GCSE Drama – Scene Study and Duologues

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Written by a highly experienced and respected Drama teacher and Author, Annie Fox, this comprehensive resource offers detailed guidance on how to approach performing duologues for the GCSE Drama course. It aims to help students have the most positive possible experience of performing duologues, from choosing ones that suits their skills, supporting their rehearsals and trouble-shooting common problems.

  • Provides guidance on how to select a duologue, including the choice of character, content and genre.
  • Includes a large selection of exemplar duologues for performance practice, each with a summary of the setting and characters, as well as notes to aid in understanding and breaking down the scene.
  • Offers advice and tips on how to rehearse and troubleshoot common issues such as forgetting lines and ensuring students demonstrate a range of skills.
  • Covers a wide range of genres and styles, including the horror thriller Let the Right One In, the friendship drama Out of Love and the hilarious fantasy comedy, Alice.
  • Supports all GCSE Drama specifications including AQA, OCR, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas, and offers high-quality support you can trust.

Includes the following plays:
Drama:  Let the Right One In, Rope, Hymn, Leave Taking, Thebans, Out of Love, The Arrival, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Comedy:  Alice, The 39 Steps, The Importance of Being Earnest, Beauty and the Beast, Twelfth Night, The Rivals, Pygmalion

Additional charts and grids to help students with rehearsals and note-taking are available to download from the Resources and Downloads tab.

GCSE Drama – Scene Study and Duologues Boost eBook

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Written by a highly experienced and respected Drama teacher and Author, Annie Fox, this comprehensive Boost eBook offers detailed guidance on how to approach performing duologues for the GCSE Drama course. It aims to help students have the most positive possible experience of performing duologues, from choosing ones that suits their skills, supporting their rehearsals and trouble-shooting common problems.

  • Provides guidance on how to select a duologue, including the choice of character, content and genre.
  • Includes a large selection of exemplar duologues for performance practice, each with a summary of the setting and characters, as well as notes to aid in understanding and breaking down the scene.
  • Offers advice and tips on how to rehearse and troubleshoot common issues such as forgetting lines and ensuring students demonstrate a range of skills.
  • Covers a wide range of genres and styles, including the horror thriller Let the Right One In, the friendship drama Out of Love and the hilarious fantasy comedy, Alice.
  • Supports all GCSE Drama specifications including AQA, OCR, Edexcel and WJEC/Eduqas, and offers high-quality support you can trust.

Includes the following plays:
Drama:  Let the Right One In, Rope, Hymn, Leave Taking, Thebans, Out of Love, The Arrival, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Comedy:  Alice, The 39 Steps, The Importance of Being Earnest, Beauty and the Beast, Twelfth Night, The Rivals, Pygmalion

 

GCSE Drama – Performing Monologues

A practical, hands-on resource to help students tackle the Performing Monologues aspect of their Drama GCSE.

  • Written by Annie Fox
  • Provides guidance on how to choose a monologue, including the choice of character, style, content and genre.
  • Includes a large selection of exemplar monologues and offers a synopsis of the play, rehearsal techniques and areas for further research on each one.
  • Contains notes on additional scenes from the plays which could also be considered, studied and performed.
  • Advice on how to rehearse, and how to tackle common problems such as timing, nerves, voice and eye-lines.
  • Downloadable pro-forma sheets are also available including a rehearsal schedule, research, feedback, post-rehearsal notes and performance checklist.
  • Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specifications.

Worksheets and Templates to accompany the book are available to download FREE on the Resources and Downloads tab.

GCSE Drama – Live Theatre Evaluation

A practical, hands-on resource to help students tackle the Live Theatre Evaluation aspect of their Drama GCSE.

  • Covers the different elements of theatre performance and the Evaluation requirements from each awarding body.
  • Includes advice on how to prepare before viewing a performance.
  • Provides guidance on analysing and evaluating acting, sets, costume, lighting and sound.
  • Support for developing writing skills such as expressing and ordering ideas, plan making and common problems.
  • Contains sample practice questions.
  • Suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specifications.

Worksheets and Templates to accompany the book are available to download FREE on the Resources and Downloads tab.

 

 

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  • Supports the core mathematical skills that have an increased relevance and importance in A Level Biology specifications.
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  • Helps students decode examination questions to find the biological question being asked and put the problem into a mathematical form to find an answer.
  • The material has been mapped against the mathematical requirements for the A Level Biology courses from AQA, Pearson, OCR, WJEC, CCEA, the International Baccalaureate and the Cambridge Pre-U.

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This book will help you develop a thorough understanding of the essential mathematical skills required in A Level Chemistry.

  • Written by a bestselling author and examiner, this full-colour course companion reinforces all the maths skills and techniques required for your exams.
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Written by senior examiners, this full-colour course companion helps students develop a thorough understanding of the essential mathematical skills required in A Level Physics.

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