Appreciating and Appraising

Curriculum details

Strand

Performing Arts (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)

Content standard

B4.2.4.7 - Demonstrate understanding of how to make informed decisions on displays, presentations, performances, recordings and/or reports based on 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

B4.2.4.7.3 - Analyse and appreciate own or others' compositions and performances and present reports as feedback on artworks that reflect topical issues in Ghana

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.

Source document note

The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

• indicator text - p.60: the document prints the code B4 2.4.7.2 here and again on printed p.59 for a different indicator ("...that reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana"). By position this is the third indicator of B4 2.4.7 and would be B4.2.4.7.3, which the document never prints. Transcribed with the code printed; a human must renumber one of the two before import. Its first exemplar also repeats p.59 word for word ("...that reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana") although this indicator is about topical issues
• indicator text - p.60: printed "B4 2.4.7.2", the same code as the indicator on printed p.59, on a different indicator ("topical issues in Ghana" vs "the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana"). B4 2.4.7.3 is never printed. Filed as B4.2.4.7.3: every other upper-primary 4.7 family runs .1/.2/.3, including B4 own visual-arts twin B4.1.4.7 which prints .1 and .2 on p.57 and .3 on p.58, exactly mirroring .1 and .2 on p.59 and this row on p.60

Curriculum reference

Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 60

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- display (photographs/video) of selected performances (own or that of others) that reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana;
- talk about the performances dispassionately using developed guidelines;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the product or to produce similar or different composition and performance;
- record/document the activity and share using a social media platform accepted by the class/group (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp).