Planning, Making and Composing

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)

Content standard

B3.2.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks, based on the history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities

Indicator

B3.2.2.2.1 - Plan own artworks that represent performing artworks produced or performed in other communities in Africa, by making decisions on the instruments, resources and techniques used by the performing artists for creating artworks that reflect the people, their history and their culture in those areas of Africa

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 73

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- organise and develop concepts from memory to come out with own creative ideas to compose own music, dance and drama based on knowledge and understanding of the:
- talk about the history and culture (e.g. beliefs, customs, religion, festivals, rites of passage, chieftaincy, symbols of authority, politics) of people from other parts of Africa;
- experiment with compositions produced/performed in other parts of Africa (Dances: Indlamu of South Africa, Moribayasa of Guinea, Eskista of Ethiopia, Atilogwu of Nigeria, Aduma of Kenya; Music: Afrobeat of Nigeria, Highlife of Ghana);