Key Stage 3


Schemes of Work - Year 9

Y9 Schemes of work:

Comedy Scripts

Pupils explore various comedy scripts from Teechers to Stags & Hens.

Holidays

This scheme begins Y9 and is based on the idea of a coach trip to Spain. The project is written so that pupils can explore comedy within drama. Pupils spend much of each lesson in role with the Teacher also playing various roles including a French mechanic who does not speak English and the Tour Guide.

Students create characters who they revisit each week whilst also playing different roles including staff on the ferry, hotel staff and waiters. For the assessment pupils create a postcard and then devise a short play based around these stimuli.

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Human Wrights

This Scheme looks at the issue of Human Rights and how individuals are affected by others. Students study the life of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railway which helped people escape from slavery in America.

The book ‘Minty’ is used as a stimulus to lead the drama and pupils use text and music to help them empathise with situations.

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John Patterson

The scheme initially is kept as a mystery for the pupils and they are asked to consider the wording on a gravestone from 1685. Much of the work in this unit is based on whole class spontaneous improvisation with the teacher in role.

Students are asked to consider how to create atmosphere in a piece of drama through soundscapes and through their response to text. The work is based on historical events and pupils gain an understanding of life for women of the period.

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The Holocaust

Pupils investigate the Holocaust looking at the unfair treatment of the Jewish people from 1933 onwards. Pupils are introduced to the subject by a shortened version of the brown/blue eyes experiment where one group of students are treated unfairly whilst the others are rewarded purely on the basis of eye colour.

Students are then separated into ‘family’ groups and the class are then taken through a variety of experiences from losing their jobs to children leaving on Kindertransport and the workers within the Concentration Camps. Students view extracts of Schindler’s List to help them understand the full horror of the Holocaust.

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