KS3 Drama Brecht Student Work Booklet

This 20 page workbook accompanies the PowerPoint to the project Brecht – KS3 Drama. It was implemented to show evidence of teaching and learning. It is packed with tasks to accommodate all levels of learning and interaction including extra tasks in the back for lessons such as cover and behaviour exclusions. This project is taught in Year 7 but is suitable for KS2 as well.

Examples of tasks are:

1. Knowledge Organiser
2. History of Brecht – Key Terminology
3. Devising a short performance on a world issue.
4. Peer Evaluation.
5. Looking at Didactic, Gestus.
6. Analysing a news report video for commentary techniques.
7. Plan a performance that demonstrates the use of Brecht theatre.

These materials were created by a non-specialist educator with dyslexia, who was tasked with teaching a few hours a week from a complex scheme of work in a department with limited or no resources. Over the past 6 years, PowerPoint teaching resources have been developed to support non-specialists and new teachers, and more recently, work booklets have been introduced to support theory-based learning and evidence of teaching.