Grade 10 - Exploration and Imagination (Critical Analysis)

It is expected that students will evaluate and analyse the contributions of self and others within the dramatic context.

It is expected that students will:

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Examine and defend choices made in any dramatic work, using a class-generated list of criteria.
Discuss the principle of the three unities (time, place, and action) and improvise a scene observing the unities.
View a current video and note how film technique manipulates the unities.
Extract the dialogue from a scene. Use it to create a new scene, changing situation, character, status, setting, and so forth. Prepare this as a performance piece.
Give students responsibility for staging a representation of a poem or song (e.g., through choral speaking, dance, mime, Story Theatre).
Participate in Forum Theatre, creating a scene that addresses an issue of choice.

As students participate in improvisational games and other group activities, note how effectively individual students:
- negotiate solutions to problems within dramatic work
- present logical solutions to dramatic problems
- defend the decisions they make
- use resources to help them solve problems
- explore a variety of solutions to a problem
After students have had an opportunity to brainstorm criteria for dramatic work, have each student select a short list of criteria to focus on over the next few classes. Have students record how they plan to meet these criteria in their work. Provide an opportunity at the end of each class for students to record brief notes about how well they worked in terms of the criteria they selected. At the end of a term or unit, have students review their notes, list two or three key strengths or improvements, and identify one or two goals for the next interval.
In conference with individual students or small groups, pose questions such as the following to gain insight into their ability to analyse their work:
- What picture or image stands out in your mind when you think about your work today?
- What part of your work surprised you or turned out differently than you expected?
- What choices did you make that might seem odd to other people? How did they work? Would you do the same thing again?

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Revised: March 13, 1996