Australian Drama
Australian plays and playwrights, and the stories and tensions they stage.
- Indigenous storytelling and contemporary Indigenous theatre
- The convict and colonial stage
- Australian realism and the 'Australian voice'
NSW Drama Stage 5 (Year 9) - Australian drama; scripted performance; devising and design - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Drama Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Australian plays and playwrights, and the stories and tensions they stage.
Preparing and performing a scripted scene to a standard, with interpretation.
Making new work and designing the world it happens in.
A Drama Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–4 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| interpret | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.