Auslan: Second Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Express imaginative ideas and visual thinking through the use of familiar modelled signs, mime, gestures, drawing and visual supports, with a focus on emotions, appearance and actions
Elaborations
participating in games and imaginative activities that involve representation of the appearance, characteristics and relationships between different people, animals or objects
working collaboratively to create and present signed skits or poems to entertain younger learners
re-enacting short stories or wordless animations that include two characters and their interactions through the use of constructed action
reinterpreting creative texts for specific effect, for example by changing emotions or movements through the use of NMFs and manner
using ‘visual vernacular’ to create and enact a short scenario about an imaginary character and a particular object, using SASS, entity and handling depicting signs and constructed action
creating amusing sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as the index finger ‘point’:
