AC9ADR8C02 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADR8C02 – Year 7 The Arts: Drama

Strand

Creating and making

Substrand

Drama

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

evaluate and refine use of elements of drama and/or conventions to shape and sustain dramatic action and/or communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

• refining drama during the rehearsal process by using feedback, evaluation, documentation and personal reflection, after using Viewpoints to ask questions such as “What are your intentions in the drama you are making?”, “Is the meaning clear?”, “How could elements, conventions, design (costume, props, setting) and performance skills (voice and movement) be used differently to achieve these effects?”
• adjusting performance based on audience response; for example, character's portrayal of emotion or delivery of lines to make meaning clear
• planning, organising and rehearsing dramatic action to stage devised and scripted drama; for example, arranging use of available theatre technologies and collaborating in rehearsal to stage drama for a clear and intended purpose and effect, considering choices within the overall structure
• considering how and why empathy should be considered when creating effects and communicating intended meaning; for example, exploring conventions for developing characters and stories in drama from a range of cultures

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASARTDRAY78

Year 7 The Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students analyse how elements of drama and/or conventions are manipulated in drama they create and/or experience. They evaluate the ways drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe respectful approaches to creating, performing and/or responding to drama. Students work collaboratively to manipulate elements of drama and conventions to shape and sustain dramatic action in improvised, devised and/or scripted drama. They employ performance skills to convey dramatic action and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when performing drama to audiences.