The Arts

Year 10 Drama

Description

Students develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They explore drama through improvisation, scripted drama, rehearsal, and performance. Students continue to apply and refine a variety of performance styles and ways of presenting drama. They explore drama from a range of cultures, times, and locations used as a source of ideas for their practice. They evaluate the drama they view and perform to identify characteristics of performance and theatrical styles.

Learning Standards

Students will work from set stimulus to create drama works through improvisation and Playmaking techniques to perform to an audience. They will engage with a variety of different Performance Styles and explore the scope for character, plot, and ability to communicate meaning through drama. Students will record the development process to help evaluate the final performance.

Students examine the Performance Styles and conventions of selected practitioners to further enhance their own ability to construct meaning and communicate to a selected audience. This is done through discussion, research, and written responses. They will explore historical aspects of Theatre and respond to questions about their own achievements.

Assessment

• Creation of an Ensemble Performance

• Performance of a self-devised Ensemble

• Performance of a self-devised Solo

• Analysis of a Solo Performance

• Performance Styles Assignment

• Semester Examination

Architecture

Description

Year 10 Architecture provides an introduction to the world of architectural design. Architecture focuses on the planning and designing of public or domestic spaces, structures and developments. Students will investigate and analyse architecture movements throughout history. They will create a design proposal for the ‘City of Melbourne’ and propose a new development in the CBD. Using a range of technical drawing elements, students will create original works exploring a variety of design options. These drawings will then be realised in three dimensions by producing a small-scale model of the design.

Learning Standards

Explore and Express Ideas

Students develop and present visual communications that demonstrate the application of methods, materials, media, design elements and design principles that meet the requirements of a specific brief and target audience. They generate, develop and refine visual communication presentations in response to the brief.

Visual Communication & Design Practices

Students use manual and digital drawing methods to create visual communications in the specific design fields of Environmental, Industrial and Communication Design.

Present and Perform

They develop a brief that identifies a specific audience and needs, and present visual communications that meet the brief.

Respond and Interpret

Students analyse and evaluate the factors that influence design decisions in a range of visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts. They analyse and evaluate the use of methods, media, materials, design elements and design principles in visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts.

Assessment

• Design proposal

• Technical drawing folio (technical drawings and plans for an architectural model)

• Architectural model (small scale model of an original design)

• Text analysis (analysis of architectural movement and architect)

• End of Semester Examination

Pathways

• VCE Visual Communication and Design

• VCE Studio Arts

Art Description

The Year 10 Art course provides students with the opportunity to explore how and why selected artists have been inspired to produce artworks. They respond to the ideas and concepts explored in class through discussion, in written format and in the development of their own artworks. Students investigate a variety of techniques and materials and are given instruction in the production of two dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. They study Art Elements and Principles and communicate ideas and feelings through their analysis and response to artworks.

Students record their ideas and design processes in visual diaries.

Learning Standards

Explore and Express Ideas

Students explore the visual arts practices and styles as inspiration to develop a personal style, explore, express ideas, concepts and themes in art works. They explore how artists manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and express their intentions in art works.

Visual Arts Practices

Students select and manipulate materials, techniques, and technologies and processes in a range of art forms to express ideas, concepts and themes. They conceptualise, plan and design art works that express ideas, concepts and artistic intentions.

Present and Perform

Students create, present, analyse and evaluate displays of artwork considering how ideas can be conveyed to an audience.

Respond and Interpret

Students Analyse and interpret artworks to explore the different forms of expression, intentions and viewpoints of artists and how they are viewed by audiences. They analyse, interpret and evaluate a range of visual artworks from different cultures, historical and contemporary contexts to explore differing viewpoints.

Assessment

• Visual diary

• Painting

• Printmaking

• Sculpture

• Art appreciation

• Examination

Pathways

• VCE Studio Arts