AC9L2AU10C03 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages 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.

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of signed, visual and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• 1 accessing information from a variety of signed sources to inform class discussions on current issues concerning the Deaf and their local community
• 2 reviewing signed texts about a social or cultural issue of relevance to their peer group, and creating questions to prompt evaluative responses from their peers
• 3 researching signed information about significant movements associated with Deaf rights across different times and contexts, such as the Milan Congress and Deaf President Now, and using information to present a signed comparison, review or evaluation
• 4 reading or viewing First Nations Australians’ stories in English or Auslan, and creating a profile of them in Auslan
• 5 viewing signed documentaries, interviews or speeches and commenting on how presentation of information can shape opinion and provide different perspectives
• 6 searching the internet for examples of work by Deaf dancers, musicians or performers of physical theatre and discussing effectiveness of performance in relation to entertainment, emotion or skill, for example, performances by Bernard Bragg, Evelyn Glennie or Elvin Lam
• 7 responding to forms of Deaf art that challenge perceptions and stimulate discussion, and writing a summary of viewpoints
• 8 comparing responses to creative texts that present personal or controversial points of view in powerful ways, for example, Deaf slam poetry performances
• 9 responding to signed poems that use extended metaphor to communicate values and ideas or to express emotional experience, for example, ‘Butterfly hands’ by Walter Kadiki
• 10 analysing information contained in different signed texts produced by or about the Deaf community, or issues that concern young people, identifying examples of bias and distinguishing between fact and opinion
• 11 responding to animations created by or about deaf people and discussing the effectiveness of conveying all parameters of signing
• 12 reading 2 reviews of the same deaf theatre performance and comparing the different interpretations in a digital summary
• 13 researching aspects of available interpreting services in the area, for example, qualifications required for employment, ethical considerations, the impact of interpreting and translating accuracy in specialised contexts, and presenting information in a multimodal format

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