An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on texts in practice 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 understand the play Hard to swallow by looking at the different issues that affect young people today with a particular focus on eating disorders.

Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore a piece of drama that is based on eating disorders through freeze frames, role play and thought tracking.

Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to understand eating disorders and how they affect people through Mark Wheeler’s Hard to swallow.

Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand the characters of Maureen and John Dunbar and how their relationship has affected Catherine.

Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship to her parents by using a flashback and physical theatre to examine this family dynamic.

Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism in scene five and six from Hard to swallow.

Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism and stylisation in scene seven, nine and ten from Hard to swallow.

Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship with her immediate family through using physical theatre in section twelve.

Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore the epilogue of Hard to swallow and take an issue from Mark Wheeler’s play and devise a performance based on this stimulus.

Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to rehearse and select an extract for a mock assessment from Hard to swallow.

Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to perform our selected extracts for our final performance of Hard to swallow.

Lesson twelve: In this lesson students to complete a research project into the impact of eating disorders.