Planning, Making and Composing

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)

Content standard

B4.2.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks based on the history, culture, environment and topical local/national/global issues of other communities

Indicator

B4.2.2.2.2 - Experiment with available performing arts media and techniques to create performing artworks based on own views, knowledge and understanding of the natural and manmade environments in some Ghanaian communities

Suggested placement

Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 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 4-6), 2019, p. 36

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- explore the local surroundings to select available instruments, sounds, rhythms, movement patterns, etc. that are suitable for composing and performing music, dance, drama, poems, etc.;
- experiment with the available instruments, sounds, movement patterns, melody, etc. to perform some compositions of some Ghanaian artists studied which reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities;
- discuss and share their experiences for peer review.