Performance
This project looks at creating a performance. At the end of the project, students show a rehearsed presentation lasting up to 15 minutes on a topic of their choice, which includes techniques that have been developed over the course of Key Stage 3.
The aims are to:
- create an improvisation of up to 15 minutes in length
- enable all students to have a role in a performance
- help students develop more confidence in performance.
By the end of this project, students are expected to have:
- created a role
- understood how to create a performance
- developed a performance based on a topic.
The techniques which are covered in lessons in this project include:
- hot seating
- peer assessment
- rehearsal
- sequencing
- thought-tracking.
The key words which are used in this project include:
- hot seating
- peer assessment
- rehearsal
- sequencing
- thought-tracking.
The text which students encounter during this project includes topic ideas for improvisation.
This series of lessons has cross-curricular links with Citizenship and English.
Students should be assessed in this project on the extent to which they:
- present different techniques
- get involved in the rehearsal process
- create an appropriate and meaningful character in the performance.
Web sites which could be used for further information on this topic include:
This project meets the following recommendations from Drama in Schools (Second Edition) (Arts Council England, 2003). For a complete mapping, see Managing: Drama in Schools.
Level 5: Making
- Combine their skills and knowledge of drama to devise plays of different types for different purposes
Level 5: Performing
- Improve and refine their acting, directing or technical contribution through the rehearsal process
Level 6: Making
- Give and accept suggestions and ideas during the rehearsal process
Level 6: Performing
- Make good use of available technology to enhance and support their productions
Level 6: Responding
- Use correct terminology to describe their own work and begin to analyse how actors, technicians and directors have achieved specific effects or communicated ideas, emotions and feelings
A printable version of the project is provided here:
A scheme of work for this project is provided here:
Aims
hot seating, 
Performance