NCEA Level 2 Drama
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss A. Bushnell, Mrs M. Fauvel.
NCEA Level 2 Drama The course builds on from Year 11. Students should have a strong interest in all aspects of Drama and have the confidence to perform on stage. The emphasis is on group work, learning a theatre form (Elizabethan/Shakespearean) and performing often advanced scripts.
Drama 2.1 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 2.2 and 2.4 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 Physical Theatre. Students will learn how to devise using Physical Theatre conventions and use these to communicate their key idea and intention.
Drama 2.5 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 2.3 requires students to discuss a drama theatre form in reference to a text in an exam setting.
Recommended Prior Learning
It is recommended that Level 1 Drama has been taken.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
laptop, pens, pencil, highlighters, x21B8
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 2.1 - Apply drama techniques in a scripted context
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Drama 2.2 - Devise and perform a drama to realise an intention
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Drama 2.3 - Discuss a drama or theatre form or period with reference to a text
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Drama 2.4 - Use complex performance skills associated with a drama or theatre form or period
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Drama 2.5 - Examine the work of a playwright
Disclaimer
COURSE COSTS AND STANDARDS MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE