Years 3 and 4 · The Arts · Creating and making

AC9ADR4C01

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

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The same idea, year by year

Where AC9ADR4C01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Years 3 and 4.

1. Years 1 and 2AC9ADR2C01create and co-create fictional situations based on imagination and/or experience
2. Years 5 and 6AC9ADR6C01develop characters and situations, and shape and sustain dramatic action to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvised, devised and/or scripted forms