2nd L (F–10) 5-6
Communicating
Identity - Elaboration 10
- describing key milestones or important influences in their lives,
including people, events, experiences, community traditions or travel
experiences, explaining how these have helped shape their sense of identity and
their perspectives
- viewing a series of Auslan identity stories, such as those found in the
Griffith University Introduction to Deaf Studies Unit 1 set, comparing their own
experiences to those described by deaf children and adults in the footage
- making and sharing ‘hand identity charts’ to illustrate similarities and
differences in how students define themselves or may be defined by others, using
sketches of signs or gloss in the fingers of the chart and views of others
outside the handshape
- identifying Deaf community identities associated with significant places, such
as Martha Overend Wilson and the sites of the former Queensland Adult Deaf and
Dumb Mission, or Eugene Salas and the original South Australian Deaf
Society/Mission building