Drama · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 8
Drama
Scheme of Work
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.
£4.99The Year 8 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 63 pages
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The whole key stage: KS3 Drama scheme of work
Everything else this site has for Drama: Drama teaching resources
- 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
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. It does that 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
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 8 Drama Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Physical Theatre: Telling It With Bodies
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
How do you tell a whole story with no set, no props and no furniture?
1b
The Chorus: Greek Theatre and Speaking as One
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
Why did theatre begin with a crowd speaking together?
2a
Shakespeare on Its Feet
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why does this language look impossible on the page and sound right in the mouth?
2b
Melodrama: Playing to the Rules
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
What can you do when the audience already knows exactly what is going to happen?
3a
Theatre With a Purpose
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
Can a piece of theatre change what somebody thinks?
3b
The Director's Chair
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
Same script, two directors, two completely different plays. How?
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Contents
All 25 sections
Taken from the book’s own contents page, so the page numbers are the real ones.