Grade 8 - Context (Social and Cultural Context)
This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources
PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES
It is expected that students will experience, understand, and develop sensitivity to the diversity of cultures through drama. Students will also interpret how drama celebrates, comments on, and questions the values, issues, and events of societies past and present.
It is expected that students will:
- reflect the cultural variety of their communities in their dramatic work
- identify and describe the influence of the media on their own work in drama
- identify and examine relationships between real-life experiences and dramatic presentations
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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
- Discuss and dramatize current newsworthy events.
- Research and discuss stereotypical characters in the media.
- Develop a list of questions suitable for interviewing a person from a different cultural or social background. Working in pairs, conduct an interview, taking turns being the interviewer.
- Create a fictitious country. Set up a Role Drama with the teacher-in-role acting as an immigration officer and each student depicting a person entering the country for the first time.
- Improvise a real-life scene and then increase the conflict, making it dramatic. Since some studentsą real-life experiences may include highly disturbing or traumatic conflict situations, sensitivity may be required. If students are comfortable sharing and portraying such experiences, it may be useful to adapt the activity and discuss how the conflict could be reduced or recontextualized to allow for positive outcomes.
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
To grasp relationships between drama and culture, students benefit from researching and reflecting on aspects of their own community. When students assess how community cultures, media, and real-life experiences are reflected in dramatic work, they extend their understanding to a wider context.
- Have students conduct research to extend their understanding of their own community and the cultures within it. Ask them to present their findings in various ways (e.g., sketches of clothing and artifacts, photographs, video interviews, charts) and develop a dramatic work using some of the themes, issues, or other features they identified. In their presentations and improvisations, look for evidence of:
- accurate research and reporting
- balance and restraint in reports and improvisations (e.g., avoids stereotyping)
- effective use of resources, including people in the community, information technology, and print materials
- sensitivity to cultural issues
- respect for diversity
- As students discuss and dramatize newsworthy events, note and respond to the extent to which they:
- deal with societal issues in a serious manner
- demonstrate acceptance of and sensitivity toward others
- can discuss other cultures in their community
- recognize the role of media presentation and reporting
RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES
Print Material
- Acting Natural
- Christmas On Stage
- The Complete Book of Speech Communication
- Creating with Shakespeare
- Creative Drama in Groupwork
- Drama 14 - 16: A Book of Projects and Resources
- Drama Guidelines
- Now Playing
- Someday: A Play
- Story Drama: Reading, Writing and Roleplaying Across the Curriculum
- Storymaking and Drama: An Approach to Teaching Language and Literature
- The Theatre and You: A Beginning
- Wings to Fly
Video
- The Making of Tommy Tricker...Himself
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