B1 Creative Arts · Term 3 Week 8: Appreciating and Appraising

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.4.6.2 - Use the agreed guidelines to examine and derive meaning from own and others’ displayed performing artworks

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State the agreed guidelines for examining a performing artwork (music, dance or drama) using at least two of the guide points for each art form.
Watch or listen to a short performing artwork (a song, dance or drama scene) and identify its theme or main message.
Use descriptive words such as “clear voice”, “energetic movement”, “strong character” or “matching costume” to talk about what they saw or heard.
Explain in one or two sentences what meaning or message they derived from a peer’s performance.
Apply the agreed guidelines to examine one displayed performing artwork from the class and share their findings with a partner.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)
Content standard: B1.2.4.6 - Demonstrate understanding of how to analyse, appreciate, appraise/critique and present report on own works and that of others based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values), the recordings and reports
Indicator: B1.2.4.6.2 - Use the agreed guidelines to examine and derive meaning from own and others' displayed performing artworks
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 8 (Week 32 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. 26
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree on the guidelines to critically examine and come out with meaning of own and others' performed artworks
Suggested Process/Steps
- discuss and accept a guide for appreciating and appraising own and/or others' compositions and performances as suggested above;
- identify the correct vocabularies to use for appreciating and appraising music, dance and drama;
- agree on what to use the appraisal report for and how to share it;
- agree on the approach/method (manual/digital) to use in recording/documenting the appraisal process;
- fix a day/date for the appreciation/appraisal/jury.
Note: respond to, appreciate and appraise own and/or others' music, dance and drama.
Use the following guidelines:
1. Music: theme, voice production and diction, harmony and blending of parts, interpretation, the elements and knowledge of music.
2. Dance: theme, entrance/exit, movement variation, gestures, creativity, makeup, movement in relation to singing and drumming, costume, props, energy, stage use, stage setting and dynamics.
3. Drama: characterization, makeup, gestures, voice projection, diction, use of space, aesthetics, creativity.