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Visual Arts / Auslan Year 3/4: A Day in the Life of a School
Students view and discuss two images ‘A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road’ and ‘South Australian Institution Collage’ to gain information about a school at a particular time. They then create a similar art work based on their own school and arrange their work in a display to present to others.
Visual Arts / Auslan Year 5/6: A Day in the Life of a School
Students view and discuss two images ‘A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road’ and ‘South Australian Institution Collage’ to gain information about a school at a particular time. They then create a similar art work based on their own school and explore methods of presenting the work digitally.
Auslan Year 9/10: James Smith
Socialising: Describe activities and experiences and share and respond to ideas and feelings about people they know, their daily lives, social worlds and school community Creating: Create or adapt imaginative texts and live or filmed expressive performances that involve imagined experiences and feature different characters, amusing experiences or special effects
Visual Arts / Auslan Year 1/2: A Day in the Life of a School
Students view and discuss two images from the Victorian and South Australian deaf schools to gain information about a school at a particular time. They then create a similar art work based on their own school and present their work to the class, describing what they like about it.
Visual Arts / Auslan Foundation: A Day in the Life of a School
Students view and discuss two images ‘A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road’ and South Australian Institution Collage to gain information about a school at a particular time. They then create a similar art work based on their own school and share their artwork with the class, assessing their peers.
English Year 10: Language for Empowerment
Students analyse a ‘manifesto’ about the value of writing for a minority group – deaf people – to identify the author’s strategies for appealing to shared cultural knowledge, values and beliefs, and the experience of marginalization. Students then analyse 2-3 historical texts for examples of language that includes or marginalizes deaf people.
Unsolved Mysteries
History is full of mysteries. Why was Stonehenge built? Was King Arthur a real person? Who killed John F. Kennedy?
Deaf history has mysteries too! Click on the items below to learn more about some of our Australian deaf history mysteries. Maybe you will be the one to solve them?
But be careful and be prepared to check and double-check! Not all the documents tell the real story…
History is full of mysteries. Why was Stonehenge built? Was King Arthur a real person? Who killed John F. Kennedy?
Deaf history has mysteries too! Click on the items below to learn more about some of our Australian deaf history mysteries. Maybe you will be the one to solve them?
But be careful and be prepared to check and double-check! Not all the documents tell the real story…
Certificate III in Auslan - Deaf History Unit
Teachers and students of Certificate III in Auslan may find the following information helpful for the Deaf History unit. Click on the tiles to find resources related to each topic. Please see our Copyright and Usage page for information about citing the pages you refer to.
If you need to access any of the articles listed in “Further Reading”, you may need to become a member of your local state library in order to gain access to the journal databases. This is usually free and you can ask a librarian to help you locate items if needed.
