Further Education and Training (FET)
Grade 10
Snapshots
A short story about one Deaf person’s perceptions of different language groups. The Deaf person proudly uses SASL while on an outing in what seems to be a cosmopolitan area, and meets hearing people from various cultural groups during the outing.
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Natasha’s Hearing Aids
A story about Natasha, a ballerina and Deaf hearing aid user. She agrees to do commercial modelling for an agency but when the final photographs and recordings of her appear, she sees that her hearing aids have been edited out...
Learners can enjoy this fictional text that was inspired by true events.
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Learners can enjoy this fictional text that was inspired by true events.
Obstacles
As alluded to by the title, this poem is about obstacles that a Deaf person experiences, specifically with communication when approaching hearing persons. We trust that learners will enjoy this poem composed and dramatized by a Deaf person who is a published English-language poet and a teacher of the Deaf.
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Talk to Me Anyway
This poem is about Deaf peoples’ desire to often communicate with hearing people and their willingness to make compromises in order to ease communication. The dramatizer of this poem performed it for a national SASL competition. The poem was composed by the dramatizer’s sister.
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Generations of Kings
Some groups of people live in isolation, and this can breeds mistrust in and a lack of awareness of difference. The conflict which arises out of ignorance about other groups can be passed on from one generation to the next, with each generation focusing on the differences between groups instead of on their similarities. These are issues addressed in this poem.
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Reach your Heart
In this highly abstract poem the audience sees the poet engaging in introspection. The poet discovers that his heart is central to him, that all is well with his heart, and that his heart is filled not only with pulsating, life-giving blood, but also with written words that send forth a pleasant aroma when released. It is these words that make the poet feel alive.
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Romeo & Juliet
De la Bat School in Worcester developed this 30-minute version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the play by William Shakespeare, for the Shakespeare Schools Festival (SSFSA). The performance was recorded at the final rehearsal in the Artscape Theatre Centre, Cape Town.
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