Descriptors›The Arts›Years 9 to 10›Developing practices and skills›Drama›AC9ADR10D01
AC9ADR10D01 Years 9 to 10 The Arts

AC9ADR10D01 | Years 9 to 10 Drama: Drama

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor 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
Strand
Developing practices and skills
Substrand
Drama

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Drama. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration experimenting with, reflecting on and refining the use of styles and conventions that have been explored in class in order to shape action; for example, considering how contemporary performance, non-realistic or innovative conventions can be used to re-shape or make a new meaning for a scene from a classic text; then workshopping the conventions and forms of comedy and shaping them into a short scene or applying them to a short piece of text
  • • Elaboration using analysis of examined text and performances to provide information for exploring and refining the implied or underlying aspects of character and dramatic action in a text or devised action
  • • Elaboration refining their skills of voice/vocalisation through warm-ups or exercises focusing on character and delivery or movement

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