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Drama Plan MYP

This document provides an overview of the drama curriculum for grades 6 through 10 (MYP years 1 through 5) at the International School of Amsterdam. It describes the key skills, concepts, and theatrical works covered in each grade level, with a focus on building practical skills, exploring different genres and styles of theatre, developing original work, and using drama to explore social and global issues.

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Drama Plan MYP

This document provides an overview of the drama curriculum for grades 6 through 10 (MYP years 1 through 5) at the International School of Amsterdam. It describes the key skills, concepts, and theatrical works covered in each grade level, with a focus on building practical skills, exploring different genres and styles of theatre, developing original work, and using drama to explore social and global issues.

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Drama

MYP1 - Grade 6

During Grade 6 Drama, students begin to

build the basic skills of the dramatic arts.

These skills involve working with others

and creating characters and scenes that

are focused and based around a variety

of contexts. Students also learn how to

reflect and effectively evaluate practical

work, using specific examples and drama

language. The statement of inquiry ‘How

something is presented can be more important than what is presented’ and the

key concept of ‘aesthetics’ enable students to explore a wide range of stimuli and dramatic techniques.
The BFG by

Roald Dahl is the starting point for this

and students develop original dream

sequences, monologues and physical

theatre pieces. Students devise comic

pieces inspired by simple jokes and then

develop these further by looking at modern

sitcoms and the origins of comedy

through Greek Theatre. To conclude,

students present the mechanicals from

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and reflect how these

moments still hold comic value today.

MYP2 - Grade 7

Grade 7 Drama provides an opportunity

for students to engage in text and devising work. Students explore the themes

and language of a Shakespearean play


and work towards creating an artistic intention. They consider staging that intention with the aim to
create an impact on an

audience. Students work with designing

costumes and using light and sound. The

statement of inquiry ‘The future of live performance will be challenged in this technical age’ and the key
concept of ‘change’

enables students to explore a wide range

of stimuli and dramatic techniques. They

ISA Students engage in a series of semester-long Arts courses

which are listed below:

MYP Year Grade Drama Media Music Visual

1 Grade 6

2 Grade 7

3 Grade 8

4 Grade 9

5 Grade 10

11

Arts

create dramatic pieces based on Ray

Bradbury’s The Pedestrian and also devise

work using a range of stimuli including If

You Push A Button by Takagi Kyozo and

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador

Dali. They contemplate the positive and

negative aspects of technology on society.

MYP4 - Grade 9

‘Deconstructing Drama’ and ‘Constructing Theatre’ is essentially the framework

for Grade 9 Drama. Students develop

and extend their range of dramatic skills


and participate in a number of practical

workshops of contemporary practitioners,

including the physical theatre company,

Frantic Assembly. Students explore a

range of play texts that have young people

as central characters and explore the

commonality of themes with those written

in the past to those written in more recent

times. They create their own interpretation

of The Changing Room by Chris Bush as

an opportunity to develop their own personal message for an audience. Finally

using Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses

as a starting point, students embark

on a collaborative theatre project that

is influenced by the practitioner Bertolt

Brecht. Students use Brechtian-theatre

techniques and current global events to

create their own original meaningful, and

powerful, pieces of theatre. All practical

work is peer-evaluated using specific

examples.

MYP5 - Grade 10

Through Grade 10 Drama, students explore the relationship between actor and

audience. Primarily, this involves developing their practical skills and approaches to

staging to apply a new lense of creative

possibility. Students develop scenes in

response to the contemporary devised

play, 100, (Diene Petterle, Neil Monaghan,

& Christopher Heimann), which uses


physical theatre, ensemble and minimal

production elements to communicate a

powerful message. ‘How do you make

an audience laugh?’ is the focus of the

second part of the course as students

explore Commedia dell’Arte, the history

of the comic genre, as well as modern

comic playtexts and their own lazzi. Finally

students explore The Laramie Project,

(Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre

Company) and use this to work collaboratively to create a piece of Verbatim

Theatre, which allows them to create

a powerful and ethical piece of theatre

based on real people and real-life events

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