AC9ADR6D01 Years 5 to 6 The Arts

Content descriptor explore ways to combine the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvisations, devised drama and/or scripted drama

Elaborations

• • Elaboration experimenting with empathy to develop characters and relationships in drama, considering situations from the perspectives of different characters, exploring responses and challenging stereotypes; for example, when interpreting scripted drama
• • Elaboration imagining and developing a “new scene” to include in a dramatic re-telling of a known narrative
• • Elaboration using Viewpoints to ask questions to explore the role of cultures in the use of elements of drama, such as “How are relationships, language and symbols shaped by cultures?”, “How do we use our own cultures to create shortcuts of meaning and ideas?”, “How do we understand the cultures of others?”
• • Elaboration using improvisation or process drama to compare different ways that improvised and scripted drama can create characters and action, or evaluating drama they experience in live performance and considering how they can use specific techniques in their own work
• • Elaboration imagining that they are in the time/place of an historical event and considering why people involved in the event made (or will make) certain decisions and/or what they could have done differently