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How’s drama used as a vehicle for storytelling and an expression of First Nations identity and resilience?
Warning — First Nations teachers and students are advised that this curriculum resource may contain images, voices or names of deceased people.
Unit details
Y6 Drama, Media Arts, HASS & Health and PE![](/_resources/themes/austogether/dist/images/icons/Lesson-Time.png?m=1691730933)
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Unit overview
This unit explores how the identity of First Nations Peoples, including concepts of resilience and cultural storytelling, is embedded in a performance culture, where nonverbal communication is valued.
Students will inquire into:
- the power of contemporary dramatic performance in telling the stories of the past and the present
- storytelling as a dramatic art and a powerful teaching tool
- active film elements and dramatic technique
- First Nations artists and how a story can be told through drama
- significant stories that tell of resilience and cultural identity.
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