Cherrybrook Technology High School
Notification of Assessment Task
Creative Arts Key Learning Area
Course:
CD31
Topic:
Greek Chorus
Weighting:
NA %
Date/Time Due:
Week 6A Friday 4/3/ 2014 in class
Task Number:
1
Format:
Submission Details:
Writtten reflections completed in Drama logbook
Outcomes to be assessed:
Making
5.1.1 manipulates the elements of drama to create belief, clarity and tension in character, role, situation and
action
5.1.2 contributes, selects, develops and structures ideas in improvisation and playbuilding activities
5.1.3 creates interprets and enacts script or text
5.1.4 uses dramatic forms, performance styles, theatrical techniques and their conventions to explore,
structure and refine ideas.
Performing
5.2.1 applies acting and performance techniques expressively and collaboratively to communicate dramatic
meaning
5.2.2 uses performance spaces, theatre conventions and production elements appropriate to purpose and
audience
5.2.3 employs a variety of dramatic forms, performance styles and technologies to create dramatic meaning.
Critically Analyses
5.3.1 responds to, reflects upon and evaluates elements of drama, dramatic forms, performance styles and
theatrical conventions
5.3.2 analyses the contemporary and historical contexts of drama
5.3.4 responds to, reflects upon and evaluates elements of drama, dramatic forms, performance styles and
theatrical conventions
Task:
You are to devise a performance response to the extract from Euripides “Medea”. Each performer is expected
to deliver some of the text individually at some point. However, the majority of the piece should be delivered by
speaking in unison. You will need to make costume and staging choices.
Chorus: Earth awake! Bright arrows of the Sun
Look! Look down on the accursed woman
Before she lifts up a murderous hand
To pollute it with her children’s blood!
For they are of your own golden race;
And for mortals to spill blood that grew
In the veins of gods is a fearful thing.
Heaven born brightness, hold her, stop her,
Purge the palace of her, pitiable
Bloody handed fiend of vengeance
All you care for them; lost Your love
For the babes you bore, all wasted, wasted!
Why did you come from the blue Symplegades
That hold the gate of the barbarous sea?
Why must this rage devour your heart
To spend itself in slaughter of children?
Where kindred blood pollutes the ground
A curse hangs over human lives;
And murder measures the doom that falls
By heaven’s law on the guilty house.
The performance will be given in Week 6A in the double lesson. A marking grid for this task is to be found in
the space below.You will need to have the lines memorised in order to truly communicate the anguish found
within the text.
LOGBOOK Questions ( 150- 200words)
1.
How did you succeed in conveying the dramatic tension that is inherent in the text?
2.
What difficulties/challenges, if any, did you encounter when preparing this performance piece/
*Marking Guidelines are attached to this notification:
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No
*Assignment Receipts being utilised for this task
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*Special Provisions: If you have been granted special provisions and you wish to use them for this assessment
task you should contact either your class teacher or the Head Teacher of this KLA at least one week prior to the
assessment task date to make arrangements.
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Assignment Receipt
Student Name: _______________________
Course: CD31
Task Number: 1
Received by: ________________________
(Teacher’s Signature)
Date: _____________