1st
L (F–10) 5_6
Communicating
Creating
- Elaboration 6
- comparing their reactions to imaginative texts that evoke positive or
negative emotional responses, making connections with experiences in their own
lives that have produced similar feelings
- participating in performance activities such as unscripted
response-to-stimulus role-plays, recognising how characters’ feelings and
attitudes are expressed through NMFs and manner
- viewing and comparing expressions of Deaf experience through different visual
art forms, such as painting, photography or sculpture, comparing with their own
use of visual forms of expression of feelings and experience
- drawing comparisons and making connections between their own experiences and
those of fictional characters in popular television series or films
- comparing the use of rhyme in written verse with the repetition of handshapes
and movement paths in signed poetry performance
- identifying cultural conventions of Deaf theatre, such as maintaining eye
contact and positioning of characters
- identifying key messages or values conveyed through folktales, myths or
legends, for example by creating mind maps to show relationships between
concepts such as courage, loyalty, love
- describing the shape and sequence of a shared story or skit, identifying
elements such as setting the scene, climax and resolution
- considering how different modes of creative expression, such as theatre or
visual arts, influence personal response to texts
- tracking and reflecting on the experiences of deaf dancers and choreographers,
for example as contestants in shows such as So You Think You Can Dance
- viewing and responding to sign poetry from around the world, for example by
comparing responses to differences and similarities in ‘visual vernacular’