Exploring emotions through Drama and Visual Art

The ‘Emotions’ unit, allows students to be able to explore their own emotions through self-expression, as well as build capacity in personal and social capability. This unit will require students to demonstrate situational, emotional awareness through developing a group drama, as well as demonstrate their emotions visually through an artwork. They will explore selected Elements of Drama, as well as Visual Arts techniques, in order to create their final products.

Included in this unit are:

• 16 fully resourced, comprehensive lesson plans
• Assessment options
• A Glossary of Great Games
• Differentiated options

Assessment task output

Students will be expected to:

• Create a narrative structure representing a change in emotion
• Devise, polish and perform a tableaux
• Analyse visual art for how techniques are used to demonstrate an emotion
• Create an artwork
• Write about their artwork

This unit is based around three major concepts and skills.

1. Representing emotions in Drama
Students will identify why emotions are important in Drama, and explore how to portray them. They will need to develop an understanding of facial expressions and body language as well as the elements of drama of role, relationships and situation. Students will be able to consider how the above elements of drama can be used to create tension, conflict and a change in emotions.

**2. Narrative structure and tableaux **

Students will understand how to develop a narrative structure that includes a change in emotion. They will then demonstrate their narrative structure through a series of tableaux, while representing their knowledge of role, relationship and situation through the use of body language and facial expressions.

**3. Visual Art techniques **

Students will develop an understanding of colour and line. They will then analyse how a range of different visual art pieces represent emotions through the use of these techniques. Students will need to create artwork that represent an emotion, applying techniques appropriately to communicate their meaning.

A perfect Unit of Work for NQT’s, teachers new to the subjects, or experienced practitioners who would like to expand their toolkit.