2nd L (F–10) 7-8
Communicating

 Creating - Elaboration 6

- viewing and responding to sign poetry from around the world, for example by comparing differences and similarities in ‘visual vernacular’

- recognising how a character’s feelings and attitudes are expressed through NMFs and manner

- evaluating Deaf performances or art forms that use technology such as camera and lighting techniques to expressive effect, for example performances by Ian Sanborn

- describing and comparing responses to the use of colour and images by deaf artists such as Juan Fernández Navarrete or Nancy Rourke

- identifying and profiling Deaf artists who make use of music, for example members of the Deaf Performing Arts Network

- exploring how cultural values and the expression of identity are reflected in different forms of artistic expression, such as poetry performances by Walter Kadiki or John Wilson’s ‘Home’

- comparing visual elements of signed media texts with those of equivalent texts produced for a hearing audience, for example, the teen drama Switched at Birth with teen dramas from BSL Zone

- exploring the concept of metaphorical iconicity used in poems and narratives, for example by shadowing selected elements

- analysing how elements of theatre performance such as emotional nuance are communicated through interpreters in a live setting