Year 7 introduction to Drama - Knowledge organiser - King Henry School
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Communication Year 7 introduction to Drama Lesson 1
Facial expressions Still image and
Body language Knowledge organiser stimulus
Gesture Lesson 2
Movement Narration and
Characterisation characterisation
Storytelling Lesson 3
Mime Assessment Mime and
Exaggeration assessment
Physical skills
Vocal skills
Facial expressions Techniques Tone
Body language Still image Pitch
Gestures Narrating Pace
Movement Mime Volume
Posture Characterisation Pause
Over exaggeration
accent
New terminology:
Still image – A frozen picture that shows a feeling or an action.
Stimulus – A starting point to develop your ideas from. It could be an object, a picture, words/lyrics.
Narration – When a narrator tells the story as the actors act it out.
Hot seating – Answering questions as a character.
Marking the moment – marking a important moment stand out in a scene
Commedia and Pantomime
Knowledge organiser
Commedia
characters Pantomime
characters
Patalone
Hero
The doctor
Villain
The captain
The joke Heroine
Zanni Servant
Columbina Sidekick
Key words New terminology
Gesture Commedia dell’Arte
Exaggeration Stock characters
Status Direct address
Theatre through time
Knowledge organiser
Morality Plays Restoration Comedy
15/16th Century 17/18th Century
Teaching the Change in attitudes
audience Stereotypes
Morals Hot seating
Protagonist Stimulus
Good characters Exaggeration
Evil characters
Greek Theatre
Shakespeare Realism
550 BC
16/17th Century 19th Century
Choral speech
Comedy Natural
Choral movement
Tragedy Realistic
Repetition
Melodrama Ordinary
Volume
Exaggeration Everyday
Voice
Monologue Not exaggerated
Cannon
Soliloquies Real characters
Exaggeration
Key words:
Still image
MURDER IN THE MANSION Lesson 1
Meet the suspects
Facial expressions
gestures
Knowledge organiser Lesson 2
Flashbacks
Hot seating Suspicious
Body language circumstances Lesson 3
Narration Own stories
The case of
Gerald Narration
The suspects: Smith Assessment:
Marjory Smith You will create
Timmy Smith your own murder
Penelope Fielding Interview mystery story
Susie Sweet the suspects Flashback
Mary Moody You will preform
Ruby Red Thought Own your own murder
Parker Jones tracking murder mystery story
mystery's
New terminology:
Hot seating – answering questions in character
Tone – changing your voice so that it fits with what you are saying
Flashback – Creating a scenes going back in time showing something that has already happened.
Thought tracking – Say what your character is thinking out loud.
Key words: Sweeney Todd •
Assessment
Learn lines
Facial
expressions
Knowledge organiser from script.
• Work
Body language efficiently as a
Gesture group.
Characterisation • Use the stage
Flashback Melodrama Flash backs/
History/ Building to a Effective use of direction to
Freeze frames Characters
Script work
dramatic climax rehearsal time help you
Interjection stage your
Tableau scene.
Themes • Include
Victoriana cross-cutting/
Feedback Themes/ Aside and Direct
(Victorian duologue Crosscutting
Victorian Address
Exaggerated London)
schools /monologue in your
Script performance.
New terminology:
Melodrama: Exaggerated style of acting using gesture and voice
Cross cutting: Cross-cutting is a drama technique, to describe two or more scenes which are performed on stage at the same time.
Direct address: It is a moment in which the character shares with the audience, an opinion or worry,
Climax: Where the tension or action reaches its highest part in the story.
Flash-back: It is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story
Themes: A theme is a recurring idea that's present throughout the work.
Theatre through time
Knowledge organiser
Morality Plays Restoration Comedy
15/16th Century 17/18th Century
Teaching the Change in attitudes
audience Stereotypes
Morals Hot seating
Protagonist Stimulus
Good characters Exaggeration
Evil characters
Greek Theatre
Shakespeare Realism
550 BC
16/17th Century 19th Century
Choral speech
Comedy Natural
Choral movement
Tragedy Realistic
Repetition
Melodrama Ordinary
Volume
Exaggeration Everyday
Voice
Monologue Not exaggerated
Cannon
Soliloquies Real characters
Exaggeration
Pair with
another group
Fractured Fairy tales
Perform to one Knowledge organiser
and another Intro what is a Planning- Rehearsal/
Share feedback fractured fracturing a Performance -
on the Narration – P.P.S. fairy-tale assessment
performance
‘Magic If’
(what if) Rehearse techniques – begin to Feedback from
Lesson – Flash act out your fractured fairy-tale. assessment- improve
forward. Implementing drama techniques on one scene.
Assessment: ‘Magic If’(what if) – Character asks
• Choose two or more fairy tales questions.
• To fracture a fairy tale you can choose any of the following: What would I do ‘if’ I didn’t do this?
• Change the main character
As the character of Goldilocks, you
• Change the setting (time or place)
• Tell the story from a different character's point of view might ask. What If I reached the
• Make the problem of the story different three bears house and the door was
• Change an important item in the story (for example, the glass slipper in Cinderella) closed?
• Change the ending of the story (maybe they don't live "happily ever after" after How might the story change?
all!)
Key words: The Island Knowledge organiser Assessment:
Characterisation
Facial expressions
Pair with another
group
Gestures
Body language
Movement Perform to one and
Vocal skills another
Posture
Hot seating
Still image
Share feedback on the
Narrator performance
Crash Hierarchy
The on the Group Group
begins to
airport island discovery collaboration
form
The New parts
Find people Trouble Try to escape
Plane of the island
and explore begins the island
crash to explore
New terminology:
Character profile – Creating an outline of a character including some details about them.
Improvisation – Creating a scene on the spot without rehearsing it.
Hierarchy – The power order in a group of people, highest amount of power down to the lowest person
Collaboration – Everyone working well together top get something done.
Derek Bentley:
Derek Bentley Christopher Craig:
Knowledge organiser
• Aged 18 at the time • Aged 16 at the time
• Had the metal age of a 12 year • Suggested breaking into a
old warehouse
• Never used any weapons • Brought weapons with him
• Shouted ‘Let him have it’ • Shot a police officer
Sergeant Fairfax Craig shoots Craig shoots an
Craig and Derek
askes Craig to Fairfax in the officer in the are charged in
"Hand over the shoulder head court
gun, lad"
Bentley shouted the
More police Craig and Derek
ambiguous phrase
officers arrive are arrested
"Let him have it”
New terminology:
Capital punishment: Receiving the death sentence for a crime committed – being killed for your crimes.
Open questions: Using questions that could have lots of different answers and details not just yes or no answers.
Reconstruction: Acting out a real event after it has happened as close to the real event as possible.
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