12DRA

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.

Total Credits Available: 21
Internal Assessed Credits: 17
External Assessed Credits: 4
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91213 v2
NZQA Info

Drama 2.1 - Apply drama techniques in a scripted context


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91214 v2
NZQA Info

Drama 2.2 - Devise and perform a drama to realise an intention


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91215 v3
NZQA Info

Drama 2.3 - Discuss a drama or theatre form or period with reference to a text


Level: 2
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91216 v4
NZQA Info

Drama 2.4 - Use complex performance skills associated with a drama or theatre form or period


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91217 v2
NZQA Info

Drama 2.5 - Examine the work of a playwright


Level: 2
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 21
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 16
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Disclaimer

COURSE COSTS AND STANDARDS MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE