Hard to swallow scheme of work.

An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on texts in practice with a complete and ready to go twelve lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.

If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to twelve lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the twelve core outcomes which are designed for this module.

In this twelve lesson SOW students will learn about:

Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to introduce and understand the play Hard to Swallow by looking at the different issues that affect young people today with a particular focus on eating disorders.

Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore a piece of drama that is based on eating disorders through freeze frames, thought tracking and role play.

Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to understand eating disorders and how they affect people using Mark Wheeler’s Hard to swallow as an exemplar.

Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand the characters of Maureen and John Dunbar and how their relationship has affected Catherine.

Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship with her parents through the use of a flashback and physical theatre.

Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism in scenes five and six from Hard to Swallow.

Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism and stylisation in scenes seven, nine and ten from Hard to swallow.

Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship with her immediate family through the use of physical theatre and through section twelve.

Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore the epilogue of Hard to swallow and take an issue from Mark Wheeler’s play and devise a performance based from it.

Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to select and rehearse an extract for a mock assessment from Hard to swallow.

Lesson eleven: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on their selected extracts for their final performance of Hard to swallow.

Lesson twelve: In this lesson students to complete a research project into the impact of eating disorders.