AC9ADR4D01 Year 3 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

use the elements of drama to explore and develop ideas for dramatic action in improvisations and/or devised drama

Elaborations

• 1 experimenting with the loudness/softness, pace and pitch of their voices/vocalisations to create roles and situations, time and place; for example, when initiating and developing roles and situations in process drama
• 2 exploring roles and situations; for example, by using language (choice of words, expressions and tone) or experimenting with ways to heighten tension in the dramatic action
• 3 improvising ways to connect short scenes, such as clapping a rhythmic pattern, saying words or phrases and/or through movement
• 4 developing spatial awareness when creating dramatic action; for example, considering how close/far apart they should stand to others in the performance space or how they can use movement to manipulate tension

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