10 Drama 1

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  General

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  Kia ora, welcome to year 10 drama!

  Ko Miss Steel toku ingoa - I will be your drama teacher this year. I'm excited that you have chosen drama as one of your option subjects.

  You can email me esteel@mhjc.school.nz or visit me in my class f5. 

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  This year we will be learning about drama techniques, elements, conventions and technologies. You will also be learning to devise, memorise, rehearse and perform throughout the year - including for your assessments. 

  Please check MHO regularly for activities and planning. Your assessments will be linked here, at the top of the MHO page. 

  • Select activity Assessment One | Niu Sila & Drama Techniques

    

    Assessment One | Niu Sila & Drama Techniques Assignment

    You will be selecting and refining your use of drama techniques and working collaboratively with your group to perform a scene/s from Niu Sila.
    

  • Select activity Assessment Two | Conventions Assessment

    

    Assessment Two | Conventions Assessment Assignment

    You will be working collaboratively with your group to create a skit. You will need to develop your ideas as a group and apply conventions to devise a story packed with drama.
    

• Select week Term 1: Week 1

  Term 1: Week 1

  
  

  Activities:

  No class this week
• Select week Term 1: Week 2

  Term 1: Week 2

  
  

  Activities:

  1. You, me
  2. Walk name game
  3. Throw challenge
  4. biddy biddy bop
  5. captains coming
  6. "honey if you love me"
  7. ninja warrior
• Select week Term 1: Week 3

  Term 1: Week 3

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Ball name game
  2. Ball pattern game
  3. Type Writer
  4. Ninja warrior
  5. Bang!
• Select week Term 1: Week 4

  Term 1: Week 4

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Body techniques discussion (posture, gesture, facial expression, eye contact)
  2. Up, down
  3. Character walk
  4. Leading with different body parts
  5. Eye contact challenge
  6. Laser 
  7. Charades
• Select week Term 1: Week 5

  Term 1: Week 5

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Facial expression challenge
• Select week Term 1: Week 6

  Term 1: Week 6

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Voice techniques
  2. Open Scripts - use your voice techniques to prepare your rehearse
• Select week Term 1: Week 7

  Term 1: Week 7

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Open Scripts - use your voice techniques to prepare your rehearse
• Select week Term 1: Week 8

  Term 1: Week 8

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Perform your open scripts
  2. Niu Sila background information
  3. Niu Sila script reading
• Select week Term 1: Week 9

  Term 1: Week 9

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Niu Sila script reading
• Select week Term 1: Week 10

  Term 1: Week 10

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Niu Sila themes discussion
  2. Niu Sila Character Survey
  3. Werewolves
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Term 2: Week 1

  Term 2: Week 1

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Niu Sila themes and plot discussion
• Select week Term 2: Week 2

  Term 2: Week 2

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Niu Sila role on the wall activity
  2. Assessment instructions and discussion
  3. Get into your assessment groups and start learning your lines
• Select week Term 2: Week 3

  Term 2: Week 3

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Rehearsal
  2. Learn your lines
• Select week Term 2: Week 4

  Term 2: Week 4

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Rehearsal
  2. Learning your lines - Scripts down end of this week!
• Select week Term 2: Week 5

  Term 2: Week 5

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Rehearsal
• Select week Term 2: Week 6

  Term 2: Week 6

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Rehearsal
• Select week Term 2: Week 7

  Term 2: Week 7

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Rehearsal
• Select week Term 2: Week 8

  Term 2: Week 8

  
  

  Activities:

  1. No class this week (strike)
• Select week Term 2: Week 9

  Term 2: Week 9

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Performance - Assessment Due!
• Select week Term 2: Week 10

  Term 2: Week 10

  
  

  Activities:

  1. Performance - Assessment Due!
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Term 3: Week 1

  Term 3: Week 1
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Learn Werewolves game
  • Play Werewolves
• Select week Term 3: Week 2

  Term 3: Week 2
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Play Werewolves
  • Conventions discussion: Freezeframe, split scene, flashback, flashforward, transitions
• Select week Term 3: Week 3

  Term 3: Week 3
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Freezeframe challenge
  • Conventions Discussion: Breaking the 4th wall, Spoken thoughts, aside, telephone conversation, overheard conversation
  • Create a skit in groups
• Select week Term 3: Week 4

  Term 3: Week 4
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Devise and rehearse your skit
  • Perform your skit
  • Practise feedback and feedforward
• Select week Term 3: Week 5

  Term 3: Week 5
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Conventions discussion - Slow motion, narrator, invisibility, ghosting, conscience, dream sequence, scream
  • Conventions discussion - music, chorus of movement, chorus of voice, soundscape, sound effects
    
  • Create a skit
• Select week Term 3: Week 6

  Term 3: Week 6
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Conventions discussion - Slow motion, narrator, invisibility, ghosting, conscience, dream sequence, scream
  • Conventions discussion - music, chorus of movement, chorus of voice, soundscape, sound effects
    
  • Create a skit
• Select week Term 3: Week 7

  Term 3: Week 7
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Rehearse & Perform skit
  • Feedback and feedforward
• Select week Term 3: Week 8

  Term 3: Week 8
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Stage fighting teaching
  • Stage fighting skits
• Select week Term 3: Week 9

  Term 3: Week 9
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Melodrama history
  • Melodrama characters
  • Melodrama conventions
• Select week Term 3: Week 10

  Term 3: Week 10
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Assessment instructions
  • Get into your groups - start devising
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Holidays!

  Holidays!
• Select week Term 4: Week 1

  Term 4: Week 1
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Devising and rehearsing 
• Select week Term 4: Week 2

  Term 4: Week 2
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Devising and rehearsing 
• Select week Term 4: Week 3

  Term 4: Week 3
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Devising and rehearsing 
• Select week Term 4: Week 4

  Term 4: Week 4
  
   
  Activities:
  

  • Perform assessments
• Select week Term 4: Week 5

  Term 4: Week 5
  
   Activities:
  

  • Werewolves
• Select week Term 4: Week 6

  Term 4: Week 6
  
   Activities:
  

  • CAT Week - Studying
• Select week Term 4: Week 7

  Term 4: Week 7
  
   Activities:
  

  • Werewolves
• Select week Term 4: Week 8

  Term 4: Week 8
  
   Activities:
  

  • No Class - Work Experience Week
• Select week Term 4: Week 9

  Term 4: Week 9
  
   Activities:
  

  • Drama games or Werewolves
  • Santa Show
• Select week Term 4: Week 10

  Term 4: Week 10