AC9ADR8E01 Year 7 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

investigate ways the elements of drama and/or conventions are used to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

• 1 researching and noticing how the impact of time and place/context of a drama from a particular period can differ from that of another period, particularly in relation to the use of drama conventions
• 2 using Viewpoints to analyse and evaluate performances they have experienced and/or participated in by asking questions such as “What ideas did you think the drama expressed?”, “What conventions were used to establish time/place/context?”, “How was movement used in the drama?”
• 3 writing or pod/vodcasting a review of a drama they experience, focusing on use of specific elements of drama and/or conventions; for example, identifying and describing how an element of drama has been manipulated to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
• 4 analysing how linear and non-linear narrative is used in examples of drama from diverse cultures; for example, in contemporary drama from countries or regions in Asia or in drama from historical times

Related Achievement Standards