Year 9 Drama Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 The Arts by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 10, students analyse how and why the elements of drama, performance skills and/or conventions are manipulated in drama they create, perform and/or experience. They evaluate how drama in a range of styles and/or from a range of contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They evaluate how drama is used to celebrate and challenge perspectives of Australian identity.
Students work individually and/or collaboratively to shape and manipulate use of the elements of drama, conventions and/or dramatic structures to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They use performance skills relevant to style and/or form to sustain belief, roles and characters in performances of improvised, devised and/or scripted drama for audiences.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 7 Content Descriptors:
Creating and making
Drama
AC9ADR10C01 improvise and devise drama, and interpret scripted drama, using elements of drama and conventions to shape and manipulate dramatic action and convey intended ideas, perspectives and/or meaning AC9ADR10C02 rehearse and refine drama making deliberate aesthetic choices to unify dramatic meaningDeveloping practices and skills
Drama
AC9ADR10D01 develop performance skills and/or techniques to manipulate elements of drama and/or use conventions to communicate the physical and psychological aspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions AC9ADR10D02 reflect on their own and others’ drama or practices to refine and inform their use of elements of drama, conventions and/or approaches to shape and sustain dramatic actionExploring and responding
Drama
AC9ADR10E01 investigate use of elements of drama, performance skills and/or conventions to communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts AC9ADR10E02 investigate the ways that drama created and/or performed by First Nations Australians celebrates and challenges multiple perspectives of Australian identityPresenting and performing
Drama
AC9ADR10P01 perform improvised, devised and/or scripted drama to audiences, using performance skills and conventions to shape the drama.At a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating and making | Drama | 2 | 13 |
| Developing practices and skills | Drama | 2 | 6 |
| Exploring and responding | Drama | 2 | 10 |
| Presenting and performing | Drama | 1 | 4 |
| Total | 7 | 33 | |