Auslan: First Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Communicating / Creating
Content description
Create or adapt imaginative texts and live or filmed expressive performances that involve imagined experiences and feature different characters, amusing experiences or special effects
Elaborations
participating in games and activities that focus on depicting the appearance and characteristics of people, animals or objects and their relationships
working collaboratively to create and present signed skits to entertain a targeted audience
re-enacting individual short stories or wordless animations that include two or more characters and their interactions through the use of constructed action
reinterpreting creative texts for effect, for example by changing emotions or movements through the use of NMFs and manner
using ‘visual vernacular’ to enact short scenarios involving imaginary characters, contexts and objects, by employing a range of depicting signs and constructed action
choreographing and performing a creative text (dance, signed song, poem), incorporating Auslan and focusing on matching timing, beat and rhythm
performing stories for a live audience with a focus on the visual communication of emotion and humour
creating the next scene, a new character or an alternative ending for a signed fable, short story or cartoon
creating original handshape poetry to present at a school assembly or community festival
creating a video record of an imagined formal or informal interview, incorporating elements of humour or tension and building character and mood through the use of NMFs and pauses
