Students are introduced to the foundation skills and concepts required for Middle School Drama.  Practical, design and written activities provide opportunity for exploration of themes, self expression and a basic understanding of performance skills.  Cooperative group work and evaluative reflection are key concepts of the course. 

GRADE 7 DRAMA

The Grade 7 curriculum is made up of the following mandatory units and a number of smaller optional units.

1. Comedy Genre

• Slapstick/Physical comedy
  
• Commedia dell’Arte
  
• Farce
  
• Performance
  
• Stand-up comedy
  
• Developmental workbook – reflection and
  
• evaluation
  

2. Play Building

• Improvisation skills, rules, techniques, structure and style
  
• Character development and group work
  
• Murder mystery or group devised performance (thematic)
  

3. Romeo and Juliet

• Review writing and critical analysis
• Performing
• Script writing
• Performing Shakespeare
• Reading, analysis and performance of a one act play
• Improvisation of themes, quotes and scenes

Additional Units
Where time is available small units, taken from the grade 6 syllabus (used as revision
with different activities) or from the list below, can be introduced.

• Script writing on a given theme.
• Polished improvisation based on a given theme or containing given elements.
• Exploration of a theme, subject or concept through improvisation.
• Theatre/Drama vocabulary quizzes.
• Script comprehension.
• Costume design.
• Set design.
• Other forms of theatre, for example: Noh, Peking Opera, puppets.