AC9ADR6D01 Year 5 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 imagining and developing a “new scene” to include in a dramatic re-telling of a known narrative
• 3 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?”
• 4 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
• 5 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

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