Appreciating and Appraising

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)

Content standard

B2.2.4.6 - 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) and, the recordings and reports

Indicator

B2.2.4.6.2 - Agree on guidelines for assessing and deriving meaning from own and others' performing artworks as representations of artworks produced or found in other Ghanaian communities

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. 58

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree on guidelines for deducing the meaning of each artwork displayed;
- discuss how to use the guidelines to express the meaning of each displayed artwork.
Suggested Process/Steps
- discuss and accept a guide for appreciating and appraising own and/or others' compositions and performances based on the guidelines suggested above.;
- identify the correct vocabulary 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: appreciate and appraise own and/or others' music, dance and drama performances.
Use the following guidelines: o Music: theme, voice production and diction, harmony and blending of parts, interpretation, the elements and knowledge of music; o Dance: theme, entrance/exit, movement variation, gestures, creativity, makeup, movement in relation to singing and drumming, costume, props, energy, stage use, etc.; o Drama: characterization, makeup, gestures, voice projection, diction, use of space, aesthetics, creativity.