Racism and Prejudice Year 8&9 Drama

The following SOW of work contains 9 PowerPoint lessons, which explore the following: 1. To understand what impact cross-cutting has on an audience and when it should be used to greatest effect, 2. Apply your understanding by creating a piece of drama with a clear, yet minimal use of staging and set, 3. To understand how to adapt your physicality to convey different emotions to your audience, 4. Apply your understanding and successfully convey a message or moral in a piece of drama, 5. Apply your understanding presenting contrast using cross-cutting to a piece of movement-based Drama, 6. Take part in the performance of your devised piece of Drama focusing on the story of Rosa Parks, 7. Apply your understanding, and begin to explore the script ahead of your performance assessment, 8. Evaluate how successfully somebody else has adapted their voice in performance and 9. Adapt your physicality successfully when performing your scripted extract.

Lesson 1 - How can we use cross cutting in a piece of Drama to create an effect.
Lesson 2 - How can we use symbolic set and staging to communicate a setting.
Lesson 3 -Is it possible to present emotions to an audience successfully focusing only on physicality.
Lesson 4- Is theatre an important teaching tool? How can it be used to teach others.
Lesson 5 - How can we extend using cross cutting in a piece of Drama to show contrast.
Lesson 6 -What makes a good devising process? Was our process a good one?
Lesson 7 - How should you first approach a text?
Lesson 8-How do you want to adapt your voice? What are you trying to say?
Lesson 9 - How do you want to adapt your Physicality? What are you trying to say?