Expressing Emotions

Week 1: Introduction to Auslan Emotions

WALT:
We are learning to recognise and sign basic emotions in Auslan and understand its role in the Deaf community.

Success Criteria:

• Identify what Auslan is and its cultural significance.
• Recognise and sign four basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, excited).
• Use these signs confidently in pairs.
• Respect Deaf culture and communication modes.

Lesson Duration: 5 minutes (focus on concise introduction and practice)

Activities:

• Teacher gives a brief explanation of Auslan as a visual language used by the Deaf community to express emotions, highlighting respect for Deaf culture.
• Show a short video displaying Auslan signs for emotions with emphasis on handshapes, movements, and facial expressions.
• Teacher models the signs for happy, sad, angry, and excited clearly demonstrating handshape, movement, and non-manual features (NMFs) like facial expressions.
• Students watch and immediately repeat signs, then practise in pairs taking turns to sign and guess emotions.
• Quick formative check: each student signs one emotion to the teacher and explains why communicating emotions in Auslan is important.
• Students complete a simple worksheet illustrating the four emotion signs.

Resources:

• PowerPoint with Deaf culture and Auslan etiquette posters
• Video clips of Auslan emotion signs
• Flashcards of the emotion signs and facial expressions
• Worksheets for signing practice

Assessment:

• Observation during paired practice for accuracy and confidence
• Completed worksheets
• Teacher feedback on communication and cultural respect

Differentiation:

• Diverse learners: Use visual supports (videos, flashcards), repeat instructions, allow extra practice time in pairs.
• EAL/D students: Pre-teach vocabulary with flashcards and interactive quiz using Auslan videos.
• Advanced learners: Introduce more complex emotions (surprised, nervous), encourage non-manual features like eyebrow movement, fingerspell emotion words.

Australian Curriculum Links:

• AC9L2AU6C03: Locate and process info in Auslan texts, respond appropriately
• AC9L1AU6C02: Participate in activities involving planning and negotiating ideas in Auslan
• AC9L2AU6C05: Create and present signed texts using fingerspelling, lexical signs, depicting signs, NMFs and signing space
• AC9L1AU6C04: Apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in signed cultural contexts

Week 2 and onwards - Lessons will continue expanding vocabulary, storytelling, creative projects, and assessments aligned with these strands. Each lesson will incorporate multi-modal and interactive learning balanced for age-appropriate engagement over 5-minute short focused sessions as requested.

This sample of the Week 1 lesson plan precisely follows the Australian Curriculum v9 for Year 5 Auslan learners on expressing emotions in Auslan, structured around teacher instructions and curriculum codes. The 5-minute lesson can be extended or segmented according to classroom pacing while maintaining core learning goals.

Would you like me to generate similarly detailed 5-minute lesson plans for weeks 2 to 5 with activities progressively building skills in Auslan emotional expression and cultural understanding?