Year 10 Drama
Curriculum:
Click to Expand Autumn Content:
Exam Component 1: Blood Brothers
Key Concepts
- How to analyse and evaluate key moments within the play
- The difference between an analysis and an evaluation
- The variety of methods an actor can use to convey different emotions
- To stage and explain the methods they used as well as how they affected the audience
Key Vocabulary
Analysis, Blood Brothers, Vocal Skills, Physical Skills, Spatial Skills, Evaluation, Quotes
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Exam Component 2: Creating a Performance
Key Concepts
- How to use a number of stimuli to create your own work, and the key methods of how to reflect and analyse the work to ensure it is achieving the criteria
- The methods that practitioners have used to create work
- How to work together as a team and be reflective in order to achieve the success criteria
- How to create a variety of characters that will display their skills to their best
- How to analyse and write about each session to identify how to improve their performance
Key Vocabulary
Script, Staging, Facial Expressions, Body Language, Gestures, Pitch, Staging, Emphasis, Intonation, Volume, Characters, Devising, Analysis, Reflection, Team Work, Diction, Gait, Posture, Inflection
Click to Expand Summer Content:
Exam Component 2: Creating a Performance
Key Concepts
- How to use a number of stimuli to create your own work, and the key methods of how to reflect and analyse the work to ensure it is achieving the criteria
- The methods that practitioners have used to create work
- How to work together as a team and be reflective in order to achieve the success criteria
- How to create a variety of characters that will display their skills to their best
- How to analyse and write about each session to identify how to improve their performance
Key Vocabulary
Script, Staging, Facial Expressions, Body Language, Gestures, Pitch, Staging, Emphasis, Intonation, Volume, Characters, Devising, Analysis, Reflection, Team Work, Diction, Gait, Posture, Inflection
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 10 have 3 Drama lessons each week.
Students receive 1 piece of Drama homework each week.
Assessments:
Year 10 students sit Component 2: Devising and Rehearsing a Performance this year. This accounts for 40% of a student's final grade.
In the Summer Term, students have a mock assessment for Component 1.
