AC9ADR8P01 Year 7 The Arts

AC9ADR8P01 – Year 7 The Arts: Drama

Strand

Presenting and performing

Substrand

Drama

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.

Content Descriptor

rehearse and perform improvised, devised and/or scripted drama to audiences, using performance skills and conventions relevant to style and/or form

Elaborations

• performing and using conventions relevant to style, suiting choices to the underlying dramatic structure
• collecting and evaluating audience feedback to enhance future performance
• using Viewpoints to ask reflective questions such as “What were your intentions in the drama?”, “Was meaning made clear for the audience?”, “What audience reaction or feedback did you get to suggest it was engaging?”
• respecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights when performing drama that explores First Nations Australians’ perspectives on themes and issues such as identity, resilience, oppression or environmental practices

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASARTDRAY78

Year 7 The Arts Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students analyse how elements of drama and/or conventions are manipulated in drama they create and/or experience. They evaluate the ways drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe respectful approaches to creating, performing and/or responding to drama. Students work collaboratively to manipulate elements of drama and conventions to shape and sustain dramatic action in improvised, devised and/or scripted drama. They employ performance skills to convey dramatic action and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when performing drama to audiences.