COMPLETE Y9 Drama Lesson Plans & Workbooks/marksheets for 1 year!

Need your Y9 drama lessons sorted? Here is a complete pack - EVERYTHING you need to teach all your lessons for one year. With the student workbooks, everything is kept in one place, and students can learn from interactive fun lessons that cleverly combine practice and theory. The course is designed to follow 20 set standards over 5 units, and allows teachers to easily grade students at the end of each unit in the provided sections. Practitioners as well as key drama terminology is covered in preparation for GCSE. Designer options are also offered in some units, with differentiated standards for these choices.
The specially designed ‘teacher’s book’ contains all the lesson plans for the year, as well as marksheets and pages for marking each practical piece. You can provide verbal feedback on which standards students have met so that they can complete the boxes in their books, allowing them to do your marking for you and saving hours of work!

The five units are:

1. Playing a role (Stanislavski/ Creating a character)
2. Forum Theatre
3. Movement and Mime (States of tension/ Comedia dell’arte /Frantic Assembly)
4. Exploring Narrative (Brecht/ Cross-cutting/ Narration)
5. Final Devised pieces (Set/costume/lighting/sound/Marking the moment)

The 20 Standards are:

1. To have a strong awareness of the audience and employ sightlines effectively.
2. To confidently use the performing space.
3. To develop emotional range and flow, as well as pauses within dialogue/spoken scenes.
4. To develop characters using basic Stanislavski techniques such as objectives/actions.
5. To begin to understand subtext and to begin to follow the vision of the writer/director.
6. To effectively work within a group in order to improvise a scene from a given stimulus.
7. To be able to develop more complex character relationships and present them accurately.
8. To use forum theatre techniques to provide alternative solutions in performance.
9. To begin to differentiate and take on specific roles such as director/designer/technician etc. within groups.
10. To develop physical discipline and clarity through stillness and posture.
11. To begin to understand physical theatre and the way it translates ideas/characters/situations.
12. To be able to discipline facial expressions from neutral to highly expressive.
13. To understand the difference between Stanislavskian and Brechtian narrative.
14. To be able to establish the use of flashbacks, action, plot and content for a piece.
15. To develop vocal technique, understanding use of tone, pitch, volume and pace.
16. To use practitioner techniques to develop original drama for performance.
17. To be able to incorporate both lighting and sound effects in theatre.
18. To effectively use costume for character and set/props to design a scene.
19. To be able to understand and make use of a variation of tone/mood and atmosphere.
20. To begin to critically evaluate each other’s group work based on specific success criteria in writing.