OCG Week 4

1. The counterpoint to the play is the 'Lone Aboriginal". You worked on interpreting one of the statements from this character in an abstract group image. Comment upon what you saw and how this helped your understanding of the whole play.

2. The final explorative startegy was cross-cutting. In groups you worked together to give an interpretation of one of the themes of the play either through the last scene of the play or through cross-cutting different scenes together. Comment upon what you achieved in this.

OCG Week 3

The importance of the theatre in the lives of the convicts. Act 2 scene 5, The Second Rehearsal.

Remember to do some research on the Social, Cultural and Historical context of the writing of this play.

OCG Week 2

Response:
Explorative strategy: Status card game
1.What does this game suggest about the way we relate to each other?
2. Your group has used this explorative strategy to explore one of the scenes. Describe What are your findings so far?
3.How does this game help you to understand the dynamics of the relationships between any of the following - Officers and convicts, officers and officer or convicts and convicts.

Evaluation;
1.Thinking back on your exploration so far... reflect upon what you now know about the convicts and officers of the First Fleet and the Social, cultural and historical context of that time and place.
2.Reflect upon Timberlake Wertenbakker's choices in structuring and presenting this as a play. Consider the power of the opening scene and its importance to the whol play.

Coursework Drama blog on OCG week 1

Year 11s Drama Assessment

Task 1: Response
Explorative strategies: Still Image with questioning in role or hot seating

The monologues of Sideway, Liz Morden and Ketch

Task: Exploration of these monologues through building a sense of these character’s lives before they were sent to the penal colony.
Write:
Record what happened for at least one group’s interpretation of a character.
Describe the one or two of their still images. Note down particularly interesting use of movement, words or space in communicating the group’s ideas to their audience.
What new understanding did you reach about the character or the times or the themes of the play from this work? Please explain.

Task 2: Development
Mediums and Elements: The Exploration of Act 1, scene 1

1.What are the elements that make up this scene? (Check your elements list – it is attached to your assessment criteria sheet) Describe and reflect upon two of these. For example if you were writing about ‘form’, why did Wertenbakker choose 3 short monologues at this point in the play; how dynamic is this opening to the play?

2. How did your group explore these elements through the mediums of drama? (Check the list!) For example if you choose ‘characterization’ from the Elements, how did the actors use their voice, spoken words, movement and space to communicate their characters? How successful did you feel this was? How could it be improved?

Waiting for Godot

Write about two OMG moments in the performance of Waiting for Godot.
For each of these moments
a) Introduce the moment and its impact upon you.
b) Describe what happened - I should be able to see and hear what you saw and heard.
c) Explain why this moment made an impact.
d) Explain how the director, designer and actors achieved this moment.

Reviewing last year and thinking about this year!

As we begin this year I would like you to reflect upon your work to date in response to this posting - see below. I would also like you to open a blogging account for Drama only and invite me to contribute to this. Please send me your details. Thanks! mrs V

What do you think you gained from last year excluding the the performance work at the end? What value did taking part in the productions at the end of the year have for you? What questions do you have about Drama for this year?