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Find exam board-friendly exemplars, step-by-step guides, resources and glossaries tailored to AL/IB/GCSE drama and theatre. AQA - Edexcel - Eduqas - IBO.

Find exam board-friendly exemplars, step-by-step guides, resources and glossaries tailored to AL/IB/GCSE drama and theatre. AQA - Edexcel - Eduqas - IBO.
Eduqas GCSE Drama: Live Theatre Structure (C3)
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Eduqas GCSE Drama: Live Theatre Structure (C3)

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A step-by-step guide to structuring a live theatre response for the* performance* question of section B of the written paper. This guide uses the production of Medea at Soho place theatre as an example, but it can be adapted to suit any production. Please be advised this is for the performance question only.
AQA A Level Drama: Full Structure Guide (C1)
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AQA A Level Drama: Full Structure Guide (C1)

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A comprehensive guide detailing how to structure answers for the A level written paper (component one). This includes description of the details to include and handy acronyms for section A, B and C. It also offers useful tips on exam technique.
AQA GCSE Drama: Live Theatre Key Moment Grid (C1)
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AQA GCSE Drama: Live Theatre Key Moment Grid (C1)

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This key moment builder for AQA drama (live theatre) includes: A list of example question foci A list of examples of evaluation How to structure a key moment paragraph for the 32 mark question Grids to be filled in for collection and revision of key moments
GCSE/A Level Drama: Ultimate Design Skills Guide
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GCSE/A Level Drama: Ultimate Design Skills Guide

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This extensive resource covers all the key design skills in detail: lighting, sound, costume, and set. The resource also provides advice on how to write about design skills in a drama written paper (relevant to most specifications at GCSE and AL).
AQA GCSE Devising Drama Log Book Booklet!
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AQA GCSE Devising Drama Log Book Booklet!

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This booklet is designed to follow the specific requirements for sections one, two and three of the log book and uses the criteria in the candidate record forms. Students should use this resource as they rehearse adding their ideas to the boxes as they go. This booklet ensures GCSE drama students meet the criteria and do not miss the precise criteria. There are skills grids and a guide to submission at the end, so students can ‘type up’ notes that will already be acceptable as a log book.
AQA GCSE Drama - New Comprehensive Log book Structure Guide
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AQA GCSE Drama - New Comprehensive Log book Structure Guide

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This is a step-by step guide to structuring the AQA drama log book for GCSE; it includes examples of what not to include as well as task-by- task instructions to ensure students include the essential ingredients and hit the criteria directly. This is perfect for any teachers doing an ‘emergency takeover’ of a KS4 drama set last minute or for children who’ve not got much of a log book pulled together but need one… and fast!
Eduqas GCSE Drama: Warhorse 15 Mark Exemplar (C3)
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Eduqas GCSE Drama: Warhorse 15 Mark Exemplar (C3)

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This is a colour-coded 15 mark Warhorse design answer that links the colours in the answer to the colours in the requirements of the question. The exemplar answer is to the design question from the 2022 paper and answers on set, props and sound.
Y9 Drama: Genres and Performance Styles
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Y9 Drama: Genres and Performance Styles

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A 6-7 lesson scheme of work that covers a number of contrasting genres and performance styles to get students creating and re-imagining in different theatrical registers. The scheme includes musical theatre, verbatim/docudrama, satire, melodrama and physical theatre.
AQA GCSE Drama:  Devising Scene Planner (C2)
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AQA GCSE Drama: Devising Scene Planner (C2)

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This resource will get your pupils to - Title their piece, formulate an artistic intention/dramatic aim, describe characters, action and audience impact of each scene as well as describe the devices and techniques they will use.
AQA GCSE Drama Component 1 - describing action exemplars
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AQA GCSE Drama Component 1 - describing action exemplars

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This is a collection of practical detail examples that are proven to bring the characters to life on the page. This resource is appropriate for all exam boards where writing precise description of performance is a requirement. This works best as a way for pupils to build their descriptive vocabulary for the AQA written paper.
AQA GCSE Drama:  Knowledge Test/Noughts & Crosses (C1)
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AQA GCSE Drama: Knowledge Test/Noughts & Crosses (C1)

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An adaptable 65-mark knowledge quiz that captures all of: Exam technique and requirements Section A Section B - Noughts and Crosses Section C - Live Theatre (using One Man Two Guvnors) Designed to suit learning styles and to extend and challenge. Includes true and false, fill in the blanks, quiz questions, content development, etc.
AQA A Level Drama (C1): Antigone Revision Guide (targeted to y12)
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AQA A Level Drama (C1): Antigone Revision Guide (targeted to y12)

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A 16-page dyslexia-friendly revision guide with two key Ismene and Antigone sections in mind - perfect for gearing y12 pupils up for the demands of Section A of the paper. You could set this as homework ahead of an internal exam, end-of year assessment or block test. The guide includes: The structure, genre and style of the play The characters of Ismene and Antigone from the Robert Fagles’ version How to describe the direction and performance of these characters Two extracts included The mark scheme in translation A word bank of adjectives that are character-appropriate to Ismene and Antigone How to embed context purposefully, with examples.