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      <title>7 Stages of Grieving by Heidi</title>
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      <description>-	What do you know about the play?
-	What does the title make you think the play is going to be about?
-	What do you know about Aboriginal and Indigenous culture in Australia?
-	Do you know what the play is referencing when it discusses “The 7 Stages of Grieving”?</description>
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      <pubDate>2017-09-19 04:29:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[Subject	Unit 	 Topic	Year	Duration	Date
Drama	Epic Theatre	7 Stages of Grieving 	12	70 minutes	6/7/17
Mon
Aims
Students will:
•	Predict what the play is about
•	Discuss Indigenous issues
•	Perform scene 
•	Analyse scene	Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
•	Understand issues affecting Indigenous Australians
•	Understand content of play
•	Perform scene in various ways
•	Analyse scene using template	Resources:

•	7 Stages of Grieving play
•	Excerpt Scene 23 Plea
•	https://padlet.com/heidi_march/7stagesofgrieving 

Differentiation:
The use of meaning check questions, visual aids on the white board will be used to accommodate different learning styles. Learning will also be scaffolded through the use of small group work, pair work, whole class discussions and teacher modelling activities.
Time
	Activity 	Purpose of Activity	Resources
5 mins		What would you define as Australian theatre? 
	Think about: images, characters, themes and issues, symbols and metaphors, language, setting and landscape, cultural and political context, comedy and irony, atmosphere, element of biography and Australian identity
	Create definition	Set context of play 	
15 mins		Discuss quote: 
“All plays demonstrate at least one thing in common, the basic human need to give voice to stories that communicate something of value or something one has experienced or learned… the function of the story teller…is to make his or her experience the experience of those who listen or watch.”
(James Hillman, in the introduction to The 7 Stages of Grieving)
	Show play to class and introduce title “7 Stages of Grieving”
	Brainstorm the following questions:
	https://padlet.com/heidi_march/7stagesofgrieving 
	What do you know about the play?
	What does the title make you think the play is going to be about?
	What do you know about Aboriginal and Indigenous culture in Australia?
	Do you know what the play is referencing when it discusses “The 7 Stages of Grieving”?
	Ask indigenous students if they would like to share their perspective	Predict content of play
Form an understanding on Indigenous issues and background	7 Stages of Grieving Play
30 mins		In pairs ask students to read the scene aloud.
	Encourage students to try out extreme possibilities as actors might do during rehearsals.
	Ask pairs to go through the scene twice, trying out two contrasting sets of desires/movement/intentions and share their work.
	Ask students to think about replaying the scene in a range of different scenarios and locations/contexts, for example; as a hurried mobile phone conversation, in a really noisy assembly, passing notes between each other in class.
	How do the circumstances and surrounding affect what is being said?
	Does the audience pick up on different agendas or attitudes when the surroundings change?
	Perform to class	Form understanding of scene 	Scene 23 Plea
15 mins		Use template to analyse 23 Plea scene
Students consider:
	Character development
	Objectives, tactics and obstacles
	Blocking
	Physicality
	Things to remember	Analyse scene	Scene Breakdown Template
5 mins		Link to Epic Theatre – tie in to next lesson
	The episodic structure of The 7 Stages of Grieving expects the audience to make connections through a experiencing a number of different scenes which focus on the theme of grief. 
	The structure is epic as it spans a long period of time and place. 
	The 7 Stages of Grieving makes use of some of the techniques of Brecht’s Epic Theatre such as placards, projections, time span, alienation, court report, and direct address. 
	It is not Brechtian, as the production never attempts to emotionally disengage its audience.	Link to next lesson and drama genre	
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