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Content description VCASFC042

Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Engage with different types of creative and imaginative texts by identifying important elements, discussing ideas, characters and themes and making connections with their own ideas and experience
Elaborations
  1. 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
  2. participating in performance activities such as unscripted response-to-stimulus role-plays, recognising how characters’ feelings and attitudes are expressed through NMFs and manner
  3. 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
  4. drawing comparisons and making connections between their own experiences and those of fictional characters in popular television series or films
  5. comparing the use of rhyme in written verse with the repetition of handshapes and movement paths in signed poetry performance
  6. identifying cultural conventions of Deaf theatre, such as maintaining eye contact and positioning of characters
  7. 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
  8. describing the shape and sequence of a shared story or skit, identifying elements such as setting the scene, climax and resolution
  9. considering how different modes of creative expression, such as theatre or visual arts, influence personal response to texts
  10. 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
  11. viewing and responding to sign poetry from around the world, for example by comparing responses to differences and similarities in ‘visual vernacular’
Code
VCASFC042
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