144·Drama · Key Stage 3
Year 9
Drama
Scheme of Work
Year 9 Drama Scheme of Work — KS3 PDF
Six half-termly units on one argument: the student holds the decision and can defend it. Four practitioners' methods, a half term given entirely to watching live theatre, a sustained seven-minute Shakespeare scene, design as a discipline with a real ground plan, fully independent devising, and a company delivering on a fixed date. Romeo and Juliet is printed in full, completing the two Shakespeare plays the English programme of study requires across the key stage.
Everything else this site has for Drama: Drama teaching resources
- 1aThe Practitioners: Four Ways to Make Theatre
- 1bLive Theatre: Watching Like a Maker
- 2aText: Holding a Scene
- 2bDesign: The Fifth Performer
- 3aDevising on Your Own Terms
- 3bThe Company: Rehearsing to a Deadline
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 Years 7 and 8.
Read Year 8's six progression rows together and they say the same thing six times — selects, chooses, justifies, sustains. So Year 9 is built on one argument rather than six topics: the student holds the decision and can defend it. Four practitioners' methods; a half term given entirely to watching live theatre, which almost no key stage 3 curriculum does and every specification examines in writing; a sustained seven-minute Shakespeare scene; design taught as a discipline with a real ground plan and a runnable cue sheet; fully independent devising; and a company delivering on a fixed date with named roles.
Nothing here is a GCSE course. A third of the class will not continue, and a year taught as preparation is a year wasted on them — so this is written as the last year of a subject, not the first year of a qualification.
Romeo and Juliet is printed in full, completing the two Shakespeare plays the English programme of study requires across the key stage, together with a printable live theatre analysis frame.
- 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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