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WS01 - Blueback: Readers' Theatre

Drama, Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain the use of elements, concepts and/or conventions in arts works they create and/or experience. They describe how the arts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. They describe how the arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.

 

Students use subject-specific knowledge, elements, concepts, conventions, materials, skills and/or processes to create arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate safe practices. They present and perform their arts works in formal and/or informal settings.

By the end of Year 6, students explain how the elements of drama are used in drama they create, perform and/or experience. They describe how drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe how drama is used to continue and revitalise cultures.

 

Students work collaboratively as they combine elements of drama to shape and sustain dramatic action. They improvise and/or devise drama and/or interpret scripts. They perform their drama in informal and/or formal settings.

Creating and making

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

Presenting and performing

AC9ADR6P01

rehearse and perform improvised, devised and/or scripted drama in informal and/or formal settings

Annotations

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Connects their role to the dramatic action by responding to ensemble cues in Readers’ Theatre.

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2

Expresses the character’s excitement by varying voice and using facial expression and movement.

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3

Shows the character’s mood change (in response to the other character’s dialogue) with changes to facial expression, movement and gesture.

 21 22 20 40
4

Changes the set elements to communicate a different place.

 36 37 15 60
5

Performs movement that acknowledges the narration and helps communicate the imaginary space.

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6

Responds to the narration by sustaining focus on the other character.

 40 45 15 40
7

Demonstrates belief that the tableau is real by speaking over it to the other character.

 47 57 15 90
8

Expresses breaking water, using the whole body in an expressive gesture, and reinforces belief in the situation by pointing to the fish above them.

 60 63 25 60
9

Responds to narration and directs the action through varying voice and movement.

 66 78 20 40
10

Maintains belief in the situation by looking for the fish behind them.

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11

Maintains character and dramatic action by using gesture and facial expression to express how cold the water is.

 83 85 20 40
Transcript

As Abel carried the abalone meat up to the freezer shed, an idea came to him.

 

[Both] He'd call the fish Blueback.

 

He didn't know why it seemed right. He'd never seen anything so blue in his life. Not the sky nor the sea.

 

“Can we go tomorrow?”

 

“There's school tomorrow! Besides, we have enough abalone now.”

 

“We can fish off Robbers Head. There's jewfish out there!”

 

“After school, then, if the weather holds.”

 

He roamed the forest of the national park and swam in the sea every day.

 

She was working on a diesel generator with grease all up her arms. His mother was a good mechanic. She kept the truck and the outboard going on her own.

 

“Mum?”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“Let's not wait until tomorrow!”

 

“For what?”

 

“To see Blueback, the grouper.”

 

“Blueback is here? I must say, you're keen.”

 

Quite suddenly, Blueback was above them. He swooped down and took the bucking cray in a single swipe.

 

“Let's go back down!” said Abel's mother. I mean, said Abel, still tingling with excitement.

 

So they dived, so they dived again, but Blueback was holed up somewhere, scoffing crayfish, and wouldn't come out. In the end, the water got cold.

 

[Both] They headed home.