Drama - Year 8
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Hello Year 7 and 8 Drama students please keep on paper you’re Drama ideas on the below topic and when we are back to school we will be using your work in our practical lessons. You can email me your work if you like or ask me any question over email: nflippance@eggbuckland.com
Week Beginning - 6th & 13th July
What I will be learning about - 4 Theatre Staging
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Create a song, rhyme, mine, rap any type of physical or vocal movement to remember these 4 staging layouts. Please record this write it down.
Resources I will need to use

Week Beginning - 22nd & 29th June
What I will be learning about - The Brothers Grimm
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Research on ‘The Brothers Grimm’
Produce a fact file or fact sheet.
Resources I will need to use
Week Beginning - 15st June
What I will be learning about - What is Melodrama?
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Research the term Melodrama.
Where could it be used in drama?
Resources I will need to use
A Dictionary or online google
Week Beginning - 8st June
What I will be learning about - Recap Stock Characters 5 frames
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Create 5 Freeze Frames taking a photo of each of the 5 Stock characters. If you can’t take a photo simple remember the pose for when we are back in the drama lessons.
Resources I will need to use
The 5 Stock Characters are:
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Villain/baddie
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Hero/Goodie
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Pathetic person some who needs saving/in distress
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Comedian/the funny one
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Wise one who is knowledgeable/helpful- like a fairy godmother
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 1st June
What I will be learning about -
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Recap Stock Characters
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Design a Poster
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
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Recap the 5 stock characters looking out for them in anything you watch on tv no need to write anything down.
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Design a Poster to go with the ‘Fairy Tale script/storyboard you wrote the week of the 18th May.
Resources I will need to use
The 5 Stock Characters are:
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Villain/baddie
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Hero/Goodie
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Pathetic person some who needs saving/in distress
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Comedian/the funny one
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Wise one who is knowledgeable/helpful- like a fairy godmother
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 18th May
What I will be learning about -
Creating your own Fairy Tale Play Script
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
With the Storyboard plan now create a stage Script. Attached link to remind you of stage script layout.
Resources I will need to use
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 11th May
What I will be learning about -
Create your own Revolting Rhyme/Fairy tale
Storyboard
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Having watched Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and made a List of your own childhood fairy tales you are to plan your own ‘Revolting Rhyme/Fairy Tale’ creating a story board,
Resources I will need to use
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 4th May
What I will be learning about - Childhood Fairy Tale
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
List Your Childhood Fairy tales
Put one into a Story board
List the characters needed
List who is the Stock Character
Resources I will need to use
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=childhood+fairy+tales+KS2
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 27th April
What I will be learning about - Roald Dahl ‘Revolting Rhymes’
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the attached YouTube clips
List the different Fairy tales within these stories.
List the Stock Characters
Resources I will need to use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52E05DAN_4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKhraBhAABA
Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help
Week Beginning - 20th April
What I will be learning about - Roald Dahl
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Who is Roald Dahl? What books did he write? Have you read any of his books
Resources I will need to use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3GWV97Sa4
Week Beginning - 14th April
What I will be learning about - Stock Characters
What I will need to know or be able to do by the end of the week
Stock characters in melodrama are based on set personalities or characters. A stock character can be defined as a stereotypical person representing a type in a conventional manner.
Resources I will need to use
The 5 Stock Characters are:
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Villain/baddie
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Hero/Goodie
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Pathetic person some who needs saving/in distress
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Comedian/the funny one
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Wise one who is knowledgeable/helpful- like a fairy godmother
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Use Past Drama Knowledge Organise to help