English: Storytelling, Poetry, Imagination, Transformation of Text, Language, Literature
Drama: Transformation of Text, Performance Techniques, Creating and Making, Exploring and Responding, Developing Practice and Skills
Dramatic Forms & Styles: Children's Theatre, Cinematic Theatre, Magical Realism, Ensemble, Hybridity
General Capabilities: Literacy, Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capability, Ethical Understanding
Primary - ENGLISH (ACV9)
YEAR 1 - AC9E1LE02: Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature; explore how characters are represented.
YEAR 2
- AC9E2LE01: Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
- AC9E2LE02: Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
- AC9E2LE03: Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
- AC9E2LE04: Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs
YEAR 3
- AC9E3LE02: Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences
- AC9E3LE04: Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
- AC9E3LE05: Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
YEAR 4
- AC9E4LE01: Make connections between how different authors represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships.
- AC9E4LE02: Describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions
- AC9E4LE04: Examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning
YEAR 5
- AC9E5LE02: Present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others
- AC9E5LE04: Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
YEAR 6
- AC9E6LE03: Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts with related themes, topics or plots.
- AC9E6LE02: Identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style
- AC9E6LE05: Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices
- AC9E6LA09: Understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue
Primary - DRAMA (ACV9)
Year 1 - 2
- AC9ADR2D01: Use the elements of drama and imagination in dramatic play and/or process drama
- AC9ADR2P01: Share their work in informal settings
- AC9ADR2E01: Explore where, why and how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience drama
- AC9ADR2C01: Create and co-create fictional situations based on imagination and/or experience
Year 3 - 4
- AC9ADR4E01: Explore where, why and how drama is created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
- AC9ADR4D01: Use the elements of drama to explore and develop ideas for dramatic action in improvisations and/or devised drama
- AC9ADR4C01: Improvise and/or devise and shape drama using the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
- AC9ADR4P01: Perform improvised and/or devised drama in informal settings
Year 5 - 6
- AC9ADR6E01: Explore ways that the elements of drama are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama across, cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
- AC9ADR6D01: Explore ways to combine the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvisations, devised drama and/or scripted drama
- AC9ADR6C01: Develop characters and situations, and shape and sustain dramatic action to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvised, devised and/or scripted forms
- AC9ADR6P01: Rehearse and perform improvised, devised and/or scripted drama in informal and/or formal settings
