Appreciating and Appraising

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)

Content standard

B3.2.4.7 - Demonstrate understanding of how to make informed decisions on displays, presentations, performances, recordings and/or reports based on an established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) for correlation, correction and future modifications

Indicator

B3.2.4.7.2 - Based on the agreed guidelines, generate feedback or reports on how own and others' displayed performing artworks could be modified or enhanced for future presentations

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 12 (Week 36 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. 93

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
display (real/photographs/video) selected own and others' displayed
- performing artworks
- talk about the works dispassionately using agreed guidelines;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the performance or to present similar or different music, dance and drama artworks.
Suggested Process/Steps
- talk about appreciate and appraise own and/or others' compositions and performances using the guidelines above dispassionately;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the product or to produce a similar or different composition and performance;
- record/documentthe activity and share using a social media by the class/group e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.
Note: 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;
- 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.