AC9ADR6C01 Years 5 to 6 The Arts

Content descriptor develop characters and situations, and shape and sustain dramatic action to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvised, devised and/or scripted forms

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring physical, fictional or emotional spaces to create characters and respond to situations
• • Elaboration varying use of voice/vocalisation using techniques such as projection, dynamics, pace, pause and pitch, to create and communicate characters’ intentions, or exploring how movement and gesture can be used without voice/vocalisation to communicate ideas or intentions
• • Elaboration rehearsing, interacting and negotiating with others to interpret scripts and create characters and their relationships
• • Elaboration using Viewpoints to ask questions when exploring character; for example, “How did the performers use the elements of drama and design elements effectively?”, “For what purposes did they make drama?”, “What evidence supports your judgement about the drama?”
• • Elaboration devising drama based on research or knowledge about a project happening in their school/local community to encourage cultural awareness or to present different perspectives in a debate, such as a debate about an environmental issue
• • Elaboration working collaboratively to devise drama for a school ritual, gathering (such as an assembly) or ceremony; for example, drama that explores a school motto, a health message or a campaign such as “no-packaging lunch”