Drama: Secondary

Contents

• Introduction
• Key Issues
  • National Curriculum requirements for drama within English
  • Other sources of guidance for drama within and beyond English
  • The KS3 drama objectives and expectations for pupil achievement in drama within English and drama as a discrete subject
  • Drama's position in the school
• Key Resources 1 – A social theory of language to underpin drama
  • To be Literate
  • Texts and Contexts
  • A model of learning about language through drama
  • Dramatic deconstructions of text and context
• Key Resources 2 – Drama and Writing
  • Drama related assumptions about writing fiction and non-fiction
  • Uses of writing in drama
  • Introducing the conventions and techniques for drama
• Key Resources 3 – Using conventions (drama techniques) to structure and develop drama
  • Different varieties and uses of conventions
  • Practical introduction to conventions approach
  • Conventions approach to working with play texts
• Key Resources 4 – Managing space, time and contracted learning
  • The particular characteristics of teaching and learning in drama
  • Management principles for drama
  • Contracting in drama