1st
L (F–10) 9-10
Communicating
Creating
- Elaboration 6
- analysing examples of signed performance poetry, identifying patterns and
conventions such as repetition of handshapes and movement paths of signs to
create rhyme and to convey meaning
- interpreting visual representations of Deaf experience, including the use of
metaphors, perspectives, colours and textures in visual art forms such as
sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking or ceramics
- responding to forms of Deaf art that challenge perceptions and stimulate
discussion, such as the work of Christine Sun Kim or members of the Australian
Theatre of the Deaf or Deafinitely
- comparing responses to imaginative texts that present particular values or
points of view, for example, Deaf slam poetry
- reflecting on the multilayered dimension of signed narrative, identifying how
dynamic handshapes, facial expressions and body movements provide simultaneous
narrative, commentary and emotional expression
- comparing different recordings of signed storytelling, for example of young
children making up stories or older people telling traditional tales, noticing
differences in their language
- comparing their interpretations of/responses to performances by deaf
comedians, storytellers or poets
- viewing and reviewing media texts that use aesthetic, artistic or realistic
techniques to interpret and communicate dimensions of the Deaf experience, for
example the documentary Deaf Jam (2011)
- exploring the use of technology in Deaf art, film or performance, for example
to help build mood or emotional expression
- identifying relationships between elements such as imagery or signed sequences
in texts such as ballads, free verse or narratives, for example by working with
Auslan translations of Shakespearean texts
- 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
- comparing the visual nature of signed narratives with oral traditions of
Indigenous cultures
- analysing responses of hearing audiences to deaf performances, for example by
evaluating comments made by judges on reality/talent television shows
- discussing the complexity of live theatre performance interpretation and the
use of deaf interpreters and consultants
- creating highly complex narratives combining and switching between ways of
reference, for example, CA, DS, lexical signs and frames of spatial reference