Auslan Year 9/10: James Smith
learning-sequence | Auslan (L1 pathway) | Year Level(s): 9, 10
Use Auslan to describe a convict with a colourful past.
Overview
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
Outcomes
Interact with others to create visual imaginative texts using Auslan vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Suggested Activities
Describing The Escapee
Students work in pairs, using James Smith’s Certificate of Freedom to develop a police identikit so that they can catch James Smith, who has absconded (again!). Click “download activity” to get the full instructions and printable handout.
Outcomes:
Sstudents will use SASS depicting signs in meaningful ways, to describe physical characteristics such as the scars and tattoos of a historical deaf person
students will use spatial location appropriately when describing marks on a human body
Key Concepts/Vocabulary:
Whatever Happened To James?
Students work together to create descriptive scenes showing how James got his many scars, injuries, and tattoos. Click “download activity” to get the full instructions and printable handout.
Outcomes:
Students will practice and demonstrate ‘visual vernacular’ techniques to describe fights, accidents, or actions such as tattooing
students will use constructed action to describe the behaviours and movements of imagined characters in a historical context
