ADA 1O 

This course emphasizes the active exploration of dramatic forms and techniques, using material from a wide range of authors, genres, and cultures. The study of dramatic arts provides students with an opportunity to take on roles, to create and enter into imagined worlds, and to learn in a unique way about themselves, the art of drama, and the world around them. Expectations are organized into three strands: Theory, Creation, and Analysis.  Drama is a collaborative art form. The problem solving, constructing, negotiating, communicating, presenting and reflecting are collaborative activities in the drama class. By working in both real and imagined worlds students will become better listeners, talkers, questioners and creators. Reflection allows students to explore personal and cultural biases and experience the universal aspects of what it means to be human. 

ADA 2O

The Grade 10 Dramatic Arts course requires students to explore dramatic forms and techniques, using their own ideas and concerns as well as ideas in sources selected from a wide range of genres, texts (used in the broadest sense), forms and cultures. Student learning includes the identification and use of the elements of time, place, role/character, dramatic situation/tension, and structure in creating, sustaining and communicating authentic drama. Students assume responsibility for decisions made in the creation and presentation of the drama, and analyse and reflect on the experience.Drama involves numerous complex collaboration skills, including problem-solving, creating, negotiating, communicating, consensus-building, supporting, presenting, and reflecting. By entering an imagined world, students learn new and unique ways to view themselves and their world. Their learning enhances their ability to listen, question, interpret, create, communicate, and reflect. The universals of human experience are explored in a safe, creative, reflective environment. 

ADA 3M 

This course builds upon the skills introduced and explored in Grades 9 and 10. Students apply skills and research various acting styles when preparing both original work and selected scripts. Students explore theatre conventions and are introduced to the works of selected major playwrights from the turn of the 20th century. Script analysis prepares students for dramatic presentations, and exploration of the many roles in theatre production introduces students to the professions associated with theatre. Building upon cooperative skills and creative collaboration, students work within the culture of ‘ensemble’ and experience the creative dynamics of a theatre company. They develop research skills through independent study. 

ADA 4M 

This course requires students to experiment with forms and conventions in dramatic literature, and to create/adapt and present dramatic works. Students will do research on dramatic forms, conventions, themes, and theories of acting and directing from different historical periods, and apply their knowledge of these in analysing and interpreting dramatic literature, including Canadian works and works from various cultures in the late twentieth century. Students will also examine the significance of dramatic arts in various cultures.This course also engages students in active learning. They apply their theory and knowledge in genuine theatrical contexts by working as actors, playwrights, and discerning audience members. The intent of the course is to make learning experiential to the greatest extent possible, while meeting the academic demands presented by the expectations and suitable for the university/college destinations of students taking the course.