Drama 10

Drama 10 is an introductory course in drama focusing on the personal, intellectual, and social growth of the student. Through extensive work in improvisation, both in small and large groups, students gain confidence as they explore and communicate ideas, experiences, and feelings in a range of dramatic forms such as dramatic movement and mime, dramatization, choral speech, choric drama, and readers’ theatre. Drama 10 is comprised of four components: foundation, movement, speech, and theatre.

Assessment and Evaluation: 

Final Grade is comprised of a Final Assessment worth 20% and a Semester Grade worth 80%.

Journal portfolio = 20%: In drama education, reflection is essential for the learning process. One way that students reflect on their work in drama is by keeping a journal therefore students will be required to complete one journal entry each week while they are in Drama 10. This normally will be done as homework. Occasionally, however, time will be provided in class. The journal portfolio will contain all the reflective journal entries and other documents students that are tangible artefacts of student learning (original poems, conceptual diagrams, item lists, learning insights, digital photographs, and other electronically generated artefacts that document growth and progress in Drama 10).  Students will be able to use their journal portfolio to tell the story of their learning in drama this semester.

Informally Planned Performances and Activities = 20%: Informal performances and activities include short skits, improvisation activities, Reader’s Theatre, and general participation in class activities.

Formally Planned Performances and Assignments = 20%: Formally planned performances require more time to prepare.  These could include individual or collaborative assignments and usually require the use of an assessment tool presented to the students prior to engaging in the assigned activity.  Examples could include planning and running icebreakers, adaptations/performances of previously written scripts, writing and performing original scripts either individually or as a group.

Self-evaluation = 10%: Students will be given opportunities to evaluate their own growth in Drama 10. In addition to a numeric grade, students will be required to provide rationale for any such evaluative opportunities. This is often a difficult but a worthy reflective assessment task.

Assignments = 10%: Students will be expected to do short assignments. Connection will be made between the assignment and the drama work in class.

Final Assessment 

Final Assessment = 20%: The final assessment event is an original piece performed in front of the class. 

It is an opportunity to demonstrate creativity, theatre skills, and to extend learning in drama. A desirable outcome of the student performances would be to share the work with friends and family. 

Outcomes

Drama 10 - Learning Outcomes

 

 

 

 

It is expected that students will be able to:

 

CREATIVE / PRODUCTIVE  Value:50%

·        Students will demonstrate personal growth through drama.

 

·        Respond with sensitivity and respect to the ideas of others.

 

·        Take greater learning risks within a dramatic context.

 

·        Use various forms for reflection and debriefing

 

·        Students will use drama to explore, formulate and express ideas, perceptions, and feelings.

·        Complete warm-up activities.

 

·        Assume and sustain role in dramatic context.

 

·        Use movement, gesture and stillness to interpret and communicate.

 

·        Use speech to interpret and communicate meaning.

 

·        Use movement and speech to interpret and communicate meaning.

 

CRITICAL / RESPONSIVE   Value: 30%

·        Students will be able to respond with critical awareness to their own work and to the work of others.

 

·        Make informed judgments about their own work and the work of others.

 

·        Reflect on their personal growth using various forms of expression.

 

·        Make connections between text and their own life experiences.

 

·        Apply research from print and non-print sources to the development of dramatic texts and to acting, design and directing choices.

 

·        Make connections between the knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed through their drama experiences and opportunities for participation in the artistic life of their community.

 

·        Students will address problems and make decisions relating to their drama work.

·        Demonstrate awareness that there may be different solutions to different problems.

 

·        Make considered decisions, act upon them, and accept the implications of these decisions.

 

CULTURAL / HISTORICAL    Value:  20%

·        Students will value cultural diversity and be able to demonstrate respect for cultural diversity in the drama context.

 

·        Reflect on ways in which their work and the work of others reflect cultural diversity.

 

·        Express the cultural diversity of their communities in their drama work.

 

·        Students will be able to interpret how drama celebrates, comments on, and questions issues and events in cultural and historical contexts.

·        Use various dramatic forms to create text that gives meaning to cultural and historical events.

 

·        Make connections between their own lives and the characters, ideas and events in a drama work.

 

 

 

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