493·Drama · GCSE
Judge the Choice,
Not the Night Out
GCSE Drama Knowledge Mat — Evaluating live theatre (PDF)
You saw the play — why 'the acting was really good' is worth almost nothing, and the sentence that earns instead. What counts as live, in the DfE's words; analysis and evaluation as two different jobs; one moment, closely; the evaluative paragraph as four moves that repeat; Ofqual's four objectives and what each is worth; one evaluative sentence built from a moment. Ten terms to define, a model answer on voice and movement, and the misconceptions that cost marks.
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One purchase covers the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round your department. Not for passing to other schools or uploading anywhere.
One landscape A4 page on one part of the drama course, built on the DfE's own subject content and Ofqual's national conditions rather than a board's paraphrase — so it holds whichever specification a department follows. It carries what counts as live theatre, analysis against evaluation, the four-move evaluative paragraph, Ofqual's four objectives and a worked evaluative sentence — then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style answer and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Every photograph on the sheet is a real image of a real theatre or production, licensed for reuse and credited in the running foot; the figures are drawn in code for the sheet, and the one play extract is out of copyright and verified word for word. Nothing is reproduced from a specification, a mark scheme, an examiner report or a past paper.
Sold by subject: all four drama sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.
- Written to The DfE GCSE drama subject content (DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's subject-level conditions (Ofqual/17/6198), quoted; no board's specification or mark scheme. Every photograph is licensed and credited on the sheet; the figures are drawn in code
- Intended for drama teachers — on the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
- Extent 1 page · 13 sections
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