NCEA L1 Drama case studies
NCEA L1 Drama · Put your knowledge to work in context.
NCEA Level 1 Drama is the first-year Drama offering within New Zealand's National Certificate of Educational Achievement, delivered through The Arts learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum. It is aimed at Year 11 learners who want to build performance skills while exploring how drama expresses cultural perspectives and worldviews through the histories and traditions carried in performance. The NCEA L1 Drama case studies are 5 cases and about 4,817 words.
1Devising Assessment: Five Performers, One Missing Rehearsal
A Year 11 Drama class is preparing the internal assessment in which students devise and perform a group drama. The group of five has chosen a 6-minute piece about a family tangi, and three weeks remain.
1,024 words, about 5 min2The Monologue That Rushes at the Climax
A Year 11 student, Ana, is preparing a 3-minute monologue from a New Zealand play for the internal assessment 'Perform an acting role'. She rehearses in the drama room, but the final assessment will be in the hall on a thrust stage with an audience of about 30 students.
960 words, about 5 min3Blue Lighting Is Not an Answer
For the external assessment on the use of drama aspects in a live performance, a Year 11 class saw a touring physical theatre production, 'The Long Pause', at a local theatre. Students must write about how drama elements, techniques, conventions and technologies were used to create meaning.
951 words, about 5 min4Commedia Essay Without the Lazzi
A Year 11 student, Tia, is preparing for the external assessment on a drama/theatre form. Her class studied Commedia dell'arte through practical workshops: stock characters, half-masks, lazzi, improvisation and audience interaction.
901 words, about 5 min5Three Cues, One Broken Fresnel
A Year 11 student, Ben, is taking the internal assessment for performing a technical or production role. He is lighting operator for the class production of a 20-minute play in the school hall.
981 words, about 5 min