Drama Department

Drama Department Homework Policy

GCSE Drama – set homeworks Year 10

Marking policy KS4:

All students will be given a simplified version of the marking criteria. For each objective students will be shown how to progress through the skills from ‘limited’ to ‘accomplished’. Regular moderation of students’ work, both practical and written will occur during the year.

There will be 3 controlled tests throughout the key stage. Practical work will be filmed and both this, and the accompanying written record, will be internally assessed and externally moderated.
Homework is set once a week.

Date	Homework:	Grade boundary	Parental signature
Sept 2011 – Key skills	Identifying the key features of Realism and Melodrama
Sept 2011	Evaluating devised work
Oct 2011	Monologue/ duologue: learn and rehearse
Oct 2011	Annotating script exercise
Nov 2011	Revising staging terms and performance spaces
Dec 2011	Evaluating physical theatre
Jan 2012 – Unit 581: From page to stage	Research into practitioner/play/style*
Feb 2012	Revision for test – all terms
Mar-April 2012	Mood board
May-July 2012	CONTROLLED TEST Consolidation of terms/ line learning/ technical organisation
July 2012	Research – Romeo and Juliet
Sept 2012	Research – design task West Side Story

GOOD ATTENDANCE IS ESSENTIAL.

GCSE Drama – set homeworks Year 11

Marking policy KS4:

Date	Homework:	Grade boundary	Parental signature
Sept 2011 – Unit 582: Drama in the making	Research task – application to the devising process
Sept 2011	Evaluation of non-naturalistic sequence: The Hall of Mirrors (deviser.)
Sept-Oct 2011	Annotating text: Romeo and Juliet 1:1 (director)
Oct 2011 CONTROLLED TEST	Preparing a design presentation: West Side Story
Oct 2011	Ideas for devising x 3
Dec 2011	Consolidation of terms/ technical organisation
Jan 2012 – Unit 583: From concept to creation	Research into practitioner/play/style* Stimulus A
Feb 2012	Research into practitioner/play/style* Stimulus B
Feb-Mar 2012	Ideas for devising x 3
April-May 2012	CONTROLLED TEST Consolidation of terms/ line learning/ technical organisation
May 2012 Final exam

GOOD ATTENDANCE IS ESSENTIAL

Marking policy KS3:

National Curriculum levels are made simpler and are explained to pupils so they are aware of how to progress. Targets are set during lessons (making) for the students to act upon (performing). At the end of each unit, they will evaluate what they have learned (responding) through peer, self and whole class discussion.

Profile points will identify effort and assessment for learning will be integrated into the lesson planning.
Attainment levels will be indicated on the annual report.
*Although homework is not a feature of the KS3 curriculum, students are to be encouraged to develop their drama skills in other areas: social and communication; English speaking and listening; extra-curricular.

Marking policy KS4:

All students will be given a simplified version of the marking criteria. For each objective students will be shown how to progress through the skills from ‘limited’ to ‘accomplished’. Regular moderation of students’ work, both practical and written will occur during the year.	There will be 3 controlled tests throughout the key stage. Practical work will be filmed and both this, and the accompanying written record, will be internally assessed and externally moderated. Homework is set once a week.

Marking policy KS5:

Students are assessed on their ability to deconstruct text and evaluate live productions in essays. They are also expected to produce a piece of practical work and a series of supporting notes.

Students will each have an A Level handbook which will contain the relevant mark schemes. They will be set a variety of homework tasks which will be marked in line with these. Ultimately, they sit an externally examined paper and perform their practical piece to an AQA moderator.
Homework is set once a week by both teachers.

Homework policy:
KS4: Students will have 12 set pieces of homework throughout the academic year. Intermittent homework will also be set weekly (ie when one of the ‘12’ are not in progress) which will consist of either research tasks, rehearsals, line learning or the written evaluation of practical work completed in lesson.
The date for completion will depend on a) the nature of the task and b) the exam schedules set by the exam board.

KS5: Students will have 12 set pieces of homework throughout the academic year. Intermittent homework will also be set weekly (ie when one of the ‘12’ are not in progress) which will consist of either research tasks, essay practice, rehearsals, line learning or the written evaluation of practical work completed in lesson.The date for completion will depend on a) the nature of the task and b) the exam schedules set by the exam board.

Drama and Theatre Studies: Student Handbook

Introduction

Course outline
Independent Learning Project
Task: Quotations
Task: Audition speeches
Task: Theatre history timeline
Opening extracts 1 & 2
Opening extracts 3 & 4
Opening extracts 5 – 9
Unit 1a – Live Theatre: Keeping a production file
Unit 1a – Record of productions seen
Unit 1a – Prompt sheet
Unit 1a – Sample exam questions
Unit 1a – Mark scheme
Unit 1a – Sample essays and production notes
Unit 1b – Prescribed play – Sample exam questions
Unit 1b – Mark scheme
Unit 1b - Sample essays
Unit 2 – Presentation of an Extract from a Play
Unit 2 – Mark scheme
Unit 2 – Sample set of Supporting Notes
Unit 2 – Production schedule
HOMEWORKS

AS Drama – Set Homeworks

Policy: Students will have 12 set pieces of homework throughout the academic year. Intermittent homework will also be set weekly (ie when one of the ‘12’ are not in progress) which will consist of either research tasks, essay practice, rehearsals, line learning or the written evaluation of practical work completed in lesson. The date for completion will depend on a) the nature of the task and b) the exam schedules set by the exam board *.

Mark schemes for all units can be found in the AS Drama Student Handbook.

DATE	TASK	GRADE/MARK	Parent signature
September 2011	Independent Learning Project - written
September 2011	Independent Learning Project – practical
October 2011	Unit 1b – set text essay
November 2011	Unit 1a – live production essay
December 2011	Unit 1b – set text essay
December – January 2012	Unit 2 – research and line learning
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 1 - draft
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 2 - draft
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 3 - draft
April – May 2012	Writing introductions and conclusions
May 2012	Timed essay Unit 1a
May 2012	Timed essay Unit 1b

A2 Drama – Set Homeworks

DATE	TASK	GRADE/MARK	Parent signature
July - September 2011	Research project – the theatre of Berkoff
July - September 2011	Research project – Goldoni and the Commedia tradition
October 2011	Unit 3a – pre- 20th c. play essay
November 2011	Unit 3b – 20th c. essay
December 2011	Unit 3a – pre- 20th c. play essay
December – January 2012	Unit 4 – research and seminar presentation into chosen practitioner
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 1 - draft
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 2 - draft
Jan – March 2012*	Supporting Notes section 3 - draft
April – May 2012	Writing introductions and conclusions
May 2012	Timed essay Unit 3a
May 2012	Timed essay Unit 3b

A2 Drama – Set Homeworks