Years 7-10 ACARA 9.0 Descriptors and Elaborations:

Drama

Exploring and Responding

Investigate how drama practitioners collaborate with First Nations communities to develop contemporary theatre that reflects their perspectives, resilience, and identity, and how global trends influence this work. Examine and critique how contemporary theatre explores and challenges concepts of Australian identity, including the impact of colonisation.

History

Knowledge and Understanding

Understand the impact of European contact and settlement on First Nations Peoples of Australia, focusing on significant events, ideas, people, groups, and movements that influenced Australian society. Compare different experiences of colonisers, settlers, and First Nations Australians, and explore how these experiences influenced societal ideas, beliefs, and values.

Health and Physical Education

Personal, Social and Community Health

Analyse and reflect on how values and beliefs shape identities, including how individuals influence each other’s identities and how gender stereotypes affect roles, decision-making, and power dynamics in relationships. Examine the roles of respect, empathy, power, and coercion in developing and maintaining respectful relationships, and evaluate how these factors impact such relationships. Investigate strategies to value diversity and promote inclusion within communities and propose actions for individuals and groups to challenge biases, address stereotypes, and communicate effectively, including managing emotions and negotiating consent.

Drama 11-12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 1: Share

Examine the role of drama in storytelling and understanding diverse human experiences across cultures, with a focus on Australian voices, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. They will engage with foundational drama content, skills, and processes to explore and celebrate the richness of Australian experiences and aesthetic awareness.

Unit 2: Reflect

Students explore how drama can authentically reflect lived experiences by examining traditional and contemporary styles like Realism and Magical Realism. They focus on using drama to inform, challenge, and empathise with diverse human experiences, including those captured in Australian and international texts, including works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Students will aim to develop skills for creating and responding to dramatic works that genuinely represent the human condition.

Unit 3: Challenge

Students explore how drama can challenge and reshape our understanding of humanity by using social commentary and advocating for change. They investigate how different dramatic forms can express philosophical and political viewpoints, working with both published and student-devised texts to address issues in political, social, and economic contexts. Students will develop skills to create and respond to dramatic works that provoke thought about complex human questions, drawing on Australian and international texts, including those by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Assessment Outcomes:

• IA-1
• 1A-2

Modern History 11-12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 1: Ideas in the Modern World

• Topic 1: Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1930s

Unit 2: Movements in the Modern World

• Topic 1: Australian Indigenous rights movement since 1967

General Capabilities:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
• Literacy
• Ethical understanding
• Intercultural understanding
• Personal and social capability
• Critical and Creative thinking