
Title of assessment: Physical Theatre – are you BTEC ready?
Skills assessed:
Tension
Comedy
Climax and Anti-climax
Characterisation
Intention
Direct address
Multi-role
Flashback
Key learning:
Response and development: focus ideas and techniques that are original, explore issues and ideas in an expressive, personal and reflective way.
Performance: demonstrate movement skills to show a strong character and communicate character’s intentions with clarity.
Evaluation: understand how strategies, drama elements and mediums have been used.