Lesson Overview
Students will delve into the differences of The Dreamtime versus Dreaming stories. Using storytelling, students will take on the role of local fauna and play a part in Australia’s First Nations Dreamtime story, Tiddalick The Frog, while exploring the importance of sharing water and resources.
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A student will learn to:
- take on both individual and group roles
- recognise that drama is used for different purposes in communities and cultures, e.g. through observations of indigenous performances.
A student will learn about:
- devising the action through movement and voice by adapting stories such as a well-known cultural story, developing a particular character, exploring the consequences of the story’s ending or creating dramatic meaning through metaphor.