143·Drama · Key Stage 3
Year 8
Drama
Scheme of Work
Year 8 Drama Scheme of Work — KS3 PDF
Six half-termly units built on what Year 7's own progression rows promise: pieces get longer, and students select a form rather than practise the one they were given. Physical theatre, the Greek chorus and mask, Shakespeare, melodrama, theatre made for a named audience, and directing. A Midsummer Night's Dream is printed in full and photocopies without limit.
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- 1aPhysical Theatre: Telling It With Bodies
- 1bThe Chorus: Greek Theatre and Speaking as One
- 2aShakespeare on Its Feet
- 2bMelodrama: Playing to the Rules
- 3aTheatre With a Purpose
- 3bThe Director's Chair
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.
Ten sections per unit, in the same order as Year 7, so a department that has used one book recognises the next without relearning anything.
Year 7 taught the grammar of the subject. Year 8 is where the work gets longer and chosen — which is not a fresh idea about what Year 8 should be, but what Year 7's own progression rows promise six times over. The spine is style and form: theatre comes in kinds, each kind has rules, and knowing the rules is what lets a student choose.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is printed in full and photocopies without limit, which makes the Shakespeare unit the one text unit a department can run with no budget at all. It also delivers one of the two Shakespeare plays the English programme of study requires across the key stage — practically, in a rehearsal room, which is worth telling the English department.
Six lessons written out in full, a chorus text written for the scheme, and a quality assurance page that prints this book's own limitations rather than hiding them.
- Written to The statutory key stage 3 English programme of study (DfE, 2014) — drama has no programme of study of its own
- Intended for heads of drama, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it, specialist or not
- Extent 63 pages · 25 sections
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