Years 7 and 8
The Arts: Drama
Satisfactory
Portfolio summary
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can interpret a script and understand some of the conventions required for its performance.
The student demonstrates understanding of a script and its themes, and can identify choices made to communicate them in performance.
Work sample 1:
Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe
Work sample summary
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based
assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned about performing to style using:
soliloquy and aside
an opposite gender role
presentational acting
costume-based stagecraft.
Students were assessed on their choice of a section of the script that they developed to represent their understanding of style and convention. This was at the
end of a 10-week unit that included the ‘moved reading’ of the entire play. The performances were finally presented to a community audience in an outdoor
setting.
Years 7 and 8 subject achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how the elements of drama are used, combined and manipulated in different styles. They apply this
knowledge in drama they make and perform. They evaluate how they and others from different cultures, times and places communicate meaning and intent
through drama.
Students collaborate to devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate
meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills and design
elements to shape and focus theatrical effect for an audience.
Years 7 and 8 learning area achievement standard
The parts of the achievement standard targeted in the assessment task are highlighted.
Annotated artwork
Copyright
You may view, download, display, print, reproduce (such as by making photocopies) and distribute these materials in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial educational purposes or
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Published: Jun 2017 | Curriculum Version: 8.1
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Years 7 and 8
The Arts: Drama
Satisfactory
Annotated artwork
Response
Copyright
You may view, download, display, print, reproduce (such as by making photocopies) and distribute these materials in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial educational purposes or
for the non-commercial educational purposes of your organisation. For further information, refer to (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/copyright).
Published: Jun 2017 | Curriculum Version: 8.1
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Years 7 and 8
The Arts: Drama
Satisfactory
Artwork display
Copyright
You may view, download, display, print, reproduce (such as by making photocopies) and distribute these materials in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial educational purposes or
for the non-commercial educational purposes of your organisation. For further information, refer to (www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/copyright).
Published: Jun 2017 | Curriculum Version: 8.1
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