This detailed 11 page booklet has been designed to help support students writing their Component 1 Creative Log for Eduqas A Level Drama.
The booklet includes:
explanation of the coursework
descriptions of each stages requirements
exemplar paragraphs
what to include within each ‘stage’.
There is also space for students to draft their own work to help student’s organisation.
This 11 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Steven Berkoff’s style of theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 18 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Frantic Asssembly’s theatre including Round-by-Through, Hymns Hands etc!
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand this style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This booklet has been created to help guide students when writing their Component 1 Devising Portfolio. The in-depth 24 page booklet can be printed off and handed to students.
It covers the following:
What the Component 1 Portfolio is
The 6 questions and structure of the portfolio
Mark scheme
Grade 9 exemplar answer with annotations
Breakdown of each of the 6 questions with examples and writing frames to help students structure their answers
Top tips to help
These resources are focused on achieving top band results for the largest questions in the AQA GCSE Dance Written Exam (Section C 12 markers).
These resources include:
An 18 slide PowerPoint analysing past 12 mark questions, structure to follow, example answers, guidance for revision and ideas to help them.
2 x 12/12 exemplar answers for students to analyse
A 17 page revision booklet for students to complete helping them consolidate their knowledge and use it for final revision before the exam
This work can spand over 4 hours and significantly improve results within the most challenging aspect of the exam.
This bundle includes all PowerPoints and lessons for following 7 Theatre Practitioners and Companies:
Bertolt Brecht
Antonin Artaud
Steven Berkoff
DV8
Frantic Assembly
Stanislavski
The Paper Birds
These are the essential practitioners/companies students will need to explore for A Level/ IB/ BTEC drama.
Each PowerPoint contains approx 4 hours worth of lessons. They cover every aim, technique and also method of how to devise within their style to help ensure students achieve high marks within their devising units.
Each PowerPoint also includes a printable mind-map covering all the techniques so this can be handed to students to help ensure they cover all the elements within their own work too.
This 17 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Antonin Artaud’s ‘Theatre of Cruelty’.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This 19 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Epic Theatre’.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This detailed guide helps students completing Costume Design to create a successful portfolio alongside their actual costume design to achieve the highest marks possible in either the devised or scripted units/ components.
The guide can be printed off and handed to students who can complete the tasks during lesson time/ homework to ensure all elements are covered and keep them busy.
Suitable for a wide range of exam boards!
Eduqas A Level Drama Component 3 Written Exam Sec A and B Revision Pack
This 19 page revision pack is suitable for all set texts (as it isn’t specific to any text) and covers Sec A and B requirements.
The Revision Pack includes:
A list of ‘What could be asked in’ Sec A
A guidance structure to follow for all Sec A answers
Practise Activity to recap key terminology (including lighting, set, costume, sound, vocal and movement skills)
Practise of drawing own set designs
2 Weak Exam paragraphs to improve
10 Sec A Exam Questions to practise
A guidance structure to follow for Sec B answers
Example mark scheme for Sec B
Activity for original production information
Activity for live theatre references
4 Practise Sec B questions
A clear, printable worksheet that highlights all previous Component 3 written exam questions for Edexcel A Level Drama - including Sec A, B & C!
This is extremely helpful for staff to analyse the questions in one place as well as hand to students so they can access them easily (rather than going through all past papers!)
This 12 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of The Paper Birds Theatre style.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This in-depth 19 page booklet explores every aspect of Section B of the Edexcel A Level Drama written exam (36 marks).
The booklet includes:
a breakdown of each question that will be asked
activities to recap knowledge and context of the play
Exemplar answers of each question
Structures of how to answer each question
Recap tasks for key skills (e.g. acting and design skills)
Practice questions to complete with space to write them in the booklet
The answers are focused on ‘‘Machinal’ by Sophie Treadwell but the booklet is easily transferable and useful for students who are studying any of the plays from the set text list.
This in depth scheme of work spands over 6- 8 hours, teaching students how to evaluate a live theatre show.
Each lesson allows:
time to watch a section of the show
focus on a specific element of theatre e.g. set design, lighting, costume, acting etc so they understand all aspects of live productions
a task to complete evaluating what they have seen
The resources include:
40 slide PowerPoint
different worksheets including differentiated writing frames/ guidance
This is great for specialist teachers to prepare them for GCSE Drama written exam but also for non-specialists teaching drama as it is fully guided/ clear for all.
Video of the show is available to buy on DVD/ on YouTube!
This in-depth 43 slide PowerPoint covers everything you need to know for Section B of the written exam for Edexcel A Level Drama.
The PowerPoint covers:
Question 3 Performer
Question 4 Designer
Throughout the slides, the work includes:
Exemplar answers
Structures to help students answer the questions
Exam technique and key terminology to include
All past questions
Activities to practice writing answers.
This is will definitely help students achieve high marks within this section of the exam!
This booklet has been created to help guide students when writing their Component 1 Devising Portfolio. The in-depth 27 page booklet can be printed off and handed to students.
It covers the following:
What the Component 1 Portfolio is
The 6 questions and structure of the portfolio
Mark scheme
A* exemplar answer with annotations
Breakdown of each of the 6 questions with examples, key points to include and space to draft their ideas to help students structure their answers
Top tips to help
This 16 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of DV8’s style of theatre.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This in-depth 24 page booklet explores every aspect of Section A of the Edexcel GCSE Drama written exam (45 marks).
The booklet includes:
a breakdown of every question that will be asked (4, 6, 9, 12 and 14 mark questions)
Exemplar answers of each question
Structures of how to answer each question
Recap tasks for key skills (e.g. acting and design skills)
Practice questions to complete with space to write them in the booklet
The answers are focused on ‘An Inspector Calls’ but the booklet is easily transferable and useful for students who are studying any of the plays from the set text list.
This detailed guide helps students completing Lighting Design to create a successful portfolio alongside their actual design to achieve the highest marks possible in either the devised or scripted units/ components.
The guide can be printed off and handed to students who can complete the tasks during lesson time/ homework to ensure all elements are covered and keep them busy.
Suitable for a wide range of exam boards!
This in-depth resource contains a 23 slide PowerPoint as well as a booklet (easy to print) covering all aspects needed to achieve high grades within Component 2 Process and Evaluation Report Coursework.
The PowerPoint covers:
explanation of each stage for the coursework
reasons why the examples (in booklet) are successful
key points to help students
The Booklet contains:
a clear structure for students to follow for each stage
an A* example answer for each stage to help guide students