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Unwrapping the Arts
- Level 1: Freeze-frame characters
- Level 2: Interpreting Taonga Kites (A Found Object)
- Level 2: Conversations
- Level 3: Improvisation – Different expectations
Check out the tips for some useful conventions. - Level 4: Hotseating – A significant moment
Hot seating, role on the wall, freeze frame, and speaking thoughts aloud. - Level 4: Scenes on current issues
Devise scenes on current issues using the conventions of mimed activity or overheard conversation, using writing in role and chorus. - Level 5: Freeze-frames – An historical event
Using freeze frames to highlight key moments from a historical event. - Level 5: Creating a character’s life
Including creating artefacts and hot seating.
The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts
- Drama: Level 4: Busted.
In small groups, students select and use a number of conventions to structure short scenes. - Drama: Level 5: Parihaka
Students select and use a number of techniques, conventions, and props to interpret a poem.