9 Drama
9DRA Subject DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Miss C. Thomson.
Recommended Prior LearningThe course is designed to introduce students to the skills of Drama for the first time, but the assessments offer opportunities for students already confident and interested in Drama to further develop their skills.
MYP Arts
Optional Subject
Objectives
Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action, and tension, played out in time and space. In Drama education, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. Through purposeful play, both individual and collaborative, they discover how to link imagination, thoughts, and feelings.
As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence and to communicate effectively using body language, movement, and space. As they perform, analyse, and respond to different forms of drama and theatre, they gain a deeper appreciation of their rich cultural heritage and language and new power to examine attitudes, behaviours, and values.
By means of the drama that they create and perform, students reflect and enrich the cultural life of their schools, whānau, and communities.
Subject Overview
Semester A
Week 1 - 8: Pepeha (Drama techniques and skills).
Week 9 - 11: Ancient Greek Theatre (Drama techniques and collaboration).
Week 12 - 20: Devising (Making an original play).
Semester B
Week 1 - 8: Pepeha (Drama techniques and skills).
Week 9 - 11: Ancient Greek Theatre (Drama techniques and collaboration).
Week 12 - 20: Devising (Making an original play).
Assessment Policy & Procedures Pathway Career Pathways
Sales Representative, Diversional and Recreational Therapist, Actor, Copywriter, Sales and Marketing Manager, Artistic Director, Author, Entertainer, Communications Professional, Industrial Designer, Event Manager, Personal Assistant, Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Funeral Director/Embalmer, Hairdresser/Barber, Survey Interviewer, Model, Nanny/Child Carer, Occupational Therapist, Private Teacher/Tutor, Project Manager, Telemarketer, Television Presenter, Marketing Specialist
Subject and Associated CostsSubject Costs: Nil.
Associated Costs: Students are not recommended to spend money on costumes and props for their original plays but some wish to do so.