Drama unit of work for Year 3 and 4.

By the end of Year 4, students:

• Describe use of selected elements of drama in drama they experience, create and/or perform
• Describe where, why and/or how drama is created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
• Use selected elements of drama when creating drama and/or performing
• Collaborate to improvise and/or devise drama that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Perform their work in informal settings.

Exploring and responding

AC9ADR4E01: Explore where, why and how drama is created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

AC9ADR4E02: Explore how First Nations Australians use drama to communicate their connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place

Developing practice and skills

AC9ADR4D01: Use the elements of drama to explore and develop ideas for dramatic action in improvisations and/or devised drama

Creating and making

AC9ADR4C01: Improvise and/or devise and shape drama using the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Presenting and performing

AC9ADR4P01: Perform improvised and/or devised drama in informal settings

Unit Guide

9 weeks

Summative: Students create a performance poetry piece from individual reflections each ‘earth guardian’ has written. These lines are their messages of sustainability to the world.

• Individual lines are generated based on drama experiences and research.
• Students sequence and extend these into an original poem.

This poem is then shaped by the group using the elements of drama to create a performance piece.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
• Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
• Sustainability

• Literacy

• Personal and social capability

• Intercultural understanding

• Numeracy

• Ethical understanding

• ICT capability

• Critical and creative thinking

• Understanding the lived experience of First Nation’s sustainability practices/values through the manipulation of Dramatic conventions.
• Encourage agency and impact in themselves and others by taking on a ‘role’ in this sustainability process.
• Earth Guardians on a quest to gather information, wisdom, thoughts, wonderrings, collective experiences to give voice to the last tree on earth.