SCHEME OF WORK  provided by Kerry Mason (The Performing Zone)

Year 10 – Edexcel Drama

Term One; Up to ½ term

Project One (Four lessons)

•  Introduction to the course.  Ground rules.  

• What is a theatre company?  Write up what a theatre company is for homework.      

• Bring in aims of the group.

• Trust activities and relaxation activities.   

• Discussing drama diary.

  Project Two (Six lessons)

• Improvisation activities.   * Where were you last night? * Guess the situation * Whole class group impros/touching on forum theatre.  

• Introducing drama conventions (Whirl wind workshops)

• Begin creating a drama vocabulary sheet.

Project Three (Six lessons)

• Exploring Character.  Creating a character, use of brainstorming,  hotseating, dodding cards, s movement and focusing on; Motivation/Intention, Situation, Action (Who, Why, What, How.)

• Devise a short scene for your character focusing on a life-changing event the character faced and how they reacted in that situation.

•  Use improvisation, then structure, to be performed to the class, to be used as an initial Target Setting evaluation (Video work).  All work to be written up in diary form.

• Homework to include;  * Role on the wall * Lesson write ups * Character Profile

Project Four (Two-three lessons)

• Evaluate work so far, what has been learnt?

• Develop a personal target.

• Watch videoed work and evaluate how you could have improved and what you did well. 

Term One; - After ½ term

 Project Five (Up to 12 lessons)

• Conflict and Co-operation drama and movement work. * What is conflict and co-operation?  Write on the board as a brainstorm.  Pupils are to     develop three motifs or still images and are to link these to create a form of ‘image theatre’ on both conflict and co-operation.  The three movements for each could be related to sharing, unity, war, aggression etc.  Show work.  Is there a clear contrast? Talk about conflict and co-operation in dtail, getting pupils to write in their diary a definition for both.

• Max, Nita, Yvonne work on conflict.  From the youth work drama book (Fireworks)

• (Focuses on Movement/Gesture/Mime, Voice, Symbols, Hotseating and Character/Role Play.)

Project Six 

• Recap skills developed.  Add to Drama vocab list.

• Individual pupil/teacher discussions to check progress and to address concerns, problems.  Re-cap targets.

Term Two

• Preparation work for Mysticism assessment for Paper I  (See Mysticism scheme)

• Portfolio introduced and discussed.

Term Two – After ½ term

• Assessment work – Paper I, unit 1  (See separate scheme.)

Term Three

• Preparation work for Paper I – unit 2 (Script Work)

• Develop work on;

• Symbols, Rhythm/Pace, Styles, Inner Meaning, Sub Text, Characterisation, Performing, improvising using scripts.

• Looking at different ways of exploring a script. (As a radio play, TV interview, verse, using stage directions, using movement, as a diary, or as a narrated piece of mime or image theatre.)

• Work also developed on reviewing performances, with view to going to see a live production.