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      Listed under:  Language  >  Text types  >  Imaginative texts  >  Narratives  >  Plots (Stories)
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      Syllabus bites – responding to literature

      • TLF-IDM016160

      A web page with information, teacher guides and resources on responding to texts. This resource supports the NSW English K-10 syllabus.

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      Melodrama characterisation

      • TLF-IDM025940

      Discover the dramatic form and acting styles of melodrama through the exploration of stock characters and how to act in a melodrama style with large emotions and gestures. Perform various characters through a scripted performance.

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      Storyline Online: Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola

      • TLF-IDM025714

      Strega Nona – “Grandma Witch” – is the source for potions, cures, magic and comfort in her Calabrian town. Her magical ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony. He is supposed to look after her house and tend her garden, but one day, when she goes over the mountain to visit Strega Amelia, Big Anthony ...

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      I like to move it, move it!

      • TLF-IDM025930

      Engage the body to tell stories and entertain audiences. Explore the techniques of expressive physical movement to communicate ideas and create dramatic meaning. Students devise a story using mime, movement and gesture.

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      Storyline Online: Clark the shark by Bruce Hale

      • TLF-IDM025707

      Clark is a shark with zing, bang, and boom. Clark zooms into school, crashes through the classroom, and is rowdy at recess. Clark loves life – but when his enthusiasm is too much for his friends, Clark’s teacher, Mrs. Inkydink, helps him figure out a way to tone it down. Clark the Shark celebrates boisterous enthusiasm ...

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      Beats and rhymes

      • TLF-IDM025938

      This class develops your vocal skills for performance. Write a Slam Poem or a Rap and then perform them for an audience.

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      Lip sync challenge

      • TLF-IDM025925

      Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a Lip Sync Challenge. They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

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      Storyline Online: The empty pot by Demi

      • TLF-IDM025712

      The Chinese Emperor announces an unusual test to choose an heir—the child who raises the best flowers from a seed given by the Emperor will be his successor. Ping, unaccountably, is unable to get his seed to sprout—but Ping’s empty pot is best of all. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known ...

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      Stories in the dark

      • TLF-IDM025937

      This resource is designed to support Stage 4 drama students in understanding the characteristics of good radio plays and learning to use vocal expression to create clear and engaging characters. They will rehearse, perform and record a short radio play that can be shared with an audience.

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      Storyline Online: A tale of two beasts by Fiona Robertson

      • TLF-IDM025710

      There are two sides to every story. In Part One, a little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then, in Part Two, the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who force-fed it squirrel food, ...

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      Lights, camera, action!

      • TLF-IDM025952

      Students explore screenwriting for video drama.

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      Tune in and tune up

      • TLF-IDM025928

      Tune in and tune up your acting skills with these fun drama warm up games that will strengthen you vocally, physically and imaginatively.

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      Lights up

      • TLF-IDM025920

      Learn the fundamentals of lighting design with lighting designer Lincoln Gidney. Explore how to apply stage lighting conveys meaning and apply this knowledge and understanding to design lighting or a scene.

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      Make ‘em laugh

      • TLF-IDM025935

      See how effective comedy is in communicating ideas and engaging an audience. Good performances will have moments of humour and seriousness in order to provide variety and interest in the stories being told.

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      Musical theatre – drama

      • TLF-IDM025931

      Discover the dramatic style of musical theatre through performance. Explore the origins and theatrical conventions and techniques of musical theatre as a performance style. Students will create a character performance based on a musical theatre piece.

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      Drop the mic – hip hop and Shakespeare

      • TLF-IDM025941

      A fresh and fun approach to Hip Hop theatre exploring, words, rhythm, movement, voice and creative writing. Drop The Mic Hip Hop Theatre class aims to develop voice, rhythm, physicality and character skills.

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      Characterisation stereotypes

      • TLF-IDM025911

      Develop and build engaging characters through stereotypes and using through role play and improvisation using voice, body and dialogue. Perform a devised character scenario to engage an audience.

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      Storyline Online: Sophie's masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli

      • TLF-IDM025711

      Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known US based actors supported by the ...

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      Design thinking across the curriculum

      • TLF-IDM025436

      This cross-curriculum resource is designed to introduce Stage 2, 3 and 4 students to the design thinking process through a series of videos and interactive activities. This resource is also downloadable as a SCORM file: the downloaded version will only work if you upload it to a webserver, such as Moodle or Canvas.

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      Characterisation – status and movement

      • TLF-IDM025909

      Explore characterisation through observation, status and movement to communicate meaning. Students will create a character through performance.

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