What to do

Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.

Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.

You will perform a 2-4 minute performance from The Night Mechanics by Mīria George (2016), while demonstrating manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. In doing so, you will explore the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience.

Through taking this performance from page to stage in groups of 2-4, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience.

You will learn that the function of drama is how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will consider how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on a relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.

In discussion with your kaiako, you may be able to explore another play to show your learning.

The script

In a group you will read the script of The Night Mechanics by Mīria George. Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa during this process. As you work through the script, you will need to identify the stories that are being told. You will also consider whose cultures, societies, and histories the stories relate to, and the message that is being shared.

Questions to consider:

  • Who is telling the story?
  • Whom do they represent?
  • Is this a well-known story or perspective?
  • What are alternative perspectives on this story that differs from those being presented?

You should note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.

The storytelling

The script offers the possibility of drawing on a variety of storytelling styles including waiata, as well as naturalistic and epic theatre. Questions to consider:

  • How does the style of storytelling impact the story?
  • How is the audience experience different depending on the style of storytelling? For example, what might an audience member experience when watching naturalistic theatre that is different from presenting the story as epic theatre?
  • How will you decide on an important moment from the play to select for your performance? Focus on how to effectively communicate the main themes and purpose of your selected moment, and how they relate to the play as a whole.
  • How will your group explore which drama components (techniques, technologies, elements, and conventions) are best suited to honour your performance?
  • How will you use drama components to build and create our scenes in a way that connects with the audience and effectively communicates the messages and themes of the play?
  • How will you develop your character with consideration for their mana, your portrayal of them on stage, and how an audience might react to them?

You will rehearse with your group, showing care for each other and keeping active and engaged in the shaping of your performance.

Your presentation

You will work with your group to perform a short performance (2-4 minutes) from The Night Mechanics by Mīria George to an audience. In developing your performance, you must consider:

  • how your performance portrays your character and their experience
  • how you can ensure that your performance fairly and respectfully represents the character and their story.

Reflection

You will provide an individual reflection about the performance and how it may have connected with the audience. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.

1) You need to reflect on manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa:

  • How have you demonstrated manaakitanga while exploring theatre Aotearoa?
  • How does The Night Mechanics explore ways of demonstrating manaakitanga?

You might want to consider manaakitanga as:

  • the process of showing respect, care, and reciprocity between people, living things, and places
  • a way of being — to support, take care of, give hospitality to, protect, look out for, show respect, show generosity, and care for others.

2) Your performance:

  • Reflect on what you discovered about the cultural, social, and historical context of your play, and how this relates to your audience.
  • Describe and explain how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of The Night Mechanics and how this helped the audience understand the main ideas.
  • Describe and explain the choices you considered to enhance the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, entertain, educate, or transform your audience.

3) Reflect on the relationship between your performance and a specific community:

  • What have you learnt from performing a role in The Night Mechanics?
  • How is this drama relevant to your life, and your own experiences? Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
  • How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
  • What could your community learn from this performance?
  • In your opinion, what is the relationship between your performance and a specific community of people?

You will perform a 2-4 minute performance from The Night Mechanics by Mīria George (2016), while demonstrating manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. In doing so, you will explore the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience.

Through taking this performance from page to stage in groups of 2-4, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience.

You will learn that the function of drama is how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will consider how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on a relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.

In discussion with your kaiako, you may be able to explore another play to show your learning.

The script

In a group you will read the script of The Night Mechanics by Mīria George. Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa during this process. As you work through the script, you will need to identify the stories that are being told. You will also consider whose cultures, societies, and histories the stories relate to, and the message that is being shared.

Questions to consider:

  • Who is telling the story?
  • Whom do they represent?
  • Is this a well-known story or perspective?
  • What are alternative perspectives on this story that differs from those being presented?

You should note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.

The storytelling

The script offers the possibility of drawing on a variety of storytelling styles including waiata, as well as naturalistic and epic theatre. Questions to consider:

  • How does the style of storytelling impact the story?
  • How is the audience experience different depending on the style of storytelling? For example, what might an audience member experience when watching naturalistic theatre that is different from presenting the story as epic theatre?
  • How will you decide on an important moment from the play to select for your performance? Focus on how to effectively communicate the main themes and purpose of your selected moment, and how they relate to the play as a whole.
  • How will your group explore which drama components (techniques, technologies, elements, and conventions) are best suited to honour your performance?
  • How will you use drama components to build and create our scenes in a way that connects with the audience and effectively communicates the messages and themes of the play?
  • How will you develop your character with consideration for their mana, your portrayal of them on stage, and how an audience might react to them?

You will rehearse with your group, showing care for each other and keeping active and engaged in the shaping of your performance.

Your presentation

You will work with your group to perform a short performance (2-4 minutes) from The Night Mechanics by Mīria George to an audience. In developing your performance, you must consider:

  • how your performance portrays your character and their experience
  • how you can ensure that your performance fairly and respectfully represents the character and their story.

Reflection

You will provide an individual reflection about the performance and how it may have connected with the audience. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.

1) You need to reflect on manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa:

  • How have you demonstrated manaakitanga while exploring theatre Aotearoa?
  • How does The Night Mechanics explore ways of demonstrating manaakitanga?

You might want to consider manaakitanga as:

  • the process of showing respect, care, and reciprocity between people, living things, and places
  • a way of being — to support, take care of, give hospitality to, protect, look out for, show respect, show generosity, and care for others.

2) Your performance:

  • Reflect on what you discovered about the cultural, social, and historical context of your play, and how this relates to your audience.
  • Describe and explain how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of The Night Mechanics and how this helped the audience understand the main ideas.
  • Describe and explain the choices you considered to enhance the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, entertain, educate, or transform your audience.

3) Reflect on the relationship between your performance and a specific community:

  • What have you learnt from performing a role in The Night Mechanics?
  • How is this drama relevant to your life, and your own experiences? Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
  • How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
  • What could your community learn from this performance?
  • In your opinion, what is the relationship between your performance and a specific community of people?

How to present your learning

You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance by your group and present an individual statement of reflection.

Your reflections are to be gathered over time, and then collated into your final reflection for your assessment submission at the end of the process. You may present in one of the following ways:

  • Option 1: discuss your choices for performance, through an oral presentation of up to 4 minutes — the kōrero can happen either in front of the group or with your kaiako.
  • Option 2: a physical presentation of up to 4 minutes, reflecting the choices made in your performance using freeze frame moments with spoken thoughts.
  • Option 3: present a slide show presentation of no more than 5 slides explaining your choices for performance.
  • Option 4: a visual diary explaining your choices for performance — containing no more than five A4 pages of drawings, annotations, notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, and diagrams.
  • Option 5: a written text explaining your choices for performance, a maximum of 700 words.

Discuss preparation and performance times with your kaiako.

You may use assistive technologies or pre-record your oral presentation.

You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance by your group and present an individual statement of reflection.

Your reflections are to be gathered over time, and then collated into your final reflection for your assessment submission at the end of the process. You may present in one of the following ways:

  • Option 1: discuss your choices for performance, through an oral presentation of up to 4 minutes — the kōrero can happen either in front of the group or with your kaiako.
  • Option 2: a physical presentation of up to 4 minutes, reflecting the choices made in your performance using freeze frame moments with spoken thoughts.
  • Option 3: present a slide show presentation of no more than 5 slides explaining your choices for performance.
  • Option 4: a visual diary explaining your choices for performance — containing no more than five A4 pages of drawings, annotations, notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, and diagrams.
  • Option 5: a written text explaining your choices for performance, a maximum of 700 words.

Discuss preparation and performance times with your kaiako.

You may use assistive technologies or pre-record your oral presentation.

Timeframe

This assessment will take approximately four weeks to complete. Discuss with your kaiako to decide details of the duration, checkpoints, and submission for the final assessment.

This assessment will take approximately four weeks to complete. Discuss with your kaiako to decide details of the duration, checkpoints, and submission for the final assessment.

Getting started

You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance you can collate your reflections into your final reflection for your assessment submission. Your statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or up to 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.

Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start The Night Mechanics by Mīria George. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.

You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Make sure your kaiako explains what this looks like and record some examples as you go through the process.

This play is set in a future dystopian version of Aotearoa New Zealand and looks at the impact of decisions made in our history. In order to explore, discuss, and present your performance, you need to take the time to explore and discuss the stories that are being told and the communities that are telling them.

When you start reading the script, make sure you take note of whose story is being told and how it is being told. Then consider what you already know and what you might like to know about what inspired that story.

In your group, you will create a short performance from the play. By knowing whose story you are telling, and why the story from their perspective is important, you will be able to use your performance to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience.

You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance you can collate your reflections into your final reflection for your assessment submission. Your statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or up to 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.

Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start The Night Mechanics by Mīria George. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.

You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Make sure your kaiako explains what this looks like and record some examples as you go through the process.

This play is set in a future dystopian version of Aotearoa New Zealand and looks at the impact of decisions made in our history. In order to explore, discuss, and present your performance, you need to take the time to explore and discuss the stories that are being told and the communities that are telling them.

When you start reading the script, make sure you take note of whose story is being told and how it is being told. Then consider what you already know and what you might like to know about what inspired that story.

In your group, you will create a short performance from the play. By knowing whose story you are telling, and why the story from their perspective is important, you will be able to use your performance to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience.

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