Introduction

The activities and tasks in this section are aimed specifically at GCSE Drama students and are designed to address the criteria for Paper 1 Unit 2 of the Edexcel GCSE Drama Specification. However, it goes without saying that the activities can be used in accordance with any other specification or simply as a means of developing student’s drama skills and appreciation of the text in general.

The ideas outlined in the section Lesson Activities form a 3 hour workshop which was delivered to a number of Sheffield secondary schools in January and February 2004. The workshop can, of course, be split into smaller sections for delivery to your own students. The Presentation Tasks are further areas of development, within small group work, although again they can be adapted to your own particular needs. These were originally used by teachers and students after the workshop and culminated in a series of short dramatic presentations that each school performed on the main stage of the Crucible Theatre on Wednesday 11 February 2004 under the title of The Crucible GCSE Drama Project.

(Please note that text page numbers referred to in these resources are from The Penguin Edition of The Crucible.)

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