Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content,
language, and text form
Language Features
Uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain effects
Essential
Questions:
Connections to student
voice/ interest/culture:
(opportunities for
students to make
connections/ inputs in
the choice of contexts?)
What are the values that this concept will give students the opportunity
to develop and strengthen?
Excellence
- by aiming high and by persevering in the face of difficulties
Diversity
- of cultures that we find in our own backyard
Community and Participation
- working together to produce a collective piece of drama in the
production
Possible SO WHATs?
How does the creation story relate to students lives?
- Do they know similar stories from their own or others
cultures?
What does understanding a cultures beginning tell us about the
human condition?
Immersio
n
Complete a safety
circle Emotional,
Listen to music to
create an
Activities:
physical and
intellectual safety
completed by the
the Creation Story
atmosphere of the
teacher for the
different themes of
production
this story.
Possible Learning Activities/ Resources:
Assessment Opportunities:
Vocabulary Exploration around themes
Interactions of students
Writing a Script for production
Contributions to school production
Exploring themes of story through personal writing
Pieces of writing/art/digital media
Creating a newspaper around the creation story
Observing students ability to transmit skills and knowledge to
other students
Producing artwork that explores the themes
Digital representations of the story
Exploring features of drama