Auslan: First Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Engage with different types of creative texts, identifying and discussing characters, events and personal responses through the use of familiar signs, actions and artwork
Elaborations
participating in Auslan games using simple clauses in creative ways, for example, a freeze tag game, building on a text
viewing creative performance texts and identifying characters and events from Auslan narratives, poems and theatre performances, such the Australian Theatre of the Deaf
viewing and expressing personal responses to creative visual texts such as handshape art and art produced by/about Deaf people, Deaf culture or signed languages, for example, paintings by Nancy Rourke and animations by Braam Jordaan
comparing versions of creative signed texts and indicating preferences, for example, between different Auslan versions of the same story signed by different deaf people
responding to signed poems and ‘visual vernacular’ descriptions of a character’s appearance by shadowing, mimicking and drawing, for example, work by Frédéric Vaghi
participating in performance activities such as unscripted response-to-stimulus role-plays, recognising how characters’ feelings and attitudes are expressed through NMFs and manner
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
