This document discusses the use of drama in the curriculum at Daugavpils Secondary School No. 3 in Latvia. It aims to develop students' critical thinking and understanding of cultural differences. Drama is analyzed through interpreting conflicts in literary works, character analysis, and role playing. Students also create comic strips, films, and record voices based on stories. The school holds various drama competitions and festivals where students perform dances and plays for audiences and judges. It also has an after-school theatre studio open to all grades. The new curriculum will further incorporate drama to help students develop presentation skills and cultural identity while experiencing different artistic forms of expression.

1. Drama
in Daugavpils Secondary
School No 3, Latvia
November, 2018

2. Aim:
To develop critical
thinking of students.
To teach to understand
cultural differences.

3. Drama in Curriculum
 During the lessons drama is analyzed as:
 an interpretation of conflicts and
situations of a literary work, as well as an
analysis of character traits and feelings
according to the situation of life;
 finding, understanding and explaining the
means of expressions used by the author;
 reading in roles. (Reflection in Person 1 -
Entry into the heroic role).

4. Drama in Curriculum
Creation of comic strips, films based
on story motifs;
Recording the voice, sound, mimicry
according to hero and situation;
Language research(e.g. creating a
dictionary of old words).

5. Competitions, Projects, School
and City events, Creative works

6. Competitions, Projects, School
and City events, Creative
works

7. Competitions, Projects, School
and City events, Creative
works

8. Out-of-class drama
Our school theatre studio
since 2000;
No age limitation (1-12th
grades).

9. School Festival “Inspired by
Spring”
All class of students choose the
music, create a dance and make
a performance in front of the
audience (students and
teachers) and judges (teachers
from School and representatives
of Daugavpils Education
Department).

10. School Festival “ Inspired by
Spring”

11. Competition "Language
Carousel"
It is a week when students of city
schools show their knowledge in
different languages - Russian,
Latvian, Polish, English, German,
French, etc. The final day is the end
of the concert where the children
play performances.

12. Competition "Language
Carousel"

13. Project week
Within the project week, a poem
about Latvija was created. A
scenario based on poetic texts was
developed.

14. Project week

15. School 2030
In the new syllabus Drama, which
can also be integrated with other
subjects, students will gain
knowledge and skills, including
public speaking, presentation skills
and performance.

16. School 2030
The goal: to discover and develop students'
creative talents, knowledge and skills, as
well as to evaluate and interpret diverse
forms of creative expression by learning how
to understand cultural differences and
shaping their cultural identity.

17. School 2030
Students are expected to experience
cultural events, gain emotional and
aesthetic experience and develop
personal cultural needs, participate
in the preservation of cultural
heritage and inheritance of
traditions.

18. School 2030
 For the acquisition of the new syllabus
"Drama", 4-6 class pupils and 7-8 class
students will have 70 Academic hours per
School Year.

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