RELIGIOUS STUDIES

ADA2O – Grade 10 Drama

Ministry Course Description: This course provides opportunities for students to explore dramatic forms, conventions, and techniques. Students will explore a variety of dramatic sources from various cultures and genres. Students will use the elements of drama in creating and communicating through dramatic works. Students will assume responsibility for decisions made in the creative and collaborative processes and will reflect on their experiences.

HDCH Perspective: Grade 10 Drama builds on the skills of Grade 9 Drama while still offering a place for newcomers to learn and grow new skills in presentation, performance, and cultural awareness. Students will express their God-given talents through pantomime, tableau, improv, scene-building, and research, uncovering empathy and understanding for others through their exploration of character and genres.

ADA3M - Grade 11 Drama *Prerequisite: ADA2O

Ministry Course Description: This course requires students to create and perform in dramatic presentations. Students will analyse, interpret, and perform dramatic works from various cultures and time periods. Students will research various acting styles and conventions that could be used in their presentations, and analyse the functions of playwrights, directors, actors, designers, technicians, and audiences.

HDCH Perspective: The grade 11 drama course at HDCH strengthens student experience with drama as a creative, collaborative expression. Drama is the physical embodiment of story. By investigating drama across history and cultures, we gain insight into and empathy for the stories of other people in different places and times. Through the study of theatre history and modern acting theory students will analyze cultural shifts affecting theatre today. Through script analysis students will explore the relationship between page and stage. In our scene studies and text adaptation students will gain valuable experience in the creation of original and adapted work.

HRE13 - Old Testament Studies

HDCH Perspective: This Old Testament course features the inductive analysis of biblical textual material of the Old Testament in the context of the historical, cultural, and literary frameworks of the Ancient Near East. It develops the concepts of the Bible as the Word of God and teaches students responsible principles of interpretation. The remainder of the course gives students a solid overview of Old Testament redemptive history and an introduction to the major Hebrew divisions of the Scriptures. As they study the Scriptures, students will be challenged to live in obedience to God as a response to God’s love for his people and all of creation. They will learn from the experiences of others as they are recorded in Scriptures.

HRE23 - New Testament Studies *Prerequisite: HRE13.

HDCH Perspective: This New Testament course continues the history of revelation and redemption begun in the Old Testament and teaches students the main genres of the New Testament canon. The study of the gospel of Matthew shows that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament and helps students to understand the continuity of the Old and New Testaments. The study of three letters of Paul shows three stages in the development of the church as it dealt with three fundamental questions of faith and life: the relationship between Christianity and the Jewish faith and the return of the Lord; the application of Christian principles to issues of daily life such as food sacrificed to idols and marriage; and the defense of true doctrine and the government of the church. The study of the book of Revelation shows students that we are living between the ascension and the return of Jesus Christ and are actors in the script that is still being written. As they study this course, students will learn how to live out of the teachings of the Bible as they deal with life’s issues.