B2 Creative Arts · Term 1, Week 5

Thinking and Exploring Ideas

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Curriculum details

Strand
Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand
Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard
B2.2.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions about the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues
Indicator
B2.2.1.1.2 - Explore own experiences to talk about performing artworks that reflect people in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement
Term 1, Week 5 (Week 5 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. 36

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- brainstorm on performing artworks (e.g. music, dance and drama) that are produced or performed by people in other parts of Ghana.
- discuss the resources that are used (e.g. instruments, elements, costumes, props) for composing and performing those artworks;
- study the subject matter of those artworks and explore their importance and the occasions on which they are performed;
- probe how the artworks are made, who makes them, the safety rules that are observed and taboos (if any) associated with these performing artworks;
- improvise the skills and techniques observed in the performing artworks.