Drama
YEAR 10 Status
YEAR 11 Status
Optional
Optional
Prerequisites None Periods per week Four Description
An open-minded interest in drama, a willingness to take dramatic and personal risks, a commitment to working with others.
Prerequisites
Boys in the arts grow great minds and big hearts! The Year 10 Drama option sets you free, enabling you to focus on the HEART of learning: to question, set productive goals, solve problems, create solutions, make decisions and … HAVE FUN. Boys engaged in Year 10 Drama option • take the risk to be heroes on stage (and to make others heroes too!) • collaborate • strivetowardcreatingemotionalwellbeingand security • explore ways to reach their hearts and expand their minds • use "head and heart" to become empathetic, aware, solid, respectful, open-hearted, and responsible people who want to innovate and communicate with impact • find out how to learn and live together Dare yourself to be a brave new heart. Develop your key competencies through the dramatic arts NZ Curriculum achievement objectives • understand drama in context (UC) • develop practical knowledge (PK) • develop ideas (DI) • communicate and interpret drama (CI) The Year 10 Drama option is a practical course that gets you up and on your feet, working together in class so that you can use and apply • carefully selected script work • devising and improvising processes • theatre technologies Assessment The portfolio of the year includes feedback on performances, written analysis and design decisions, as well as an ongoing record of process reflection.
Periods per week Four Description
This is an introductory course based around Level 5 and 6 of the national curriculum. Boys discover their dramatic interest and it can be seen as a springboard to senior Drama courses. The basic skills and attitudes learned in drama are transferable and can be used through and beyond senior school. The course is of particular use to Year 11 boys who are interested in drama and who want to get academic recognition for their efforts. All boys will be presenting performances and assignments to be assessed through NCEA Level 1. Assessment A portfolio of the year’s work is kept and assessed. There is regular practical and written assignment work. The assessment of practical skills will form a major part of the total assessment and understanding of theory must be demonstrated. Specifically, for NCEA Level 1 Drama there are seven achievement standards.Five of them form the core of our assessment in Year 11 and are compulsory. AS 90006 Apply drama techniques in a dramatic context. (4 credits – internal) AS90997 Devise and perform a drama. (4 credits – internal) AS 90999 Select and use features of a drama/theatre form in a performance. (4 credits – internal) AS 90011 Demonstrate understanding of the use of drama aspects within live performance. (4 credits – external)
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