Drama

Year 7
What am I
learning?

Autumn 1
Waxworks developing story and
individual characters

Autumn 2
Eyam - The Plague

Spring 1
Tusk-Tusk
Explore issues of
difference - racism

Spring 2
Ishi - Explore
exploitation of a
person through
improvised drama

Key skills to
be
developed?

Freeze frames, Mime

Character
development,
Slow motion

Developing characters
in planned
relationships,
Hot-seating,
Intro to script-work,
Thought-tracking
Practical lesson with
teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Write a diary extract
of a plague victim.

Freeze frames,
Improvisation,
Thought tunnel,
Slow motion

Planned improvisation,
Whole class in role,
improvisation, teacher
in role.
Evaluate use of
techniques
Practical lesson with
teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Create an information
sheet/poster about a
group of Native
Americans

How am I
being
assessed?

How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Research Madame
Tussauds.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Create a cartoon
which explores a
different kind of
prejudice.

Summer 1
Mrs Cole - raise
awareness of
stereotyping and
issues relating to social
class
Thought tunnel,
Sound Collage,
Physical theatre

Summer 2
Anne Frank - Explore
story of Anne Frank in
relationship to
holocaust.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Write the story of Mrs
Cole through the eyes
of the boys mother.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Read Anne Franks
diary (any version).

Creating character
through changing
voice and movement,
Use of space

Year 8
What am I
learning?

Key skills to
be
developed?

How am I
being
assessed?

How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Autumn 1
Latecomer - Exploring
relationships
between friends who
have problems
Devil and Angel,
Forum theatre,
Defining space

Autumn 2
Bugsy Malone exploring gang culture,
responding to media
text
Body language,
Facial expression,
Use Of voice,
Mime, still image

Spring 1
Status - explore status
relationships with
focus on age and social
class
Character work,
Devising,
Improvisation,
Script work

Spring 2
Storytelling - What
makes a good story
that works as drama

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing
characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances
Write a letter from
your character to an
agony aunt with
reply.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances,
written film review
Research 1920s New
York.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances

Write a monologue
about a teenager
complaining about old
people or vice versa.

Script a fairy
story/myth/legend of
your choice.

Storytelling,
Creating character,
Key moments,
Turning points,
Creating atmosphere

Summer 1
Titanic - Explore
Titanic story, focus on
class system and
decision makinng
Creating character,
Body language, facial
expression, gesture,
movement, voice.
Thought tracking,
improvisation
Practical lesson with
teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances

Summer 2
The Tempest - Intro to
Shakespeare, plot,
themes, character,
language
Use of voice,
Blocking,
Staging,
Use of space

Write a letter from a

3rd deck Titanic
survivor to the ships
owners.

Research the Globe

theatre and acting in
Shakespeares day.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment.
Areas of assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances

Year 9
What am I
learning?

Key skills to
be
developed?

How am I
being
assessed?

How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Autumn 1
Holidays
Developing character
and working in the
genre of comedy.

Autumn 2
Let him have it
Use explorative
strategies to deepen
understanding of
social justice/injustice
and peer pressure.

Spring 1
Macbeth
Explore plot, themes
and human behaviour.
Exploration of
Shakespearean text.

Spring 2
Witch hunt
Develop
understanding of
historical event.

Summer 1
Not now Bernard
Parent-teenage
conflicts and
outcomes.

Summer 2
GCSE transfer unit
Prepartion for GCSE unit from CCW
containing one off
lessons on:
homelessness, rites of
passage, 911 tragedy,
loss and grief.

Mime, movement,
choral work,
exploiting use of
language.

Thought tracking,
narration, hot-seating,
cross cutting, forum
theatre.

Hot seating, thought

tracking, whole class in
role, teacher in role,
spotlighing.

Sound collage,
improvisation, role on
the wall, body
propping.

Improvisation,
response to stimuli,
physical theatre,
thought tracking.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing
characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.
Watch something
with one of the
following actors:
Rowan Atkinson or
Jim Carey and analyse
how they use
physicality to create
humour.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.

Script work, forum

theatre, interpretation
of language and
contemporary
performance, directing
skills.
Practical lesson with
teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.

Practical lesson with

teacher, self and peer
assessment. Areas of
assessment:
Use of drama
techniques
Performing characters
Staying in role
Group skills
Responding to ideas
and performances.

Create directors notes

for a scene of the play.
Use diagrams to
support your ideas.

Complete quiz about

accusation of witches
on VLE.
Watch the film The
Crucible (Starring
Daniel Day Lewis).

Research
contemporary teenage
problems in the UK.

Lesson write ups using

the 5 assessment
categories to structure
analytical response.

Write extracts from

either Derek Bentley
or Chris Craigs diary.