SHS3 Literature In English · Semester 2 Week 1: Appreciation

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 3.3.2.LI.4 - Appreciate varied drama texts for their empathetic effects

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Define empathy and explain how drama texts create empathetic responses in an audience or reader.
Identify specific moments in a drama text that evoke empathy for a character, citing evidence from dialogue, stage directions, or action.
Analyse how dramatic tools (dialogue, soliloquy, aside, characterisation, conflict, and staging) work together to produce empathy in a chosen scene.
Appreciate varied drama texts for their empathetic effects by responding critically for presentation and discussion with peers.
Assess their own and others’ appreciations of empathetic effects using a provided guide, offering constructive feedback.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Drama (Strand 3)
Sub-strand: Appreciation (3.2)
Content standard: 3.3.2.CS.1 - Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of tools of appreciation in analysing varied dramatic texts. 3.3.2.LO.1 Use dramatic tools in appreciating varied dramatic texts
Indicator: 3.3.2.LI.4 - Appreciate varied drama texts for their empathetic effects
Suggested placement: Semester 2, Week 1 (Week 21 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 141

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Task Group:

- In task groups, appreciate a given text for its empathetic effects. Present the work to the class. i

- Alone, appreciate a text for its empathetic effects. Share your work with a partner. Assess and monitor your work using the guide.

- Learn from others and exchange ideas and lend support to others in the group.

Assessment (3.3.2.AS.4). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 3 Strategic reasoning; Level 4 Extended critical thinking and reasoning.

Teaching and Learning Resources:
- 3D Living pictures
- Action clip
- Film and skits online/internet
- Varied level appropriate drama texts (both local and foreign)