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AC9ADR10C01: Year 9 The Arts Content Descriptor – Drama
AC9ADR10C01 Year 9 The Arts

AC9ADR10C01 – Year 9 The Arts: Drama

Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Drama

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

  • • using a teacher-provided framework such as stimulus material (imagery, text, questions, form/style, conventions, character list, narrative outline) and working collaboratively to devise drama in response to the framework; for example, drama that explores a theme such as solidarity, “my place”, or responds to issues identified from another learning area
  • • considering contexts such as audiences, viewpoints, intentions or purposes, style/form, as part of planning interpretations of scripted drama
  • • conveying the tensions in stories, ideas, characters, relationships, actions and dialogue through manipulation of elements of drama, such as language, movement and symbol, to engage audiences and elicit responses
  • • devising drama that presents a range of perspectives or responses to an event, question or situation; for example, presenting the same story from the perspective of different characters, using non-linear structures or conventions such as narrator/chorus, or introducing a new character to disrupt “agreed” understandings
  • • scripting scenes initially developed through improvisation or process drama and using play-building techniques to develop the scenes; for example, scenes for a music theatre work
  • • considering use of props, set items or digital tools to enhance communication of meaning in their drama

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASARTDRAY910
Year 9 The Arts Achievement Standard
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.