PERFORMING ARTS Year 7 • PERFORMING ARTS
Year 8 • PERFORMING ARTS
OVERVIEW DRAMA
MUSIC
DRAMA
Year 7 music is a semester length classroom course, incorporating composition, improvisation, listening, theory and performance. Students will have the opportunity to develop their musical knowledge and experience through a series of activities and assessments focused on key foundational musical skills, with an emphasis on:
Year 7 students will undertake a number of character design elements over one semester. Students learn to develop their dramatic skills by imagining and creating roles and relationships that convey characters consistent with performance styles and situations. Students learn improvisation techniques, thinking about physical codes and conventions of character, unpack ideas around The Hero’s Journey and understand how to communicate meaning and status through movement. Improvisation is the Skill Based Assessment while the Superhero Design & Performance Unit is the Weighted Assessment.
Year 8 Music is a semester length classroom course, incorporating composition, improvisation, listening, theory and performance. Students have the opportunity to develop their musical knowledge and experience through a series of activities and assessments focused on key foundation musical skills, with an emphasis on guitar performance.
Over the course of the semester, Year 8 students continue to develop their dramatic skills by imagining and creating roles and relationships that convey characters consistent with Performance Styles and situations. Students will learn improvisation techniques, thinking about physical codes and conventions of character and will experience the Performance Style of Commedia Dell'arte and investigate stereotypes. Students will undertake two units of work over the semester. Unit 1 explores Stereotypes and is a Weighted Assessment, Unit 2 explores Comedy Performance and is a Skill Based Assessment.
■ body percussion and rhythm ■ musicianship musical hearing and comprehension ■ rhythm and melody transcription ■ introduction to body percussion, featuring performances ■ introduction to guitar ■ composition and group work ■ listening assignments based on the elements of song forms.
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OVERVIEW
MUSIC
■ musicianship musical hearing and comprehension ■ rhythm and melody transcription ■ continuation of basic guitar course, featuring performances ■ guitar composition, a composition task featuring notated music ■ melody, improvised solos and chordal accompaniment ■ listening assignments based on six elements of music.
