QPAC

CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES:
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

GENERAL CAPABILITIES:
Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capability

General Senior Syllabi

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies (years 11-12)
Unit 2: Continuity, change and influences - Students investigate the different ways that Aboriginal societies and Torres Strait Islander societies responded to contact, invasion and colonisation.

• Analyse viewpoints and perspectives to explain the values and beliefs that had impacts on and influenced the cultures and identities of Aboriginal societies and Torres Strait Islander societies during periods of change.

Senior Dance syllabus (years 11- 12)
Unit 3: Moving Statements - How are technical and expressive skills used to communicate social, political or cultural viewpoints to an audience?

• Students will investigate how choreographers use dance to communicate a viewpoint, in a social, political or cultural context, to an audience.
• Students will expand their knowledge and understanding of how a choreographer’s life experiences influence the subject matter of their dance works and their choreographic processes.

Senior Drama syllabus (years 11- 12)
Unit 1: Share - How does drama promote shared understandings of human experience?

• Students explore the importance of drama as a means to tell stories and share understandings of the human experience in a range of cultures.

Senior English syllabus (years 11- 12)
Unit 2: Texts and Culture - Responding to texts, students analyse the relationship between language, representation, identity and cultural context, uncovering cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs that underpin texts.

• Consider how various texts reflect or challenge social and cultural perspectives.

Senior Drama syllabus (years 11- 12)
Unit 1: Share - How does drama promote shared understandings of human experience?

• Students explore the importance of drama as a means to tell stories and share understandings of the human experience in a range of cultures.

The Arts

The Arts Curriculum v9.0

Dance – Year 9 & 10
Exploring and responding
AC9ADA10E01 - investigate performers’ and/or choreographers’ use of elements of dance, choreographic devices, genre- or style-specific techniques, conventions and/or production elements to communicate. and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in dance across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.

Drama – Year 9 & 10
Exploring and responding
AC9ADR10E01 - investigate use of elements of drama, performance skills and/or conventions to communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.

English - Year 10
LANGUAGE
AC9E10LA07 - evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations.

LITERATURE
AC9E10LE03 - analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response
AC9E10LE07 - analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts.

LITERACY
AC9E10LY01 - analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect context.