Year 9 Drama Lessons - (Melodrama/ Naturalism Style) Blood Brothers (Musical Style)

Fully resourced series of lessons that cover the basics of Drama for Year 9 students.

There are 6 lessons in the series however each lesson can be stretched over several lessons if required.

This includes Starter tasks, Explanation of techniques, Examples of modelling, Student Activities, homework tasks and Example Assessments/Rehearsal review sheets.

The skills covered within this topic:

• Mime
• Exaggeration
• Audience interaction
• Social Class
• Gait
• Posture
• Stance
• Articulation
• Emphasis
• Stanislavski
• Pantomime

The purpose of the year 9 Drama scheme is to continue a love for the subject whilst also preparing students for KS4. Lessons aim to help students gain transferrable skills for the future- communication, interaction, empathy, social understanding , self presentation and continuous building of self esteem and confidence. Evaluating and Analysing in greater detail is also introduced. Working to a given genre or style is also at the forefront of each lesson. Design begins to look in more detail at both costume and lighting for a given brief/scene. Pre-Learning will be introduced through homework research Tasks.