Year 10 SyllabusTest
The Arts Scope and SequenceYear 10 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that in Years 9 and 10 the study of the Arts is optional.
Year Level Description
In Year 10, Drama students will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills to present drama for purposes and wider external audiences, safely using processes, techniques and conventions of drama. Students develop drama based on devised drama processes and taken from appropriate, published script excerpts (e.g. Australian drama post-1960 or world drama), using selected drama forms and styles. Students will have opportunities to research devised drama and read in selected script excerpts in context. Student work in devised and scripted drama is the focus of reflective and responsive processes. Students are encouraged to develop their use of extended answer forms and interviews, using drama terminology, language and different forms of communication, based on their own drama and the drama of others.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Drama through two or more of the forms and styles below. Other forms and styles may be used in addition to teach knowledge and skills in Drama.
Drama forms and styles for Year 10: Grotowski's Poor Theatre, Youth Theatre, Contemporary Aboriginal Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd or Butoh.
Making
Voice and movement
Voice and movement techniques for selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM050)
Preparation techniques for voice and movement for selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM050)
Mime techniques (choosing the level of precision of movement needed when telling a story) in drama (ACADRM050)
Drama processes and the elements of drama
Drama processes through combining the elements of drama (role, character and relationships; voice and movement; time, space and situation; mood, atmosphere and dramatic tension) used by selected drama practitioners such as Rudolf Laban, Augusto Boal or Cecily O'Neill to manipulate dramatic meaning and audience relationships (ACADRM049)
Approaches to characterisation suited to the selected drama forms and styles, texts and themes (ACADRM048)
Drama forms and styles
Script interpretation, based on a reading of the complete text, of an extended scene or section to manipulate mood and interpret themes for audience (ACADRM047)
Devised drama exploring international or global themes based on research and selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM047)
Drama conventions
Drama structures based on cyclical structures and numerous plotlines (ACADRM049)
Drama conventions manipulated for selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM050)
Improvisation conventions (dénouement creating an effective conclusion) (ACADRM050)
Spaces of performance
Stage geography, blocking notation and the impact of in-the-round and adapted stages (ACADRM051)
Imaginary spaces manipulated by stage components and properties, the elements of drama and audience (ACADRM051)
Design and technology
Design and technology to manipulate focus and mood (ACADRM051)
Design principles (balance, contrast, repetition, pattern) selected to make meaning and add to the experience of theatre (ACADRM051)
Responding
Drama reflections
Reflective writing, on their own and others’ work, analysing choices in drama making and using precise drama terminology and language (ACADRR052)
Drama responses
Analytical writing using different forms of communication on viewed live performances (live or digital copies of live performances), focusing on the elements of drama and design and technology to make meaning (ACADRR053)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students use contemporary processes, including improvisation and approaches to rehearsal, to select and shape the elements of drama for devised and scripted drama. They demonstrate awareness in performance of drama forms and styles, spaces of performance and design and technologies to communicate dramatic meaning and to impact on audience.
Students engage in reflective and analytical processes to make links between the choices made in performance and their effect on dramatic meaning and impact on audience. They accurately use a range of generalised drama terminology in their oral and written responses.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that in Years 9 and 10 the study of the Arts is optional.
Year Level Description
In Year 10, Drama students will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills to present drama for purposes and wider external audiences, safely using processes, techniques and conventions of drama. Students develop drama based on devised drama processes and taken from appropriate, published script excerpts (e.g. Australian drama post-1960 or world drama), using selected drama forms and styles. Students will have opportunities to research devised drama and read in selected script excerpts in context. Student work in devised and scripted drama is the focus of reflective and responsive processes. Students are encouraged to develop their use of extended answer forms and interviews, using drama terminology, language and different forms of communication, based on their own drama and the drama of others.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Drama through two or more of the forms and styles below. Other forms and styles may be used in addition to teach knowledge and skills in Drama.
Drama forms and styles for Year 10: Grotowski's Poor Theatre, Youth Theatre, Contemporary Aboriginal Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd or Butoh.