Year 10 Subject Guide 2020

PERFORMING ARTS: DRAMA

Year 10 MYP

Subject Outline Engaging in drama promotes imagination, critical and creative thinking, problem solving, cultural engagement and communication, and provides opportunities to share ideas with others through informal and formal performances. Students engage in learning experiences that integrate oral, kinaesthetic and visual communication to create aesthetic and artistic meaning. Teaching and learning in Drama always has a purpose, is located within a context, and uses and creates text. The three areas of Purpose, Context and Text work together to create dramatic action and meaning. Purpose refers to the intent of the creator/s or interpreter/s of the dramatic action and meaning. Context refers to the real and/or imagined factors, beliefs and values that influence dramatic action and dramatic meaning. Texts in Drama are selected by considering the needs and interests of individuals and class groups and what will best meet their learning needs. Students will have opportunities to use and create different types of texts, which achieve different purposes, are drawn from a variety of contexts, explore a selection of styles and embody dramatic languages.

Pathways A course of study in Drama can establish a basis for further education and employment in the fields of theatre and the broader arts industry, and in education. The knowledge, understanding and skills built in Drama connect strongly with careers in which it is important to understand different social and cultural perspectives on a variety of subjects and issues, and to communicate meaning in imaginative, aesthetic and artistic ways. To read more regarding the benefits of studying drama, this link (click here) outlines 79 reasons why students should study drama at high school. Drama articulates to the following Year 11 and 12 QCCA Senior Programme or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Year 11:  As part of the Queensland Certificate of Education: - Drama

As part of the IB Diploma Programme: - Theatre

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MYP Aims of Drama The aims of the teaching of Drama are to encourage and enable students to:

create and present drama

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develop skills specific to drama

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 engage in a process of creative exploration and (self-) discovery

make purposeful connections between investigation and practice

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 understand the relationship between drama and its contexts

respond to and reflect on drama

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deepen their understanding of the world.

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