NCEA Level 3 Drama
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss A. Bushnell, Mrs M. Fauvel.
Students should have a strong interest in all aspects of Drama and have the desire to perform at all times on stage. The emphasis is on personal (monologue) and smaller group work, learning two theatre forms (New Zealand Theatre and Epic Theatre) and performing complex scripts at an advanced level.
Drama 3.1 develops and builds on Drama Techniques. This requires students to read, research and develop a scene in a small groups and apply Drama Techniques. They will perform their scene to the class.
Drama 3.2 and 3.4 This is a combined Internal Assessment and requires students to devise a piece of theatre on a key idea or event and in the theatre form of Epic Theatre. Students will learn how to devise using Epic Theatre conventions and use these to communicate their key idea and intention.
Drama 3.5 requires students to examine the work of a playwright. They present this information to the class and perform and analyze how a scene from a playwright's work communicates their key idea, and techniques and conventions of the theatre form.
Drama 3.3 requires students to discuss a drama theatre form in reference to a text in an exam setting.
Recommended Prior Learning
It is recommended students have taken Level 2 Drama.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Pens, pencils, laptop, highlighter, x1B8 book.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Drama 3.1 - Interpret scripted text to integrate drama techniques in performance
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Drama 3.2 - Devise and perform a drama to realise a concept
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Drama 3.3 - Interpret a text from a prescribed playwright to demonstrate knowledge of a theatre form or period
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Drama 3.4 - Select and use complex performance skills associated with a drama form or period
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Drama 3.5 - Demonstrate understanding of the work of a drama or theatre theorist or practitioner
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 21
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Disclaimer
COURSE COSTS AND STANDARDS MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE