B1 Creative Arts · Term 2 Week 7: Planning, Making and Composing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.2.3.3 - Create own performing artworks to express own views, knowledge and understanding of artworks that reflect topical issues in the local community

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least two topical issues in their local community that can be expressed through music, dance, or drama.
select and use at least one available instrument, prop, or resource to support their performance.
create a short dramatic scene, song, or dance that communicates a clear message about a chosen local topical issue.
perform their created artwork before the class using voice, gestures, and movements that match the message.
explain in one or two sentences what message their performance is meant to teach the community.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B1.2.2.3 - Demonstrate understanding of how to create expressive artworks based on own ideas by applying knowledge of media and methods of production to reflect other cultures in Africa, the visual artists, their culture, the environment and emerging topical issues
Indicator: B1.2.2.3.3 - Create own performing artworks to express own views, knowledge and understanding of artworks that reflect topical issues in the local community
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 7 (Week 19 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 14
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- perform own music, dance and drama that reflect the identified topical issues in the local community;
- make other performing artworks to educate the people on the effects of those local topical issues.
Suggested process/steps
- select and use suitable and appropriate instruments, elements, resources, equipment available (e.g. drums, flutes, bells, shakers, rasps, xylophones, finger pianos, rattles, clappers, castanets, horns, whistles, harps, costumes, props)
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical/electronic production methods/techniques (e.g. voice, gestures, movements, language, improvisation, imitation, adaptation and guided writing skills to communicate feelings, melodic, rhythmic, harmonic and dynamic elements and dramatization)
- select/create props, scenery, and costumes for different styles and performances which support and enhance the intent of a production;
- Demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in the use and application of the elements and principles of design, instruments, methods and techniques freely in creative and expressive ways to produce own music, dance and drama.
Note: produce own music, dance and drama by arranging, composing, performing, reciting, dialoguing, dancing, singing, acting, directing, creating, imitating, drumming, role-playing, gesturing, miming and mimicking.