DISCOVER THE STAGE - Sydney Opera House

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
DISCOVER
THE STAGE
subject links:
HSIE/Science & Technology/
English
Teacher’s references:
Guidelines for Classroom Drama,
Theatre Superstition Cards, Still
Image Prompts, Stimulus Images
STAGE 3
OUTCOMES AND INDICATORS
Creative Arts
DRAS3.1
Develops a range of in-depth and sustained
roles.
DRAS3.2
Interprets and conveys dramatic meaning by
using the elements of drama and a range of
movement and voice skills in a variety of drama
forms.
DRAS3.3
Devises, acts and rehearses drama for
performance to an audience.
Indicators
• takes on a range of roles challenging character stereotypes, depicting
empathy, different and contrasting attitudes and status
• negotiates and sustains roles and their relationships in shaping the action
collaborates to convey dramatic meaning by responding abstractly to
represent ideas, feelings, objects and situations
Indicators
• responds confidently with gesture, movement and voice skills to a range of
scripts and other texts to structure the narrative or episodes and build on
the action of the drama
• interprets a dramatic context through the use of a combination of various
drama forms, eg improvisation, movement, mime, storytelling, puppetry,
mask, video drama and playbuilding
• combines and manages the elements of drama (eg tension, contrast,
symbol, time, space, focus and mood) to communicate the depth of
meaning of their drama work
Indicators
• devises drama in collaboration with others using scripted and unscripted
material as resources for drama performances
• organises space, props, costumes, artefacts, sound effects and movement
sequences to help define role, place and situation to interpret and convey
the meaning of the drama
• refines and performs drama work for a greater variety of audiences,
e.g. reworks and rehearses scenes which are then performed in places
such as the classroom, the school hall and in spaces beyond the school
environment
• devises, rehearses and acts in drama using voice and movement skills to
convey meaning to an audience
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DMS3.8
Develops and resolves a design task by planning,
implementing, managing and evaluating design
processes.
indicators
• describe the factors that influence design
• justify the decisions made in designing and making
• justify the combination of materials and techniques in relation to the
properties required for specific end uses
• describes the process of designing and making which can involve
identifying needs and wants, defining a design task, generating and
selecting ideas, assembling or constructing products, systems or
environments, and evaluating outcomes
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