1st L (F–10) 3-4
Communicating

Creating - Elaboration 6

- viewing a signed story that involves progressive action, tension and resolution

- identifying how signers use space to track a character or location throughout a text

- viewing and responding to a range of Deaf poetry for children, for example by creating an alternative ending or extra verse

- using NMFs to express changing emotions such as anticipation, fear or relief in response to elements of live or recorded signed stories

- viewing and responding to short recorded skits, for example by re-enacting favourite elements and modifying manner or aspect to provide additional emphasis or expression

- freezing cartoons or video clips of people/animals in amusing situations, signing a commentary on what has just happened and predicting what might happen next

- experimenting with different Auslan parameters to create and perform examples of gestural humour, as modelled in performances by companies such as the Hong Kong Theatre of the Deaf

- participating in games that focus on modifying manner or aspect for effect

- viewing a theatre performance designed for a deaf audience and sharing their reactions to the experience of viewing a theatre performance designed for a deaf audience

- engaging with different examples of Deaf humour or Deaf jokes and comparing them with examples of humour in spoken English or in silent films or mime

- shadowing signed elements of theatrical or cinematographic texts that use handshapes, such as the scene with hand-faces in the film Labyrinth

- comparing two signed versions of a story such as ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ and indicating their preference for one version over the other

- responding to elements of signed stories such as refrains or exclamations, for example by shadowing repeated signs, movements or facial expressions