Year 9 Drama – Course Outline
Term 1

• Introduction to drama practices: drama rules, warm-ups, trust exercises and teamwork
• Improvisation: definition, terms, examples, spontaneous and rehearsed, Theatresports, ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’ – examples from DVDs

Term 2

• Greek Theatre: religious connection, masks and costume, plays and playwrights, comedy and tragedy

Term 3

• Melodrama: plots, acting style, stock characters, modern melodramas
• Playbuilding: character and role work, character profiles, hot seating

Term 4

• Comedy: slapstick, status, imitation and exaggeration, timing, clowning, parody
• Elements of drama: focus, tension, time, place, situation, structure

Drama Logbook
Reflection in your drama logbook is an important part of the creative process and will count towards much of your assessment.  The logbook is also a crucial part of the Preliminary and HSC Drama courses, so it is a good idea to practise good habits from the start. You should record: anything new we do in class, ideas, sketches, the development of your work, successes/failures, reasons for decisions, and evaluations of your work.  If there is time at the end of a lesson, you can use that time to write in your logbook.  If not, your work must be competed at home. 

Year 10 Drama - Course Outline

Term 1

• Shakespeare: Elizabethan Era, The Globe Theatre, Shakespeare’s life, Shakespearian language, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ including sections of the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions
• Puppetry: Traditional forms, shadow puppetry, life-size puppetry, experimental forms

Term 2

• Commedia dell’Arte: origins, stock characters, scenarios, mask technique, lazzi
• Elements of drama: focus, tension, time, place, situation, structure

Term 3

• Playbuilding: character and role work, character profiles, hot seating

Term 4

• Small Screen Drama: genres, writing for the screen, story-boards, filming, directing, and editing using Windows Movie Maker

Drama Logbook
Reflection in your drama logbook is an important part of the creative process and will count towards much of your assessment.  The logbook is also a crucial part of the Preliminary and HSC Drama courses, so it is a good idea to practise good habits from the start. You should record: anything new we do in class, ideas, sketches, the development of your work, successes/failures, reasons for decisions, and evaluations of your work.  If there is time at the end of a lesson, you can use that time to write in your logbook.  If not, your work must be competed at home. 

Year 11 Drama - Course Outline

Term 1

• Introduction to course and relationship to the HSC
• Realism and Stanislavski 

Term 2

• Improvisation, playbuilding and acting: Q Theatre Company’s, ‘Flannofest 2008’
• Absurdist Theatre and Samuel Beckett’s, ‘Waiting for Godot’

Term 3

• Design: costume, lighting, promotion/program, set

Term 4

• Introduction to the HSC Course
• Individual Project proposal
• Australian Drama and Theatre texts

Drama Logbook
Reflection in your drama logbook is an important part of the creative process and will count towards much of your assessment.  The logbook is also a crucial part of the Preliminary and HSC Drama courses. You should record: anything new we do in class, ideas, sketches, the development of your work, successes/failures, reasons for decisions, and evaluations of your work.  If there is time at the end of a lesson, you can use that time to write in your logbook.  If not, your work must be competed at home.