This PDF outlines the 6 questions students have to respond to within their Portfolio (coursework) as well as outlining in student friendly wording what they need to refer to in each question. Students can use this as guide to help ensure they are discussing the right elements in each question.
A great resource pack to help students to start developing their own Directorial Concepts for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Sec C of the written exam - Component 3).
The resource focuses on initial ideas for the entire play (as the exam board requires students to make reference to the entire play as well as focus on the chosen extract) so is good to use at the start of your teaching.
Easy to print and students can complete the work in the booklet itself.
A 20 slide PowerPoint filled with a variety of different games and activities to explore with Primary school students (aged between 5-10 years old).
Great to help inspire your drama club or lessons!
This 12 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of The Paper Birds Theatre style.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 11 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Steven Berkoff’s style of theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 19 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Epic Theatre’.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 27 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Stanislavski’s theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 16 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of DV8’s style of theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 17 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Antonin Artaud’s ‘Theatre of Cruelty’.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 18 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Frantic Asssembly’s theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
Eduqas A Level Drama Component 3 Written Exam Sec A and B Revision Pack
This 19 page revision pack is suitable for all set texts (as it isn’t specific to any text) and covers Sec A and B requirements.
The Revision Pack includes:
A list of ‘What could be asked in’ Sec A
A guidance structure to follow for all Sec A answers
Practise Activity to recap key terminology (including lighting, set, costume, sound, vocal and movement skills)
Practise of drawing own set designs
2 Weak Exam paragraphs to improve
10 Sec A Exam Questions to practise
A guidance structure to follow for Sec B answers
Example mark scheme for Sec B
Activity for original production information
Activity for live theatre references
4 Practise Sec B questions
Eduqas GCSE Drama Revision Pack covering both Sec A Hard to Swallow and Sec B Live Theatre
This 22 page Revision Pack covers the following:
Requirements of the exam
Breakdown of the Play ‘Hard to Swallow’ (Sec A)
Information about the original play (Sec A)
Example Sec A questions
Rehearsal Activities/ Techniques (Sec A)
Example paragraphs/ exam technique (Sec A)
9 Practise Exam Questions (Sec A) with guidance
Example Sec A mark scheme
Key information regarding ‘Things I Know To Be True’ by Frantic Assembly (Sec B)
Writing structure for Sec B questions
Example Sec B exam paragraph
2 Practise Sec B Exam Questions with guidance
Easy to print and students can complete work in the booklet itself!
Eduqas GCSE Drama Revision Pack covering both Sec A Hard to Swallow and Sec B Live Theatre.
A great revision pack as each activity contains a set number of points (easier tasks = lower points) students have to make up to atleast 30 points but can do more. This works brilliantly as students feel they have a choice and become more motivated to complete the work.
This 22 page Revision Pack, tasks include:
Revision of the play ‘Hard to Swallow’ and what happens (Sec A)
Practise of own set designs for each stage type (Sec A)
Information about the original play (Sec A)
Example Sec A questions - including smaller mark questions as well as higher mark questions
Revising structure to follow for Sec B questions
Example Sec B exam paragraph for lighting - students can analyse and use to help their own work
Example Sec B Exam Questions including acting and design focus
Easy to print and students can complete work in the booklet itself!
This booklet has been created to help guide students when writing their Component 1 Devising Portfolio. The in-depth 27 page booklet can be printed off and handed to students.
It covers the following:
What the Component 1 Portfolio is
The 6 questions and structure of the portfolio
Mark scheme
A* exemplar answer with annotations
Breakdown of each of the 6 questions with examples, key points to include and space to draft their ideas to help students structure their answers
Top tips to help
This in-depth 24 page booklet explores every aspect of Section A of the Edexcel GCSE Drama written exam (45 marks).
The booklet includes:
a breakdown of every question that will be asked (4, 6, 9, 12 and 14 mark questions)
Exemplar answers of each question
Structures of how to answer each question
Recap tasks for key skills (e.g. acting and design skills)
Practice questions to complete with space to write them in the booklet
The answers are focused on ‘An Inspector Calls’ but the booklet is easily transferable and useful for students who are studying any of the plays from the set text list.
This booklet has been created to help guide students when writing their Component 1 Devising Portfolio. The in-depth 24 page booklet can be printed off and handed to students.
It covers the following:
What the Component 1 Portfolio is
The 6 questions and structure of the portfolio
Mark scheme
Grade 9 exemplar answer with annotations
Breakdown of each of the 6 questions with examples and writing frames to help students structure their answers
Top tips to help
This booklet has been designed to help support students writing their Component 1 Creative Log for Eduqas A Level Drama. The booklet includes explanation of the coursework, descriptions of each stages requirements, exemplar paragraphs as well as what to include within each ‘stage’. There is also space for students to draft their own work.
This resource includes Lesson plan, 34 slide PowerPoint and 14 page Student Activity Booklet for 3 hour’s worth of teaching time.
It is designed for Eduqas GCSE Drama in particular Sec A ‘Hard to Swallow’ and Sec B ‘The Comedy About a Bank Robbery’ (Live Theatre) however; the tasks can be easily adapated for other set texts/ productions.
The student activity booklet is great as all handouts/ resources are in 1 place so students can use it for additional revision as well keep the work all together.
This booklet has been designed to help support students writing their Component 1 Creative Log for Eduqas GCSE Drama. The booklet includes explanation of the coursework, descriptions of each stages requirements, exemplar paragraphs as well as what to include within each ‘stage’. There is also space for students to draft their own work.
This in-depth 43 slide PowerPoint covers everything you need to know for Section B of the written exam for Edexcel A Level Drama.
The PowerPoint covers:
Question 3 Performer
Question 4 Designer
Throughout the slides, the work includes:
Exemplar answers
Structures to help students answer the questions
Exam technique and key terminology to include
All past questions
Activities to practice writing answers.
This is will definitely help students achieve high marks within this section of the exam!