Year 9 SyllabusTest
The Arts Scope and SequenceYear 9 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 9, Drama students will be given opportunities to refine their knowledge and skills to present drama as an event, by safely using processes, techniques and conventions of drama. Students develop drama based on devised drama processes and appropriate, published script excerpts (e.g. Australian drama pre-1960 or world drama), using selected drama forms and styles. Student work in devised and scripted drama is the focus of reflective and responsive processes supported through scaffolded frameworks using drama terminology and language.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Drama through one 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 9: melodrama, neoclassical drama, multi-formed devised drama, commedia dell'arte, or Kabuki theatre.
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 (isolation of body parts; clear signalling of engaging with, or releasing, objects) in drama (ACADRM050)
Drama processes and the elements of drama
Drama processes through shaping one or more elements of drama (role, character and relationships; voice and movement; time, space and situation; mood, atmosphere and dramatic tension) to shape dramatic meaning and engage audiences in different relationships (ACADRM049)
Approaches to characterisation suited to the demands of the text or devised drama (ACADRM048)
Drama forms and styles
Script interpretation of a scene or section through the elements of drama to shape and manipulate mood and communicate themes to audience (ACADRM047)
Devised drama exploring national themes based on research and selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM047)
Drama conventions
Drama structures based on the 'well-made play' approach (ACADRM049)
Drama conventions controlled for selected drama forms and styles (ACADRM050)
Improvisation conventions (creating dramatic tension, building to a climax) (ACADRM050)
Spaces of performance
Stage geography, blocking notation and the impact of promenade and traverse stages (ACADRM051)
Imaginary spaces controlled by stage components and properties; the elements of drama and audience (ACADRM051)
Design and technology
Design and technology to emphasise dramatic tension and mood (ACADRM051)
Design principles (balance, contrast, repetition) used to make meaning and add to the experience of theatre (ACADRM051)
Responding
Drama reflections
Reflective writing, on their own and others’ work, evaluating the impact of choices in drama making and using specific drama terminology and language (ACADRR052)
Drama responses
Analytical writing on viewed live performances (live or digital copies of live performances) focusing on the elements of drama to make meaning (ACADRR053)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students select processes, including improvisation and rehearsal, to shape appropriate elements of drama for devised and scripted drama. They demonstrate awareness, in performance, of a selected drama performance style, spaces of performance and specified design and technologies appropriate to dramatic meaning and to engage with an audience.
Students use reflective and analytical processes to describe choices made in performance and their effect on dramatic meaning. They accurately use generalised drama terminology in 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 9, Drama students will be given opportunities to refine their knowledge and skills to present drama as an event, by safely using processes, techniques and conventions of drama. Students develop drama based on devised drama processes and appropriate, published script excerpts (e.g. Australian drama pre-1960 or world drama), using selected drama forms and styles. Student work in devised and scripted drama is the focus of reflective and responsive processes supported through scaffolded frameworks using drama terminology and language.
Teachers are required to address knowledge and skills in Drama through one 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 9: melodrama, neoclassical drama, multi-formed devised drama, commedia dell'arte, or Kabuki theatre.