Appreciating and Appraising

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)

Content standard

B3.2.4.6 - 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

B3.2.4.6.2 - Use the agreed guidelines to examine and derive meaning from own and others' performances as representations of artworks produced or found in other African 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. 89

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 and report the meaning of each displayed artwork.
Suggested Process/Steps
- discuss and accept guide for appreciating and appraising own and/or others; compositions and performances based on the guide 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: respond to, appreciate and appraise own and/or others' music, dance and drama,
Use the following guidelines for documentations, recordings and sharing
- Music: theme, voice production and diction, harmony and blending of parts, interpretation,the elements and knowledge of music;
- 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;
- Drama: characterisation, makeup, gestures, voice projection, diction, use of space, aesthetics, creativity;