An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn with a complete and ready to go twelve lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.

If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to twelve lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the twelve core outcomes which are designed for this module.

In this twelve lesson SOW students will learn about:

Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to read and understand the first scene of Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn and begin to understand Ben’s backstory for this play.

Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use different dramatic styles such as a diamond four, mime and mirroring to recreate the events in scene two of Gizmo.

Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to examine Marcel Marceau’s ideas on mime and understand how they link to mirroring to inform our work on Gizmo.

Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand the difference between what a character says compared to their subtext and how we can perform this through non-verbal communication.

Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to develop and perform the theatrical skills of mime, mirroring, non-verbal communication and subtext in scene three.

Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to use a flashback, hot seating and narrative to explore how the characters are feeling during key moments of dramatic tension in Gizmo.

Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to create and understand dramatic characters such as antagonists through their costume, dialogue, physicality and vocals.

Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to convey a complex character, such as the undercover police office Sergeant Turner, and combine this with multi-rolling her undercover role as Cevril in the play Gizmo.

Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to create a roll on the wall, set design and final extract for our adaptation of the penultimate scene in Gizmo.

Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to create a court room drama to bring charges against Manny Rice and Lando for their damage and illegal involvements in the park.

Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to create and perform two short extracts from Gizmo with a directorial intention for our audience.

Lesson twelve: In this lesson students learn to rehearse and perform two short extracts from Gizmo with a directorial intention for our audience.