Gr 10 MYP

Peking Opera - The Monkey King

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Guiding Question :How do you use gesture in Peking Opera?
Students focus on
Page to Stage - Staging
Performance skills
Assessment Tasks


2010 - UCCA Monkey King Pictures

Masks - Commedia

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Guiding Question:  What mask do you wear?

Students examine
Physical theatre through Commedia characters
Social commentary
Devising and documenting the devising process

Optional Units

Collage Drama

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Guiding Question - How can Theatre create change?

Student examine
Masks
Performance poetry
Movement and Music
Technical - use of projection
Political theatre - Brecht, Boal and Fo


                                                                                      2010 - What a Mess! Pictures

Puppets

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Guiding Question - How can puppets change people's opinions?

Students examine
Puppets - Historical  to present
Construction techniques
Script writing
Technical 


2011 - Nosrep - Every child is special

Talking in Whisphers

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Guiding Question - What is it like to walk in someone else' shoes?

Inspired by the book "Talking in Whispers", student create a character based in Chile during Pinochet's reign and explore through an extended improvisation the search for a missing loved one.

Research Investigation and Critical Review

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Both units examine Theatre from a dramaturgical approach.

The Research Investigation is an introduction into the DP theatre.  Students are asked to examine as aspect of Asian theatre and prepare a report and oral.

The Critical Review asks students to analyse a piece of live theatre within the context of the production elements used.